This is the 3rd year NTU Library is running the e-Resource Fair. Do visit us to learn about useful library resources for your term paper or research. You can also participate in the various quizzes and win prizes — MP3 player, flash drives, scientific calculators and other goodies!

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What is document delivery?
Document delivery is a service provided by NTU Library to obtain copies of documents such as journal articles, conference papers, standards, patents, theses, etc which are not available in our collection. For example, if you are looking for a journal article that will aid in your research or project work, you can make a request for it via our document delivery service and we will scour our suppliers and other libraries to find you that article.

Do I have to pay?
Document delivery is a fee-based service but the Library will subsidize the procurement of documents requested by eligible staff and students subject to request quotas, availability of allocated Library funds and the requester’s access to research funds. The Library will only subsidize requests for students and staff who have no access to research/teaching materials funds and must declare that they are using the requested documents for their research, teaching or project work.

How long do I have to wait?
The turnaround time is usually around 5-14 days, depending on which supplier/library has the document in its holdings, the method of delivery it uses and the type of document it is. If you need the document urgently, you may like to request for the fast service but the charges might be more.

How do I make a request?
For students, you will need to download and fill in the request form here. For staff, you will have to request it via Stafflink under Resource Request> Library Services> Document Procurement/Photocopy Request. For more information, please click here.

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The expansion and renovation of the Lee Wee Nam Library has been put on hold for the time being until the new Campus Master Plan is completed. Work on the Library (which was to expand to 15,000 square metres) was initially suspended in Dec 2007 due to the overheated construction industry in Singapore. It was then scheduled to open in 2012 instead of 2010. The Library is currently providing input to the Campus Planning Committee to ensure the continual development of exciting library spaces for the use of students.

To accommodate the rapid growth of the library collection, we will continue with our plans to move the Engineering collection in Library 2 to LWN Library. The 5^th Floor vacated by CED will be renovated to provide more reading and shelf space. Library 2 will be developed as an interim Business Library and some of the business librarians will also be relocated there. Work will be carried out in the December vacation and all this will be completed in early 2009.

For updates on library facilities development, please refer to the blog <NTU Libraries Building Updates>. This new Blog aims to keep users informed of plans and progress in upgrades, renovations and other building work carried out by the library. It also provides some basic statistics of the 8 libraries managed by our Library.

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Do you know that the Christmas Tree Stand is invented by Robert J. Hauser? Patent number: 5492301 Filing date: August 18, 1994 Issue date: February 20, 1996  Just yesterday, Google launched a free patent search of over 7 million U.S. patents using criteria such as patent number, inventor, and filing date. You can also view images of original patents online (eg. http://www.google.com/patents?id=dEkcAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP2)  Check it out at http://www.google.com/patents

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• about 4 out of 10 psychologists are self-employed, compared with less than 1 out of 10 among all professional workers.
• Most specialists, including clinical and counseling psychologists, need a doctoral degree; school psychologists need an educational specialist degree, and industrial-organizational psychologists need a master’s degree.
• Competition for admission to graduate psychology programs is keen.
• Overall employment of psychologists is expected to grow faster than the average for all occupations through 2014.

EMPLOYMENT

Psychologists held about 179,000 jobs in 2004. Educational institutions employed about 1 out of 4 psychologists in positions other than teaching, such as counseling, testing, research, and administration. Almost 2 out of 10 were employed in health care, primarily in offices of mental health practitioners, physicians’ offices, outpatient mental health and substance abuse centers, and private hospitals. Government agencies at the State and local levels employed psychologists in public hospitals, clinics, correctional facilities, and other settings.

After several years of experience, some psychologists—usually those with doctoral degrees—enter private practice or set up private research or consulting firms. About 4 out of 10 psychologists were self-employed in 2004, compared with less than 1 out of 10 among all professional workers. In addition to the previously mentioned jobs, many psychologists held faculty positions at colleges and universities and as high school psychology teachers.

EARNINGS

Median annual earnings of wage and salary clinical, counseling, and school psychologists in May 2004 were $54,950. The middle 50 percent earned between $41,850 and $71,880. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $32,280, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $92,250. Median annual earnings in the industries employing the largest numbers of clinical, counseling, and school psychologists in May 2004 were:

- Offices of other health practitioners ($64,460)
- Elementary and secondary schools ($58,360)
- Outpatient care centers ($46,850)
- Individual and family services ($42,640) 

Median annual earnings of wage and salary industrial-organizational psychologists in May 2004 were $71,400. The middle 50 percent earned between $56,880 and $93,210. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $45,620, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $125,560.

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In its latest World Economic Outlook published on 14/9/2006, IMF raised its forecast of world growth this year to 5.1 per cent. It has also boosted its near-term GDP growth forecasts for most European and Asian economies, including China, India, Hong Kong and Singapore. The World Economic Outlook (WEO) presents the IMF staff’s analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups (classified by region, stage of development, etc.), and in many individual countries.

While the IMF is upbeat about Asia’s growth prospects, it does not quite see the region soon overtaking or catching up with the US as the key driver of global growth – as some economists have projected. The main risk lies in cooling demand from advanced economies. Slowing investments in China, further oil price hikes and an outbreak of bird flu may also drag down the region.

Listen to the video clip about Asia Rising: Patterns of Economic Development and Growth (4:17 mins)
http://www.imf.org/external/mmedia/view.asp?eventID=628

Download the full report (6.39 Mb)
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2006/02/pdf/weo0906.pdf

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A recent article published by American Psychological Association “To outline, or not to outline?” reveals that people juggle multiple and often contradictory demands of writing. Contrary to conventional wisdom, some studies suggest that the messier the thought process, the clearer the prose!

Psychologist Sarah Ransdell, a writing-cognition researcher and professor at Nova Southeastern University, noted that rather than following a series of steps — first planning, then writing, then revising — good writers do all three nearly simultaneously. Her research shows that asking students to engage in a stepwise process results in lower-quality writing.

However, a team of researchers in England suggests that a particular subset of students may benefit from outlining, while others may do best with a strategy of revising as they compose.

Students high in self-monitoring, for example, frequently evaluate their own text, perhaps taking the perspective of a potential reader.  When they are taught to revise their writing through multiple drafts, they showed improvements over the course of five weeks. In contrast, the writing of high self-monitors taught to outline deteriorated. Conversely, the students low in self-monitoring improved if they learned to outline. However, they produced poorer essays if they learned to revise through multiple drafts.

Full article available at http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug06/outline.html

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Do you have trouble locating the lecture theatres in the South Spine? The easiest way to find is to check the online interactive campus map at http://www.street-directory.com/ntu/ .

Below is the layout of South Spine and its LTs.

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B.F. Skinner topped the list, followed by Jean Piaget, Sigmund Freud and Albert Bandura. The rankings were based on the frequency of three variables: journal citation, introductory psychology textbook citation and survey response. Surveys were also sent to 1,725 members of the American Psychological Society, asking them to list the top psychologists of the century. In addition, the researchers  took into account whether the psychologists had a National Academy of Sciences membership, were elected as APA president or received the APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, and whether their surname was used as an eponym. The ranking can be downloaded at http://edtech.tph.wku.edu/~shaggblo/eminence.pdf 

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I chance upon this site ClassicReader.com who offers a large collection of free classic books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others. It claims to have a collection of 3066 works of literature (including 1708 short stories) by 320 authors! Continue Reading »

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