Greetings from the ACOV Learning Resource Centre

Looking to catch up on some reading this summer? This edition highlights new resources in the ACOV LRC on forestry and biodiversity, the sociology of families, safe transfers by caregivers, telephone skills and business etiquette, smart communication online, the environment and society, understanding Digital Natives, and higher education and society. Enjoy!

Forestry and Biodiversity: Learning How to Sustain Biodiversity in Managed Forests

Edited by Fred L. Bunnell and Glen B. Dunsworth

"Forestry and Biodiversity makes the case for adaptive management—a structured approach to learning by doing—to sustain biodiversity in managed forests. It draws on the theory and principles of conservation biology and forest ecology and illustrates them, and the challenges they pose, through a practical, real-world study of a 1.1 million hectare commercial operation in a coastal temperate rainforest."

Main Collection / QH77 .C22 F59 2009

Setting the Standard: Certification, Governance and the Forest Stewardship Council

Chris Tollefson, Fred Gale, and David Haley

"Setting the Standard chronicles the emergence and implications of an ambitious experiment in civil-society-led global governance: the Forest Stewardship Council. The FSC was born in 1993 as a grassroots initiative to promote 'environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests' through an international system of forest certification."

Main Collection / SD131 .T65 2008

The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Judith Treas, and Martin Richards

"The Companion shows how revolutionary changes in aging, longevity, and sexual behavior have radically affected the experience of children and parents over the life course, and shifted the ties that bind different generations. [This] volume shows why the study of social change in families is a necessary key for understanding the transformations in individual and social life, across the globe."

Main Collection / HQ519 .B53 2007

Safe Transfers: Using Proper Techniques and Mechanical Lifts

Trinity Healthforce Learning

"Medical personnel rank higher than construction workers in lifting-related injuries. Caregivers must lift properly and use proper body mechanics to avoid injury or loss of balance, which could result in injury... Step-by-step demonstrations of using devices and mechanical lifts will help caregivers develop a comfort level with the equipment and will encourage them to use the equipment."

AV Collection / RT87 .T72 S375 2007

When the Phone Rings: Telephone Skills for Better Service

Kantola Productions

"When the phone rings, you have only a few seconds to set a tone—to communicate that your company listens to customers and gives them what they need. And once that first impression has been made, all calls need to be handled smoothly and professionally. It may sound basic, but it's not always easy, especially with difficult customers."

AV Collection / HF5541 .T4 W46 2009

One Minute Manners: Quick Solutions to the Most Awkward Situations You’ll Ever Face at Work

Ann Marie Sabath

"What makes the difference between an ordinary professional and an extraordinary one? A mastery of business manners. That's why Ann Marie Sabath's guide to business etiquette emergencies is indispensable for new hires and college graduates just starting out, as well as a valuable tool for career veterans looking to add finesse to their workplace repertoire."

Main Collection / HF5389 .S244 2007

Communication in a Wired World: Be Smart, Be Safe

Learning Seed

"Online behavior follows us all through our schooling and careers. Explore skills for communicating smartly via email, social networking sites, and other digital technologies; how multitasking affects learning and work; and how online posts can become skeletons in a digital closet causing school expulsions, destroying college admissions, and blowing job offers. Discover how to protect your privacy, reputation, and personal information."

AV Collection / HM851 .C65 2009

The Big Picture

David Suzuki and Dave Robert Taylor

"The Big Picture looks beyond our environmental problems to examine the forces that prevent real change from occurring. Whether he's discussing how to reconcile economy with ecology, why a warmer world will result in more poison ivy, or why we might need to start eating jellyfish for supper, David Suzuki points the direction we must go as a society."

Main Collection / GF41 .S89 2009

Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
John Palfrey and Urs Gasser

"John Palfrey and Urs Gasser offer a sociological portrait of these young people, who can seem, even to those merely a generation older, both extraordinarily sophisticated and strangely narrow. Exploring a broad range of issues, from the highly philosophical to the purely practical, Born Digital will be essential reading for parents, teachers, and the myriad of confused adults who want to understand the digital present—and shape the digital future."

Main Collection / HM841 .P34 2008

A Larger Sense of Purpose: Higher Education and Society
Harold T. Shapiro

"The book begins with an expanded history of the modern research institution followed by essays on ethics, the academic curriculum, the differences between private and public higher education, the future of intellectual property rights, and the changing relationship between the nation's universities and the for-profit sector. [This book] demands the attention of not only those in academics but of anyone who shares an interest in the soul of education."

Main Collection / LC191.94 .S43 2005

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