Help Us Choose Books for the Sawyer Library

Patron Driven Acquisition - Help Us Buy Books

 

Sawyer Library has initiated a Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) program with eBrary titles.  These new titles are listed below.  A PDA program means books are purchased only if they are used.

If you are interested in reading any of these books, open one and print a page or two or view it for at least 10 minutes, and we will purchase the book.  

Simply search the title in the Suffolk University catalog.

Childism : Confronting Prejudice Against Children

Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800

Sudan and Darfur, and Darfur : What Everyone Needs to Know

Sex and the Office : A History of Gender, Power, and Desire

Fandom Unbound : Otaku Culture in a Connected World

Women in Business : Navigating Career Success

Millennials and the Workplace : Challenges for Architecting the Organizations of Tomorrow

Politics of Crowds

Strangers at the Gates

Population History of the United States

Last Season of Innocence : The Teen Experience in the 1960's

Generational Use of New Media

Facing Fear : The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective

Buy It Now : Lessons from EBay

Humanity : A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, Second Edition

State and the Stork : The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

Drugs for Life : How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health

Bloomberg Financial : Wealth Regeneration at Retirement : Planning for a Lifetime of Leadership

Climate Change and Human Mobility

Pay : Why People Earn What They Earn and What You Can Do Now to Make More

Aging and the Art of Living

Unlikely Secret Agent

Social Innovation : Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets

Managing Corporate Social Responsibility : A Communication Approach

Leaderless Economy : Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It

Demography of Roman Italy

Foreign Intervention in Africa

Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers

Global Crisis : War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

Do Good Well : Your Guide to Leadership, Action, and Social Innovation

TRIOS : Occupy : Three Inquiries in Disobedience

Au Pair (2nd Edition)

Global Political Hot Spots : Congo (2nd Edition)

Excess : Anti-consumerism in the West

Human Capitalism : How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter - and More Unequal

Children and the Internet

Cosmopolitanism and Culture

Liberalization in Aviation : Competition, Cooperation and Public Policy

Creating a New Civilization through Social Entrepreneurship

Population, Fear, and Uncertainty : The Global Spread of Fertility Decline (2nd Edition)

After the Death of Childhood

Timewatch : The Social Analysis of Time

Evolutionary Psychology : A Clinical Introduction

Society under Siege

Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age

Ringtone Dialectic : Economy and Cultural Form

Third Industrial Revolution in Global Business

Mass Flourishing : How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change

Identity, Citizenship, and Violence in Two Sudans : Reimagining a Common Future

Protestantism and Progress : A Historical Study of the Relation of Protestantism to the Modern World

Communities and Networks : Using Social Network Analysis to Rethink Urban and Community Studies

Fangasm : Supernatural Fangirls

Information Society : Issues and Illusions

New Cold War History : Visions of Freedom : Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991

Short History of the Twentieth Century

MIT Press Essential Knowledge : Memes in Digital Culture

Empire of the Air : Aviation and the American Ascendancy

Transport and Society : Strategies for Sustainable Mobilities : Opportunities and Challenges

Digital Politics in Western Democracies : A Comparative Study

What Everyone Needs to Know : Economic Development : What Everyone Needs to Know

Fan CULTure : Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century

Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture : Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection : Cosmetic Surgery, Weight Loss and Beauty in Popular Culture

Collaborative Media : Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions

Social Movements in Global Politics

Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis : Too Much Is Not Enough : Incentives in Executive Compensation

Consuming Work : Youth Labor in America

TechnoFeminism

Where the Negroes Are Masters : An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade

Will the Middle East Implode?

Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East : Raging Against the Machine : Political Opposition Under Authoritarianism in Egypt

Wasted Lives : Modernity and Its Outcasts

In 100 Years : Leading Economists Predict the Future

Global Development Crisis

Twentieth-Century Europe : A Brief History (3rd Edition)

Beyond Sustainability : A Thriving Environment

Violent Accounts : Understanding the Psychology of Perpetrators Through South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Ain't Got No Home : America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left

Protest Inc. : The Corporatization of Activism

People, Planet and Profit : Socio-Economic Perspectives of CSR

Connecting the Greater West Series : Working Women into the Borderlands

Modern African Writing Series : 491 Days : Prisoner Number 1323/69

Circulation Notes: Overdue/Lost Book Enforcement

We wanted to add an informative blog entry, as fair warning, to the Facebook posts and signs that have been placed in and around the library for over a month. Please note that Circulation/Reserves will soon start enforcing overdue policies by blocking student accounts for the use of all reserve materials, including reserve textbooks and library laptops. This policy goes into effect at the start of the new calendar year: January 1, 2011.

At the start of next month, Patrons with overdue, unreturned materials on their library account will no longer have reserve privileges until the missing material is returned, replaced, or paid for.

How do you avoid this dire fate?

Simple: Return you books and other library materials on time. Or renew them before they are due. (For details on renewing, see http://www.suffolk.edu/sawlib/renewbooks.htm )

Check your Suffolk-issued email. The Library will send you an email when your materials are overdue. Pay attention to your due dates and get the materials back in a timely manner. (If you get a notice about an item that you think you returned, don’t ignore it. Talk to the folks at Circulation/Reserves.)

Need to check to see what you have out? You can determine this online. See https://library.law.suffolk.edu/patroninfo~S6 or click the "View Your Circulation Record" link from the online catalog search page (as illustrated below)

Take advantage of our Extended Amnesty Period:

Return your (even overdue) books, videos, etc., in December and all is forgiven.

What if you lost the book?

If you can provide us with the exact equivalent edition of the exact same book, we will also forgive all charges.

What if your account IS blocked in January?

First: Return the missing material, the block will be lifted immediately.

Second: If you want to replace the missing item, Circulation/Reserves staff can put together a receipt that lists the correct title, author, and edition for the missing item’s replacement. Only material exactly matching what has been lost will be accepted as a replacement. Circ. Staff can also inform you of the replacement cost if the Library must order the new copy.

Third: If you want to simply pay to replace the missing item, you may do so. However, an additional fee of $50 will be charged on top of the cost of replacing the missing book. (Want to check the cost yourself? Just look at the LIST--not discounted--price you find at Amazon.com.) You will then have to go to the Student Accounts Office to pay the charges. No monies may be accepted at the Circulation/Reserves Desk.

The Circulation Department is not doing this to be mean or uncooperative. They are simply doing this to "get our stuff back." And we do mean OUR stuff. Library materials are shared resources that are meant to support the research needs of the entire Suffolk community. When you fail to return materials you’ve checked out, you are not only making extra work for staff, you are penalizing other library users who might need that material.

So.....Please return you library materials on time!