Dear CUR members:

Xavier University of Louisiana was flooded during Hurricane Katrina. All buildings on campus were damaged by the flood water (at least 1’ in nearly every building), and many faculty and departments lost everything in their ground floor offices and labs. We hope that you will look through this list, and circulate to colleagues on your campus, to see if anyone might be able to help us replace the books and equipment listed below with extras you might have around. Our campus is already up and running (more accurately limping and making do) and classes started back on campus in January.

The main categories are:

1. Books in Mass Communication (political economy, new technology, race and media, globalization, public relations)

2. Books in Pharmacy (ASHP References)

3. Supplies and books for Art (primarily black and white photography)

4. Various audiovisual and computer equipment for various departments

If you are able to help out, please contact me to make arrangements. Thank you for your assistance.

Kathleen M. Morgan

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Associate Director, Xavier Center for Undergraduate Research

1 Drexel Drexel Drive

New Orleans LA 70125

(504) 520-5252

(504) 520-7942 (fax)

1. MASS COMMUNICATION BOOKS:

Anything by the following:  Herbert Schiller, James Fallows, Neil Postman, Daniel Schiller, Robert McChesney, Daniel Bell, Vincent Mosco, Siva Viyadanathan ñ political economy of the mass media, music industry and new technology, race and the media, public relations.

Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time            (Beacon Press, 1944/2001).

Karl Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert Tucker (Norton, 1999).

Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting (Basic Books, 1973).

Todd Gitlin, The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left (California, 1980).

Herbert I. Schiller, Mass Communications and the American Empire [2d edition] (Westview, 1992).

Robert Horwitz, The Irony of Regulatory Reform: The Deregulation of American Telecommunications (Oxford, 1989).

Robert W. McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times            (University of Illinois Press, 1999).

Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Books, 1999)

Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (Blackwell, 1996).

Nicholas Garnham, Emancipation, the Media and Modernity: Arguments About the Media and Social Theory (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Ithiel de Sola Pool, Technologies Without Boundaries: On Telecommunications in a Global Age (Harvard University Press, 1990).

James Curran & Myung-Jin Park, De-Westernizing Media Studies (Routledge, 2000).

Chandra Mukerji & Michael Schudson, eds., Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies (University Of California Press, 1991).

Anonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, eds. Quintin Hoare & Geoffrey Nowell Smith (Lawrence & Wishart, 1971).

Vincent Mosco, The Political Economy of Communication (Sage, 1996).

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 1963).

Thomas G. Streeter, Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 1996).

James Boyle, Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society (Harvard University Press, 1996).

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. & James W. Cortada, eds., A Nation Transformed by Information: How            Information Has Shaped the United States From Colonial Times to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Dan Schiller, Digital Capitalism: Networking and the Global Market System (MIT Press, 1999).

2. Pharmacy books

ASHP References Request 

• AHFS Drug Information 2006
• Clinical Pharmacokinetics, 3^rd. Edition
• Handbook on Injectable Drugs, 13^th Edition
• AHFS Dosing Companion
• Drugs in Pregnancy and Laction, 7^th Edition
• Textbook of Therapeutics, 7^th Edition (Herfindal)
• Practical Pharmacoeconomics
• Medical Abbreviations, 12^th Edition
• Pharmacotherapy:  A Pathophysiologic Approach, 6^th Edition
• Disease Management
• Guide to Federal Pharmacy Law, 4^th Edition
• Professional’s Handbook of Complementary & Alternative Medicines
• AudioMeds: Medication Use and Pronunciation
• ASHP’s PharmPrep, 2^nd Edition
• USP Pharmacist’s Pharmacopeia
• Preceptor’s Handbook for Pharmacists
• Pharmaceutical Care- 2^nd Edition
• Basic Statistics & Pharmaceutical Statistical Applications
• Health Care Informatics: A Skills-Based Resource
• Developing Clinical Practice Skills for Pharmacists, First Edition
• Hypertension Management for the Primary Care Clinician
• Communicating Effectively: A Desktop Guide to Punctuation, Grammar
• Basic Skills in Interpreting Laboratory Data, Third edition, Edited by Mary Lee
• Handbook of Institutional Pharmacy Practice, Fourth Editio

3. Art books and supplies

The ENTIRE black and white photography lab was thrown out, so
they need everything:

- 8 Bessler 23IIC enlargers. One Omega Large Format with 35mm
format lenses. One Color Bessler head enlarger. 5 Holga enlargers
from Freestlye.
- an entire set of 14 photographic easels they were the 8x10 size
with multiple frame sizes.
- all 15 negative holders for 35mm, and 4 four 120mm flim.
- all our trays, tongs, graduated cylinders.
- all our chemicals -Developer for paper and film, fixer for paper
and film, fixer remover, photoflo, and toners.
- all our handcoloring and spot toning materials-Marshal's oil set,
pencil set, and marker sets, as well as the cold tone and warm tone
spot tone marker sets.
- 6 magna-sight grain focusers.
- the unit to control temperature for the water under the sink.
- our plastic sink!
- our paint can pin hole camera.
- 4 Holga 120mm format toy cameras.
- the dry mount press and iron.
- 6 negative developing tanks (the plastic kind)
- one calumet changing bag for film.
- collection of gallon size brown jugs to store chemicals in.
- a set of dodging and burining tools
-a small light box unit (8x10in)
-a loupe
-film squeegy
-rc print dryer
-print squeegy
-2 safe lights

Graphics:

M-Audio Nova microphone and fastrack USB recording device.

two large format printers - four and two foot wide printer

Sony 5.0megapixel digital camera

5.0 megapixel camera that was not a name brand.

Books:
-The Photographs National Geographic collection
-Back in the Days by Jamel Shabazz
-Flash Afrique! Photography from West Africa:by Thomas
Miessgang (Editor), Olu Oguibe, Gerald Matt, Kunsthalle Wien
(Corporate Author), Barbara Schroder (Editor), Koyo Kouoh, Simon
Njami
-Shock of the New by Robert Hughes
- Dreamweaver MX Hands On Training by Lynda Weinman
-Flash MX Hands On Training by Lynda Weinman

4. Audiovisual and Computer

For Mass Communication:

2 digital recorders for interviewing
2 Macintosh/Apple computer laptop power supply chords
1 microwave oven
5 instructional VHS tapes
4 Cds
50 blank Cds

For Sociology:

TV/DVD/VCR combo (32" TV) with a cart large enough to support the TV.  Particularly important is the VHS playback capability--mostly we lost the capability of illustrating a concept with a short VHS clip.

For Mathematics:

A tablet PC by Toshiba.

For History:

simple cassette tape recorder with microphone