"Everything you always wanted to know about organ donation* ... but were afraid to ask"

Now, how could you not read an article with such a headline? This intriguing subject is explained inside the leading article of this month's CMA Today, the premier research, educational, and generally informative publication of the American Association of Medical Assistants. CMA Today is designed to assist students planning a career as a medical assistant or administrative assistant in "the office, hospital, clinic, or school setting," and is one of more than forty specialized or general journals, periodicals, or magazines to which the Vine Street library of Southwestern College subscribes and puts on display for reading and enjoyment by both our students and faculty.

The Vine Street library is one of 23,000 subscribers nationally to CMA Today. This month's issue also contains a four-page summary on salaries nationally and regionally for medical assistants and also information on scholarships available for those medical assistants who want to pursue their nursing degrees. And, in an article sure to warm the hearts of Mr. Stikeleather and Mr. Weisgerber here at Southwestern College, this month's CMA Today also has advice for instructors on how to motivate their medical assistant students to get in touch with their inner love of math.

For those students studying criminal justice or business management, the Vine Street library also subscribes to and displays magazines of great interest to those who want to enter these careers. Just look to your right as soon as you enter the library, and the periodicals display will be in front of you. All our magazines and other periodicals freely circulate, and we'll be happy to check any of them out for you. Here's a complete list of those magazines and periodicals currently available at our Vine Street library:

American Journal of Nursing
American Legacy
American Police Beat
Black Enterprise
Body and Soul
Business Week
Campus Technology
CMA Today
Consumer Reports
Defense Tech Briefs
Ebony
Elle
Elle Décor
Entrepreneur
Fast Company
Forbes
Health
Inc.
Information Week
Jet
Juvenile and Family Justice
Law Enforcement Technology
Maximum PC
Medical Laboratory Observer
Mental Floss
Multicultural Review
NASA Tech Briefs
National Institute of Justice Journal
Newsweek
Nursing 2010
Nursing 2010 Critical Care
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy
OR Nurse 2010
PC World
Psychology Today
Security
Shape
SPIN
T.H.E. Journal
Website
Wired
Working Mother

--David Robertson