DSOC Member Christine Matthews notes that her organization, the Bread for the World Institute has published a new report of interest:

Bread’s 2011 Hunger Report: Our Common Interest: Ending Hunger and Malnutrition is now available online  and for purchase ($20).  This year’s report examines the food crisis that led to the establishment of USAID’s Feed the Future and “1,000 days” initiatives.  It emphasizes maternal and infant health and foreign aid effectiveness, and includes interactive data, a video and a study guide.

Christine also notes that Bread has moved and because of the move, orders may be a little slow.

Non-profit Section Chair Nancy Minter suggests this new item, which may be of interest for social science collections:

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Crime Control

Edited by John K. Roman, Terence Dunworth, and Kevin Marsh

Criminal justice programs, to be adopted in today's climate, need to demonstrate not only efficacy but return on tax dollars invested. Cost-benefit analysis, the economist's tool for determining the price of outcomes, yields a single metric that allows different interventions to be compared directly. Yet CBA is difficult, even controversial, to apply to crime control, as it involves placing monetary value on intangibles such as pain, suffering, well-being, and human life. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Crime Control guides researchers through cost collection, design of bias-free studies, measurement of effects, approaches to estimating program benefits, and methods for combining the elements into a unified analysis.  $26.50. It is available for order online.

Finding the Concept, Not Just the Word: A Librarian's Guide to Ontologies and Semantics

Many of you already know Brandy, our division's webmaster extraordinaire. She has taught CE courses on ontologies aand semantic search at several SLA annual conferences and has brought her profound knowledge of the subject to a book co-authored with Kathy Reinold and recently published by Chandos Publishing. Brandy is a librarian at the Center on Media and Child Health in Boston, MA, responsible for their website, blogs, e-newsletters, social media communications and maintenance of a taxonomy for all things having to do with children's exposure to media and its effects on their health and development. Even though the hardback edition of the book was published in 2008, it is newly released in paperback. Congratulations Brandy! Here is the Amazon link if you want to learn more or perhaps purchase a copy: