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The NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.A few collections that may be of interest for literary and media studies include:
- Authors: Photographs from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
- Cigarette Cards: ABCs
- Dust Jackets from European and American Books, 1926-1947
- Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from Western Europe
- Miss Frank E. Buttolph American Menu Collection, 1851-1930
- Turn of the Century Posters
- Walt Whitman Manuscripts
"Cite This Item" feature is now part of WorldCat and other FirstSearch databases! This feature gives users an opportunity to get a bibliographic citation in five common styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA and Turabian. Users may copy and paste the needed format into a bibliography. Users should note that formatting rules within a style can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study, and that they should apply the specific requirements of a reviewing body.
Famed American novelist, Kurt Vonnegut died earlier in the week. A key postmodern author, Vonnegut perfected his satirical voice by his use of non-linear narration and terse humor - as evident in his highly acclaimed, semi-autobiographical work, Slaughterhouse-Five.Vonnegut authored over 20 works during his lifetime, frequently carving out his own presence within them and prompting critics to proclaim that his books "chronicle a search for the human."
The library's collection of Vonnegut's works are available.
The New York Times posted an article noting Google's ambitions to enter the advertising world - via radio and television.
Join the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and WHYY for a special program that explores how Pennsylvania landscape and culture infuse the work of its poets, featuring poets Jeanne Murray Walker, Trapeta Mayson & Jim Daniels.
This live taping, hosted by WHYYY's Tracey Matisak, will give the audience the opportunity to engage the poets in discussion .
The show is taped in WHYY's Civic Space at 150 N. 6th St. Doors open at 5:30 pm, taping will run from 6:00-7:30. Please join for this exciting venture. Space is limited, register today at www.whyy.org/artsandculture/index.html to secure your free seat.
This live taping, hosted by WHYYY's Tracey Matisak, will give the audience the opportunity to engage the poets in discussion .
The show is taped in WHYY's Civic Space at 150 N. 6th St. Doors open at 5:30 pm, taping will run from 6:00-7:30. Please join for this exciting venture. Space is limited, register today at www.whyy.org/artsandculture/index.html to secure your free seat.
OCLC recently updated their OCLC Top 1000 list -- the top 1000 titles owned by member libraries -- the intellectual works that have been judged to be worth owning by the "purchase vote" of libraries around the globe. Information about the Top 1000 is also available.A number of other book lists are also posted on the OCLC website, including:
Author Junot Diaz will visit Temple as part of the Poets & Writers Series.Diaz is the author of the acclaimed collection of short stories, Drown, published by Riverhead Books. His fiction has also appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), and in Pushcart Prize XXII. He is an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The event is open to the Temple community and will take place on Thursday, March 15th at 8:00pm in Room 222, Temple Center City (TUCC), 1515 Market Street.
The American Library Association (ALA) recently posted the "Top 10 Challenged Books for 2006" list.- And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, for homosexuality, anti-family, and unsuited to age group;
- Gossip Girls series by Cecily Von Ziegesar for homosexuality, sexual content, drugs, unsuited to age group, and offensive language;
- Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor for sexual content and offensive language
- The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler for sexual content, anti-family, offensive language, and unsuited to age group
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison for sexual content, offensive language, and unsuited to age group
- Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz for occult/Satanism, unsuited to age group, violence, and insensitivity
- Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher for homosexuality and offensive language.
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky for homosexuality, sexually explicit, offensive language, and unsuited to age group
- Beloved by Toni Morrison for offensive language, sexual content, and unsuited to age group
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier for sexual content, offensive language, and violence.
Check out the new literary-related resources added to the library collection in the past month.
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