Uncategorized: January 2007 Archives
In addition to the waffling verb usage when referring to what libraries can do and do do, I'm a bit amused by the author's exclamation in reason twenty-nine (29): "Libraries can be surprisingly helpful for news collections and archives." Surprisingly helpful?
Temple University Main Campus
Center for Humanities Lounge, 10th floor Gladfelter Hall Thursday, February 1st , 1:30-3:00 PM.
The event is free and open to the public.
Thalia Field’s work lives at the crossroads of poetry, prose, drama and essay. Her work includes Point and Line (2000) and Incarnate: Story Material (2004), and a book-length “performance novel” Ululu (Clown Shrapnel) is forthcoming from Coffee House press in 2007. Recently, her multimedia performance work has included Rest/Less and Zoologic.
This event is part of POETRY COMPLEX: Writing that crosses genre, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics.
Project Muse, the electronic journal database, has recently added English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 to its collection. Published by ELT Press, the journal publishes articles on fiction, poetry, drama, or subjects of cultural interest in the 1880-1920 period of British literature.Full-text articles are available beginning with volume 50 (2007).
The 2007 Caldecott Medal winner is Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion) Flotsam is a cinematic unfolding of discovery. A vintage camera washed up on the beach provides a young boy with a surprising view of fantastical images from the bottom of the sea. From fish-eye to lens-eye, readers see a frame-by-frame narrative of lush marinescapes ebbing and flowing from the real to the surreal.
The 2007 Newbery Medal winner is The Higher Power of Lucky written by Susan Patron, illustrated by Matt Phelan, published by Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson. In “The Higher Power of Lucky,” Patron takes us to the California desert community of Hard Pan (population 43). Ten-year-old Lucky Trimble eavesdrops on 12-step program meetings from her hiding place behind Hard Pan’s Found Object Wind Chime Museum & Visitor Center. Eccentric characters and quirky details spice up Lucky’s life just as her guardian Brigitte’s fresh parsley embellishes her French cuisine.
World Press Encyclopedia: A Survey of Press Systems Worldwide (2003) Surveys "the press systems in 232 countries around the world. Each signed entry consists of a current in-depth and comparative essay on the press corps in that country covering both common statistical data ( i.e., official country name, population, language, and literacy rate) plus a summary of the general characteristics of the nation, its economic framework, press laws, censorship, state-press relations, and attitude toward the foreign media."
Snippet from review written by Steven J. Schmidt - Assoc. Librarian, Indiana Univ./Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis Libraries for ARBA 2003.
- Mondays -- 3:00-4:30pm
- Tuesdays -- 3:00-4:30pm
The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature is comprised of more than 1,100 signed biographical-critical entries, serveing as both guide and companion to the study and appreciation of American literature.Within mere hours of her announcement, thousands of messages of support were posted, including
- Campaign website sign-ups = 100 per minute
- Messages of support = 10,000
- Video webcast sign-ups = 7,700
- Blog contest submissions = 2,200
In Literature Online (LION), the literary research database, a search in Quick Search, Search: Criticism and Reference (All) or Search: Criticism and Reference (Reference) will now include results from Oxford Reference Online (ORO) in addition to the normal LION results. The ORO results will then link directly to the full-text in ORO. Note that hits will show for all ORO titles, including the ORO Literature Collection (which the Library does not have a subscription to).
Promising to grow in time, The Walter J. Ong Collection Website currently contains unpublished lectures (in pdf files), photographs of Ong, plus an audio recording of a lecture. A biography of Ong, as well as a discussion of his works, is also included.
The Libraries are pleased to announce online access to C19: The Nineteenth Century Index, the bibliographic database resource for 19th century studies research.Drawing on the strength of such indexes as The Ninteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, and Periodicals Index Online,
- Oral History
- World History
- Folklore
- Historiography and Methodology
- Government and Political Science
- Popular Culture
- Interdisciplinary Studies
Questions or comments about the resource can be directed to devoek@temple.edu.