Professor Asali Solomon, who teaches fiction writing at Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr, will read from her work on Monday, November 23, at 7 pm in the Scheuer Room, Kohlberg hall, at Swarthmore.Asali Solomon to Read
Professor Asali Solomon, who teaches fiction writing at Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr, will read from her work on Monday, November 23, at 7 pm in the Scheuer Room, Kohlberg hall, at Swarthmore.Library Suggestion Book Online!
Want the library to buy a certain DVD? Love the new rug? Post your questions, thoughts, and purchase suggestions as comments here, and you'll get an answer from a librarian. Or just read what others have to say. We want to know what you think!
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Film Screening: Philadelphia - The Great Experiment
You are invited to a special screening of excerpts from the pilot episode of
PHILADELPHIA - THE GREAT EXPERIMENT
a documentary film on the history of Philadelphia
Hosted by executive producer, SAM KATZ
Philadelphia businessman and former Mayoral candidate
Tuesday, November 24th
7:00-9:00 PM
Carpenter Library B21
Philadelphia: The Great Experiment is a multi-format historical documentary television film and Internet project that presents the story of Philadelphia, as a stage for the testing of American ideals.
Covering more than four centuries of history, the documentary will eventually be eight hours in length and will be edited into various lengths for television, the Internet, and the classroom.
For more information, see http://www.historyofphilly.com/
Questions? Contact Elliott Shore (eshore@brynmawr.edu)
PHILADELPHIA - THE GREAT EXPERIMENT
a documentary film on the history of Philadelphia
Hosted by executive producer, SAM KATZ
Philadelphia businessman and former Mayoral candidate
Tuesday, November 24th
7:00-9:00 PM
Carpenter Library B21
Philadelphia: The Great Experiment is a multi-format historical documentary television film and Internet project that presents the story of Philadelphia, as a stage for the testing of American ideals.
Covering more than four centuries of history, the documentary will eventually be eight hours in length and will be edited into various lengths for television, the Internet, and the classroom.
For more information, see http://www.historyofphilly.com/
Questions? Contact Elliott Shore (eshore@brynmawr.edu)
Open Access E-Textbooks: One Solution to the Growing Textbook Dilemma?
The Swarthmore College Library has been holding ongoing discussions with students this semester about how to deal with increasing expensive textbooks. On Monday (11/16), a campus-wide meeting about the textbook dilemma. One possible solution is the adoption of open-access textbooks, which are freely available on the web and may be downloaded, and even purchased bound (for a small fee). For more information...
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Get news from the Middle East - translated and fast!
The Tri-College Libraries would like to remind you of our subscription to Mideastwire.com, a great resource for current translated news from the Middle East.
Mideastwire started over four and half years ago as a service providing daily briefs translated into English from the Arabic and Persian media - these include all of the top newspapers and some satellite TV. Mideastwire does about 25 briefs each business day covering opinion, business, political and society/cultural pieces that appear in these various media outlets. Each brief also contains precisely translated quotes, statistics and context.
In addition Mideastwire has a searchable database of over 30,000 archived items on their website, making them ideally suited for researchers, journalists, policy makers, advocates etc.
For off campus access, send your university affiliated email address to info@mideastwire.com and they will activate your account.
And for access to more information resources for Middle Eastern Studies, see the library's Subject Portal page on the subject!
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