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Doing research over the summer but won't be near campus? Don't worry - No matter where you are, you can easily access your Library's extensive online resources!

Bryn Mawr: Go to the Library home page and click Off Campus Access under the menu at left. After logging in with your email account, you'll be brought to the Library's front page, from which you can navigate to the resources you need.

Haverford: Current Haverford faculty, students and staff may request an Off Campus VPN login account. With this account and the VPN client installed on your computer, you can access the Library's thousands of online journals and databases from anywhere in the world. Go to VPN at Haverford for more information about downloading the software and requesting an account.

Swarthmore: Click the Off Campus Access link on Tripod on the Library's web page, or just click here and enter your network username and password.

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If you want to see your calendar immediately, when you first open webmail, here’s a link that works https://zmailbox.brynmawr.edu/zimbra/?app=calendar

I find this very useful when I want to check a date or schedule without getting distracted by my inbox.

Not exactly a Library tip, but handy.

Mark

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Congratulations to this year's winners of the Seymour Adelman Book Collector's Prize:

First Prize:  Anna Van Brookhoven (Illustrated Children's Books)
Second Prizes: Megan Clark (19th-Century Costume)
                      Jessica Schwartz (Seeing America)

On Wednesday, April 29 at 7:30 Cornelius Eady will be reading from his works in the Ely Room, Wyndham at Bryn Mawr College.

Poet June Jordan remarked of Cornelius Eady that he "leads and then cuts a line like no one else:  following the laughter and the compassionate path of dauntless imagination, these poems beeline or zigzag always to the jugular."  Eady is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems and Brutal Imagination, which was a National Book Award finalist.
 
A book signing will follow the reading.

Read more on Eady at Literature Online.

Watch Eady read in the 2003 Lunch Poems series at UC Berkeley.

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As the final event associated with the exhibition of illustrations from Dante's Divine Comedy from the Tri-Colleges, Haverford College Special Collections and the Bryn Mawr Film Institute present a special screening of Sean Meredith's updated movie version of "Dante's Inferno." Set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls and the U.S. Capitol, Meredith's take on the literary classic uses hand-drawn paper puppets and a Victorian-era toy theater to tell Dante's tale of sin and redemption.

Wednesday, April 29, 7:30 pm. Bryn Mawr Film Institute. All students with ID get in for free! And a reduced admission flier for others is available here.

For more information, please contact John Anderies 610-896-1161 janderie@haverford.edu

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At the reference desk today I was asked for background on modern day piracy.  This question helped me re-discover Columbia International Affairs Online [CIAO] one of my favorite too-often-overlooked resources.  Sponsored by Columbia University Press, CIAO has great content - authoritative, extensively researched and in-depth - on all kinds of topics.

If you're curious, try searching your topic du jour.  Advanced search lets you limit results to the previous year or two.  The site is kinda clunky, but the results are amazingly rich and varied.  Here's a search on North Korea's nuclear program, to give you an idea.  Note the range of ideological perspectives.

Watch out though, some of these files are huge pdfs, so may be slow to download and slow/wasteful to print. Please leave me a comment and tell me what you think.

 Mark

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Tobias Wolff will be reading at Bryn Mawr on Wednesday, April 15 at 7:30pm in Thomas Great Hall.

Tobias Wolff's books include the memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army; the short novel The Barracks Thief; three collections of stories, In The Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, and The Night in Question; and the novel Old School.  His most recent work, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories, was called "a towering monument of a book" in the Washington Post.  His work has received the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Malamud Award.

A book signing will follow the reading.

Tobias Wolff will also meet informally with interested students from the Bi-College community to talk about fiction and nonfiction from 4-5pm on Wednesday, April 15 in the English House Lecture Hall.  Everyone is welcome.

Read more about Wolff in Literature Online.

Watch Wolff in conversation on FORA.tv.

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We have just learned that the EZBorrow system malfunctioned last Thursday evening through Friday morning. Any requests entered between 7 pm, 4/9 until 9:15 am, 4/10, have been lost.  If you placed an EZBorrow request during that time, you will need to enter it again.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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Monday, April 13, the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library will sponsor the world premiere of a film that was completed 37 years ago but never released. Eight of the film’s subjects— Bryn Mawr professors  who were interviewed on campus in the spring of 1972—will attend the screening and an informal conversation to follow, in Wyndham House’s Ely Room from 7 to 9 p.m.

Photographer and documentarian Katrina Thomas ’49 made the film, which is titled “What Makes a College” after a history of Bryn Mawr published by Cornelia Meigs in 1956. Thomas will be on hand for the screening, along with Professors Frank Mallory and Bob Washington and Emeritus Professors Bill Crawford, Weecha Crawford, Barbara Miller Lane, Nick Patruno, Judy Porter, and Brunilde Ridgway.

Bryn Mawr CIO Elliott Shore, who is also the Constance A. Jones Director of Libraries and Professor of History, found the footage in the College’s archives while researching the syllabus for a course on the history of the College that he is teaching this spring.

According to Shore, none of the people who appear in it ever saw the film. “They don’t even remember being interviewed,” he says. Thomas herself “had forgotten all about it” until Shore recovered it. “She thinks it was commissioned for a capital campaign.”

Shot in what Shore calls “luminous 16mm black-and-white,” the fully edited and finished 40-minute film features “interviews, classroom and outdoor scenes,” and “captures the thinking of faculty and administrators about the College.”

The screening is free and open to the public.

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In our most recent poll, you told us all about what you'd change in tripod - everything from how and what it searches to what it actually looks like.  If you have other suggestions, questions, or want to elaborate, leave a comment!

If you could change one thing about tripod, what would it be?  

• Make Notify Me When This Item Is Available Button Rather Than Having To Request
• The Colors
• Allow Off-campus Sign-in By Email Password (Which I Can Remember) Rather Than Li
• More Info On Specific Subjects Of Articles And Books
• Make The Search Function More Powerful.
• Make The Home Page Less Cluttered. There Is Information Overload With All Of The
• A Book Or Material Preview Function Similar To That Found On Amazon.Com.
• Make Sure That The Group Study Rooms Are For Groups And Not Individuals!!
• Make Sure All Listed Electronic Journals Are Accessible Off-campus And On-campus
• Nothing
• Remind Students To Try Ezborrow Before Recalling A Book From A Fellow Patron.
• Remove The Renew All Button, Or Make It Harder To Click By Accident.
• Stop Making Keyword The Default. Title Should Be.
• The Clutter. Redesign The Record!
• Title Rather Than Keyword As The Default.
• To Be Able To Cancel Tripod Requests Online.
• To Make The Subject Search More Prominent So Students Realize They Can Use It To
• Make It Into An Application On The Iphone (And Other Mobile Devices)!
• Make It Impossible To Recall An Item If There Is An Available Copy Somewhere In
• Make It Easier To Log In To Your Account! Use Your Student Id Number Instead Of
• An Easy Way To Request That The Library Buys A Dvd Or Book.
• Basic Search Seperates Genres From Stack Books
• Be Able To Search All Journal Articles From A Centralized Area
• Be Able To Search For Or Exclude Government Documents.
• Coloring And Layout
• Explanations For What In Cat Dept Or On Search Means
• Fix Search Results Display For Voluminous Works (Orientalism) & Prolific Authors
• Give Swarthmore A Better Color Than Dirty Yellow, Something That Will Stand Out
• Have More Relevant Results For Author Search So You Can Search 1st Name, Last Na
• I Hate How The Subject Search Is By First Word Of A Term Only.
• I Would Change The Fact That Some Databases Like Grove Music Dont Work Off Campu
• If You Liked This Item, You Might Also Like _. -a La Amazon
• It Is Annoying To Constantly Have To Relog In. Can We Have A Remember Me On This
• It Should Be Easier To Request Materials That Arent In Tripod And To Track Wheth
• It Would Learn To Ignore The F (For Folio) When I Am Searching For A Bibliograph
• Words In Title Search

(Comments got cut off after 80 characters - sorry!  We could usually tell what you meant though.)

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The BMC Art and Artifacts Collection has some exciting news!  They're making great strides toward providing online access to information on the amazing objects in our possession.

Check out their latest blog entry to find out more!

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Want to work in the library? 

Canaday Library at Bryn Mawr is hiring circulation desk assistants and shelvers for the 09-10 academic year!

Stop by to pick up an application, or download one here: Download file

Applications are due by FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2009.  Return them to Melissa Kramer or Eamon Tewell at the Canaday Circulation Desk.

Questions? mkramer/5287 or etewell/5648

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The Friends of the Library are sponsoring a public program, “Student Life at Bryn Mawr Since World War II: Reflections of Alumnae from the ’40s to the ’90s” on Monday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Carpenter Library 21, on the Bryn Mawr campus. This event has been re-scheduled; the first attempt was canceled due to the snowstorm.

The program will feature a panel discussion of alumnae from different eras discussing what life was like on campus during their times at Bryn Mawr.  The discussion will be moderated by Elliott Shore, Professor of History and Chief Information Officer of the College, and questions and observations from the audience will be very welcome.

Peggy Oneil '47 majored in Mathematics, lived at home in Chestnut Hill her first two years, then in German House and Rockefeller. After graduation, she worked for Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby (a pension consulting company) until 1960, and then taught mathematics at Marple Newtown Senior High from 1960 to1993 and at Villanova University's "University College" from 1974 to 1989.

Jane Miller Unkefer '55 was a political science major who spent half her time in Goodhart working on class shows and College theatre productions. After graduation she worked in New York City as a researcher and assistant to a senior editor at a major magazine. Marriage in 1962 brought her back to Philadelphia, where she was an active BMC volunteer, and later Director of the Alumnae Association.

Jane Alavi '62 was a Chemistry major and pre-med, "which meant lots of labs and not much time for other things."  After graduation she went to Harvard Medical School, did further training at Virginia, UCLA and Penn, and was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School from 1974 to 2004.  She is now doing volunteer work at the Morris Arboretum, the Schuykill Center for Environmental Education, and the Philadelphia Public Schools. 

Lucinda Ayers '68 majored in French, played field hockey, performed in college shows, and "spent a lot of time in Washington and elsewhere protesting the war in Vietnam."   After college she worked as a cook in Paolo Solieri's construction camp, was the chef/owner of the restaurant Belle Aurore, and is now the Vice President of Campbell's Kitchen.

Teresa Wallace '79 was an English major who lived at Haverford her junior and senior years and served as a class representative to the Student Association at Haverford. During her senior year she was also an intern in the BMC President's Office.  She received a law degree from Penn in 1984, practiced in the area of commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense work, and later became a teacher and administrator at the Widener and Drexel law schools.  She is currently completing a degree in school counseling at Penn. 

Michelle Mancini '91 majored in English and Greek, was co-president of Denbigh Hall, and a Dorothy Nepper Marshall Fellow.  After a year of working in bookstores and doing environmental canvassing, she went to the University of California, Berkeley for a Ph.D. in Victorian Literature.  For the last six years she has been working in the Dean's Office at Bryn Mawr.

This event is held in connection with the exhibition  “The Very Best Thing in a Girl’s Life”: Early Women’s Colleges in Fiction and Fact, now open in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room in Canaday Library.

For additional information, please contact the Library’s Special Collections Department: 610-526-6576 or SpecColl@brynmawr.edu.

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The creation of a comprehensive collections database for Bryn Mawr College’s Art and Artifacts Collections is underway! 

This extensive, 18-month project is generously funded by the College’s Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics and History of Art.

The creation of this database entails the seemingly impossible task of taking 22,000+ records from fourteen different MS Access databases, cleaning them up, and then moving them ever-so-lovingly into EmbARK Collections Manager, a collections information system developed by Gallery Systems. All this, mind you, while also beginning data entry for the additional 40,000 collections objects yet to be cataloged.

Project staff, all members of the library's Special Collections group:

• Emily Croll, Curator and Academic Liaison
  
• Marianne Weldon, Collections Manager
• Cheryl Klimaszewski, Collections Information Manager

For more info on this project, visit the project blog.

Image:
Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880)
Murasaki Shikibu Genji Karuta
Color woodblock print
15 x 10 in.
Gift of Margery Hoffman Smith, Class of 1911 (S.67)

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Poet Mary Jo Salter, whose 2008 collection A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems was called “deeply human, brilliantly realized and refreshingly perceptive” by BookPage, will give a reading at Bryn Mawr on Wednesday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ely Room at Wyndham Alumnae House. A book signing will follow the reading.

A Phone Call to the Future collects new work and a substantial body of poems from her previous collections: Henry Purcell in Japan; Unfinished Painting; the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Sunday Skaters; A Kiss in Space; and Open Shutters, a 2003 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Salter also has to her credit a children’s book, The Moon Comes Home, and a play, Falling Bodies, which was first produced in 2004.

• Find more of Salter's work in Tripod
• Read about Salter in Literature Online
• Visit Salter's website
• Watch Salter on the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
  

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"Blinking Sam, 'Johnson's Grimly Ghost' and the Haverford Portrait of Samuel Johnson"

Talk by Robert Folkenflik, Distinguished Visitor in the English Department

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 -- 4:30 pm; Tea at 4:15 pm

Magill Library, Quaker & Special Collections

Robert Folkenflik is Professor of English/Comparative Literature, UC-Irvine. His books include Samuel Johnson, Biographer; The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation; and The English Hero: 1660-1800. Folkenflik's research interests include: Eighteenth-Century; Renaissance; Novel; Autobiography; Biography; History of Literary Theory; Literature and Other Arts; Cultural Studies.

For more information please contact Laura McGrane (610-896-1155) lmcgrane@haverford.edu

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Now open in the Rare Book Room in Canaday Library, : "The Very Best Thing in a Girl's Life": Early Women's Colleges in Fiction and Fact.  This exhibition draws on BMC's large collection of serial fiction about college girls from the turn of the last century and our archival resources - scrapbooks, diaries, and letters home from some of Bryn Mawr's earliest graduates - to explore what people thought about college girls - and whether they were right!  The show includes dozens of photos from Bryn Mawr in the early years - come and see if you recognize your room!  The exhibition is open weekdays from 9-5.

On March 23, the Friends of the Library invite you to join us for a panel discussion, " Student Life at Bryn Mawr Since World War II: Reflections of Alumnae from the 'Forties to the 'Nineties."   This event will take place at 7:30 in Carpenter 21.  This event has been re-scheduled due to snow of the original date.

MAN ON WIRE

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Gerald Stern will read on Wednesday, February 11, at  7:30 p.m.in the
Ely Room of Wyndham at BMC.

Gerald Stern is the author of 16 books of poems, including Everything is Burning, American Sonnets, and Last Blue, and a book of essays, What I Can’t Bear Losing: Notes From a Life. The Southern Review declared, "We might like to think of Gerald Stern as our quintessentially Whitmanian American poet, but he is far too literate, too worldly, to seem typically American." Poet Edward Hirsch remarked, "Gerald Stern is a romantic with a sense of humor, an Orphic voice living inside history, a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary." Reading sponsored by an anonymous gift and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry.

• Find Stern's books in  Tripod.

• Read more about Stern in Literature Resource Center.

• Read poems by Stern in Literature Online.

• View a documentary on Stern at Poetrymattersnow.org.

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Having problems with the FindIt! button?  Please let us know via the Report a Problem link!

We've heard reports of buggy FindIt! results recently, but we need more information in order to troubleshoot.  Anytime you don't get the full text when you expect to, or if you get an unusual result on the screen, please fill in our feedback form.

Added benefit: if you let us know what wasn't working, we will do our best to connect you with the resource you're seeking.  It's a win-win situation! 

Thanks for your help.

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Welcome to the new BMC Library website!  Bryn Mawr's Information Services staff has been hard at work since the summer redesigning the library's website.  Tell us what you think!

Everything you need is still available, plus there are some fun new features.  Check out:

• The "tridget" -- the search box at the front and center of the page, which allows you to search for books, journal articles, course reserves, and more with only a couple of clicks!
• Focus On... , where we'll highlight interesting new databases, reading recommendations, staff & student profiles, and more!
• Ask a Librarian, our popular email reference service, will be available via a big blue button on the navigation bar on every page

Please let us know what you like (or don't like) about the new look, and tell us if you find an broken links or strange behavior on our new pages. 

Thanks for your patience while we all adjust to the new site!

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The imaginative vision embodied in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has inspired pictorial illustration since shortly after its first recounting in manuscript in the 1300s. This exhibition features books and prints from the collections of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges and, over the course of three installations, presents illustrations of all 100 cantos of the Divine Comedy. Among the works on display will be anonymous 15th- and 16th-century woodcuts, the canonical 18th- and 19th-century illustrations of John Flaxman, William Blake, and Gustave Doré, 20th-century renderings by Franz von Bayros, Amos Nattini, Salvador Dalí, Leonard Baskin and Tom Phillips, plus the contemporary graphic novels of Sandow Birk and Gary Panter.

January 20 to May 22, 2009
Sharpless Gallery, Magill Library, Haverford College

Inferno: January 20 to March 1, 2009
Pugatorio: March 2 to April 12, 2009
Paradise: April 13 to May 22

Related events:

Lecture: Seeing Through the Dark Woods
By Christian Dupont
Followed by a Reception
Philips Wing, Magill Library
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 4:30 pm

Mini-Exhibition: Haverford's 1472 Foligno Edition of "La Divina Commedia di Dante"
Special Collections Reading Room, Magill Library
March 25, 2009

Mini-Exhibition: Dante's Divine Comedy in Graphic Novel
Special Collections Reading Room, Magill Library
April 15, 2009

Dante's Inferno: The Movie
Screening at Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 7:30 pm
Free for students

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Check out this recent award winning dvd from the Tri-Co libraries!

INTO GREAT SILENCE

An examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France, one of the world's most ascetic monasteries and home to the Catholic Church's strictest order where the monks dedicate themselves entirely to the service of God and to spiritual life, in permanent silence. SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SPECIAL JURY PRIZE  more info...

View the trailer...

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Check out this recent award winning dvd from the Tri-Co libraries!

ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD

"It is a poem of oddness and beauty. ." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

An up-close and personal look at one of Antarctica's lesser-known inhabitants: the human. Join Werner Herzog as he shows individuals who work, play, and struggle to live in some of the world's worst conditions.  WINNER - DOCUMENTARY AWARD EDINBURGH INTL FILM FESTIVAL 2008.

 film trailer

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Going home for Thanksgiving, or to Paris for the holidays?  You can still search the Historical New York Times or ProQuest Research Library online!

If you have a valid BMC email account, you can access any of the thousands of online journals and databases the library subscribes to, from anywhere in the world via the library's EZ-Proxy service. Go to the BMC Library home page and click "off campus access" under the Services menu.  After logging in, you'll be brought to the library's front page, from which you can navigate to the resources you need.

Please contact the BMC Help Desk with any login or technical problems at 610-526-7440 or help [at] brynmawr [dot] edu.

If you need help using library resources, please contact a reference librarian at 610-526-5279 or library [at] brynmawr [dot] edu.

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Award-winning short-story writer Amy Hempel will give a reading at Bryn Mawr on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ely Room at Wyndham Alumnae House.

Hempel’s The Collected Stories, which gathers her four previous short-story collections in a single volume, won the Ambassador Book Award for fiction and was one of The New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2007.

Hempel’s previous books of short stories include The Dog of the Marriage, Tumble Home, and Reasons to Live. Critic Erica Wagner wrote of Hempel, “Here is the redemption of real art. You could call Hempel part of a movement in the trajectory of the American short story, and Rick Moody, in his intelligent introduction, places her alongside Alice Munro, Grace Paley, Ann Beattie, and others.”

    * Find Hempel's books in Tripod.

    * Read more about Hempel in Literature Resource Center.

    * View Hempel reading from her work at United States Artists.

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Ishmael Beah will read on Monday, October 27, 7:30 p.m. in Thomas Great Hall.

Ishmael Beah is the author of the best-selling memoir A Long Way Gone, the story of his experience as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Sebastian Junger writes, "A Long Way Gone is one of the most important war stories of our generation. The arming of children is among the greatest evils of the modern world, and yet we know so little about it because the children themselves are swallowed up by the very wars they are forced to wage. Ishmael Beah… has become one of its most eloquent chroniclers."

• Find a copy of A Long Way Gone in Tripod.

• Read more about Beah in Literature Resource Center.

• Beah talks about the book and his experiences on the A Long Way Gone homepage.
  

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 National Book Award finalist Jim Shepard, whose short story collection Like You’d Understand, Anyway has recently become available in paperback, will give a reading  on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ely Room at the Wyndham Alumnae House.

Search for Shepard's books in Tripod. 

 Read more about Shepard in Literature Resource Center.

Shepard discusses his book, "Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories" at Authors@Google.

Please join us for a lecture and exhibition opening

John Zarobell, San Francisco Museum of Art
"How I See Is What I Know: Technology and Vision in the Nineteenth Century"
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
5:00 pm
Carpenter Library 21

The lecture marks the opening of the exhibition

"Educating the Eye: Nineteenth-Century Optical Toys and Devices"
Exhibition curator: Matthew Feliz, Graduate Student in the History of Art

Kaiser Reading Room, Rhys Carpenter Library
October - December 2008

A reception in the London Room will follow the lecture.

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Welcome to the Banned Books Blog: Where issues concerning intellectual freedom and censorship are discussed thoughtfully. Hosted by Swarthmore College Library.

According to the ALA (American Library Association), the following are the

10 most challenged books of 2007*:

1) And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
2) The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
3) Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes

4) The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman

5) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

6) The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
7) TTYL, by Lauren Myracle
8) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
9) It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris

10) The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky

*Books are listed from most to least challenged

Please post your comments below

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New!  The Tri-College Libraries have all begun subscribing to the iPOLL database, from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research!

This database provides access to more than half a million public opinion poll questions (and answers!) from 1935 through the present time.  You can search iPOLL by keyword, topic, polling organization, or date.  Questions come from all the major polling organizations including Gallup, Harris, Pew, and the major news agencies.  All polls have U.S. national adult samples; neither state samples nor foreign samples are included.

Our subscription also grants us access to RoperExpress, a service that allows you to download the original poll dataset so that you can conduct your own statistical analysis of the responses.  These downloadable datasets are available for 75% of the polls in the Roper Center collection.

Give iPOLL a try and see what you think!  (And while you're at it, take a look at another database of public opinion: Polling the Nations, which includes foreign, state, and local-level samples.  Polling the Nations covers surveys from 1986 to the present.)

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Then take a moment to visit the circulation desk! In order to check out library books and DVDs (not to mention laptops!) you'll need to give circulation your OneCard so we can put your barcode in your library record.

You can visit any of the Bryn Mawr libraries to update your barcode, and it just takes a second.

Questions? Send an email to circulation @ brynmawr.edu!

We're trying out a new way of displaying library hours - go to our hours page and click on the link:

New!  Canaday Library's hours through December 08 now on Zimbra! 

Take a look and tell us what you think! 

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New!  The Tri-College Libraries have all begun subscriptions to Oxford Islamic Studies Online!

This amazing resource allows you to search the full text of more than 3,000 encyclopedia articles from major Oxford works on Islamic studies, as well as primary source documents, maps, images, and timelines.  It's the most comprehensive resource available for the study of the history, people, politics, and cultures of the Islamic world.

Interested in the Qur'an?  Oxford Islamic Studies Online also contains two full-text interpretations (one in verse and one in prose).  It also provides first electronic version of Hanna Kassis' Concordance of the Qur'an.

 
Try Oxford Islamic Studies Online today!

Image: Portrait of the nineteenth-century Qajar ruler Fath Ali Shah, reproduced in Blair, Sheila S. and Jonathan M. Bloom. "Art and Architecture." In The Oxford History of Islam. Ed. John L. Esposito. Oxford Islamic Studies Online.

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Great news for historians and genealogists!  The Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore College libraries have joined Haverford in subscribing to Ancestry.com, Library Edition.

Search U.S. Census records from 1790 through 1930, by name!  View immigration records, passenger lists, WW II draft registration cards, public records directories, photos and maps, and much more.  It's a real treasure.

For more ways to do "people research" please consult these library research guides:

• Biographies
• Genealogy
  

For help with searching, contact a reference librarian!

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Tell us what you think! We are conducting a trial for a service to provide book reviews from Booklist, Choice, Publisher’s Weekly, and Library Journal. These reviews are available in the Tripod Catalog for titles reviewed by those sources. Most of the reviews are for titles published within the last 10 years, though a few go back as far as the mid 1980’s.

Some examples include:

The Paradox of Choice : Why More is Less / Barry Schwartz

http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/record=b2654429

In Defense of Food : an Eater's Manifesto / Michael Pollan
http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/record=b3298770

http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/record=b2974723


Are reviews helpful to you as a student, faculty member, or researcher?

Let us know. We’d love to hear from you!

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Working on your final papers?  Need help with finding the proper citation format for a source?  The library can help!

• Check out our guide page for citations and style guides -- we provide links for APA, MLA, Chicago, and more!

• Try the Citation Builder -- a great quick tool from the NCSU libraries
  

• We have print copies of all of the major citation guides behind the Reference Desk in Canaday -- just ask! 

• If you need help creating or interpreting a citation, ask the Reference Librarian for a second opinion!  We're here to help.

Good luck!

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The Tri-College Libraries are participating in a pilot program to offer online access to materials from our music collections. In addition to some classes and ensembles that are trying out this service, it is available to other users in the Tri-Co who want to give it a whirl.  The software, called Variations, allows users to listen to streaming audio files, as well as to create bookmarks, playlists, and listening drills.  Scanned scores will be a feature to come at a later date.

The Variations software can be downloaded here.  And a list of available recordings may be found in Tripod by searching for “Variations Digital Music Library.” 

Please contact librarians Michelle Oswell, Donna Fournier, or John Anderies if you have any difficulties getting set up or have any questions about the service.

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the most obvious improvement is linking in the bibliographies to records in Tripod.  read on...

1. What is Oxford Art Online?

The access-point for new and forthcoming Oxford art reference subscriptions and products, Oxford Art Online is a single gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search Grove and Oxford reference content in one location.
2. We already subscribe to Grove Art Online. What has changed?

Your subscription to Grove Art Online now includes additional Oxford art reference titles, including the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Grove Art Online also includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society and numerous international art galleries and artists.

3. How often is the content updated?

Each of the subscription products available through Oxford Art Online will have its own editorial update schedule. Grove Art Online is updated and revised quarterly with updates to life dates, bibliography, and at least one major new content release each year.

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Math and Voting is the theme of Math Awareness Month (April 2008)

Vote for your favorite candidate and see how voting methods influence election outcomes.

Find out more about the mathematics of voting. 

or check out the following books in tripod:

Chaotic elections! A mathematician looks at voting

The mathematics of voting and elections: a hands-on approach

 

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As part of an ongoing efforts to improve their website to better meet the needs of students, researchers, and librarians, JSTOR is developing a new platform which will enhance navigation and ease of use, as well as provide more tools and capabilities for users.   The new system will also allow the organization to more easily add new features and a greater array of scholarly content.

We anticipate the new platform will replace the current JSTOR site today, April 4.  With new features such as:

• Search within results
• Run recent searches
• Improved image searching
• MyJSTOR allows saving citations over multiple sessions
• Thumbnails of pages
• Simplified printing and improved accessibility for PDFs
• More robust browsing
• Improved navigation

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Do you have an interest in working in Canaday Library Circulation next year?  We are now welcoming applications from current students who have what it takes to thrive in a busy, invigorating atmosphere. 

Available positions:

• Desk Assistant
• Shelver
• E-Reserves

2008-09 Application

 
Questions?  Contact Melissa Kramer (x5287) or Sarah Yerger (x5648) 

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The Trico libraries are testing out several online resources, and we need your opinion!  Please check out the list, try any that strike your interest, and submit your comments.  Your feedback is invaluable as we decide whether to subscribe to these resources.

The trial databases include:

• Philadelphia Architects and Buildings, a database of images and information
  
• The FIAF Index to Film Periodicals and info on film archives
• Oxford Islamic Studies Online, a rich and diverse resource
  
• Several sources for 17th, 18th, and 19th century newspapers from the UK
• Several sources for information on countries of the world
  

Access these resources at the Trial Databases page.  Thanks for your help!  And act fast: most trials end in early April.

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Interested in Islam or the Qur'an?  The Tri-College Libraries now subscribe to two great resources for your research pleasure.

The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (edited by BMC's President-Elect, Jane Dammen McAuliffe!) is an "encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'anic studies."

The Encyclopaedia of Islam is a comprehensive work with entries on the religion itself, the Muslim people, and the ethnography and geography of the countries in which the religion is practiced.  This online subscription provides access to the entire second edition, and to the currently-in-development third edition.

Act now, temporary trial access!  While you're at it, please check out Oxford Islamic Studies Online, to which we have access until April 11.  This is a comprehensive resource comprising a number of different reference works and information sources.  If you like it, please make a comment on the Trials page.  We need your input so that we can make an informed decision about subscribing.

Salaam alaikum!

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It happens to the best of us:  you swear up and down that you returned that book to the Bryn Mawr library, only to find it tucked away in your office/under the bed/on your bookshelf making itself at home with your files/dustbunnies/personal library. 

 
What do you do when it happens to you 44 years later? 

 
You send it back to the Bryn Mawr College Library with a nice note, of course.*
 

I don't exactly know what the lesson learned here is, or who precisely is doing the learning - all I know is that receiving this long overdue book, and in particular the nice note accompanying it, made this librarian's day.

    *You may recognize this phrase from the wonderful New Yorker cartoon by Charles Saxon, which appears on page 34 of the January 5th, 1981 issue.  You can view this and other Bryn Mawr cartoons in The Complete New Yorker DVD Collection, available at the Canaday Library Reference Desk.

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Author Olga Grushin, who was chosen as one of Granta magazine’s "21 Best American Fiction Writers Under 35" last year and received the 2007 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, will give a reading at Bryn Mawr College on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ely Room of the Wyndham Alumnae House.

The reading, part of the College's Creative Writing Reading Series, is free and open to the public.

Grushin’s first novel, The Dream Life of Sukhanov, was among the most well reviewed books of 2006.  It was named one of the year’s best books by The New York Times, Washington Post, and many others. Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Post Book World described it as "sophisticated, ironic and witty, multilayered, intricately constructed, deeply informed, elegantly written—the work, one would think, of someone who has been writing and publishing fiction for years."

 Visit the author's homepage

Find Grushin's works in Literature Online

Read an interview with Grushin from Library Journal 

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The spring exhibition in Canaday Library, Intimate Devotion: The Book of Hours in Medieval Religious Practice, will feature some of Bryn Mawr's most gorgeous medieval manuscripts and printed books and an extraordinary group of novice curators.

 
The exhibition is the work of the students in Professor Martha Easton's undergraduate seminar last fall, "The Book of Hours and the Art of Devotion." It will open on Thursday, January 31, with a panel discussion featuring the student curators. The program will begin at 5 p.m. in Carpenter 21, and will be followed by a reception and viewing of the exhibition in the Rare Book Room of Canaday Library.

 
Martha Easton, lecturer in History of Art, said she developed the course so that students could work with original objects, but also have to think about how to present the subject to a wider public.

 
"From the beginning this has been their show," she said. "Collectively they came up with the theme, decided what aspects of the book of hours they wanted to highlight, and chose the objects and images they wanted to display. I have been very impressed with the way they collaborated together in a professional way, listening to divergent points of view but finding the common ground between them, meeting deadlines and commenting on each other's work. The end result has been a cohesive and thoughtful examination of the book of hours in medieval religious life."

 
Thirteen students participated in the class, including eight from Bryn Mawr, four from Haverford, and one from Swarthmore. The students are Bianca Bromberger '08 (HC), Jacob Carroll '09 (HC), Jenny Castle '09, Erina Donnelly '08, Brittaney Golden '08, Talia Greenwald '08, Kira Grennan '08 (SC),  Lavanya Jayakar '09, Margaret Livingston '08 (HC), Lindsey Merikas '08 (HC), Annie Morse '09, Alex Solomon '08, and Arianae Tsavaris '09. Special Collections Librarian Marianne Hansen helped the class with expertise on the physical production of medieval manuscripts and also served as the exhibition coordinator. 

 
The exhibition will be open from January 31 through May 30. The exhibition hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. For additional information, contact the Special Collections Department at 610-526-6576. 

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Whitney Ale, teaching assistant for Haverford sculpture professor Marianne Weil, spent the tail end of fall semester restoring a 150-year old plaster- cast bust of the goddess Diana that once sat atop the shelves of the old Haverford Library.  As reported in a previous blog posting, busts of Diana and Aristotle were recently identified and discovered on campus.

Ale, a senior anthropology major from Bryn Mawr, has put in over 20 hours of work cleaning and repairing the sculpture and predicts just as many hours before she finishes.  The first step in Ale’s restoration process is to sand the entire bust by hand with a fine grit sandpaper.  This step removes small nicks and gives the bust an even and clean appearance.

“When I first saw Diana she looked tortured,” reports Ale.  “She had been colored on with marker, given eyeballs with pen.  It looks as though at one point her head had fallen off and was glued back on.”

Following the initial sanding, Ale will soak the bust in water to open its pores in preparation for the final steps, patching large cracks with new plaster and giving the work a final sanding to make the repairs flush with the rest of the piece.

Having worked extensively in bronze, wax, steel and clay, this is the first time Ale has worked with plaster and she is really enjoying it: “I feel that I am forming a real connection with the piece.  It is very exciting at this point to see her becoming beautiful again.”

Once completed, Diana will make a triumphant return to Magill Library where she will be offered pride of place in Haverford Special Collections.

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Need to find a book review?  You're in luck!  The Tri-College Libraries offer a multitude of resources to help you find what you need.

Consult this page: Finding Book Reviews.  It provides links to databases like Book Review Index, Book Review Digest, and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as instructions for using full-text resources and subject-specific tools that offer power tools for honing in on book review articles.

And when all else fails... ask a Reference Librarian! 

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Want the scoop on the seediest scandals in history?  Need to find old advertisements or movie reviews?  Just want to see the front page from the day you were born?  You're in luck!

 
The Tri-College Libraries have subscriptions that provide you with full text of hundreds of historical newspapers and periodicals.  Check out America's Historical Newspapers, The Nation Digital Archive, or the New York Times from the 1800s through today!  This Subject Portal page is your gateway to the past.

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Celebrated poet Lucille Clifton, 2007 recipient of the Poetry Foundation's highest honor, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, will give a reading at Bryn Mawr College on Thursday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ely Room of the Wyndham Alumnae House.

Check out Clifton's works in Tripod.

Read more about Clifton in Literature Resource Center.

Clifton reading her poem "Turning" at WGBH's Open Vault.

Clifton reading her poem "September's Song: A Poem in Seven Days" at Online News Hour.

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Last week we posted about the re-discovery and ensuing restoration of two 150-year-old Greek plaster-cast busts that had once graced the shelves of the Haverford College Library.  Through careful examination of photographs from the College Archives library staff have identified a total of eleven busts that were once on display in the library from at least 1865 to 1895 and perhaps beyond.  As we would be pleased to see the identification and return of more of these wayward characters, we provide below—in the form of an old FBI wanted poster—a line-up of this motley gang of Ancient Greeks, Quakers, and a few unknowns.  If you’ve seen any of these fugitives lurking around campus please don’t hesitate to be in touch with Special Collections staff!

1. Apollo Wanted for employing biological weapons in the Trojan War. Also for defiling numerous nymphs. 2. Aristotle Wanted for not holding the Gods in honor. And for inspiring Friedrich Nietzsche centuries later. 3. Athena Wanted for aiding Hermes in the beheading of the Gorgon Medussa. May be armed with a thunderbolt and aegis. 4. Cicero Wanted for teaching Greek Philosophy to the Romans. And for Betraying the Regime of Mark Antony. 5. Diana Wanted for transforming Acteon into a stag and for turning his own hunting dogs on him. 6. Fothergill Wanted for urging revolution and liberal polices in the American Colonies. 7. Socrates Wanted for corrupting the minds of Athens’ youth, a crime punishable by death by hemlock. 8. Unknown Do you recognize this man? If you can identify him please contact Haverford Special Collections! 9. Whittier Wanted for doing little else besides dreaming and writing poetry for good causes. 10. Unknown Minor Accomplices

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When the organizers of “A Few Well Selected Books,” the current exhibition in Magill Library, chose an 1865 photograph of the library to use in the promotion of the exhibit, they had no idea it would lead to the rediscovery of two very old plaster-cast Greek busts.  This iconic photograph of the library in Alumni Hall features (from left to right) professors Thomas Chase and Paul Swift, superintendent William Wetherald, seniors James A. Chase and Allen C. Thomas, assistant professor and librarian Clement L. Smith, sophomore Samuel Collins, and president Samuel J. Gummere.  Peering down from high atop the wooden bookcases are several Ancient Greek busts, including (from left to right) Socrates, Aristotle, Diana, and Cicero.

After our exhibit announcements went out, we were informed by Haverford professor Darin Hayton that the bust of Diana could be found in the faculty lounge of Hall Building.  Scuffed up, embellished with magic marker, and appearing to have suffered a neck fracture, Diana has clearly been through some rough patches over the past century and a half!

A few weeks after the discovery of Diana, as librarians Christa Williford and David Conners were preparing to record an exhibit narrative with Classics professors Deborah Roberts and Bret Mulligan, Roberts revealed that she and husband professor emeritus Aryeh Kosman had another of the busts—that of Aristotle—in their home on College Avenue.  Kosman reports having rescued Aristotle from a trash pile in the 1970s.

Archival photographs from 1865 to 1895 reveal an array of Ancient Greek mythological and philosophical characters to have been part of the collection, as well as a couple of Quaker luminaries and some mystery busts yet to be identified.  Librarians have long wondered what had become of these venerable figures as they are not part of the extensive online inventory of college-owned art maintained by College Archivist Diana Franzusoff Peterson.

Both busts have been returned to Special Collections and now they will be undergoing restoration and repair courtesy of Haverford sculpture professor Marianne Weil and her teaching assistant Whitney Ale BMC '08.  Over the course of the next few weeks, we will provide updates on their progress and will also report on more of the missing busts which have been identified in photographs from the College Archives.

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The Lost-Wax Initiative, is a collaborative project between Swarthmore College art history students and sculpture students from Haverford College. For a limited number of studio/foundry sessions, students from Associate Professor Patricia Reilly's Ancient Greek and Roman Art class met with sculpture students from Visiting Associate Professor Marianne Weil's class at Haverford's Foundry.  Under Prof. Weil’s guidance, students explored the lost-wax casting process through "hands-on" preparation of their wax sculptures, investment molds and the finishing “chasing” of the bronzes at our College Foundry.  

This project was a unique opportunity for students in both departments to share an in-depth collaborative research experience in a workshop setting and provides the premise for an ongoing dialogue between our departments.  It was generously funded by a Mellon Tri-Co Seed Grant.

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Since the beginning of October, computing equipment and library materials valued at over $4000 have been stolen from Canaday Library.

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Modern Musings: Treasures from the Lieberman Collection

McCabe Library lobby, October 24-December 23

Talk by Professor Graham Bader, Tuesday, October 30, 4:15 p.m. 

This exhibit, curated by Sarah Burford '08, showcases some of our favorite items from the Lieberman collection. This generous gift from William S. Lieberman '43, prominent curator at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, comprises thousands of volumes on art, history, literature, and a myriad of other subjects. Lieberman graduated Swarthmore in 1943 with a B.A. in English, and almost immediately embarked on a six-decade career in the art world. The exhibition includes books, catalogs, original prints, and lithographs created or signed by figures such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, W.H. Auden, and Andy Warhol. Lieberman knew many of these artists personally, and the exhibition offers an exciting look at works representative of some of the most important developments in modern artistic culture.

Please join us at 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, October 30th, for a talk on the exhibit by visiting Art History Professor Graham Bader. We hope to see you there!

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Help us control pests, keep the library clean, and keep library materials and computing equipment free from moisture, crumbs and stickiness by following the BMC Libraries' Food & Drink Policy!

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Did you know that Canaday student workers have been taking an inventory of all BMC library books?  Well they have, and it might even be a little bit fun! 

They're checking to see that the books are on the shelves where they're supposed to be, and that there aren't any problems with a book's catalog record that would make it difficult to find. 

It's a big job, and nearly 350,000 books have been inventoried so far!  Great job guys!!

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Poet and playwright Derek Walcott, recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature, will give a reading at Bryn Mawr College on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Thomas Great Hall.

Search for Walcott's books in Tripod. 

 Read more about Walcott in Literature Resource Center.

 Hear a reading and interview with Walcott at Lannan.org.

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October 5, 2007 to January 31, 2008
Curated by Christa Williford
Sharpless Gallery
Magill Library, Haverford College

Haverford's first library catalog was a slender 40-page book printed just three years after the first students arrived in 1833. The 770 titles included in this nascent collection give clues to the kind of intellectual life the school's Quaker founders sought to encourage in these young men. In the years that followed, the collection has expanded under many other influences; faculty, alumni, community groups, other libraries, and, most especially, students have all played a role in building Haverford's collections. This exhibition tells the story of the first "few well-chosen books" and honors those who have been responsible for growing this corpus into today's wide-ranging collections.

http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/ 

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Every year during the library's Information Fair, we ask the incoming frosh to name their favorite films. We use this information to add to our recreational videos.

Here are this year's top results:

The winner with 13 votes:

Pride and Prejudice
(5 votes for the Colin Firth miniseries, 1 for the 2005 Keira Knightley version, 7 unspecified)

5 votes each:
Amelie

Garden State

Pirates of the Caribbean

4 votes each:
Gone with the Wind

Little Miss Sunshine

The Lord of the Rings

The Notebook

The Princess Bride

3 votes each:
Almost Famous

American Beauty

Ever After

Love Actually

Spirited Away

Titanic

2 votes each:
300

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Gladiator

Hairspray (not sure which version!)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Howl's Moving Castle

Legally Blonde (to be ordered)

The Lion King

Mean Girls

Memento

Moulin Rouge

Practical Magic (to be ordered)

Save the Last Dance (to be ordered)

Sense & Sensibility

The Royal Tennenbaums

Star Wars

Superbad (To be ordered)
 

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Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, the Rhys Carpenter Professor Emerita of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, will reflect on the work of the extraordinary female archaeologists who came out of Bryn Mawr in the early part of the century in a lecture Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Carpenter Library 21. Her talk, sponsored by the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library, accompanies the opening of the exhibition Breaking Ground, Breaking Tradition: Bryn Mawr and the First Generations of Women Archaeologists.

A reception and viewing of the exhibition in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room in Canaday Library will follow the lecture.

 Ridgway is one of the great figures in classical archaeology. She holds doctorates from both Bryn Mawr and the University of Messina, and she has taught at Bryn Mawr since 1957. She is one of the foremost authorities on sculpture in the ancient world, the author of many books now considered classics in the field. In recognition of her lifetime achievements, the Archaeological Institute of America awarded her its most prestigious award, the Gold Medal, in 1988.

 The exhibition will run from Sept. 25 through December 21 in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room in Mariam Coffin Canaday Library.

Hours: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday; 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, except for Fall Break and Thanksgiving weekends.

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Eighty-six-year-old poet Richard Wilbur, the only living American poet to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry two times, will be reading from his work at Bryn Mawr College on Thursday, Sept., 27 at 7:30 p.m., in the Ely Room of the Wyndham Alumnae House.

Check out Wilbur's books in Tripod.

Read more about Wilbur in Literature Resource Center.

Video of Wilbur talking about his life at the People's Archive.

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Check out MideastWire.com!  This resource provides English translations to news stories from 22 Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab media Diaspora, updated daily. 

See this review from the Guardian (UK) to learn more about this resource, and to compare it with other sources of news from this region of the world.

You can view the news stories on the website, search the archives (back to 2005), receive updates via your RSS reader, or sign up for daily email newsletters.  To sign up for the email newsletter, write to info@mideastwire.com from your BMC, HC, or SC email account.

MideastWire.com is brought to you by the Tri-College Libraries. 

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Last week, we told you ten things you (probably) didn't know you could do with Tripod, but there's actually more!*  We have gadgets and widgets! 

Find your favorite and click the image to install!

iGoogle or Google Desktop	Vista
Mac OS X Dashboard

* We just didn't want to overwhelm you with all of Tripod's awesomeness.

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Swarthmore alum and new Digital Collections Librarian at Haverford College, David Conners, has recently had an article published in Library Journal.  Co-written with Laena McCarthy, Image Cataloger and Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute Libraries, the article "Can The Jobs Be Found," reconsiders the common presumption that entry-level jobs for recent library school graduates are hard to find.  Congratulations, David!

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Union Music Library was home (briefly) to a little chipmunk named Alvin who accidentally found his way in this morning.  He visited through the afternoon, when he tired of the constant diet of classical music (he was hungry for something a little more substantial, like nuts) and was helped out of the library by student assistant Sakda Chantanavanich.

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The Bryn Mawr College Libraries have made some changes to how overdue and lost materials are fined, effective 8/29/07.  These changes, outlined below, will result in eliminating almost all library fines.  Our goal, as always, is to encourage thoughtful and community-minded use of the library collections.

We offer these changes along with our best wishes for a good academic year!

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Fall is here, and students and faculty are returning (or arriving for the first time). For everyone who's new to Tripod, the libraries' catalog, and for everyone who's used it but hasn't tried all the bells and whistles, here's a short guide to some of the features you may not know about.

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 Free to Dance

A video series on the history of African American dance, with emphasis on the role that African American choreographers and dancers have played in the development of modern dance.

Part One focuses "on the early development of modern dance-and set against the background of the Harlem Renaissance, racial segregation and the Great Depression ... examining how African Americans overcame a 'segregated aesthetic' to become recognized as modern dance artists."

Part Two features Katherine Dunham, whose "priority is to create new choreography with her dancers."

Part Three examines the 1960s through the 1980s.

Watch an excerpt from Bill T. Jones' "D-Man in the Water."

Read more... 

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The editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries recently published a list of the 100 words high school graduates should know.  The list includes words like moiety, abrogate, circumlocution, precipitous, and sanguine.  According to Steven Kleinedler, if you know these words you likely have a "superior command of the language." How many do you know?

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Nominations for the 28th Annual Emmy Awards for News & Documentary were announced this past week.

Check out some of these nominated documentaries owned by the Tri-Co libraries on dvd!


THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Eugene O'Neill

CINEMAX

God Sleeps in Rwanda

 
COURT TV

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

DISCOVERY CHANNEL

Grizzly Man 

DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire

The Lost Year in Iraq

 
P.O.V.

My Country, My Country

The Boys of Baraka

The Fall of Fujimori

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Many academic, public and school libraries have recently been promoting their services through promotional videos. Gale Publishing decided to highlight the best of these films at their Librareo website. Take a look at the creativity on display. Don't miss the Towson Public Library's "Hemmingway the Bookworm!"

http://www.gale.com/librareo/vote.html

More Librareo videos are available on YouTube 

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Information Services has begun a planning process to help determine choices and future directions for IT services, such as email, calendar, file storage and printing. This process will look at our services holistically and lay a foundation for an environment that  better meets the needs of the community. Please take a look at our new blog where we would like to hear from you!

Please answer a few questions we have for community members by posting a comment. Visit our blog at http://www.brynmawr.edu/is/planning/.

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Studies show that many library fans are also enthusiastic book-buyers. 

If you want to get more books but don't have a lot of cash, or if you have books you've read that you don't want to keep, how about participating in a book exchange?  There are several websites that let you post the books you want to swap and search for the books you want to get.  Give these a try!

• PaperBackSwap
• BookMooch
• FrugalReader

Keep an eye on this site for future book-related tips! 

 
Disclaimer: the Tri-College Libraries are not affiliated with any of these sites.  Check them out and tell us how it goes! 

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Exterminators beware!  The Bryn Mawr College library staff don't believe in killing bugs. 

 
Recently, a family of stinkbugs (Brochymenas) came to live in the Canaday staff lounge. Rather than killing them, a nature-loving librarian gathered them up, put them in a jar, took them outside, and let them go free!

 
If you know the identity of this humanitarian staff member, post a comment!

 
Read more on stinkbugs: 

• Britannica Online article
  
• Fact sheet from the Entomology Department, Rutgers University
• Hemiptera article from Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia

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The Trico libraries are testing out several online resources, and we need your opinion!  Please check out the list, try any that strike your interest, and submit your comments.  Your feedback is invaluable as we decide whether to subscribe to these resources.

The trial databases include:

• A new interface for RILM, GeoRef, and the Bibliography of the History of Art
• Encyclopedia Judaica, a new online reference book
• Zentralblatt MATH, the most complete indexing resource for pure and applied math (going back to 1868!)
  
• Mideastwire.com, which provides English translations of the latest news articles from the 22 Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab diaspora
  

Access these resources at the Trial Databases page.  Thanks for your help!  And act fast: most trials end in early July.

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New!  The Tri-College Libraries have all begun subscriptions to America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922!

 
This amazing resource allows you to search the full text of more than 1000 historical newspaper titles with coverage from all fifty states.   

 
Want to find advertisements, birth notices, election returns, or prices from Kentucky during the Gilded Age?  You can!  Limit your search by region, year, presidential era, eras in American history, newspaper title, article type, or a combination of these.

 
You can zoom in on your resulting articles, navigate the whole page, and output your results to the printer or to a PDF. 

 
Try America's Historical Newspapers today! 

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Going away for the holiday weekend, or planning a vacation?  Here are some sites you won't want to miss:

• Google Maps - great for getting driving directions, finding resources near your destination, or zooming in on an aerial view of any spot in America!  Try the "hybrid" view to see the map and aerial photograph in a combined image.
  
• Tripadvisor.com - Look here for hotel prices, and thousands of reviews by other travelers.
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We few in the library who remain after most of the faculty and students are gone are privileged to have witnessed an extraordinary feat.

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Looking for a quiet place to cram in those last few hours of studying during exams?  Back by popular demand, Canaday library will be open until 2am Monday, 5/7 - Thursday, 5/10 and Monday, 5/14 - Thursday, 5/17. 

. . . And don't forget that the Lusty Cup and A floor computer lab are now open 24 hrs.!

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Bestselling author Neil Gaiman, whose celebrated Sandman series of graphic novels is widely considered a groundbreaker in introducing comic books to a literary audience, will read at Bryn Mawr on Tuesday, April 24, at 7 p.m., in Thomas Great Hall.

Check out Gaiman's works in Tripod. 

Read more about Gaiman in Literature Resource Center. 

Visit Gaiman's personal webpage. 

Listen to interviews with Gaiman via Squidoo. 

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Please join us for a lecture by Steven Rothman, noted Christopher Morley scholar and curator of the current exhibition in the Philips Wing, on Morley and his life-long relationship with Haverford College. Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 4:30 pm in the Philips Wing of Magill Library, Haverford College. Refreshments will be served.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was a prolific and popular novelist, editor, playwright, poet, essayist, and book lover. But more than anything, Morley was a devoted Haverfordian, who grew up on the campus (his father was a beloved mathematics professor), graduated from the college in 1910, and returned as a successful writer to give lectures and visit brother Felix, who became Haverford’s fifth president. On the fiftieth anniversary of Christopher Morley’s death we honor this “local boy made good” and his lifelong commitment to Haverford College.

For more information on our exhibition and events:
http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa will give a reading at Bryn Mawr on Thursday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m., in the Ely Room at the Wyndham Alumnae House.

Check out Komunyakaa's books in Tripod. 

Read about Komunyakaa in Literature Resource Center. 

Listen to an interview and reading at CortlandReview.com.

Read and listen to poems at the Internet Poetry Archive. 

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A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF ASHLEY ELSER '05

Ashley Elser (1980 - 2005) was an economics major with a strong interest in transportation issues, sustainability, and the environment. Her interest in transportation economics developed during time she spent in pre-Katrina New Orleans. Ashley was also a student of German language and literature, a violinist and pianist, and a lover of photography.

In honor of Ashley, the Economics department asked the library to create a collection of books that Ashley would have enjoyed. The Ashley Elser Memorial Book Collection includes a selection of contemporary works in the area of transportation economics. The collection also includes some of Ashley's childhood favorites and most beloved works of literature.

Please join us on Thursday, April 12th for a stimulating lecture on a timely topic, followed by refreshments, conversation, and good books.

LECTURE:
Transportation, Sustainability, and the Recovery of New Orleans
John L. Renne, Ph.D.
Thomas 224, 7:30 pm

John Renne is the Associate Director of the University of New Orleans Transportation Center and is an Assistant Professor of Transportation Studies and Urban Planning at the University of New Orleans.

RECEPTION:
Refreshments & the inauguration of the Ashley Elser Memorial Book Collection
Rare Book Room
Canaday Library
9:00 pm

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As a part of the two weeks of environmental events leading up to the "Saving Communities, Saving the Environment" conference at Haverford during Earth Day weekend, there is an exhibit of rare and valuable environmental books in the Special Collections.  This exhibit has been developed by Lesley Fleischman, in conjunction with Earthquakers (Haverford's environmental group) and with help from Ann Upton.

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• Forgot a pen today
• Ran out of writing space on their hands
• Just think anything with buttons is cooler

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Please join us for a screening of Christopher Morley's potboiler-turned-Hollywood hit Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman, starring Ginger Rogers in her academy award-winning role. Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 8:00 pm in the Philips Wing of Magill Library, Haverford College. Popcorn and refreshments will be served.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was a prolific and popular novelist, editor, playwright, poet, essayist, and book lover. But more than anything, Morley was a devoted Haverfordian, who grew up on the campus (his father was a beloved mathematics professor), graduated from the college in 1910, and returned as a successful writer to give lectures and visit brother Felix, who became Haverford’s fifth president. On the fiftieth anniversary of Christopher Morley’s death we honor this “local boy made good” and his lifelong commitment to Haverford College.

For more information on our exhibition and events:
http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/

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Please join us Thursday, April 12 at 4pm in the Rare Book Room in
Canaday Library to celebrate the new books of the faculty and to hear a
few words about the research and writing of their publications.

The faculty-author reception has become a tradition of sharing the
scholarship and publishing success of Bryn Mawr's prolific faculty
authors. Each spring the community gathers for a wine and cheese
reception and the authors will be asked to share a few words about their
books. The Bookshop will partner with The Friends of the Library to
sponsor this event and will make available for purchase the titles to be
celebrated.

See you there!

This year's celebrated authors are:

Michael Allen 
Globalization, Negotiation and the Failure of Transformation in South Africa: Revolution at a Bargain

Elizabeth Allen  
A Fallen Idol is Still a God: Lermontov and the Quandaries of Cultural Transition

Catherine Conybeare  
The Irrational Augustine

Karen F. Greif and Jon F. Merz  
Current Controversies in the Biological Sciences

Carola Hein  
European Brussels. Whose capital? Whose city?
Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan

Karl Kirchwey  
The Happiness of This World: Poetry and Prose

Christine Koggel  
Moral Issues in Global Perspective

Michael Krausz  
Interpretation and Transformation: Explorations in Art and the Self

Barbara Lane  
Housing and Dwelling: Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture

Katherine Rowe  
New Wave Shakespeare on Screen

Lisa Saltzman  
Trauma and Visuality in Modernity
Making Memory Matter: Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art

Sanford F. Schram  
Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance, and Globalization
Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research and Method

Lorett Treese  
Railroads of New Jersey: Fragments of the Past in the Garden State Landscape

Amanda Weidman   
Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India

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The Gest Program in Comparative Religion presents Thomas Hamm, Department of Religion, Friends Collection and College Archives at Earlham College, in a talk entitled "The Use and Abuse of Quaker Tradition" on Thursday, April 4.  Please join us in the Philips Wing of Magill Library, Haverford College, for tea at 4:15 pm followed by Tom's lecture at 4:30 pm.

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Poet Marie Ponsot, whose 1998 collection The Bird Catcher received that year's National Book Critics Circle Award, will give a reading at Bryn Mawr on Thursday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m., in the Ely Room of the Wyndham Alumnae House.

Check out Ponsot's books in Tripod.

Read more about Ponsot in Literature Resource Center.

Listen to Ponsot's interview with NPR affiliate KUOW.

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Want to make an impression on campus?  Want to meet and assist other students, faculty and staff in a public service setting?  The much sought-after positions in Canaday Circulation are now at your fingertips.  Applications are available in the lobby or here for immediate submission.  Current job openings include desk assistant, shelver, and e-reserves assistant.

Don't wait, submit today for best consideration.  Questions should be directed to any circulation supervisor: Sarah, Nicole, or Melissa.

Good Luck! 

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reBound is a collaboration between the Bryn Mawr College Special Collections Department and The Philadelphia Center for the Book. The Center, formed in 2004, promotes the book as a vital  contemporary art form and as a catalyst for inspiration, education and creative expression. Its diverse membership includes book artists, collectors, teachers, writers, librarians, book dealers, and art professors. The works being exhibited are newly-created pieces that respond to the exhibition, Bound and Determined: Identifying American Bookbindings, on display in Canaday Library’s Rare Book Room through May 2007.

Exhibition opening and reception - free and open to the public
Friday, March 30, 2007
6:00 - 7:30 pm
 

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Please join us Thursday, March 29, 2007, from 4:30-5:30 pm for a reading by visiting professor Dorian Stuber of short stories and excerpts from works of writer Chrisopher Morley (HC 1910).   Held in the newly refurnished Morley Alcove in Magill Library.

More information:

http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/ 

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Kudos to Kim Pelkey, Bryn Mawr's own Rare Book Cataloger!  Kim is a finalist in the current New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest (say that three times fast!). 

Take a look at the site and vote for your favorite!  Votes are due at midnight this Sunday, March 18. 

Good luck, Kim!

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• A thru AP 2 R19 are along the elevator wall on Floor B
• AP 2 R2 thru AS 162 B6 v. 257 are along the center aisle on Floor A
• AS 162 B6 v. 258 thru B 3279 are after BL on Floor A
• B 3280 thru D 299 H5 v.44 are after PB 1 M6 v. 91 on Floor 2
• D 299 H5 v.45 thru DG 403 M85 v.11 are after PD on Floor 2
• DG 403 M85 v.12 thru DS are behind To-Be-Shelved on Floor 2
• DT thru E 169.12 are behind PQ 2623 Floor 2       

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Acclaimed author Caryl Phillips, whose oeuvre Time magazine has called "one of literature's great meditations on race and identity," will read from new work on Tuesday, March 6, at 8 p.m. in Goodhart Music Room.

Check out Phillips' books in Tripod.

Read about Phillips in Literature Resource Center. 

Visit Phillips' website. 

Listen to an NPR interview about A Distant Shore. 

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Seminar on American Bookbinding History
Friday, March 9, 2007
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Music Room, Goodhart Hall
Bryn Mawr College

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New!  The Tri-College Libraries now offer online access to International Financial Statistics, an invaluable source of time series financial data from the International Monetary Fund.

This resource provides data for more than 200 countries in the following areas: exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking accounts, interest rates, production, prices, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts as well as commodity and trade statistics.

If you're into international economics, check it out!

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel will give a reading on Thursday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m., in Thomas Great Hall.

Check out Vogel's plays in Tripod. 

Read more on Vogel in Literature Resource Center. 

NPR audio interview with Vogel. 

PBS interview about How I Learned to Drive. 

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What do you want to read? Quita's Corner is the new Recreational Reading alcove in Canaday Library. Help us select books for it!

We've open to everything from Gossip Girls to Jane Eyre, so let us know what you're reading, and what you'd like to recommend to others!

Leave us a comment or email your suggestions to library@brynmawr.edu.

The corner is named after Quita Woodward (’32), whose parents dedicated a cozy room in Thomas Hall in 1940 in her memory. This room is another area on campus dedicated to pleasure reading. The corner is located under the main staircase on the  first floor of Canaday.

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