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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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The Main Line Sogetsu Study Group will hold its annual exhibit of ikebana floral arrangements at the Haverford College Library on Oct. 23 to 25 throughout the main tier of Magill. 

Ikebana is a formal style of flower arrangement art dating back to medieval Japan.  The Sogetsu school emerged in the 20th century and incorporates modern style elements.  For this special campus exhibit, designs will focus on incorporating Trifoliate Orange (aka Hardy Orange) in the arrangements.  The displays will be of interest to students of Japanese art and culture. 

The exhibit is open to the public during regular library hours. See http://www.haverford.edu/library/  for library hours and contact hmckay@haverford.edu for more information.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks will perform her work at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, in Bryn Mawr College’s Goodhart Theater as part of the 2009-10 Creative Writing Program Reading Series.

The Creative Writing Program’s Reading Series is free and open to the public.

Named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next New Wave,” Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most exciting and acclaimed playwrights in American drama today. She is the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for the Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog and is a MacArthur “genius” award recipient.

In addition to Topdog/Underdog, Parks’ plays include In the Blood, Venus (a 1996 OBIE Award winner), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (the 1990 OBIE Award winner for Best New American Play), and The America Play.

Parks’ screenplays include Girl 6 and The Great Debaters. Her first novel is Getting Mother’s Body, and she has also written a musical, Ray Charles Live!

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Doing research over Fall Break 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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Looking for credible sources of information on H1N1?  Our new research guide offers information and announcements from Tri-College offices, links to government resources, news and more!  Click here to view the guide.

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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
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• 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

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A reading by best-selling author Lorrie Moore from her new novel A Gate at the Stairs opens Bryn Mawr College’s yearlong Creative Writing Program Reading Series.The Creative Writing Program Reading Series is free and open to the public.

Moore will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23, in Thomas Great Hall. In addition to A Gate at the Stairs, Moore is the author of the story collections Birds of America and Self-Help, and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams.

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The Fair was held Sept. 3 for entering students.  Campus groups, club members, and librarians were all on hand to meet them and give out information.  Students needed to explore the far reaches of the Library to get raffle tickets.  Michael Riccio was the winner of the iTouch raffle.

If you couldn't come to the Fair, ask at the Circulation Desk for a quick overview of the essentials.

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Since last Monday, the Government Printing Office (GPO) has been experiencing problems with its PURL server.  What this means is that most electronic government publications (the ones that come from GPO) can't be accessed through Tripod (at least not in the usual, obvious way; see below).  Here's the announcement from FDLP:

http://www.fdlp.gov/component/content/article/19-general/483-purl-server-update2

In the meantime, if you need an electronic government document, look in the Note section of the item record in Tripod.  While the "Click on the following" link doesn't work (that's the one that points to http://purl.access.gpo.gov), there should be an alternate URL in the Note section. In some--but not all!--cases, copying and pasting that URL (the one that begins with http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov) into your browser will take you to the document. This won't work for everything, but if you need a document in a hurry, you may want to try it out.

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Students, professors, staff members!

We're working to make the Tripod catalog more convenient to use -- by building a special version to use from your phone!  Contribute to this brief survey to let us know what we should include:

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With your help, we can meet your needs!

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The Tricollege Libraries now provide access to the full text of the Philadelphia Tribune, from 1912 to the present!  

Founded in 1884, the Tribune is the oldest continually published African-American newspaper in the U.S. Read more about the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Tribune in this Philadelphia Inquirer story.

The Philadelphia Tribune is available in full page images and article images from ProQuest Historical Newspapers (1912 - 2001) and in full text  from Ethnic Newswatch (1991 - present).

Click here to access the Tribune!

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Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections has gone live with our new website. Based on the look and feel of the main Haverford College site, the new Special Collections site incorporates numerous utilities that bring dynamic content to the site. Up-to-date calendar items appear in the Upcoming Events section alongside an improved New & Noteworthy Blog and a list of New Quaker Books.

The main page also features our Current Exhibition and open hours for the day. A device known as the “Tridget” will be familiar to users of the main library site. Ours is customized to include not only a search box for Tripod, but also interfaces for Triptych, the Tri-College Digital Library, online Finding Aids, and Web Archives of Haverford, Quaker and Peace related sites.

Pages below the main page include those titled About, Collections, Research, Services, Exhibitions, our annual Gest Fellowship and our Blog. The About page contains the usual contact information and staff listing, and also includes links to our online presence on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. Collections navigation now relies more heavily on visual representations of our offerings and includes when possible search boxes for individual subcollections. Several new Finding Aids have been put online recently and there are many more to come in the following months.

The new Research page includes tips for successful research in Special Collections and links to subject guides of relevance to those using our resources. The Services page now includes a fee schedule for Copying, Scanning, and so on. The Exhibitions page gives detailed information on our current and past exhibits, including ongoing online exhibits. The Gest Fellowship page includes the current instructions and criteria for applying for our one-month research fellowships and includes a list of all current and former Gest Fellows, their institutional affiliations and the topics of their study.

Our New and Noteworthy Blog is a feature continuing from the old site, but we have switched blogging software to WordPress, which allows our content to be featured on the College’s main site and which also feeds to our main page as well as to Twitter and Facebook. The Blog and our New Quaker Books features may be accessed by subscription using an RSS news reader as well as via e-mail notification.

The process of designing these new pages was a several-months long undertaking led by Digital Collections Librarian, David Conners. Several of our student employees did much of the coding and photography featured on the site, and staff of the Communications office and the Library were invaluable in helping us with some of the more advanced dynamic applications. We hope you enjoy the new site and find it useful. Questions and suggestions may be sent to us at hc-special@haverford.edu.

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The artist and illustrator Maxfield Parrish attended Haverford for three years but did not graduate. Among the many items in the Parrish collection is his notebook containing descriptions of thirty-three chemistry experiments carried out between February 7 and May 23, 1890, as well as a preliminary outline of laboratory procedures and equipment. In addition to the text written in india ink in Parrish's distinctive hand, many of the experiments are illustrated with fanciful and highly decorative watercolor and ink drawings. These illustrations range from small head and tail pieces to double page representations of experiments being carried out by elfin lab assistants. The Chemistry Notebook is prized not only as a record of academic activity at the end of the 19th century but also for its unique glimpse into the formation of an important artistic talent.  While sanctioned artistic outlets were very meager during Parrish's tenure at Haverford, the college has since amassed a fine collection of artworks, most of which are available for personal study in Special Collections.

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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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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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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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The Library, the John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center, and the Office of External Relations present a Young Academic Alumni Lecture Series talk by Paul Reitter HC ’90, Ohio State University, entitled “The Birth of Modern Media Criticism out of the Spirit of Jewish Self-Hatred?  Karl Kraus and his Jewish Question.”

March 5, 4:30 pm; Tea at 4:15 pm

Magill Library, Phillips Wing

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both outrage and admiration. Kraus’ spectacularly hostile critiques of the emerging mass press often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, and thus he gained a reputation for being the quintessential self-hating Jew. At the same time, however, several of the most influential commentators on German-Jewish culture--for example, Franz Kafka and Gershom Scholem--saw Kraus as an “arch Jew” who authored the most profoundly Jewish writing in the German language. All of which leaves us with the questions: Who's right? Was Kraus a self-hater or a great Jew? Or did he somehow manage to be both things? And does it still make sense to think about Kraus in such terms? Paul Reitter’s talk will offer answers to these questions, as well as some ideas as to why this debate about Kraus matters in the here and now.

For more information contact John Anderies 610-896-2948 janderie@haverford.edu

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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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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! 

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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 somewhere?  You can still search the ProQuest Research Library, LexisNexis and your other favorite resources online!

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 the VPN at Haverford for more information about downloading the software and requesting an acccount.  

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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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"The Foundations of the Age of Benevolence in Britain, 1690-1740,"

Brent S. Sirota '98,
North Carolina State University

Monday, November 10, 2008
Tea at 4:15 P.M., Talk at 4:30 P.M.
Magill Library -- Philips Wing 

In the early eighteenth century, voluntary associations were enshrined at the heart of British public life. The philanthropy and sociability of these organizations underpinned a self-proclaimed "age of benevolence" in which clubs, societies, and projects were designated the preeminent instruments of social improvement, religious renewal and moral reform. How may we account for this moral valorization of civil society in Britain? This paper will trace the origins of the "age of benevolence" to the defeat of absolutism in the Revolution of 1688-1689. By recovering the revolutionary origins of British civil society, it will be possible to view the eighteenth century "age of benevolence" as a key moment in both the rise of British liberalism and the development of the British state.

Presented by the Library, the John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center, and the Office of Alumni Relations.

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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

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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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InformaWorld has announced intermittent periods of downtime on Saturday, 9/27, to complete essential maintenance. They expect two short periods of downtime throughout the day which will last a maximum of thirty minutes. 

The following journals will be unavailable to Haverford users during these periods:

African Studies
Annals of science
Asian Philosophy
Colonial Latin American Review
Comments on modern chemistry. Part A, Comments on inorganic chemistry
Contemporary Buddhism
Contemporary Politics
Cryptologia
Culture, theory and critique
Democratization
Development in Practice
Economy and Society
Ethnic and racial studies
Ethnomusicology Forum
Gender and Development
Globalizations
Index on censorship
Interventions
Journal of African Cultural Studies
Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
Journal of postcolonial writing
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
Middle Eastern literatures
Modern & contemporary France
Nationalism & ethnic politics
Philosophical Psychology
Policy Studies
Politikon
Postcolonial studies
Post-communist economies
Prose Studies
Psychoanalytic Dialogues
Radical society
Rethinking History
Review of African Political Economy
Security studies
Social History
Social Identities
Studies in conflict and terrorism
Terrorism and Political Violence
Textual Practice
The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics
The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
The Journal of musicological research
The Journal of Peasant Studies
The Journal of strategic studies
Third world quarterly
Women
Women's history review

We apologize for the inconvenience.

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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?

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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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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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Since this is just a trial, it won't be active all the time, but we'll try leaving it open when we're at our desks.

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The Haverford College Libraries are currently hiring for student assistant positions for Summer 2008. We are looking for fast learners with a keen attention to detail. Positions are full-time and last for twelve weeks.

For more information and an application, go to Jobs at the Libraries.  

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"The best thing a library can be is open."^*

This week the recently renovated reference desk area of Magill Library was dedicated to Michael S. Freeman, former Librarian of the College, in honor of his passion and commitment to serving the information needs of the community.

Michael was once quoted in the library literature as saying that "the best thing a library can be is open."¹ While in this particular case "open" referred to extended hours, it aptly describes Michael's overall approach to library services. From his arrival at Haverford in 1986 until his passing in 1999, Michael advocated collaborative work among librarians, faculty and students and put in place systems, resources and staff to foster it. Open to technological innovation, he signed Haverford up as one of the first participants in the JSTOR archive. Open to the lessons of the past, he took a keen interest in library history and the history of Tri-College library cooperation in particular and authored a number of articles on the subject. (See bibliography for a full list of works.)

During the last eighteen months, the reference desk area, now called the Michael S. Freeman Information Hub, has undergone a number of changes designed to foster a more collaborative atmosphere between reference librarians and patrons. A more modular and welcoming reference desk has been installed to replace the rather fortress-like former desk. The space has been expanded by removing the bookcases that were jutting out into the room, and five more computer stations and two tables for collaborative work have been added. New armchair seating near the remaining built-in bookcases provides a comfortable spot for reading and perusing the nearby “new books” display and other exhibits.

^*Albanese, Andrew Richard (2005). "The best thing a library can be is open." Library Journal 130 (September 15, 2005), no. 15. For more remembrances by colleagues and coworkers, see Lapsansky, Emma. "Michael Stuart Freeman, 1946 - 1999." Library Newsletter (May 1999).

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Many Haverford seniors are currently sweating out the final stages of the thesis writing process. It may give them some encouragement to know that Haverford online theses, accessible through the Senior Thesis Archive, are getting quite a bit of use.

Although the Archive was only launched in Autumn 2006, there are many theses getting hundreds of hits. The top ten most popular theses are listed below.

If you are writing a thesis, please think about giving a copy to the Archive where it will be available to future students in your department, prospective students and their parents, and interested researchers worldwide. For more information, contact Reference Librarian Margaret Schaus.

« Continue reading "Haverford's Most Popular Online Theses" »

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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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The Haverford College Libraries are currently hiring for student assistant positions for Summer 2008. We are looking for fast learners with a keen attention to detail.  Positions are full-time and last for twelve weeks.

Visit the Jobs at the Libraries section of the library website for a job description and application instructions.

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George Stephens is still an enigma, even though it's been almost 40 years since a group of Haverford students founded the George Stevins [sic] Memorial Association.  Their quest was to gather enough information about him in order to understand this courageous Haverfordian.  Here are some of the characteristics known to date through discovered artifacts: he was a little ungainly on the soccer field, his team having suffered defeat in Ethiopia when the ball dribbled past his left-leaning feet (see "Sinistericon" and his sneakers as evidence); he had little humor, as the well-known artist, Kevorkian, revealed in his portrait of Steyvens [sic]; he wrote his senior thesis on an unknowable topic, given that the 5" floppy on which it was presented can no longer be read; and he had a preference for large women (see Margaret Dufay's toothbrush).  Perhaps a visitor to the exhibit, which closes on March 15th, will discover the perfect artifact.  We welcome any creative evidence that will fulfill the mission of the Jorge Esteban [sic] Memorial Association.

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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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One of the many things we've learned from the Tripod survey conducted a few weeks ago was that our students often use other sites (like Amazon) to find the exact title of a work, so that they can then look it up in our catalog.  In order to make that process a little easier (as we work on more long term solutions), we've developed a few handy bookmarklets.

A bookmarklet looks like a link on a webpage or a bookmark in a browser, but it adds "one click functionality".  Basically, you can search Tripod from any website with just one click.  Watch this really short video to see them in action or read on!

To install a bookmarklet in Firefox or Safari, just drag the link below into to your bookmark bar or right click and select Bookmark this link.  In Internet Explorer, right click the link and select Add to favorites.

To use them, just highlight some interesting text on a page, then click the bookmarklet.  Tripod searches for those terms and presents you with the results.  That easy.

Search Tripod - Keyword

• Firefox: Tripod - Keyword
  
• Internet Explorer: Tripod - Keyword
  
• Safari: Tripod - Keyword

Search Tripod - Title

• Firefox: Tripod - Title
  
• Internet Explorer: Tripod - Title
  
• Safari: Tripod - Title

Google Scholar Search - We didn't make these, but we thought you might like them too.

• Firefox: Scholar Search
• Internet Explorer: Scholar Search
• Safari: Scholar Search

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Esther Ralph and family accompany Magill staff around Library

On February 26, Magill welcomed a special visitor who took staff on a “tour” of the Library’s past. Esther Ralph joined the all-female Library staff just after graduating from Drexel University in 1941 (when all Haverford students were men).

In her 40-year career at Haverford, she witnessed many changes to the Library’s building, collections, and services. When she arrived, she and other staff returned books to the stacks by means of a dumb waiter operated by rope and pulley. She saw U. S. Army units exercise on the College green during World War II; she heard Eleanor Roosevelt speak to students and faculty. She worked at Haverford through the massive Library expansion project in the mid-1960s that gave Magill its unique (occasionally befuddling) layout.

Click here for more from Esther Ralph and a look at some of the old photographs she is sharing with the campus community.

 Esther Ralph at work, 1960s

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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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This January we're starting out the semester with several new displays.  Come by and take a look!

Explorations in Literature takes a look at books and the movies based on them, featuring Oil, by Upton Sinclair (There Will Be Blood, currently in theaters, is based on this book), Persepolis (a graphic novel), and the old favorite of screenwriters everywhere, Jane Austen.

The display for political science features new books and journal articles about voter turnout in U.S. elections.  Some titles focus on the problems of disengagement and low numbers of voters at the polls, while others look at such recent positive trends as political activism, youth involvement, and results of democratization.

In the fountain area library displays welcome students back to campus and honor the work of Martin Luther King, Jr.  One display features photographs from the Civil Rights movement.  Whether the book was published in the 1950s or last year, the photographs preserve the immediacy of the protest marches and organizing efforts.  

An adjacent display invites viewers to "Read" with a tempting array of novels, critical studies, histories and art books on a wide variety of topics.

The final display in the Fountain Area presents new books about the French Revolution which demonstrate a number of current themes in historical research including the body, gender, popular caricature, and the continuities from the period of the monarchy through the Napoleonic era.

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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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The Haverford College Libraries employ approximately 100 students each year. We are currently hiring for 15 positions in various departments in Magill Library, Special Collections and the Music Library.

Visit the Jobs at the Libraries section of the library website for job descriptions and application instructions.

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Need to get out of your tiny library cubicle and see something exotic and stimulating for a change? Want a rest for your weary computer screen strained eyes? Stop by Special Collections any day this week to see rare and unique materials from the collection.

Each day we'll be bringing out one or more of Haverford's major treasures from the Collection, including:

12/17/07 – The Pemberton Bible, Northern France, ca. 1225-50 & the Haverford Hebrew Bible, Spain, 1266

12/18/07 – Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium caelestium, 1543

12/19/07 – Maxfield Parrish, Chemistry Notebook, 1890

12/20/07 – Germantown Quaker Protest Against Slavery, 1688

12/21/07 – Eadweard Muybridge, Photographic Plates from Animal Locomotion, 1887

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If final papers and exams are making your head swim, just take a moment to imagine what your life might have been like as a Haverford student in 1836. In those days, all exams were given orally in the presence of the school's entire Board of Managers. They covered all material from an entire school year and lasted for three full days.

You can find out much more about early life at Haverford, as well as about Haverford's earliest library collections, at "A Few Well Selected Books," the current exhibit at the Sharpless Gallery, Magill Library. The exhibit runs through January 31. 

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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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Painting and drawing students from the 200 and 300 level classes will be showing their work from this semester in the Alcove Gallery at Magill.  There will be large scale drawings, designs created for the library mural now underway, as well as collages and paintings.  From November 20 through 29.

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Podcasts to accompany Magill Library's current exhibition, "A Few Well Selected Books: Building Collections, Curricula & Community at Haverford College," are available through iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=267176778).

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The new exhibits are up in the 2nd tier Information Hub.  Through the end of the semester, stop by and take a look at the resources highlighted in the following areas:

 Religion: The past two years have witnessed an interesting phenomenon in the book publishing world.  A number of books which have challenged religion have captured the attention of the public and gone on to become bestsellers.  This display features those books.

Economics: This semester's economics exhibit contains several resources related to development economics.  Along with the featured items is an essay on the building blocks of development authored by Uma Kambhampati.

Literature:  Stop by to see literature and poetry about war, starting with futuristic tales of war from H.G. Wells to poems by modern writers against the Iraq War.  Other highlights include Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Max Aub's Laberinto mágico.

Music: The Music Library's exhibit ties in with both literature and anthropology in featuring music with a connection to war.  Take a look at the score to Benjamin Britten's War Requiem or listen to the CD.  Handel's rendition of Orlando Furioso, Orlando, joins Berloiz's take on the Trojan War, Les Troyens.

Anthropology: The anthropology of war and peace is featured in the Information Hub with books, journal articles, and web pages.  Specific topics treated include mass crime, death squads, genocide, and reconciliation commissions.

In the Fountain Area one display celebrates gay history with a selection of books and a poster declaring "History has set the record a little too straight."

Another poster advises passersby to practice random acts of reading.  To facilitate this activity, a variety of eye-catching titles are spread out in history, political science, art history, and literature.

A small display features a poster , "The First People," with an early photograph of a native American mother, father, and child.  Books concern Native American history and current political issues.

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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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Haverford librarians announce the opening of our perpetual book sale, now located directly across from the Magill circulation desk.

From time to time, we have to remove duplicate and out-dated materials from our shelves to make room for the new books, music, and DVDs we acquire each year. This ongoing book sale is our way of trying to find new homes for our old books as quickly as possible. The selection will be updated regularly. Please stop by and have a look!

Hardbacks are $1.00, and paperbacks are $.50. Sales will benefit the Haverford General Fund, which supports all of our community's facilities and services.

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Need articles?

Come to a session Wednesday Oct. 24, 7:00 in the Magill Information Hub

Looking for the latest information for a Poli Sci class? Need scholarly analysis but don’t have time to read 10 books? 

Use academic journals, popular magazines, and newspapers to enrich your work. Come learn how to search for articles by subject and locate their full texts online and in print.

Discover the resources available to you for every field of study. Amaze your friends, impress your professors, and sleep easier at night.

Instructor: Margaret Schaus, Reference Librarian

Contact Christa Williford to register or ask questions.

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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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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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Here are the winners of the 2007 Magill Open House contests.  Thanks to all who entered!

Heather Harden and Karen Katz came closest to guessing the number of sheets printed using the library's printers last year at 1,180,389. 

The winners of the Bach and Beethoven Composer Bobbleheads are David Lopez and Jenny Zhu.

The grand prize winner of the 1933 Map reproduction was Serena Schwartz, who answered all ten questions correctly.

The original map was commissioned for Haverford's centennial in 1933 and includes amusing incidents using cartoon-like figures alongside historical buildings and famous Haverfordians. This copy was hand-painted, which adds amazingly bright and fresh detail to the scenes. You can view the map online here.

The freshmen's mission, if they chose to accept it, was to answer ten questions about Haverlore, related to the map and other historical events on campus.  Even if you're not a freshman, you can test your Haverford IQ by trying the questionnaire yourself (check the answers).

Peruse the brochure for a view of the night's activities.

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Come check out the new displays in the Information Hub.  During the first half of the semester, you can check out exhibits on the following subjects:

Science Library Presents Planet Earth and Beyond

Check out the well-received documentary Planet Earth on DVD or books and videos on the cosmos.

Music Library

The 30th anniversary of the Summer of Love is upon us this year, and to celebrate, the Music Library offers an enticing display of psychedelic concert posters, albums from 1967, and the Monterey Pop Festival on DVD.

Explorations in Literature

Monsters, of the human and animal variety are the topic for the literature display.  Visit an island where the humans are yahoos and beasts are cultured in Gulliver's Travels, see a video performance of Beowulf (in Old English!), or read about centaurs, werewolves, or vampires.

Multinationals

This semester's economics exhibit contains several books on multinational corporations and their effects on the global economy.  The featured imprints, along with a fine essay by the late international economics scholar Edith Penrose, offer a window into this increasingly important topic.

Faculty Publications

The first faculty exhibit of the 2007-2008 academic year features the work of four Haverford scholars.   Anne Preston, Associate Professor of Economics, presents several papers on charitable giving and other-regarding behavior.  Karl Johnson, Associate Professor of Biology, presents research on flagella that was completed in his lab with Haverford alumni Jessica Shapiro '99 and Jessica Ingram '04.  Lisa Jane Graham, Associate Professor of History, presents her paper on 18th Century novels that were used to criticize current events and royal government.   Ken Koltun-Fromm, Associate Professor of History, features his recent book, Abraham Geiger's Liberal Judaism: Personal Meaning and Religious Authority. 

Political Science

In the area of Political Science, a display features books and articles on the interactions between new technology and political processes including the Internet in China and cell phones in Africa.

Fountain Area Exhibits

Banned Book Week, September 29-October 6, recognizes titles that have been challenged in libraries across the United States as well as censorship practices in other countries.  The display includes a list of the ten most frequently challenged books in 2006 in the United States along with a selection of titles on censorship in various time periods and areas of the world.

Rock and roll poster art inspired Shepard Fairey's graphic "Make Art, Not War."  The display features reactions from Goya and Picasso to recent photographers' conceptions of peace and protest art against the war in Iraq.

Zora Neale Hurston is featured on another lobby table.  Her work both as an author and a folklorist is represented in collections of short stories, biographies, letters, and critical works.


 

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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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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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The Haverford College Libraries employ approximately 100 students each year. We are currently hiring for 24 positions in various departments in Magill Library, Special Collections and the Music Library.

Visit the Jobs at the Libraries section of the library website for job descriptions and application instructions.

 
 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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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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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.
• LonelyPlanet's Postcards - tips and advice from intrepid wayfarers like yourself!

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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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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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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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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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Come check out the new displays in the Information Hub. Topics include Sports Economics, the Senior Thesis Archive, and SExplorations in Literature.  The Music Nook is featuring Jazz CDs and scores from the Music Library, and the Science Library is showing materials on mathematics and dark matter.

Our faculty publications display features works from four professors: Casey Londergan, Ying Li, Paul Smith, and Benjamin Le. 

Most items on display are available for checkout.  Just ask at the Circulation Desk if you're not sure. 

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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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• Working on a group project?  Google Docs lets you collaborate easily. 
  
• Want to IM from a public area machine?  Check out Meebo, and chat using your AIM, MSN, Yahoo Messenger or Gtalk account right in the browser. 
  
• Need to put together a PowerPoint but don't have the software and don't feel like trudging through the snow to get to a computer that does?  Download Zoho Show to create and edit your PowerPoint presentation.
• Need to buy books for next semester?  Remember Book Finder, which lets you compare prices from 4,000 book sellers. 

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The Database of Recorded American Music may be unavailable Wednesday, Feb. 13, from 9 pm to midnight as NYU performs technical upgrades.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Haverford College Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Hank Glassman is featured in an interview on Academic Commons, on the topic of using digital images in the classroom.  The interview was conducted in December 2006 by David Green in conjunction with the report "Using Digital Images in Teaching and Learning," which was commissioned by Wesleyan University in collaboration with the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE).

Hank Glassman teaches Buddhism, Religion and Gender, East Asian Religions, Japanese Literature, Language, and History at Haverford College. Images have become increasingly important in his teaching on Japanese language, history, and culture and in his research on Japanese religions in the medieval period. He constantly struggles with how best to display images in his classes and how to help students engage them as texts.

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Please join us:


Wednesday, January 24, 2007
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Magill Library - Haverford College

for the closing reception for:

Revealed: Selections from the Fine Arts Collection of Haverford College

Beauty, skill and imagination are uncovered in the more than 70 works of art--­many presented in public for the first time--­on display in the exhibition Revealed: Selections from the Fine Arts Collection of Haverford College. Spanning many centuries and cultures, the show includes prints and paintings by artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Edouard Manet, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró and Haverford’s native son Maxfield Parrish, artifacts from ancient Greece and Africa, as well as a rich selection of photography including prints by André Kertész, Diane Arbus, Eikoh Hosoe and Andres Serrano.

More information:
Phone: 610-896-1161
http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/

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New!

You can now search Tripod directly from the search box on your Firefox or Internet Explorer 7 menu bar.

We've created an easy-to-install search plugin that will assist you. 

Try it today!

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Check out the latest tool from Google: Google Patent Search! 

Now you can search the full text of over 7 million patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from Google's user-friendly interface (much nicer than the Patent Office's own search engine!).  Retrieve the full text in a very readable format including zoomable text and images! 

Read Google's blog entry on this new service, or just search for a patent!

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Have you ever asked yourself, "what's all the fuss about e-books?"  Now's your chance to find out!

The Tri-College libraries are testing out two e-book resources - ebrary and Ebook Library.

ebrary is an online library of 30,000 e-books from 220 of the top academic, scientific, and professional publishers.  The ebrary reader (a one-time download) is full of features.  You can search the full text of all the books, read the books online, highlight text and make notes.  Click on any word or phrase, then search for that text in Tripod, Google, JSTOR, and other places.

Follow these links to access ebrary:
Bryn Mawr trial of ebrary
Haverford trial of ebrary
Swarthmore trial of ebrary

Ebook Library is an online library of over 60,000 titles with content across all subject areas.  EBL offers online and offline access and you can perform a a full-text search across the catalogue or browse titles.  Access Ebook Library here and enter username TRICO and password PATRON.

Please them out and let us know what you think about the resources or e-books in general by commenting here or filling out this form.  Your comments are invaluable to our decision-making process!

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Are you writing a paper on immigration, or crime, or voter turnout, or consumer behavior, or educational attainment, or (fill in the blank) in the U.S.?  Do you need some numbers to back up your argument?

Try the Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Online!  HSUS is a great new resource that provides more than 37,000 data series, all fully searchable, on a wide variety of topics.  You can print the tables in PDF, or download the data into Excel format.  HSUS also contains scholarly essays on many issues, in conjunction with the data tables.

Try the Historical Statistics of the United States today! 

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    Title:  My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
    Author:  Rebekah Nathan
    Call Number:  LB3605 .N34 2005        

My Freshman Year stimulated the first discussion of Haverford’s new CIR Reading Group.  Published under the pseudonym Rebekah Nathan, the book is Northern Arizona University Professor Cathy Small’s account of the sabbatical year she spent researching undergraduate life by enrolling at her own university.  Small’s description of life at “AnyU” and the controversies surrounding its publication prompted the group to consider a range of topics:  

• How are Small’s observations descriptive of other American colleges and universities?
• How well do students and professors understand each others’ perspectives?
• What is the role of community or community-building in higher education?
• What is the balance between personal and academic growth in students’ lives? What should it be?
• How might identifying herself as an anthropologist/professor to the students with whom she lived and took classes have changed her study?
• Can her conclusions be generalized? Why or why not?

John Anderies, Vanessa Gorman, Betsy Griffith-Smith, Elizabeth Salmon, and Christa Williford participated in the discussion, which was led by Theresa Donahue.

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Haverford College Library now subscribes to two new genealogical resources: Ancestry Library Edition and HeritageQuest Online. Ancestry provides access to census, vital, church, court, and immigration records from over 4,000 databases. Highlights include:

• U.S. Federal Census images and indexes (1790 to 1930)
• The Map Center (more than 1,000 historical maps)
• American Genealogical Biographical Index
• Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage
• Social Security Death Index
• WWI Draft Registration Cards
• Federal Slave Narratives

HeritageQuest features family and local histories as well as primary source documents such as tax lists, city directories, and probate records. Featured resources include:

• Periodical Source Index (genealogy and history periodicals since 1800)
• Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files
• Freedman’s Bank Records

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Search the full text and full-image articles of major newspapers from across the country: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Defender, The Atlanta Constitution, The Boston Globe, and The Hartford Courant.  Find news, editorials, obituaries, historical photos, advertisements and more!

To access this trial, enter ProQuest, then click Databases Selected at the top of the screen. Scroll down to select newspapers you'd like to search.

This trial database is available through December 7.  Please try it and let us know what you think by commenting here or filling out this form.  Your comments are invaluable to our decision-making process!

We have many other resources on trial now as well.  Find out more here! 

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We'd love to hear your comments about Ebook Library and your thoughts about ebooks more generally. 

To try out this resource, go to our Ebook Library Trial and login with the userid TRICO and password PATRON (case sensitive). You can read the ebooks online or download them to your personal computer.

 Let us know what you think!  Comment here or contact your librarian.

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Are you a faculty member? A thesis writer? A graduate student? Would you like to receive notifications whenever new articles are published in your area of interest? Find out how -- it's easy!

Your Tri-College librarians have created a website with links and instructions for setting up "alerts" for databases in all disciplinary areas.

Visit the reference desk of your local Tri-Co library for more information and personal assistance setting up alerts.

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Looking for articles, books, or newswire stories about Africa?  The Tri-college libraries have a great new resource for you!
 

Africa-Wide NiPAD provides an interface for searching more than thirty information sources relating to many areas of African studies.  It crosses many disciplines (history, music, economics, political science, natural resources, mass media, and more!) and covers all regions of the continent, including many sources that focus on South Africa.
 

To find out more about this database and its collections, please view the database guide.  To access Africa-Wide NiPAD, click here!

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