trico libraries news and notes http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/ en Copyright 2009 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:18:07 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Asali Solomon to Read Professor Asali Solomon, who teaches fiction writing at Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr, will read from her work on Monday, November 23, at 7 pm in the Scheuer Room, Kohlberg hall, at Swarthmore.
]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/asali_solomon_to_read.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/asali_solomon_to_read.html Events Swarthmore Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:18:07 -0500 Library Suggestion Book Online!
Want the library to buy a certain DVD?  Love the new rug?  Post your questions, thoughts, and purchase suggestions as comments here, and you'll get an answer from a librarian.  Or just read what others have to say.  We want to know what you think!


Want to take a look at the last page?  It's available here!

]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/library_suggestion_book_online_4.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/library_suggestion_book_online_4.html Swarthmore Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:54:24 -0500 Film Screening: Philadelphia - The Great Experiment

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You are invited to a special screening of excerpts from the pilot episode of

PHILADELPHIA - THE GREAT EXPERIMENT
a documentary film on the history of Philadelphia

Hosted by executive producer, SAM KATZ
Philadelphia businessman and former Mayoral candidate

Tuesday, November 24th
7:00-9:00 PM
Carpenter Library B21

Philadelphia: The Great Experiment is a multi-format historical documentary television film and Internet project that presents the story of Philadelphia, as a stage for the testing of American ideals.

Covering more than four centuries of history, the documentary will eventually be eight hours in length and will be edited into various lengths for television, the Internet, and the classroom.

For more information, see http://www.historyofphilly.com/

Questions? Contact Elliott Shore (eshore@brynmawr.edu)

 

]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/film_screening_philadelphia_th.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/film_screening_philadelphia_th.html Bryn Mawr Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:27:55 -0500 Open Access E-Textbooks: One Solution to the Growing Textbook Dilemma? The Swarthmore College Library has been holding ongoing discussions with students this semester about how to deal with increasing expensive textbooks. On Monday (11/16), a campus-wide meeting about the textbook dilemma. One possible solution is the adoption of open-access textbooks, which are freely available on the web and may be downloaded, and even purchased bound (for a small fee). For more information...

 

]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/open_access_etextbooks_one_sol.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/open_access_etextbooks_one_sol.html General News Info & Society Swarthmore Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:52:33 -0500 Get news from the Middle East - translated and fast! mideastwire_logo.jpgThe 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!

]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/get_news_from_the_middle_east.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/get_news_from_the_middle_east.html Bryn Mawr Databases Haverford Swarthmore Tripod Announcements Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:55:47 -0500 National Information Literacy Month Scavenger Hunt Carpenter ants and woodboring beetle larvae are the primary diet of Pileated Woodpeckers and the answer to one of the library scavenger hunt questions.woodpecker

]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/national_information_literacy.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/national_information_literacy.html Events General News Swarthmore Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:51:53 -0500 George Saunders to read at BMC MacArthur “genius” fellow and frequent New Yorker contributor George Saunders will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, in  Ely Room at the Wyndham Alumnae House as part of the  Creative Writing Program Reading Series.

 

 In addition to The New Yorker, Saunders’ work regularly appears in Harper’s , McSweeney’s, and GQ.

 

His short story collection, In Persuasion Nation, was a finalist for the 2007 The Story Prize. His other books and collections include CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip.

 

His latest book, 2007’s The Braindead Megaphone, was called “a Mark Twain-syle shot in the arm for Americans, an antidote to the dumbing-down virus plaguing our country,” by Vanity Fair.

]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/george_saunders_to_read_at_bmc.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/11/george_saunders_to_read_at_bmc.html Bryn Mawr Events Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:35:50 -0500 Marilyn Nelson to Read at BMC

Marilyn Nelson
Thursday, Oct. 29
7:30 p.m., Ely Room, Wyndham

Poet, translator, and three-time National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson is the author of twelve books, including The Homeplace, The Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems, Carver: A Life In Poems (a Newbery Honor Book), Fortune’s Bones, A Wreath For Emmett Till, and The Cachoiera Tales And Other Poems (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award).

Poet Joyce S. Brown writes, “She is moral, loving, visionary … Reading her work is as much a lesson in history and in human nature as it is a lesson in poetry.”


This reading is made possible by the Jane Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry.

]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/marilyn_nelson_to_read.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/marilyn_nelson_to_read.html Bryn Mawr Events Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:50:59 -0500 Trio Ivoire Recordings in Underhill Library The Jazz ensemble Trio Ivoire is coming to Swarthmore College on Friday, October 30th to give a performance in Lang Concert Hall.  Want to check 'em out beforehand?  You can hear their work on recordings from Swarthmore's Underhill Library for Music and Dance. ]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/trio_ivoire_recordings_in_unde.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/trio_ivoire_recordings_in_unde.html Events Swarthmore Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:59:38 -0500 Twisted Tales & Sinister Scribes Exhibition at McCabe posterTwisted Tales & Sinister Scribes: Selections from the Rare Book Room and the Michael M. Rea Collection of Short Stories is on display at McCabe Library through November. This exhibition features the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce and O. Henry.

 

Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday will be celebrated in McCabe Library with a reading of some of his grimmest, gloomiest and most gruesome tales on Wednesday, October 28th at 10pm.

 

]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/twisted_tales_sinister_scribes.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/twisted_tales_sinister_scribes.html Events Exhibits Swarthmore Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:30:33 -0500 Twitter Co-founder/Swat Alum to Speak at Swarthmore Dom Sagolla '96, one of the co-founders of Twitter, returns to campus to speak about his new book, 140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form, and iPhone app on Fri., Oct. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in Science Center 199. Interested in reading more about Twitter, the iPhone and other e-communication tools? Check out the display of new books, including Sagolla's, on the first floor of Cornell Library.]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/twitter_cofounderswat_alum_to.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/twitter_cofounderswat_alum_to.html Events Swarthmore Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:38:03 -0500 Ikebana Exhibit at Magill Library - October 23 through 25 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. 

 

IMG_ikebana20093.jpgIkebana 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.

]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/ikebana_exhibit_at_magill_libr.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/ikebana_exhibit_at_magill_libr.html Bryn Mawr Exhibits General News Haverford Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:19:44 -0500 Suzan-Lori Parks to Read at BMC 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!

 

]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/post_10.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/post_10.html Bryn Mawr Events Haverford Swarthmore Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:10:41 -0500 Apple Power Adapters Now For Checkout We've heard your suggestions.  Starting today, there are 5 Apple Power Adapters for individual checkout in McCabe.  Stop by the Reserve Desk to borrow one.  They'll check out for 4 hours at a time, just like the laptops.

Be sure to bring them back on time, or else you will accrue penalty points which may have an effect on your privileges to borrow reserve items overnight.

 

]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/apple_power_adapters_now_for_c.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/apple_power_adapters_now_for_c.html Swarthmore Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:37:16 -0500 Melody of China  

The ensemble, Melody of China is coming to Swarthmore College on Friday, October 23rd to give a lecture demonstration and performance in Lang Concert Hall.  Want to check 'em out beforehand?  You can hear their work on this recording from Swarthmore's Underhill Library. 

 

 

]]> http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/melody_of_china.html http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2009/10/melody_of_china.html Events Features Swarthmore Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:57:16 -0500