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Author: fister

  • Yes, the Weather Outside is Frightful

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    …. but it’s nice and cozy inside the library. Still, due to the difficulty of getting around town and the towering snowdrift in front of the reference librarian’s garage, holding her car hostage, face to face reference service will be limited today; after dark, please use the chat feature on the library’s website if you…

  • Monthly Book Drawing

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    As some of you have noticed, we are having a monthly book drawing in the library. Each month we put a new book out near the portrait of Count Folke Bernadotte just inside the front door. Put your name and e-mail address into the box nearby and at the end of the month you may…

  • Another Spring Course: Information Fluency

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    As we have done for several years, the library will again offer NDL 301: Information Fluency. (You can get a sense of what the course is about by checking out last spring’s blog and course pages.) As it says in the catalog, This course will give students interested in going to graduate or professional school…

  • New Spring Course: NDL 201: Reading Workshop

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      We are offering a new course (.25 credits) in which students will read and discuss two or more books, including a contemporary work of fiction or non-fiction announced in advance and a book chosen by the student. The book being discussed this spring is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. It…

  • Curl Up With a Good IEX January Course

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    fister

    Library faculty are offering two courses this January. A new course jointly taught by Anna Hulseberg and Julie Gilbert is Fact and Fiction (NDL 109). “In this course students will explore the relationship between fact and fiction in the experience of the reader and the writer. We will commence with an investigation into the psychology of reading and apply…

  • New Peer Reference Tutors – and Longer Hours

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    We know that as busy as students are, they often can’t really settle down to work on their papers until 9:00 pm or later And 10pm is when the librarians are yawning, hanging up the reference shingle, and heading to bed. (Okay, one of us is a night owl, but he’s the exception to the…

  • Open Access Week

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    We’re coming to the end of the now-annual celebration of the Open Access movement. The idea of open access is that knowledge is most useful when it can be shared and is not behind barriers. As anyone who has done research in our library knows, there are limits to our collection, both print and online.…

  • Constitution Day talk – ‘Ground Zero Mosque’

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    Join us in the library’s GLA Reading Room on Friday, September 17th at 2:30, when Associate Professor Alisa Rosenthal of the Political Science department will give a talk on the constitutional issues raised by the proposed Islamic Cultural Center in lower Manhattan. Come and discuss an issue that offers a topical take on a document…

  • Author Tea! Join us this Thursday, May 6th

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    fister

    The Book Mark and the library host an annual author tea for Gustavus authors who have published books within the past year. Join us this Thursday, May 6th, at 3:30 in the Courtyard Cafe to hear a bit about the books and enjoy refreshments. Here is this year’s bookshelf: Sidonia Alenuma (Education) Race and Educational…

  • … and More Sunshine

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    The 2010 State of the Media Report has just been released – a terrific review of what’s going on with the news media and where things are headed. There is also a freshly-issued Secrecy Report Card from Open the Government that sums up developments is government secrecy and transparency in 2009. The Electronic Frontier Foundation…