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  • New Zine Collection

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    We now have a cataloged collection of zines that can be browsed by title, shelved on the main floor between the newspapers and the browsing collection. Like browsing books, they can be checked out for a month. We decided to create this collection as an example of alternative DIY publishing. Many of the zines were…

  • Spring Courses @ the Library

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    Once again, we’re offering two courses in the spring, ones small enough to fit into even a fairly busy schedule. NDL 301: Information Fluency is a .5 credit discussion-based and hands-on course that gives students a chance to dig into the tools for the literature of their major field and discuss the social and ethical…

  • Open Access Books

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    Most of the efforts to make research open access has focused on journal articles, but there are a number of interesting efforts afoot to make scholarly books free to all, too. Here are some links. Digital Culture Books from the University of Michigan publishes intriguing books about aspects of our digital culture. OAPEN is a European…

  • Introducing our Institutional Repository

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    The College and Lutheran Church Archives staff have been busy, not just organizing and preserving our history, but making much of it digitally available. You’ll find all kinds of things online – from historic photos to civil war-era letters to posters from World War I to photos submitted for the annual Center for International and…

  • New Faculty Anthology

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    In honor of Open Access Week, we have published an open access anthology of faculty insights into their teaching, their scholarship, the ways they serve the community, and how their work aligns with the mission of the college. Fifteen faculty members generously volunteered to make statements they originally wrote for tenure and promotion public. We…

  • Open Access Week

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    Happy Open Access Week! We’re celebrating the movement to make more knowledge free to all. Philosopher and activist Peter Suber (who has recently written a book on the topic) has defined open access as literature that is “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” He has written a very brief…

  • It’s in the Ether

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    We enjoyed various chemistry-related chalk messages on campus sidewalks this morning, including this one: But we also approve this message, and wish everyone a happy chemistry week, with or without lithium (Li), bromine (Br), argon (Ar) or ytrrium (Y).

  • Scandinavian Women of Mystery – Today

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    We are delighted to host two public events on Monday, October 8th,  focused on the contributions women writers have made to Scandinavian crime fiction. At 4:00 pm in Confer 127, Dr. Kerstin Bergman of Lund University will present a lecture, “The Women Strike Back: The Rise of Women Crime Writers in Sweden, 1997-2012.” Bergman is…

  • Beyond The Girl: Three Days With Scandinavian Women Crime Writers

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    We’re excited to host four mystery writers – Helen Tursten and Kristina Ohlsson from Sweden, Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis from Denmark – and a noted Swedish critic, Dr. Kerstin Bergman of Lund University, from October 8 – 10 (the week after the Nobel Conference). In addition to meeting with classes, our visitors will be…

  • Open Library Ebook Loans

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    As ebooks become more popular, libraries and publishers have entered into new and often contentious relationships over ebook loans. Public libraries, in particular, face significant limits. Unlike the usual experience, libraries have to pay lots more for ebooks than they do for printed books. Apart from having to invest a lot of money into setting…