We’ve added Gipi’s Notes for a War Story (set in the Balkan Peninsula), Town Boy (Malaysia), The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (China and everywhere else), and Aya (Ivory Coast).
You’ve probably been asked not to do all your research on the Internet. To help explain why not, check out Fool’s Gold: Why the Internet is No Substitute for a Library, or Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet.
Critical Thinking and the Web: Teaching Users to Evaluate Internet Resources tells how to determine a Web site’s authority, evaluate information on controversial topics, or figure out if an online article is “scholarly.”
It’s our job to help you understand this stuff- for more information don’t hesitate to Ask a Librarian.
The Best Teen Writing of . . . Selected National Award-Winning Work from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is available online, featuring a remarkable collection of high-school students’ paintings, photography, poems, and short stories.
In James Patterson’s latest Women’s Murder Club mystery, homicide detectives Lindsay Boxer and Rich Conklin search for a missing teenager and a serial arsonist. You can find 7th Heaven in our BROWSE collection, next to the HUB entrance on the second floor.
Publisher’s Weekly calls David Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous: the Power of the New Digital Disorder a “call to embrace complexity.” Weinberger argues that, rather than trying to control information, organizations (like libraries) should allow the information they “own” to merge with information from other sources, and allow consumers to add to it.
Odum Library will close at midnight on July 3rd and reopen at 9:00 am on July 5th in observation of Independence Day.
We’ve added The Dangerous Book for Boys and The Daring Book for Girls, both full of activities kids can do when they’re not playing Wii or watching TV. Learn to make a battery, or a bow and arrow, how to care for a softball glove, tie a sari, put your hair up with a pencil, and pull off some basic Karate moves—or read about spies, pirates, dinosaurs, modern princesses, or ancient queens.
We all know that studying long hours requires a comfortable place to be. We try to provide a variety of furniture for working, reading,
studying and (occasionally, we have discovered) napping! Let us know what you think of the library’s furniture–an integral part to making
Odum Library the place to be! Leave a comment below with your thoughts.
If you would like to read about the Presidential candidates we have John McCain’s two memoirs Faith of my Fathers and Worth the Fighting For, and Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope. In addition, we’ve added Shelby Steele’s A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited about Obama and Why He Can’t Win, and David Mendell’s Obama: from Promise to Power.
In the 1st floor display cases we’re featuring some new books about teenagers and suicide, football, faith, time travel, murder, musical theater, roller derby or the Wild West. The actual books are on the shelves and can be found through the online catalog.
