Have you seen our East African Art exhibit? The 91 pieces, mainly from Ethiopia, include a 400 year old devotional book written in Geeze, musical instruments, a large pipe, spears, sculptures, carvings, furs and textiles, which are on display in the Browsing Books area and in Archives. Archives is open from 9-5, weekdays, so be sure to stop by that part of the exhibit in the day time. Please pick up an exhibit guide when you come.
The Periodical Reading Room will be open through the night on December 4th, 5th, and 6th during Final Exams. This is in response to increasing demand and a traditional overflow from the Internet Café late at night during final exam week.
If you’d like to read about science and culture, the meaning of life, Hollywood movies that have their scientific facts all wrong, and “all the ways the cosmos wants to kill us,†we have astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Death by Black Hole: and Other Cosmic Quandaries in our BROWSE collection. Tyson, once voted People Magazine’s “Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive,†has appeared on The Daily Show and three times on The Colbert Report. We also have his memoir The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist.
“There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.†– Tom Masson
Tired of studying or writing your paper? Want a break but don’t want to lose your parking space or freeze outside? Check out the VSU History Museum on the 4th floor of Odum Library. You can see the school’s story from 1906 to now; see how students learned and had fun over the last hundred years.
The Library will close at midnight on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday and reopen at 9 am, Saturday, November 24, 2007.
You can page through ebooks online to find vocational advice based on your personality. Take a look at Careers for Courageous People & Other Adventurous Types, Careers for Animal Lovers or Careers for Class Clowns. Other titles in the VGM Careers for You Series are aimed at nature lovers, night owls, introverts, extroverts, fashion plates, film buffs, romantics, and sports nuts. The VGM Professional Careers Series offers more career guides in a wide range of fields. These are all available in full text online through the GIL catalog. If you’d like some help finding career guides, don’t hesitate to Ask a Librarian.
“As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.†— Drew Carey
Do you use Facebook? Are you a fan of the Library? Then go to the Odum Library page on Facebook and sign up as a fan! You can leave notes on the Wall, start a discussion, and see our latest photos and videos. You can also choose to receive notices when we have major events, contests and programs!
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Duane Chapman’s AandE TV show Dog the Bounty Hunter has been suspended indefinitely after one of Chapman’s children released an audiotape of the Dog using racist language. We have Chapman’s biography You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide in our BROWSE collection. We also have several books about “hate speech”– language used to target or vilify a particular group. We recommend Samuel Walker’s Hate Speech: the History of an American Controversy, or Nicholas Wolfson’s Hate Speech, Sex Speech, Free Speech. For help finding these or other titles– on any topic– don’t hesitate to Ask a Librarian.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Working on final projects for the semester? The Media Center has what you need to make the perfect media presentation! On November 30th, 2007, the Media Center will upgrade to the following software programs:
The Media Center has recently upgraded their OCR scanning software from OmniPage Pro 15.0 to OmniPage Pro 16.0.
