Odum Library Blog » Collection http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:47:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Hey, bossypants! NYTimes Bestsellers Available http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2011/08/05/bossypants/ http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2011/08/05/bossypants/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:14:00 +0000 ghwilliams http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/?p=2708 Summer is almost over. Have you read a good book lately? We have many of the New York Times bestsellers available for you to check out today. Many of them are in our Popular Books collection by the second floor copy room. Stop by to browse and to see the new, beautiful artwork we’ve brought into the library.

Remember that faculty, staff, students, and community borrowers can check books out at Odum Library. If you don’t know what to read next, here are a few titles to get you started:

Fiction

  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett (3rd floor shelves, PS3619.T636 H45 2009)
  • The Confession by John Grisham (2nd floor Popular Books, PS3557.R5355 C66 2010)
  • Hell’s Corner by David Baldacci (2nd floor Popular Books, PS3552.A446 H46 2010)
  • A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin (3rd floor shelves, PS3563.A7239 C58 1999)
  • Whiplash by Catherine Coulter (2nd floor Popular Books, PS3553.O843 W47 2010)
  • Sizzling Sixteen by janet Evanovich (2nd floor Popular Books, PS3555.V2126 S59 2010)
  • Tough Customer by Sandra Brown (2nd floor Popular Books, PS3552.R718 T68 2010)
  • Family Ties by Danielle Steel (2nd floor Popular Books, PS3569.T33828 F36 2010)
  • A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin (3rd floor shelves, PS3563.A7239 F39 2005)
  • The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva (2nd floor Popular Books, PS3619.I5443 R46 2010)
  • Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs (2nd floor Popular Books, PS3568.E476345 S65 2010b)

Non-fiction

]]> http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2011/08/05/bossypants/feed/ 2 New Franzen, Sedaris, and Many More http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2010/11/09/new-franzen-sedaris-and-many-more/ http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2010/11/09/new-franzen-sedaris-and-many-more/#comments Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:44:11 +0000 Maureen http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/?p=1770 We’ve added new titles to our POPULAR shelves, including

Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom,

Nancy Grace’s Death on the D-List,

Terry McMillan’s Getting to Happy, and

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris.

Popular books are located on the 2nd floor next to Copier Room #2621.

]]> http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2010/11/09/new-franzen-sedaris-and-many-more/feed/ 0 Do You Read At All? http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2009/11/19/do-you-read-at-all/ http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2009/11/19/do-you-read-at-all/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:27:27 +0000 Maureen http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/?p=1051 Penguin USA has posted a trailer about the top ten “essential” literary classics, suggesting you can’t impress women at parties if you don’t know your literature.

Before you attend any holiday soirees you might want to check these out:

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Walden by Henry David Thoreau (also available here to read online)

Oedipus Rex in The Complete Plays of Sophocles (you can read it here online or watch a 1984 British production of the play featuring Sir John Gielgud)

The Odyssey of Homer (read it online here)

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (online here)

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (online here)

Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

Moby Dick, or, The Whale by Herman Melville (read it here online)

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (watch the 1948 production directed by Sir Laurence Olivier here)

Of Mice and Men in The Short Novels of John Steinbeck

Conversely you could take a shortcut and check out Pierre Bayard’s How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read.

woman reading

]]> http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2009/11/19/do-you-read-at-all/feed/ 0 Yada Yada Yada http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2009/09/08/seinfeld/ http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2009/09/08/seinfeld/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:44:57 +0000 Maureen http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/?p=873 We have the complete television series Seinfeld on DVD, with commentaries and other extras, available to check out from the FAMC.

To help you choose from among the 33 Seinfeld DVDs (they circulate individually), there’s a comprehensive description of the set here at DVD Talk. As of this writing only Season Four is checked out.

FAMC means “Fine Arts Materials Collection,” located at the main Circulation desk on the first floor. You can ask for anything with an “FAMC” or “FAMC-AV” call number there.


Archival photo of Jerry Seinfeld


]]> http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2009/09/08/seinfeld/feed/ 0 (Almost) Daily Photo http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2009/06/30/almost-daily-photo-32/ http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2009/06/30/almost-daily-photo-32/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:47:48 +0000 lbwright http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/?p=731

Reference Legal Books, call numbers REF (K-KJC), are located on the second floor on the far side of the atrium.

]]> http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2009/06/30/almost-daily-photo-32/feed/ 1