Odum Library Blog » Collection http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:49:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 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 mpuffer 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.

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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


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

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VSU now has online access to The Chronicle of Higher Education!   Just follow the links available in our newly updated Education and News Subject Guides to have full-text access to The Chronicle Online!

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