Odum Library Blog » Big Read http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:49:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Neat Stuff: Create Your Own Video Games http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/12/31/neat-stuff-create-your-own-video-games/ http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/12/31/neat-stuff-create-your-own-video-games/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:37:36 +0000 Cliff Landis http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/12/31/neat-stuff-create-your-own-video-games/ We’ve recently added several electronic books on designing and programming video games. You can read them online through our catalog. Take a look at The Indie Game Development Survival Guide, Beginning Illustration and Storyboarding for Games, Beginning Game Graphics, Game Scripting Mastery, Game Character Design Complete, or The Dark Side of Game Texturing. In ebook and hard copy versions we have Ed Byrne’s Game Level Design. We also have ebooks specifically about working in Quake, 3DS Max 8, Maya, or ActionScript. If you’re interested in these or similar titles, just Ask a Librarian.

If you’re setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. Find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign. –Graham Nelson

]]> http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/12/31/neat-stuff-create-your-own-video-games/feed/ 3 Big Read Keynote http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/11/06/big-read-keynote/ http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/11/06/big-read-keynote/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:27:12 +0000 Cliff Landis http://matter.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/11/26/big-read-keynote/ Saturday, November 10, 2007, 6:30 p.m. An Evening Wrapped in Rainbows: Keynote Speaker will be Valerie Boyd, author of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. The keynote will take place in the Magnolia Room, University Center, Valdosta State University.

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See pictures and comment on the event.

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A gift basket will be given away at the Keynote event, “An Evening Wrapped in Rainbows,” November 10, 2007 in the Magnolia Room of the University Center, Valdosta State University.

All attending the Keynote will be entered in a drawing to win the basket. All who signed up at the Kickoff for a book discussion group are already entered. The basket includes…

]]> http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/10/18/the-big-read-zora-gift-basket-drawing/feed/ 0 The Big Read in Valdosta: Readers’ Theater Performance http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/10/16/the-big-read-in-valdosta-readers-theater-performance/ http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/10/16/the-big-read-in-valdosta-readers-theater-performance/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:44:28 +0000 Cliff Landis http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/10/16/the-big-read-in-valdosta-readers-theater-performance/ Readers’ Theater Performance on October 26, 2007 in the Odum Library Auditorium @ 7:00 pm.

See pictures & more from the Big Read Kickoff on the Big Read in Valdosta Blog!

]]> http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/10/16/the-big-read-in-valdosta-readers-theater-performance/feed/ 0 The Big Read in Valdosta: Chidren’s and Youth Festival http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/10/16/the-big-read-in-valdosta-chidrens-and-youth-festival/ http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/10/16/the-big-read-in-valdosta-chidrens-and-youth-festival/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:39:24 +0000 Cliff Landis http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2007/10/16/the-big-read-in-valdosta-chidrens-and-youth-festival/ Saturday, November 3, 2007, 9:00 a.m. thru 2:00 p.m. Children’s and Youth Festival at Valdosta-Lowndes County Public Library, Valdosta, GA. The festival will include an author reading by Joyce Carol Thomas, storytelling, poetry contests, singing and dancing. Arrangements for the appearance of Joyce Carol Thomas made through HarperCollins Speakers Bureau, NY, NY. All ages will enjoy the festival so bring the entire family!

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