http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:01:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mendel’s Daughter: a Memoir is a graphic novel about author Martin Lemelman’s mother, who survived Nazi persecution as a young girl in Poland. In I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors Bernice Eisenstein, whose parents were imprisoned in Auschwitz, tells in words and drawings of her efforts to understand them ... http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2008/07/23/neat-stuff-holocaust-in-graphic-novels/ Physicist Mark Denny’s Ingenium: Five Machines that Changed the World examines the early development—and present-day significance—of the bow and arrow, the waterwheel, the counterpoise siege engine (including the trebuchet!), the pendulum clock anchor escapement, and the centrifugal governor. http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2008/07/21/neat-stuff-ingenium/ 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). http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2008/07/16/neat-stuff-not-in-kansas-new-graphic-novels/ 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 ... http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2008/07/14/neat-stuff-fool%e2%80%99s-gold/ 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. http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2008/07/09/neat-stuff-stories-and-art-from-american-high-schools/ 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. http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2008/07/07/neat-stuff-7th-heaven/ 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 ... http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2008/07/02/neat-stuff-embrace-complexity/ Odum Library will close at midnight on July 3rd and reopen at 9:00 am on July 5th in observation of Independence Day. http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2008/06/30/odum-library-closed-july-4th/ 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 ... http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2008/06/30/neat-stuff-daring-girls-dangerous-boys/ 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. http://www.valdosta.edu/library/blog/2008/06/27/friday-feedback-furniture/