For the rest of the term, a Writing Lab tutor will be at the first table on the library’s main floor from 8-10 p.m. on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Stop in for comprehensive assistance with the form and content of your paper by talking to a tutor and a librarian.
Category: Resources
Research advice from the Washington Post: friend a librarian!
From the Campus Overload blog in early April, but still a good idea.
Celebrate Women’s History Month with free access to Women and Social Movements
March is Women’s History Month and, to celebrate, Alexander Street Press has made the online collection, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Scholar’s Edition, freely accessible for the entire month. Enjoy!
LU CDs
Today’s CD pile features the many and varied talents of Lawrence University’s students and faculty. We have student and faculty performers, student ensembles, faculty composers, a passel of visiting artists, a visiting composer and a premiere commercial CD. As always, this is the place to be for ALL kinds of music.
At Last: CDs!!
At long last we bring you another batch of CDs new to the library’s collection. Regular readers will recognize the cool flickr® setup whereby one may mouse over a CD and not only find out a little about it, but also link to the CD in our catalog.
Today we have that most excellent percussionist Alison Shaw (who happens to live in Appleton,) some Brazilian jazz and a little Furtwängler for all your Wagner opera excerpt and Brünnhilde immolation needs.
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library offers significant primary materials (books, photos, maps, manuscripts, video and sound recordings) from countries and cultures around the world. WDL is a new resource from our friends at the Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries; and the support of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
You can browse by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or you can do a keyword search. WDL includes many full-text books, some classic images, and a lot of just really interesting stuff. Take a look!
Harper’s Index
For many of us, the best part of Harper’s Magazine is the Harper’s Index, that monthly collection of quirky facts and stats. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Index, all 12,058 lines are free for searching and browsing. What is the minimum number of books in Harvard’s libraries that are bound in human flesh?
And, of course, the Mudd has issues of Harper’s going back into the mists of time…
I’ll Have a…Refreshing Carbonated Beverage, Please.
Pop vs. soda. The Battle of the Ages. As a public service we offer our readers a handy map of “Generic Names for Soft Drinks by County” as compiled by Matthew T. Campbell at the Spatial Graphics and Analysis Lab, Dept. of Cartography and Geography at East Central University in Oklahoma. Talking like a native, always good.
And now for something completely different, soda in literature.
But It’s So WARM!
A word for you non-natives: beware the feelings of euphoria that will descend upon you this next week. It is predicted that temperatures will soar well into the “not freezing” portion of the spectrum. This is a tease. Here is a snapshot of what April (in this case, 2007) can look like in Appleton. Winter has a long way to go. Keep that long underwear at the ready.
In the meantime, get over your cabin fever by checking out a CD featuring the tune “Cabin fever” as performed by Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland and Joey Calderazzo.
Edith Widder comes to Lawrence
Edith Widder, Senior Scientist at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution and co-founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association (ORCA) in Fort Pierce, FL, will deliver a convocation address entitled “Eye in the Sea: What Does Deep Sea Exploration Tell Us About Marine Conservation.” Widder’s expertise in oceanographic research and technological innovation was recognized in 2006 with a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.
As usual, the librarians at the Mudd have created a physical display in one of the display cases on the first floor of the Mudd, and a webpage linking to resources about Dr. Widder and her work. Enjoy!