Highlights of New Titles
Each week CSU Library adds hundreds of new resources to our catalogue, including books, DVDs, CDs, and electronic resources. The following selection highlights some of the new books and DVD's added to the collection last week. Click on a book's title to read more information about the book or DVD, or click on 'Check Availability' to find the item in the Library Catalogue. Click here to view the complete list of new titles.BOOKSBook Smart: your essential reading list for becoming a literary genius in 365 days - Jane Mallison. Unleash your literary side - one great book at a time! Check Availability Future Bioethics: overcom...
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Your Library@CSU - October 7, 2009 Author: infolib
Biography at the Melbourne University Bookstore
Melbourne University Bookstore Originally uploaded by ricklibrarian. Bonnie and I are just back from three weeks in Australia and New Zealand, where we saw our daughter who is spending a semester abroad at the University of Melbourne. We took our trip to take advantage of Laura's two week spring break. While in the countries, I went into a number of bookstores, including one at the University of Melbourne. I checked out the biography section to see if I would recognize any of the subjects or the books themselves. I wondered if Australians are reading what Americans are reading, just like they seem to be listening to muc...
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ricklibrarian - October 7, 2009 Author: ricklibrarian
What Happens When You Play Suburban Malaise Too Close -- AM Homes and Music for Torching
One wants to like Music for Torching by AM Homes, a book that I read at the insistence of some people after asking for recommendations of worthwhile English-language authors. Suburban decay is a lovely theme for a novel by an American about America, and Homes' first chapter is worth the big deal everyone's made about it. (Briefly: an ungrateful, completely unhappy suburban couple with two young boys attempts to burn down their house. It only partly succeeds. Novel goes from there.) Yet I never fully felt that this novel had captured my interest.
Homes writes with a minimalism and casual nastiness somewhat reminiscent of...
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Conversational Reading - October 7, 2009 Author: Scott Esposito
Pres. Obama Declares October National Information Literacy Awareness Month
I look forward to Republicans coming out against this….
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release October 1, 2009
NATIONAL INFORMATION LITERACY AWARENESS MONTH, 2009
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Every day, we are inundated with vast amounts of information. A 24-hour news cycle and thousands of global television and radio networks, coupled with an immense array of online resources, have challenged our long-held perceptions of informa...
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Library Juice - October 6, 2009 Author: Rory Litwin Tags: Information Literacy
Cataloging Assistant, Harvard College Library
Working with the Head of the Rare Books Team in the
Department of Technical Services at Houghton Library,
processes a collection of approximately 1200 titles in
Houghton's Science fiction collection. This involves
searching in the HOLLIS database and adding holdings to
existing records; searching for items that are not in
HOLLIS in OCLC and exporting them to HOLLIS if available;
creating stub records for unique items; and preparing all
volumes for end-processing. The collection consists of
some 18th and 19th century material, but the bulk of it is
early 20th century, including many trade paperbacks.
This is a ...
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MBLC Job Listings - October 6, 2009
Mantel takes Booker victory
Hilary Mantel wins the 2009 Booker prize for her fictionalised life of Thomas Cromwell, Wolf HallShe was the bookies' favourite, the people's favourite and tonight Hilary Mantel became the judges' favourite as Wolf Hall, her vividly told tale of Tudor intrigue, emerged triumphant at the Man Booker prize.By the end of their three-hour meeting today the Booker judges were split three-two in favour of Mantel's fly-on-the-wall account of the life of Henry VIII's fixer, Thomas Cromwell.Although it was not a unanimous decision, Jim Naughtie, the BBC broadcaster who chaired this year's judging panel, said all five were happy to n...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - October 6, 2009 Author: Mark Brown Tags: Booker prize Hilary Mantel Books Awards and prizes Culture UK news The Guardian
Stieg Larsson sees off celebrity biographies on Super Thursday
Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest is beaten only by Dan Brown after Super Thursday's 800 hardbacks hit the shelvesA deluge of 800 new hardbacks hit bookshops last Thursday but it was a translated crime novel by the late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson which saw off celebrity autobiographies from the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Kay and Chris Evans to jostle its way to the top of the book charts.Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest soared into second position in the UK's book charts last week, selling 34,152 copies in just three days, according to book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan. It came in be...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - October 6, 2009 Author: Alison Flood Tags: Books fiction guardian.co.uk News
Writers Retreat Competition (UK)
West Dean and Myriad Editions have announced the launch of a new competition for writers. The winner will be entitled to a one week writing retreat, with full board, at West Dean College, situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty six miles north of Chichester, South East England. The winning entry will be an extract from a work in progress - novel, collection of short stories or script - and will be chosen purely on the strength and promise of the writing by a panel of expert judges:* Sue Eckstein, author of The Cloths of Heaven and BBC Radio playwright* Greg Mosse, writer and tutor of creative writing courses at W...
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Peter Scott's Library Blog - October 6, 2009
Not the Booker prize: the winner and the future
It has been a long and windy road but we can now announce the winner of the inaugural Not the Booker prize - and the start of a debate about next year's competitionOK - first things first. After weeks of longlists, shortlists, readings, discussions, voting, heated debate, posts from authors, praise, blame and all the other marvellous workings of democracy, we have a winner. First, in our Not the Booker poll, is Rana Dasgupta, with 65 votes, well ahead of runners-up Jenn Ashworth (29 votes) and Simon Crump (28).The level of engagement in this experiment has amazed and impressed us all and I think there are huge positives to...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - October 6, 2009 Author: Sarah Crown Tags: Books Booker prize Culture fiction guardian.co.uk Blogposts
21 Explores Contemporary Fiction
21: Journal of Contemporary and Innovative fiction is a peer-reviewed, online critical journal exploring contemporary and innovative fiction: "We are interested in cutting edge fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, whether in the short story, the novel or hybrid forms; in print or hypertext. This includes all literature written in English or published as translation."
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NewPages Blog - October 6, 2009 Author: Denise
The Translated Poetry Anthologies Descend!
Translation is hot . . . everywhere I look there's a new anthology of fiction and/or poetry in translation. The Boston Review is the latest to cover some new poetry anthologies recently published.
The near-simultaneous arrival of several international anthologies both attests to this kind of borrowing and will likely fuel it further. (It also provides promising evidence that, despite the decline of language instruction in the United States and the persistent pressure in this country to assimilate and forget ancestral languages, there are still people taking the time to bring new poems from other languages into English.)...
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Conversational Reading - October 6, 2009 Author: Scott Esposito
The Real Cuckoo's Nest
Nice review of The Program Era: Postwar fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing in the current Bookforum. The book details how the MFA has perverted altered American fiction:
McGurl’s case study disenchants the mythology that grew up around one of America’s great “antiestablishment” writers, Ken Kesey. An extraordinary section on One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and its composition for the Stanford University writing program directed by Wallace Stegner (“as the novel’s chapters were drafted, they were submitted for credit to the creative writing workshop classes Kesey was attending while he worked at the [...
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Conversational Reading - October 6, 2009 Author: Scott Esposito
Catch up with the Booker prize shortlist
The winner is announced tonight, so have you read all six contenders? John Crace has digested them allWolf Hall Hilary Mantel 4th Estate (£18.99) Odds: 11-10 on 1500: The next blow will be his last. "I'm going to kill you," his blacksmith father yells. He rolls away and runs. He is not yet 15 years old.1527: "How were the Yorkshire slope-heads, Tom?" Wolsey asks. He likes the Cardinal, but he likes the third-person historic present better, a reformative take on the stream of consciousness that is making the Pope spit blood, though no more than the King's ongoing petition to have his marriage to Katherine annulle...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - October 5, 2009 Author: John Crace Tags: Books Culture Booker prize The Guardian Reviews Features
Two by Cain
There are some books that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, inspired by the goodness of humanity and hopeful for the future. And then there are James M. Cain’s novels. Written in the 1930s and 1940s, Cain’s terse, bleak crime novels portray people as hard as the times in which they live. But for all the darkness at the heart of Cain’s tales, it’s hard to deny the brilliance of his writing and the deep seated humanity it invokes in his people. In a scant paragraph, Cain can sketch out a drifter’s wariness, a housewife’s prejudices or an insurance salesman’s patient ...
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MADreads - October 5, 2009 Author: Katie H. Tags: Recreational fiction Thriller
Book Review: The Lost Symbol
The Lost Symbol by Dan BrownClick on the cover to see which libraries own it.SUMMARY: Summoned to Washington, D.C., for a supposed presentation, Robert Langdon reaches the Capitol Rotunda just in time to receive a macabre invitation. Tattooed with five symbols, it starts him on a journey deciphered only by his esoteric knowledge of the Freemasons, Washington D.C., religions, and ancient peoples. In a race against time to save his mentor from a brutal captor, Langdon must unravel hidden secrets, evade the CIA, and figure out who he can trust. OPINION: There is some amazing factual information behind this fictional story...
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Sellers Library Teens - October 5, 2009 Tags: The Lost Symbol Dan Brown author websites book reviews
Transforming Pencil Lead to Gold
I find Ron Rosenbaum's response to his perusal of the Nabokov Original of Laura manuscript pretty creepy.
First there's the general hyperactivity and indecisiveness of his behavior leading up to the revelation that this manuscript existed. He apparently began lobbying Dmitri Nabokov to decide what to do with the manuscript several years ago, but the best he could do in suggesting a course of action was to proclaim "Part of me desperately wants to read Laura. But I have a superstitious dread of violating V.N.'s wishes." Then he wrote a piece describing what he could discern of the manuscrip...
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The Reading Experience - October 5, 2009 Author: Daniel Green
Lynchburg College Residency
The Lynchburg College School of Humanities & Social Sciences announces the Thornton Writer Residency, a fourteen-week residency at Lynchburg College, including a stipend of $12,000, will be awarded for the Fall 2010 term to a fiction writer with at least one previously published book.The residency also includes housing, some meals, and roundtrip travel expenses. The writer-in-residence will teach
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NewPages Blog - October 5, 2009 Author: Denise
Jobs
The University of Dayton is accepting applications for the Herbert W. Martin Post-graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing, with possibility of renewal for a second year. Review begins Nov 6.The Department of English at Ohio University tenure-track assistant professor in Creative Writing: Non-fiction. Review begins Nov 6.The Department of English and Modern Languages at Shepherd University seeks
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NewPages Blog - October 5, 2009 Author: Denise
Publishing Georges Perec
(Godine is publishing a new, corrected edition of Life A User's Manual and the first-ever English edition of Perec's essays collected in Thoughts of Sorts. I recently spoke with Susan Barba, an editor at Godine who worked on both of these books.)
Scott Esposito: My first question has to do with what's new in this edition of Life A User's Manual. The original translation by David Bellos was published in 1987, and in the ensuing 20-some years there's been considerable attention devoted to both the original and Bellos's translation. What kind of changes have been implemented in this new edition and were there any parti...
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Conversational Reading - October 5, 2009 Author: Scott Esposito
President Obama Proclaims October National Information Literacy Awareness Month
President Barack Obama has declared October National Information Literacy Awareness Month. In his proclomation, the full text of which can be read here , President Obama states that:
"Though we may know how to find the information we need, we must also know how to evaluate it. Over the past decade, we have seen a crisis of authenticity emerge. We now live in a world where anyone can publish an opinion or perspective, whether true or not, and have that opinion amplified within the information marketplace. At the same time, Americans have unprecedented access to the diverse and independent sources of information, as well as...
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Schurz Library News - October 5, 2009 Author: Julie Elliott Tags: Hot Topics
NATIONAL INFORMATION LITERACY AWARENESS MONTH, 2009
Wilfred (Bill) Drew, M.S., B.S., Assistant Professor. Librarian. TC3 Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry-----Original Message-----From: Lorna Peterson <lpeterso@BUFFALO.EDU>Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:26:14 To: NYLINE@listserv.nysed.gov<NYLINE@listserv.nysed.gov>Subject: [NYLINE] NATIONAL INFORMATION LITERACY AWARENESS MONTH, 2009http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Presidential-Proclamation-National-Information-Literacy-Awareness-Month/THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press Secretary_____________________________________________________________...
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Baby Boomer Librarian - October 4, 2009
Who Do You Love? Part 1: Regency Romance Series
A commenter asked for some reading recommendations. If you're just getting into historical fiction and regencies, it can be a bit daunting to face the romance section in your local library or bookstore and try to pick out the ones that are interesting and amusing over those that might be to prurient or insipid or "Please tell me that isn't REALLY Fabio on the cover...."My author suggestions will mostly come from the longer types of romances, those running about 350 pages. This is not to imply that there are not many valuable authors in 180-220 page category, but I read those by the pound. I don't tend to grab a particul...
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Hedgehog Librarian: Prickly, Nocturnal, InfoDiva - October 4, 2009 Tags: romance Romance Series
Pooh sequel returns Christopher Robin to Hundred Acre Wood
Low-key launch for first new Winnie-the-Pooh book authorised by creators' estates, featuring a new character, Lottie the otterRead an extract from Return to Hundred Acre WoodIt is the day Pooh the bear of very little brain, Piglet, Eeyore and Owl never thought they would see: Christopher Robin is back.He will return, his legs a little longer, his hair a little shorter, on a splendid new blue Raleigh bicycle, to a clearing in the Hundred Acre Wood which he left on 11 October 1928.There might also have been an epic encounter in English literature, akin to the moment the eyes of Antony and Cleopatra first locked, when Winnie-...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - October 4, 2009 Author: Maev Kennedy Tags: Children and teenagers fiction Books Culture UK news The Guardian
Overdrive’s monthly “most downloaded” list released
Overdrive has released its monthly “Most Downloaded” books from their library. Here is the listing for the “adult fiction ebook” category
1. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
2. Alex Cross’s Trial, by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo (Little, Brown and Company)
3. Devil in Winter, by Lisa Kleypas (HarperCollins)
4. Because You’re Mine, by Lisa Kleypas (HarperCollins)
5. Vision In White, by Nora Roberts (Penguin USA, Inc.)
6. Black Hills, by Nora Roberts (Penguin USA, Inc.)
7. Again the Magic, by Lisa Kleypas (HarperCollins)
8. The Alchemist, by Pa...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - October 3, 2009 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Overdrive Paul Biba
Welcome to positive living
At one time, 'self-help' books were considered a little odd. Now they have moved into the mainstream and the new 'science of happiness' has become a cultural orthodoxy. But is this vogue for positive psychology really helping anyone, asks Carole CadwalladrSeventy-three years after it came out, and 54 years after its author died, How to Win Friends and Influence People, a motivational guide written by an unemployed salesman-turned-actor called Dale Carnegie, is back in the bestseller charts: astonishingly, and for reasons that are not immediately clear, it is, this week, the eighth bestselling self-help book in Britain.Ther...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - October 3, 2009 Author: Carole Cadwalladr Tags: Psychology Books The Observer Features Culture
Fictionaut launches: community-sourced literary publishing
Several literary communities have started with varying results. Here’s another addition to the mix.
fictionaut (according to the announcement on the blog) is a burgeoning hub for a growing number of diverse literary scenes. I was a member when it was in private beta and have watched the community from afar. It has attracted a variety of contributions from new and established writers. Key features:
a Save as PDF feature
social networking features (contacts, bookmark, groups)
a way to browse through members/contributors plus author profile pages
a rich text editor, tags, and the option to choose creative commons license...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - October 3, 2009 Author: Robert Nagle Tags: Robert Nagle
GLBTQ BooklistHere are a few titles in our library that address the lives and issues of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans-gender youth. To find other materials in the library try searching the catalog using the following subjects: homosexuality, bisexuality, lesbians, gay men, gay women, gay teenagers, gay youth, gender identity, coming out, sexual orientation or transexuals.Dishes by Rich Wallace(1st floor YA fiction under Wallace)Nineteen-year-old Danny spends an eventful summer in Maine, looking for romance, working as a "straight" dishwasher in a gay bar, and trying to reconnect with his estranged father.Annie on my Mi...
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Teen Blog@Brooks - October 3, 2009 Author: Brooks Memorial Library
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
There's a ragged strength to Lorrie Moore's uncompromising prose, says Alex ClarkA Gate at the Stairsby Lorrie Moore 322pp, Faber, £16.99"And what if," wonders 20-year-old Tassie Keltjin, taking her first plane journey, "oxygen deprivation in the cabin caused one to think in idle spirals and desperate verbal coils like this for the rest of one's life?" This anxiety – experienced as mild unease, casually expressed – underpins much of Lorrie Moore's scintillating and horrifying new novel, which veers between an appalled recognition of our hopelessness in the face of slowly unfolding events and a quietly amused understan...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - October 2, 2009 Author: Alex Clark Tags: fiction Books Culture The Guardian Features Reviews
Another girl, another planet
Thirty years after Douglas Adams embarked on his journey into outer space, Jenny Turner asks if his greatest work is stranded in the late 1970s'I remember the early 1980s, a Betamax recording of the BBC series that my grandparents had taped," writes CMK, a blogger, born in 1979. "I would watch it almost every day." "I sat in the car in the driveway, getting cold, listening to Vogon poetry" – thus Neil Gaiman (b 1960), who before American Gods, before The Sandman, wrote a gushy fan-book called Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion (1988). "I was happy; perfectly, unutterably happy." Amo...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - October 2, 2009 Tags: Books Culture Douglas Adams fiction The Guardian Features
A life in books
Simon Mawer: 'I'm a novelist. I don't want to tell the truth. I want to manipulate things as I choose. I want to lie'Simon Mawer doesn't seem the sort to whom accidents happen. He is at ease in the cool living room of his unobtrusive house on Rome's hushed outskirts, his officer-class good looks and patrician tones combining to create the impression of an orderly existence; a life well planned. To hear him tell it, though, nothing could be further from the truth. While the architecture of his life is conventional – boarding school, Oxford, teaching, marriage, children – the neatness of the grand narrative disguises som...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - October 2, 2009 Author: Sarah Crown Tags: Simon Mawer Books Culture The Guardian Features
