Introducing...The Best Books of 2012

'Tis the season of reckoning in the publishing world. Always a good time to peruse the Best-of-the-Year lists and discover some buzz-worthy titles you might have missed the first time around. We here at Piedmont College Libraries want to help! Check out the following links to find out what some of the major newspapers and magazines liked best this year:

Publisher's Weekly: Best Books of 2012

Goodreads: Readers' Choice Awards, 2012

NPR: Best Books of 2012

Barnes and Noble: Best of 2012

Amazon.com: 2012 Bestsellers

Amazon.com: Editors' Choice Awards, 2012

Esquire: Best Fiction of 2012

 The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2012

The New Yorker: Best Books of 2012

The Washington Post: Best Books of 2012

The Huffington Post: Best Books of 2012

Slate.com: Staff Picks, 2012

Time: Best Books of 2012

Booklist.com: Best Sports Books of 2012

SciFiNow: Top 5 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2012

The San Francisco Chronicle: Best SF & Fantasy Books of 2012

USA Today: Best Romance of 2012

Holiday Hours for the Library

On Wednesday the 12th, we'll be closing at 8:00 and after that, we'll be on our Holiday Schedule on both campuses. Please refer to the table below to find out when we'll be open!

 

 

Update: The Library has just received word that Piedmont College is closing at 2:00 pm on Friday, the 21st. The Library will therefore be closed as well.

Big Season for the Current & Popular Collection

If you still haven't taken the time to browse our new Current & Popular reading collection, now is the perfect time. Thanks to prolific ordering over the summer months, the collection has doubled in size and is now over 600 titles strong! As always, you'll find every major style and genre represented -- fiction and non-fiction alike -- spread across both Piedmont campuses.

...And more new books will be arriving soon. For a comprehensive list of all the available titles (from both campuses), check out our Goodreads account by clicking this link.. Take special note of the categories (or "bookshelves") we've created. By clicking one of these labels, you can narrow the collection by subject or genre and find only the books you're interested in. Happy browsing!

China's Mo Yan wins 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature!

 

From the prize committee press release:

"Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition. In addition to his novels, Mo Yan has published many short stories and essays on various topics, and despite his social criticism is seen in his homeland as one of the foremost contemporary authors."

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2012/yan.html

For more information, read The New York Times piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/books/nobel-literature-prize.html

Plagiarism: Are you in the clear?

Answer the simple questions in this handy flowchart and find out!

What constitutes an authoritative source?

An authoritative source is a work known to be reliable because its authority or authenticity is widely recognized by experts in the field. (Reitz, Joan. Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science: Accessed 9/26/2012)

The Library specializes in collecting these types of resources so that students and faculty have the tools they need to research effectively. Rest assured that resources accessed through the Library’s website are always authoritative and appropriate for academic work.

Using Google for research is risky -- same goes for Yahoo!, Bing, and other search engines on the web. Free internet resources are sometimes authoritative (especially if they are offered by government agencies or academic institutions), but usually are not. Wikipedia, for example, is not authoritative because there is no way to verify authorship and anyone can edit an entry at any time.

http://libanswers.piedmont.edu/a.php?qid=242337

Saturday is Free State Parks Day!

This Saturday, September 29, is Free State Parks Day! Free Admission & Parking at any Georgia State Park! Demorest students, take note: there are 6 state parks within a half-hour's drive and 14 within an hour! Visit www.georgiastateparks.org for more information.