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Sunday, February 23, 2014
Arrendale Library Wireless Restored!
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
Black History Month 2014
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The following books are available from our library collections in digital or print editions.
Contact us for other recommended readings and resources!
Facts on
File, 2011
Clarenda M.
Phillips, Gregory S. Parks, and Tamara L. Brown
University
Press of Kentucky, 2012
bell hooks
South End
Press, 1992
James G.
Basker, ed.
The Library
of America, 2012
Shawn Leigh
Alexander
University
of Pennsylvania Press, 2012
Troy Jackson
University
Press of Kentucky, 2008
Richard
Wright
ProQuest
Information and Learning, 2002
Ibram H.
Rogers
Palgrave
Macmillan, 2012
Jessie Smith
Visible Ink
Press, 2013
Camille T.
Dungy, ed.
University
of Georgia Press, 2009
David
Hilliard
University
of New Mexico Press, 2008
Eddie S.
Meadows
Routledge,
2010
Clayborne
Carson and Kris Shepard, eds.
IPM, 2001
Dwight N.
Hopkins and Edward P. Antonio, eds.
Cambridge
University Press, 2012
John Blake
Lawrence
Hill Books, 2004
Preston
Lauterbach
W.W. Norton,
2011
James
Baldwin
The Library
of America, 1998
Audre Lorde
Norton, 1997
Alice Walker
Harcourt,
1992
Major
Jackson, ed.
The Library
of America, 2013
Bill Adler,
et al.
Rizzoli, 2011
Rizzoli, 2011
Edythe Scott
Bagley
University
of Alabama Press, 2012
Jessie
Carney Smith
Greenwood,
2011
Patricia
Carter Sluby
Praeger,
2011
Alison
Stewart
Lawrence
Hill Books, 2013
Joe Evans
University
of Illinois Press, 2008
Bruce Watson
Penguin, 2011
Penguin, 2011
Charles Pete
Banner-Haley
Southern
Illinois University Press, 2010
Dennis S.
Nordin
University
of Missouri Press, 2012
F. Michael
Higginbotham
New York University
Press, 2013
Kevin Young
Graywolf
Press, 2012
Rafia,
Zafar, ed.
The Library
of America, 2011
Rafia Zafar,
ed.
F. Erik
Brooks
Greenwood,
2011
George H. Junne
Edwin Mellen Press, 2012
Baratunde
Thorston
Harper, 2012
Maya Angelou
Bantam
Books, 1997
Yolanda Williams Page, ed.
Greenwood, 2011
Denise
Sullivan
Lawrence
Hill Books, 2011
Novels, stories, plays, and more.
Henry Louis
Gates, Jr.
Knopf, 2011
Manning
Marable
Viking, 2011
John Lewis
Top Shelf Productions, 2013
Miles: An Autobiography
Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe
Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe
Simon and
Schuster, 1990
Ahmir
“Questlove” Thompson and Ben Greenman
Grand
Central Publishing, 2013
Michelle
Alexander
The New
Press, 2010
Judson L.
Jeffries, ed.
University Press of Mississippi, 2010
University Press of Mississippi, 2010
Bill Kirwin,
ed.
University
of Nebraska Press, 2005
Cornel West
Vintage
Books, 1994
Cameron
McWhirter
Henry Holt
& Co., 2011
Joyce A.
Hanson
Greenwood,
2011
Martin A.
Berger
University of California Press, 2011
University of California Press, 2011
Gregory D.
Smithers
University
Press of Florida, 2012
Toni
Morrison
Plume, 1987
Leslie G.
Kelen
University
Press of Mississippi, 2011
Chad L. Williams
University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Amiri Baraka
Marsilio
Publishers, 1995
Sue Lyles Eakin
Eakin Films
& Publishing, 2013
Robert A.
Pratt
University
of Georgia Press, 2002
Eva Rutland
IWP, 2007
Richard W.
Leeman and Bernard K. Duffy, eds.
Southern
Illinois University Press, 2012
Cheryl A.
Wall, ed.
Library of
America, 1995
Monday, October 21, 2013
(More!) New Leisure Books
Just a quick note to tell you about the newest additions to our current and popular leisure reading collection. Some big names in this batch, from all over the spectrum. We’ve got Bill Bryson’s new pop-history book about the summer of 1927, Malcolm Gladwell’s new pop-sociology book about underdogs, the much-talked-about new biography of JD Salinger, “Robert Galbraith’s” debut crime novel (which was actually written by JK Rowling, shhhh), a self-help book by Ron Swanson’s real-life counterpart, a WWII survival story by Laura Hillenbrand (she of Seabiscuit fame), and the new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri…among many others.
Have a great weekend, and
don’t forget: we love requests!
Friday, September 20, 2013
New Additions to the Leisure Reading Collection!
Happy Friday, Students & Faculty!
You are hereby encouraged to swing by the Arrendale Library when you get a chance to check out the newest batch of current and popular leisure reading books. This order consisted mostly of buzzworthy summer titles, and seeing as how there are only 36 hours of summer left, you better act fast! We've got new books by Stephen King, Carl Hiaasen, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris, Dan Brown, and Nathaniel Philbrick, among others. You'll also find some new graphic novels and a stack of recent bestsellers, including Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, Transatlantic by Colum McCann, Red Moon by Benjamin Percy, The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls, and Waiting to Be Heard by Amanda Knox. As always, there should be something for everyone.
If you'd like to peruse the new titles from the comfort of your chair, they have already been added to our Goodreads page, which you can access by clicking the image above.
Have a great weekend!
You are hereby encouraged to swing by the Arrendale Library when you get a chance to check out the newest batch of current and popular leisure reading books. This order consisted mostly of buzzworthy summer titles, and seeing as how there are only 36 hours of summer left, you better act fast! We've got new books by Stephen King, Carl Hiaasen, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris, Dan Brown, and Nathaniel Philbrick, among others. You'll also find some new graphic novels and a stack of recent bestsellers, including Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, Transatlantic by Colum McCann, Red Moon by Benjamin Percy, The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls, and Waiting to Be Heard by Amanda Knox. As always, there should be something for everyone.
Piedmont College Libraries @ Goodreads
If you'd like to peruse the new titles from the comfort of your chair, they have already been added to our Goodreads page, which you can access by clicking the image above.
Have a great weekend!
Monday, September 9, 2013
About College Access and Student Aid
These include "traditional liberal arts colleges, major research universities, church- and faith-related institutions, historically black colleges and universities, women's colleges, performing and visual arts institutions, two-year colleges, and schools of law, medicine, engineering, business, and other professions."
NAICU's Special Initiatives page features ten different resources useful to students, parents, instructors, and administrators, including college-cost calculators, student-aid advice, and profiles of recent legislation.
The site also offers a variety of higher-education links on topics ranging from academic integrity to work colleges.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
The Moral Dimension of Info Literacy
In a new Library Journal post, Barbara Fister discusses the tension between digital resources and the values important to librarians:
"When we fall into the trap of spending 50 minutes helping students learn how to find sources, as if acquiring and displaying them is the point of research, we imply that knowledge is other people’s property, procured and exchanged but not influenced by the student’s own life experience, thoughts, or beliefs. [Paulo] Freire believed that education should instead be 'the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.' . . .
"Our teaching practices should present libraries as more than the Bank of Sources, from which usable phrases can be withdrawn as needed. They should be workshops, labs, studios, or hacker spaces, where students engage with ideas and invent their own, through conversation with others interested in the same things. They should be places where students develop their own identities as they learn the critical habits that civil society requires."
Check out the full article for several complementary publications that inform her thinking.
"When we fall into the trap of spending 50 minutes helping students learn how to find sources, as if acquiring and displaying them is the point of research, we imply that knowledge is other people’s property, procured and exchanged but not influenced by the student’s own life experience, thoughts, or beliefs. [Paulo] Freire believed that education should instead be 'the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.' . . .
"Our teaching practices should present libraries as more than the Bank of Sources, from which usable phrases can be withdrawn as needed. They should be workshops, labs, studios, or hacker spaces, where students engage with ideas and invent their own, through conversation with others interested in the same things. They should be places where students develop their own identities as they learn the critical habits that civil society requires."
Check out the full article for several complementary publications that inform her thinking.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Lydia Davis wins 2013 Man Booker International Prize for Fiction
"I was recently denied a writing prize because they said I was lazy." runs one of Lydia Davis's two-sentence short stories. Well not any more. Davis has just been awarded the fifth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The Man Booker International Prize recognises one writer for
his or her achievement in fiction. Worth £60,000, the prize is awarded every
two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in
English or whose work is generally available in translation in the English
language. The winner is chosen solely at the discretion of the judging panel
and there are no submissions from publishers.
The Man Booker International Prize is significantly
different from the annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In seeking out literary
excellence, the judges consider a writer's body of work rather than a single
novel.
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Come check out The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis at the
Arrendale Library in Demorest. If contemporary short fiction is something you'd
like to explore further, we have several wonderful titles in our Current &
Popular leisure reading collection. Browse them here.
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