Libraries Are Not a Netflix for Books

Part of a commentary by librarian Kelly Jensen:

"It is not the goal of the library to make money. Nor is it the goal of the library to create levels of service so that those who can afford to indulge will receive more while those who can’t, don’t. Instead, libraries work to ensure their services reach as many facets of their community as possible. Libraries want to offer what they can to those who have nothing and those who maybe have everything."

Read the rest at BookRiot.

Why Students Need Librarians

"We recognize knowledge in action when we see it done effectively, but too many professors don’t teach this fundamental skill systematically and progressively as part of an academic program. . . . [F]rom community colleges to the Ivy League, a significant learning gap is widening. Librarians, trained in both digital and print research techniques, are in the best position to step into the breach. But that will require more support for library services at a time when budgets are under siege. And it will take an administrative commitment to ensure that training is incorporated comprehensively throughout the curricula."

Read the rest of "At Sea in a Deluge of Data" (Chronicle.com, July 7, 2014).

Free eBooks from Routledge

According to the website Open Culture ("the best free cultural and educational media on the web"), scholarly publisher Routledge is making 6,000 ebooks available for free during the month of June, including "lots of works focused on Economics, Finance and Business; Politics and International Relations; and Philosophy and Cultural Studies."

The giveaway is fast winding down, so take a look today!

Earth Day 2014: Farm to Table

On Tuesday, April 22nd, the Athens Campus will host an event called "Farm to Table" in celebration of Earth Day. A free lunch is included for everyone who attends!

The following books--compiled for this event--are available from our libraries in print and digital editions.

Click here for a PDF handout of the list, which also links to our catalog.

Contact us for other recommended readings and resources!

The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics

Paul B. Thompson

University Press of Kentucky, 2010

American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present

Anne Becher and Joseph Richey

Grey House Pub., 2008

American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America

Michelle Obama

Crown Publishers, 2012

American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)

Jonathan Bloom

Da Capo Press, 2010

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields,

and the Dinner Table

Tracie McMillan

Scribner, 2012

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

HarperPerennial, 2008

Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry

Warren J. Belasco

Cornell University Press, 2007

At Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream

Gene Logsdon

Pantheon Books, 1994

Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

Gabrielle Hamilton

Random House, 2011

Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts

Paula Dutko, Michele Ver Ploeg, and Tracey Farrigan

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 2012

Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture
Wes Jackson
Counterpoint, 2011

A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural
Wendell Berry
Counterpoint, 2012

Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher

Frederick Kirschenmann

University Press of Kentucky, 2010

Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability

Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman, eds.

MIT Press, 2011

Darwinian Agriculture: How Understanding Evolution Can Improve Agriculture

R. Ford Denison

Princeton University Press, 2012

Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer

Little, Brown and Co., 2009

Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage

Carl A. Zimring and William L. Rathje, eds.

SAGE, 2012

Encyclopedia of Sustainability

Robin Morris Collin and Robert William Collin

Greenwood Press, 2010

Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life

Julia Rothman

Storey Pub., 2011

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser

Perennial, 2002

The First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

Peter Bellwood

Blackwell, 2005

Food and Agriculture Security: An Historical, Multidisciplinary Approach

Justin Kastner

Praeger, 2011

Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability

Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons, and Tabatha Wallington

Earthscan, 2010

Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
Andrea Wulf
Knopf, 2011

From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know About Agriculture

Gary H. Holthaus

University Press of Kentucky, 2006

The Future of Life

Edward O. Wilson

Vintage Books, 2003

Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works

Leslie A. Duram

University of Nebraska Press, 2005

Great Wealth, Poor Health: Contemporary Issues in Eating and Living

David Farrell, ed.

Nottingham University Press, 2010

Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism

Ozzie Zehner

University of Nebraska Press, 2012

Green Plans: Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth

Huey D. Johnson

University of Nebraska Press, 2008

Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts
Samuel Day Fassbinder, Anthony J. Nocella, and Richard Kahn, eds.
Sense Publishers, 2012

How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture

Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Rowman & Littlefield, 2013

Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: Theory and Practice

Alison Blay-Palmer, ed.

Ashgate, 2010

Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back

Ann Vileisis

Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2008

Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity

Robert Albritton

Pluto Press, 2009

Locavore Adventures: One Chef's Slow Food Journey
Jim Weaver
Rutgers University Press, 2012

Managing Food Safety Practices from Farm to Table

Leslie A. Pray

National Academies Press, 2009

Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril

Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson, eds.

Foreword by Desmond Tutu

Trinity University Press, 2010

The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

Richard Louv

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012

A New Turn in the South

Hugh Acheson

Clarkson Potter, 2011

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

Penguin Press, 2006

Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice

Shannon Elizabeth Bell

University of Illinois Press, 2013

Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880

Lynn A. Nelson

University of Georgia Press, 2007

The Philosophy of Food

David M. Kaplan, ed.

University of California Press, 2012

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (streaming video)

Neil Goodwin and Judy Crichton, producers

PBS Video, 1993

Rebels for the Soil: The Rise of the Global Organic Food and Farming Movement

Matthew Reed

Earthscan, 2010

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

Lucy Knisley

First Second, 2013

Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for Sustainability

C. Clare Hinrichs and Thomas A. Lyon, eds.

University of Nebraska Press, 2007

A Sand County Almanac and Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation

Aldo Leopold; Curt Meine, ed.

Library of America, 2013

The School Bus Doesn't Stop Here Anymore: Life and Times on a Rural Route

Noreen Olson; foreword by Will Ferguson

D & M Publishers, 2012

Shamanic Gardening: Timeless Techniques for the Modern Sustainable Garden

Melinda Joy Miller

Process, 2013

Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine

Stan Cox

Pluto Press, 2008

Simple Green Pest and Disease Control

Bob Flowerdew

Skyhorse Pub., 2012

Smoke & Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen

Edward Lee

Artisan, 2013

Soils and Food Security

R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison, eds.

Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012

The Southerner's Handbook: A Guide to Living the Good Life

David DiBenedetto and the Editors of Garden & Gun

HarperWave, 2013

Sustainable Gardens

Rob Cross and Roger Spencer

CSIRO, 2009

What’s Wrong with My Vegetable Garden?: 100% Organic Solutions for All Your Vegetables, from Artichokes to Zucchini

David C. Deardoff

Timber Press, 2011

The World Without Us
Alan Weisman

Thomas Dunne Books, 2007

Walden, or, Life in the Woods (and other works)

Henry David Thoreau

Library of America, 1985

* image of Winona LaDuke from the White Earth Land Recovery Project; the quote is from her TEDxTC talk, "Seeds of our Ancestors, Seeds of Life" (June 2011), available on YouTube

Women's History Month 2014

The following books are available from our library collections in digital or print editions.

Click here for a PDF handout of the list, which links to our catalog.

Contact us for other recommended readings and resources!

About America: Women of Influence

U.S. Department of State, 2010

The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

Sanford Schwartz, ed.

Library of America, 2011

American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams

Allen F. Davis

Ivan Dee, 2000

Ar’n’t I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South

Deborah Gray White

Norton, 1985

Battleground: Women, Gender, and Sexuality 
Amy Lind and Stephanie Brzuzy, eds.

Greenwood Press, 2008

Becoming Visible: Women’s Presence in Late Nineteenth-Century America

Janet Floyd

Rodopi, 2010

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

Bantam, 1972

Black Water

Joyce Carol Oates

Plume, 1992

The Cambridge History of American Women’s Literature

Dale M. Bauer, ed.

Cambridge University Press, 2012

Champion of Choice: The Life and Legacy of Women’s Advocate Nafis Sadik

Cathleen Miller

University of Nebraska Press, 2013

Cold War Progressives: Women’s Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom

Jacqueline L. Castledine

University of Illinois Press, 2012

College Women in the Nuclear Age: Cultural Literacy and Female Identity, 1940-1960

Babette Faehmel

Rutgers University Press, 2012

Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women’s Lives, Human Rights

Debra Bergoffen, ed.

Routledge, 2011

Contagious Representation: Women’s Political Representation in Democracies Around the World

Frank Thames and Margaret S. Williams

NYU Press, 2013

Daily Life of Women During the Civil Rights Era

Danelle Moon

Greenwood, 2011

Dangerous Women

George R. R. Martin, ed.

Tor, 2013

Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience

Susan Pedersen

Yale University Press, 2004

Empowering Women in Higher Education and Student Affairs

Penny A. Pasque and Shelley Errington Nicholson, eds.

Stylus Publishing, 2011

Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America

Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds.

Indiana University Press, 2006

Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers

Helen Rappaport

ABC-CLIO, 2012

Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography

Victoria Boynton and Jo Malin, eds.

Greenwood Press, 2005

The End of Men and the Rise of Women

Hanna Rosin

Riverhead Books, 2012

Essays of the 1960s & 70s

Susan Sontag

The Library of America, 2013

Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History

Tiffany K. Wayne

Greenwood, 2011

Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies

Jane Pilcher

SAGE/Credo Reference, 2012

Fight Like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist

Megan Seely

New York University Press, 2007

Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada

Robin Jarvis Brownlie and Valerie J. Korinek, eds.

University of Manitoba Press, 2012

From Marriage to Market: The Transformation of Women’s Lives and Work

Susan Thistle

University of California Press, 2006

Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives

Laura Sjoberg

Praeger Security International, 2010

Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics

Hillary L. Chute

Columbia University Press, 2010

A History of Feminist Literary Criticism

Gill Plain and Susan Sellers, eds.

Cambridge University Press, 2007

A History of Women’s Achievement in America (DVD)

Ronald C. Meyer and Kayann Short, producers

Ambrose Video Publishing, 2006

Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom

Merle Hoffman

Feminist Press at CUNY, 2012

Jeannette Rankin, America’s Conscience

Norma Smith

Montana Historical Society Press, 2002

Keeping America’s Women Moving Forward: The Key to an Economy Built to Last

Valerie Jarrett and Christina Tchen

The White House Council on Women and Girls, 2012

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (VHS)

Connie Field, producer

Direct Cinema Ltd., 1999

Lizzie Borden in Love: Poems in Women’s Voices

Juliana Baggott

Southern Illinois University Press, 2006

Margaret Fuller and Her Circles

Brigitte Bailey

University of New Hampshire Press, 2013

Marie Curie: A Biography

Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie

Greenwood Press, 2004

Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe

Heide Goettner-Abendroth

Peter Lang, 2012

Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America

Rebecca Jo Plant

University of Chicago Press, 2010

My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them

Michael Montlack, ed.

Terrace Books, 2009

New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Moment in the Southern States

Marjorie Julian Spruill

Oxford University Press, 1993

No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism

Nancy A. Hewitt, ed.

Rutgers University Press, 2010

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

Floating Press, 2009

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music

Nona Willis Aronowitz, ed.

University of Minnesota Press, 2011

The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women’s Biography

Maggy Hendry, ed.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream: An African American Writer’s (Re)Visionary Gospel of Success

Alisha R. Knight

University of Tennessee Press, 2012

A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements

Nicolas Lampert

The New Press, 2013

Poems (Series I-III complete)

Emily Dickinson

Floating Press, 2009

Poems from the Women’s Movement

Honor Moore, ed.

Library of America, 2009

Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

Nadine Cohodas

University of North Carolina Press, 2002

Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America

Jayne Wark

McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006

The Reader’s Companion to U.S.Women’s History

Wilma Mankiller, et al.

Houghton Mifflin, 2012

Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing

Janet Abbate

MIT Press, 2012

Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween

Melissa Atkins Wardy

Chicago Review Press, 2014

The Right to Be Parents: LGBT Families and the Transformation of Parenthood

Carlos A. Ball

New York University Press, 2012

The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman’s Rights Convention

Judith Wellman

University of Illinois Press, 2004

Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists

Dyan Zaslowsky

University of Georgia Press, 2009

Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War

Carrie Brown

Northeastern University Press, 2002

Sandra Day O’Connor: Justice in the Balance

Ann Carey McFeatters

University of New Mexico Press, 2005

Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader

James Joy

State University of New York Press, 2013

The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (multiple volumes)

Ann D. Gordon, ed.

Rutgers University Press, 1997

Shadow Tag: A Novel

Louise Erdrich

Harper, 2010

Strange Fruit

Lillian Eugenia Smith

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992

A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

Stephanie Coontz

Basic Books, 2011

Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement

Sandra Stanley Holton

Routledge, 1996

Thirty Girls

Susan Minot

Knopf, 2014

Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers: Women Who Changed American Religion

Ann Braude, ed.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

Joan Didion

Knopf, 2006

Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women

Barbara Sicherman

University of North Carolina Press, 2010

Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story

Peter Bagge

Drawn & Quarterly, 2013

Women and Justice (2nd ed.)

Sheryl J. Grana

Rowman & Littlefield, 2010

Women in Combat: A Reference Handbook

Rosemarie Skaine

ABC-CLIO, 2011

Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World

Dorothy A. Mays

ABC-CLIO, 2004

Women in Leadership: Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries

Karin Klenke

Emerald Publishing Group, 2011

Women in the American West

Laura Woodworth-Ney

ABC-CLIO, 2008

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction

Julie C. Dunbar

Routledge, 2011

Women Who Opt Out: The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance

Bernie D. Jones

NYU Press, 2012

Women’s History as Scientists: A Guide to the Debates

Leigh Ann Whaley

ABC-CLIO, 2012

Women’s Rights: People and Perspectives

Christa DeLuzio, ed.

ABC-CLIO, 2010

Women’s Work: An Anthology of African-American Women’s Historical Writings from Antebellum American to the Harlem Renaissance

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and Kathryn Lofton, eds.

Oxford University Press, 2010

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Floating Press, 2009 (orig. pub. 1892)

You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture

Lilly J. Goren

University Press of Kentucky, 2009

 *  cover image from BrainGuidance.com