You're invited to join in the activities and festivities celebrating the official opening of the Honnold Cafe, located on the first floor of Honnold/Mudd Library.
Grand Opening Celebration: Monday, Nov. 16, 3-5pm
College Days: Come in and enjoy one free coffee beverage with your ID card on your institution's day.
CGU Day - Nov. 12
CMC Day - Nov. 13
CUC Day - Nov. 16
HMC Day - Nov. 17
KGI Day - Nov. 18
Pitzer Day - Nov. 19
Pomona Day - Nov. 20
Scripps Day - Nov. 23
The Library buys new books all year--subscribe to our New Item RSS feeds (by subject, location, or type) and find out what we have as soon as it gets here! Feeds are updated once a day.
To subscribe, go to blais.claremont.edu/screens/rss.html
Click on a feed link and subscribe using your favorite feed reader (Google Reader, Bloglines, etc.).
FMI: Candace Lebel
With LibX you can search Blais, Link+, WorldCat, Google Scholar from your toolbar; if you are off-campus you can use it to quickly reload an article page through the ez-proxy and see if the library owns it; you can use the right click menu to search for highlighted text in Blais or Google Scholar. FMI or to download: libguides.libraries.claremont.edu/libx
Search the indexes & article titles of over 6,000 print and online reference resources owned by the Library: encyclopedias, thesauri, dictionaries, handbooks, and more. Reference Universe can be found in the A-Z database list under "R."
The APA has issued a PDF of corrections to the 6th edition of their Style Guide, aka Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. The Library has copies of the Style Guide in Reference, at the Services Desk, on Reserves and for regular check out. You can download a copy of the corrections here.
Are you interested in seeing where in the U.S. books were banned or challenged and why? You can find specific information on many books that were challenged on banned across the United States using Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2009, on Google Maps.
Banned Books Week, September 26-October 3, is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information and draws attention to examples of censorship by spotlighting challenged and banned books across the United States. The American Library Association provides lots of information on banned and challenged books, including the most frequently challenged books of the 1990s and banned and challenged classics.
Have you read any banned books that you would recommend to others? Tell us about them.
Has a librarian made a difference in your life? There is still time to nominate a librarian for the 2009 Carnegie Corp./NY Times "I Love My Librarian Award"
FMI: http://www.ilovelibraries.org/lovemylibrarian/home.cfm
Send us your name ideas for our new beta search box and you could win an iPod Touch, or 100 free cups of coffee at the new library café. To enter or FMI visit libguides.libraries.claremont.edu/discovery
RefWorks workshops are once again being offered this fall. RefWorks is a web-based bibliography management system that allows you to create and manage your own personal citation database for articles, web pages, and other types of information valuable for your research. In this workshop you will learn the basics of RefWorks for creating your database and importing records. You will also learn how to use the records in your database to format notes and bibliographies in the appropriate style (MLA, APA, etc.) for your papers.
Workshops are held in the Keck Learning Room, Honnold/Mudd Library. You are welcome to bring your own laptop.
The workshop schedule can be found on the library web site.To register for one of these workshops, email Gale Burrow with a subject line of RefWorks workshop.
Thurs., Sept. 17, 4:15pm -- Honnold/Mudd Library - Founders Room
It is perhaps more the Declaration of Independence than the Constitution that set the wheels in motion to make a country of truly free human beings, with the earlier document's stipulation that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." It took the Constitution – following a terrible war fought on our own soil and a long struggle by women to gain the vote – longer to meet at least the spirit of the ideal of equality set forth by second paragraph of the Declaration. Nevertheless, the Constitution proved itself flexible enough by allowing for evolution by amendment – early on with the Bill of Rights; later for the abolishment of slavery and the guarantee of a vote not barred by race or color or previous condition of servitude; and finally, granting the vote not barred by a person's gender. To celebrate this political evolution and to recognize Constitution Day this year, the library has assembled a panel of faculty to discuss the historic election and early months in office of our first African-American president.
Panelists are Gaston Espinosa, CMC, Religious Studies; Michelle Bligh, CGU, School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences: Elizabeth Shermer, CMC, History; Stuart McConnell, Pitzer, History; Darryl Smith, Pomona, Religion. The panel will be moderated by Cecilia Conrad, Dean of Faculty, Pomona College.
Light refreshments will be provided.
For more information, contact Adam Rosenkranz
