Learning Among Friends

“I'm a firm believer in getting students out of the classroom and into experiences in nature. If students get out of their element, in a new place that stimulates their senses, that's where the best learning happens.”
Natural Sciences Assistant Professor Nick Baer

New @ the Library!

New Books | Featured e-resource |On Display | Events


New Books

Previous lists of New Books

A Selection of Our Newest Books

(Find these books on the "New LC shelf" as you enter the library)

DS 559.4 .A44 2009 Until the last man comes home : POWs, MIAs, and the unending Vietnam War by Michael J. Allen

F 1788.22 .C3 F8413 2010 The autobiography of Fidel Castro by Norberto Fuentes

GB 2405 .P55 2009 A world without ice by Henry Pollack

HQ 799.7 .B38 2008 The dumbest generation : how the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future (or, don't trust anyone under 30) by Mark Bauerlein

GV 1061.23 .M6 M33 2009 Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen by Christopher McDougall

GN 281 .B368 2009 How women got their curves and other just-so stories : evolutionary enigmas by David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton

PR 9199.3 .M8 A6 2009 Too much happiness : stories by Alice Munro.

PS 1018 .R45 2009 Louisa May Alcott : the woman behind Little women by Harriet Reisen

QL 758 .G53 2009 The bedside book of beasts : a wildlife miscellany by Graeme Gibson

Have you checked out our newest study space?

It's next to the elevator by the DVD's . . . tell us what kind of furniture you'd like to see here!


featured e-resource

(databases, websites, e-books recommended by library staff)
Pop Culture Universe Icons | Idols | Ideas (PCU) is an authoritative, yet irresistible, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present


Currently on Display

Check out a thought-provoking array of books about Google in the glass case at the library entrance . . . or peruse the selection of books related to upcoming events sponsored by the Cultural Events committee. As always, these items are available for check out.

Also on display are books and media materials on Haiti – along with information on how to contribute to relief efforts, here on campus and elsewhere.


Events

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