New & Noteworthy

For Your Research Needs This Spring and Summer, Chat with Us!

For your research needs this spring and summer, we’re easy to reach! Contact us through the blue “Chat” link at the top of our homepage for assistance with thousands of online and print books and articles through Zahnow Library. You’ll also find library chat boxes on the SVSU Students web page and on our Online & Print Journals web pages. Now you can chat, text or e-mail us for help with resources for your papers and projects. And, when you’re in the Library, you can connect with a librarian for in-person assistance at the Reference Desk on the 1st floor.

Take a Break from Studying and Relax with Aly

Final exams are coming! Feeling all stressed out? Need a break from studying? Come and take a break from studying and relax with Aly, a certified therapy dog from Mid-Michigan Therapy Dogs, and her handler, Cathy Stella. You’ll find them waiting for you in the comfy seating area beyond the Reference Desk on the 1st floor of Zahnow Library on:

Sunday, April 22, from 7:00 – 8:30 pm and Monday, April 23, from 3:00 – 5:00 pm

Did you know… studies have shown that animals can be amazing stress reducers. Petting a dog can lower blood pressure, improve regular breathing, and boost your state of mind. In fact, therapy dogs have been showing up on college campuses all across the country to help students cope with the stress of finals!

Extended hours for finals:
Tuesday, April 17.......... 8:00 am - 1:00 am
Sunday, April 22 ........... 1:00 pm to Open All Night
*** Free coffee and cookies available while they last on Sunday night! ***
Monday, April 23.......... Still Open to 1:00 am
Tuesday, April 24......... 8:00 am - 1:00 am

Join Us for a Reading by Gross Award Winner Jeff Vande Zande on April 12

Local author Jeff Vande Zande will receive SVSU’s Stuart and Vernice Gross Award for excellence in writing by a Michigan author for his recently published novel, American Poet. Set in Saginaw and full of familiar landmarks, the novel tells the story of a young man struggling to publish his first poem and looking for a purpose in life. He finds it in the idea of trying to save the Theodore Roethke House. The university community is invited to hear Vande Zande read from American Poet at 3:30 pm in the Allen Reading Room, 4th floor Zahnow Library. A book signing and reception follow the reading.

Vande Zande was born and raised in Marquette and now lives in Midland. He has taught English at Delta College for the past 10 years. In addition to American Poet, he is the author of Landscape with Fragmented Figures, a novel set in Bay City; Into the Desperate Country; Threatened Species; and the co-editor of On the Clock: Contemporary Short Stories of Work. His work has appeared in more than 50 small press magazines and journals, and he has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.

Join Us in Celebrating National Library Week on April 10!

Our annual National Library Week celebration is coming! Join us for free ice cream and fun prizes outside the 1st floor entrance of the library on Tuesday, April 10, from 11:30 am-1:30 pm.

Also in celebration of National Library Week, the top 10 finalists in our Student Book Collection Contest will have their collections on display from 3:00-5:00 pm on the 1st floor. You’ll see a wide range of collecting interests from the Titanic disaster to urban fiction, and from insects to rats! Who will take the top prize of $500?

And on Thursday, April 12, SVSU’s Stuart & Vernice Gross Award for excellence in writing by a Michigan author will be presented to Jeff Vande Zande for his book, American Poet: A Novel. Set in Saginaw and full of familiar landmarks, the novel tells the story of a young man struggling to publish his first poem and looking for a purpose in life. He finds it in the idea of trying to save the Theodore Roethke House. The university community is invited to hear Vande Zande read from American Poet at 3:30 pm in the Allen Reading Room, 4th floor Zahnow Library. A book signing and reception follow the reading.

Zahnow Library’s Great Lakes Writers Series

Michigan author Matt Bell will read from his short story collection How They Were Found on Monday, April 2, at 3:00 pm in the Allen Reading Room on the 4th floor of Zahnow Library. Bell is also the author of three chapbooks – Wolf Parts, The Collectors and How the Broken Lead the Blind. His fiction has appeared in a number of literary magazines, and has been selected for inclusion in anthologies such as Best American Mystery Stories 2010 and Best American Fantasy 2. He works as an editor at Dzanc Books, where he also runs the online literary magazine The Collagist.

Raised in Hemlock and Saginaw, Bell attended SVSU, received his Bachelor’s degree from Oakland University, and Master of Fine Arts degree from Bowling Green State University. In the fall of 2011, he began teaching writing at the University of Michigan. His latest book is Cataclysm Baby, a novella to be published in April by Mud Luscious Press.

March is Women’s History Month!

Growing out of a small-town school event in California, Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture and society. The U.S. has observed it annually throughout the month of March since 1987.

However, the United Nations has sponsored International Women’s Day since 1975. When adopting its resolution on the observance of International Women’s Day, the U.N. General Assembly cited the following reasons:

“To recognize the fact that securing peace and social progress and the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms require the active participation, equality and development of women; and to acknowledge the contribution of women to the strengthening of international peace and security.”

The United Nation’s theme for International Women’s Day 2012, “Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty,” aims to bring attention to the critical role that rural women play in the global economies of both developing and developed nations.

Be sure to check out the display cases at the 2nd floor entrance to the Library to see a sampling of the many books we have to foster a better understanding of the problem of women and poverty.

New Online Resources Enhance Research in Nursing and Other Disciplines

MEDLINE with Full Text and the Ovid Nursing Full Text Plus package of online journals are now available. These two new resources enhance research in nursing, pre-clinical sciences, medicine and a variety of other disciplines.

MEDLINE with Full Text is the world’s more comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, 1,450 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE. This wide-ranging file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the MEDLINE index – with no embargo. With coverage dating back to 1949 and full-text back to 1965, MEDLINE with Full Text is the definitive research tool for medical literature.

Also new is the Nursing Full-Text Plus package of online journals from Ovid. This resource provides access to 22 titles that are brand new to SVSU; the content of 21 titles previously available only in print format is now available online 24/7. Links to the full text of articles in these journals will appear when searching databases such as CINAHL, MEDLINE, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health, and ScienceDirect.

For more information about these resources, please contact Anita Dey, Head of Reference Services (adey@svsu.edu, ext. 7094).

Resources for Celebrating MLK Jr. Day

Monday, January 16, is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. King was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement's success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States. He rose to national prominence as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which promoted nonviolent tactics, such as the massive March on Washington (1963), to achieve civil rights. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

Expand your understanding and appreciation of his contributions to the American civil rights movement with resources from Zahnow Library:

The Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia

American civil rights. Primary sources

Martin Luther King Commemorative Collection [videorecording]

King : A Biography

At Canaan's Edge : America in the King Years, 1965-68

Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream [videorecording]

King's work is carried on at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. In 1986, his birthday, January 15, became a national holiday.

Dr. Julianne Malveaux Headlines Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Political commentator and economist Julianne Malveaux will speak at the third annual Great Lakes Bay Regional Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Saginaw Valley State University Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Malcolm Field Theatre for Performing Arts.

The president of Bennett College for Women, Malveaux is recognized for her progressive and insightful observations as a labor economist, noted author and colorful commentator. She has been described by Cornel West as “the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the country.” Malveaux’s contributions to the public dialogue on issues such as race, culture, gender, and their economic impacts are shaping public opinion in twenty-first century America.

As a writer and a syndicated columnist, Malveaux’s work appears regularly in USA Today, Black Issues in Higher Education, Ms. Magazine, Essence Magazine, The Progressive and numerous newspapers across the country. She also makes regular appearances on national networks such as CNN and BET and has hosted talk radio programs in Washington, San Francisco and New York.

Malveaux has been a contributor to academic life since receiving her Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1980. She has been on the faculty or visiting faculty of San Francisco State University, the University of California-Berkeley, the College of Notre Dame (California), Michigan State University and Howard University. Malveaux has also lectured at more than 500 colleges or universities.

You can find two of the books she has contributed to or edited available in Zahnow Library: Slipping Through the Cracks: the Status of Black Women and Black Women in the Labor Force.

The event is open to the public; admission is free of charge. Tickets are required; they are available through the SVSU Box Office at (989) 964-4261 and through the chambers of commerce and community foundations in the Great Lakes Bay Region. website.

Your Vote Counts, Help Us Decide How You Search

The new design is called Cobalt. It features a two-column layout, with a subject and community tags facet in the left column (rather than a tag cloud). A new color scheme and fonts highlight the streamlined browse entries and redesigned record display. Discovery (also known as “next generation”) catalogs offer users keyword access via a single search box to multiple library collections (books, e-books, articles, etc…). Results are displayed and search facets offered to narrow searches by collection, format, and other limiting options. Compare our current Encore “Pearl” with the new “Cobalt” and enter a vote for the design to implement next term!

Take A Break From Studying And Relax With Aly

Sunday, Dec. 11, from 7:00 – 8:30 pm and Monday, Dec. 12, from 3:00 – 5:00 pm

Did you know…studies have shown that animals can be amazing stress reducers. Petting a dog can lower blood pressure, improve regular breathing, and boost your state of mind. In fact, therapy dogs have been showing up on college campuses all across the country to help students cope with the stress of finals!

Mid-Michigan Therapy Dogs, Inc. is a strictly volunteer organization of handler and dog teams that visit a variety of facilities where people may enjoy, and be helped by, the visit and attention of a therapy dog. The handler/dog teams complete a 12-week training course in order to achieve certification. For more information, visit the MMTD website.

Need On The Spot Help With Your Research?

Stumped? Need on the spot help with your research? We’ll come to you! Zahnow Roving Reference Librarians will be traveling throughout the four floors of the library with iPad in hand to assist you with your research and information needs. Be on the lookout for the friendly librarians with the big yellow “Ask Me” buttons between the hours of 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm on these dates and times:

Wednesday – Thursday, October 12-13
Monday – Thursday, October 17-20
Monday – Wednesday, November 28-30
Thursday, December 1
Monday – Thursday, December 5-8

Of course, you can stop by and see us at the Reference Desk on the 1st floor, text, chat or e-mail us, or just give us a call at (989)964-4242.

Roethke Poetry & Arts Festival Events at Zahnow Library

As part of the Theodore Roethke Poetry & Arts Festival, Zahnow Library is hosting Letters from Home on Monday, Nov. 14, at 7:00 pm in the Roberta Allen Reading Room (4th floor). Members of the River Junction Poets will celebrate Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke with readings of letters and poems written from and about his Saginaw home at 1805 Gratiot Avenue. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

The Allen Reading Room currently features an extensive exhibit of Roethke-related material from Zahnow Library’s Archives, including first editions of his books, rare photographs, gifts to the Library from his wife Beatrice, and critical studies of Roethke’s life and works. The current and past recipients of the Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize from its inception in 1968 are highlighted in this exhibit.

Also on display on the 1st floor of the Library near the Roethke Sculpture and continuing outside the Allen Reading Room are posters inspired by Roethke’s poetry that have been created by Bay City Central High School students.

The 2011 Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize will be awarded to David Baker for his poetry volume Never-Ending Birds on

Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 7:00 pm in the Rhea Miller Recital Hall. A book signing follows the event, which is free and open to the public.

Related events include a poetry slam at the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum, a Haunts of Roethke tour, and a Festival of Roethke musical concert. For a complete listing of all events, please visit the Theodore Roethke Poetry & Arts Festival website.

Connect To Research Help!

We're easy to reach! Connect to research help through the blue 'Chat' link at the top of our homepage for assistance with thousands of online and print books and articles through Zahnow Library. Now you can text, chat or e-mail us for help with resources for papers and projects. And, when you're in the Library, you can connect with a librarian for in-person assistance at the Reference Desk on the 1st floor.

Harvard Scholar To Speak At SVSU On Sept. 22nd

Want to learn more about Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. before his special appearance at SVSU next Thursday? Take a look at the many resources by and about him available in our collection, including books he has authored and PBS documentaries he has produced. He also serves as Editor in Chief of the award-winning database, Oxford African American Studies Center, which is available online to all SVSU students, faculty and staff.

In a much-publicized event in the summer of 2009, Gates and President Obama shared a beer in the White House Rose Garden. You can learn about the controversial event that prompted this historic meeting in this article from the Washington Post.

The Saginaw Valley State University Office of Diversity Programs and the Bridge Center for Racial Harmony is sponsoring the address by Dr. Gates. He will deliver his talk, “Faces of America: The Genealogy of Racial Harmony,” at 7 p.m. in the Malcolm Field Theatre for Performing Arts.

Library Resources on the
10th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks

September 11, 2011, marks the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. A decade later, the harrowing events of that day remain a pivotal moment in American history, the effects of which are still being felt today.

To learn more, Zahnow Library has a number of books on the subject of the September 11th Terrorist Attacks, some of which are on display at the 2nd floor entrance to the Library. Check out the DVD Road to 9/11 and other titles in our Media Collection on the 1st floor. And, for the month of September, our e-book vendor is featuring an open access collection of 15 full-text e-books related to the events of that day, including Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11, Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11, and Protecting What Matters: Technology, Security, and Liberty since 9/11.

We hope that these collections provide a valuable resource to anyone seeking to learn or understand more about this tragic event, or reflect on its world impact.

Take An iPad For A Three Day Test Drive

Have you ever wanted to try out an iPad to see what it can do? Now you can check one out from Zahnow Library for a three-day test drive.

Our iPad comes downloaded with several e-books from the New York Times Best Sellers list:

- Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

- Life by Keith Richards

- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

- The Social Animal by David Brooks

- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

- A Widow’s Story by Joyce Carol Oates

- Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

It also comes downloaded with a variety of applications and resources for you to explore, including Adobe Ideas, Foursquare, Google Suite, iBooks, Notes, Wikipanion, WorldCat, Zahnow Library, and many more.

Upon returning the iPad, however, please note that anything you download will be deleted and the original settings will be restored to make it ready for the next user to check out.

Reading By Carolyn Forche, Poet of Witness
& Human Rights Advocate

Zahnow Library presents a reading by Carolyn Forche on Thursday, March 31, at 7:00 pm in the Roberta Allen Reading Room. While she is a poet most strongly identified with social conscience and “the poetry of witness,” her work is also deeply spiritual, mystical, and filled with praise for human existence. She was powerfully influenced by the time she spent in El Salvador as a human rights activist, and later her work in Lebanon and South Africa.

Her first volume, Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Blue Hour. Her famed international anthology, Against Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.”

Carolyn Forche was born in Detroit, Michigan. She studied at Michigan State University and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University. She currently is Lannan Visiting Professor of Poetry and Professor of English at Georgetown University.

Sponsored by Dow Visiting Scholars & Artists Program, Voices in the Valley, and the Melvin J. Zahnow Library.

Win Cash In The Student
Book Collection Contest

If you have a particular passion and collect books about it, you should enter Zahnow Library’s Student Book Collection Contest. A top prize of $500 will be awarded, along with 2nd and 3rd place prizes of $300 and $200 respectively. Entry is open to any SVSU undergraduate or graduate student.

Collections should consist of at least five books and must be based on some unifying principle or theme. For example, the collection may focus on a particular author or person, on a subject of great interest (cars, baseball, quilting, railroading, etc.) or on books in a unique format (pop-up books, miniature books, graphic novels, etc.).

Entry form and contest rules are available here.

Check out the photo gallery of last year’s Student Book Collection Contest winners.

Stedman Graham Headlines
SVSU's MLK Celebration

Businesman, educator, speaker and New York Times bestselling author, Stedman Graham, is the keynote speaker for the 2011 Great Lakes Bay Regional MLK Celebration hosted by SVSU on Wednesday, January 12th, at 7:00 PM in Malcolm Field Theatre.

Graham is chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates, a management and marketing company that specializes in the corporate and educational markets. Actively involved in education, Graham taught for five years at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and is former adjunct professor of the University of Illinois-Chicago where he taught leaderships.

He has authored ten book, including Diversity: Leaders Not Labels, which is available in our collection.

Read & Relax With A Good Book
Over The Holidays!

Time to relax next to a cozy fire and start enjoying those books you’ve put off reading all semester. Here are some to check out from our Popular Reading Collection:

--    Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky

--    Apparation & Late Fictions: A Novella and Stories by Thomas Lynch

--    Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America by Kate Zernike

--    The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick

--    Djibouti by Elmore Leonard

--    House Rules by Jodi Picoult

--    The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron by Howard Bryant

--    Lord of Misrule: A Novel by Jaimy Gordon ** 2010 National Book Award for Fiction **

--    The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell

--    Nemesis by Philip Roth

--    Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France by Daniel S. Pierce

--    Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities by Elizabeth Edwards

--    Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

--    This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection by Carol Burnett

Discover many more great titles in the Popular Reading Collection!

Material From Zahnow Library's Ken Follett
Collection Now On Display

To celebrate the publication of Ken Follett’s latest book, Fall of Giants, check out the exhibit of manuscripts, research material, and rare editions in the Roberta Allen Reading Room on the 4th floor. Published worldwide in September, Fall of Giants debuted as #1 on The New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list. It follows the destinies of five interrelated families as they move through the earth-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. Fall of Giants is now available in our Popular Reading Collection on the 3rd floor.

Among the many items on display are the actual manuscript of Follett’s previous book, Pillars of the Earth, along with correspondence, photographs and other material that provided the historical details that were incorporated into the writing of the book. Other items on view from the library’s Ken Follett Collection include rare editions of his earliest works written under the pseudonym Symon Myles.

Special thanks go to library staff members Catherine Weinstein and Sharon Reff for their great work assembling this display.

Coffee With The Library Director:
Thursday, October 14th, 4:00-500 PM

Faculty, staff and students are invited to join Zahnow Library Director Linda Farynk for coffee in the Library Café (3rd floor) this Thursday from 4:00-5:00 pm. Hear the latest news about iPads and eBooks, “embedded librarians” for online/hybrid courses, collection evaluation projects, how to suggest materials for purchase, and more. Of course, questions and comments about the library are welcome. Coffee and cold drinks available from the vending machines next to the café, or bring your own!

Sign up or send a quick message to Linda Farynk at lfarynk@svsu.edu if you would like to join the conversation.

Take A Tour Of The Zahnow Library On YouTube

Take a tour of Zahnow Library on YouTube, hosted by Bria Anderson, SVSU Chemistry major and library student assistant. Bria takes you on a quick tour of all four floors of the library. Locations featured in the tour include our various collections, service desks where you can get help, and special areas in the library like the Roberta Allen Reading Room, the Writing Center and the Student Technology Center. The tour is set to lively music and full of useful information to help you navigate the library for your research papers and projects.

Special thanks to Reference Librarian Averill Packard and Dan Goodell and James Woods from SVSU’s Instructional Technology Center for their work on producing this video.

Celebrate Your Freedom To Read During Banned Books Week

Observed since 1982, this annual event reminds us that while not every book is intended for every reader, each of us has the right to decide for ourselves what to read.

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. It highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Check out the display at the 2nd floor entrance to the library and see a selection of books that have been challenged throughout the years, including the Bible, the Koran, Canterbury Tales, Silas Marner, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, and the Harry Potter books.

Imagine how many more books might be challenged if librarians, teachers, and booksellers across the country did not use Banned Books Week each year to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society.

Become A Fan And Follow Us On Facebook!

Sign up for our Facebook Fan Page and keep up to date with what’s happening in Zahnow Library. You’ll find brief notices of special events, changes in hours, new best sellers, featured databases, helpful hints on using the library and more. In addition, we’ll pass along some interesting stories and videos from all
around the web to get you thinking (and sometimes laughing).

Popular Reading Collection

Collection The Popular Reading Collection is located on the 3^rd floor and arranged alphabetically by the author’s last name.

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson.

House Rules by Jodi Picoult.

Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky.

Deliver Us from Evil by David Baldacci.

Al Kaline: The Biography of a Tigers Icon by Jim Hawkins.

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick.

Outcasts United: A Refugee Soccer Team, An American Town by Warren St. John.

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox.

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen.

Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling.

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert.

For Those With Baseball Fever!

Feels like summer! If you have baseball fever, relax under a shady tree with one of our cool books about the Detroit Tigers or Ernie Harwell, the legendary voice of the Tigers.

The Detroit Tigers: A Pictorial Celebration of the Greatest Players and Moments in Tigers' History by William M. Anderson. GV875.D6 A54 1999

The Tigers of ’68: Baseball’s Last Real Champions by George Cantor.
GV875.D6 C35 1997

The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark by Tom Stanton. GV416.D488.S73 2001

Wire to Wire: Inside the 1984 Detroit Tigers Championship Season by
George Cantor. GV875.D6 C37 2004

They Earned Their Stripes: The Detroit Tigers All-Time Team (from the
Archives of the Detroit News); Foreword by Alan Trammell.
GV875.D6 T54 2000

Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball by Ernie Harwell. GV742.42.H39 K44 2002

Stories from My Life in Baseball by Ernie Harwell. GV873.H38 S75 2001

Extra Innings with the Voice of Summer by Ernie Harwell. GV742.42.H39 A32 2009

Ernie Harwell’s Diamond Gems by Ernie Harwell. GV873.H38 1991

Breaking 90 by Ernie Harwell. GV742.42.H39 A3 2007

Spotlight On Comm. And Mass Media Complete

Communication & Mass Media Complete provides access to the full text of over 420 journals, cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 540 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more for combined coverage of over 700 titles. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDF’s and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915).

In addition, CMMC features over 5,000 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. It incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.

Communication & Mass Media Complete can be accessed from the library's Database by Subjects Page.

Extended Hours For Final Exams Begin!

Wednesday-Thursday, April 21-22: 8:00 am – 11:00 pm
Friday, April 23: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Saturday, April 24: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday, April 25: 1:00 pm – OPEN ALL NIGHT!
--- Free coffee and cookies available (while they last) during the
all-night exam cram on Sunday, April 25!
Monday, April 26: STILL OPEN – 1:00 am
Tuesday, April 27: 8:00 am – 1:00 am
Wednesday-Thursday, April 28-29: 8:00 am – 11:00 pm
Friday, April 30: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Saturday-Sunday, May 1-2: CLOSED
Monday-Friday, May 3-7: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Saturday, May 8 (Commencement): 9:30 am – 1:30 pm

The Library Computer Lab (Z111) will also be open during extended hours.
See the library hours web page for our summer hours..”

MI. Writer Bonnie Jo Campbell Visits Zahnow Library

Bonnie Jo Campbell will read from her works on Wednesday, April 14, at 3:00 p.m. in the Roberta Allen Reading Room on the 4th floor of Zahnow Library. Campbell’s 2009 collection of short stories, American Salvage, was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her novel, Q Road, was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers book, and her first short story collection, Women and Other Animals, won the Associated Writing Programs Award for short fiction. The New York Times has called her stories “Bitter but sweetened by humor,” and Publisher’s Weekly said Campbell details “domestic worlds where Martha Stewart would fear to tread.”

At her reading, Campbell will be presented SVSU’s Stuart and Vernice Gross Award for Literature, which recognizes excellence in writing by a Michigan author.

Campbell grew up on a small Michigan farm with her mother and four siblings. She received her M.A. in mathematics and her M.F.A. in writing from Western Michigan University. She has since hitchhiked across the U.S. and Canada, scaled the Swiss Alps on her bicycle, and traveled with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus selling snow cones. She now lives with her husband and other animals outside Kalamazoo.

Spotlight On Grove Art Online

Grove Art Online, is today’s foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art from prehistory to the present day. Accessible through the Oxford Art Online gateway, it features new content, functionality and partnership links.

It includes the full text of the 34-volume print edition of The Dictionary of Art, over 5,000 searchable art images and line drawings, 23,000 subject entries, and more than 21,000 biographies. Over 2,000 additional color images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Images for College Teaching, as well as 500 new images of modern and contemporary art, are embedded in the text of articles.

In addition to this wealth of new content, Grove Art Online features linking partnerships with ARTstor and Art Resource, and a host of learning resources: MoMA/Grove lesson plans, timelines, and thematic guides. Each year, new articles are added to enhance the coverage of significant areas of the visual arts with the participation of more than 1,000 international art historians.

Grove Art Online is accessible on or off campus using the link on the Databases by Subject page on the library web site.

Prize-Winning Poet Jim Daniels To Visit Zahnow Library

Prize-winning poet and short fiction writer Jim Daniels will read from his work on Thursday, March 25, at 7 p.m. in the Allen Reading Room, 4th floor, Zahnow Library. A major figure in working class poetry, Daniels has garnered many awards for his work. The Detroit native has received the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, the Tillie Olsen Prize, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and two from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Daniels’ poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies, and over his career, he has edited or co-edited four anthologies of his own, including “Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race,” and “American Poetry: The Next Generation.”

Also a fiction writer, Daniels won the 2007 Blue Lynx Poetry Prize for his book “Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies,” and was awarded the 2003 ForeWord magazine Gold Medal award for Short Story Fiction for his “Detroit Tales.” Moving beyond the page, in 2005, he wrote and produced the independent film “Dumpster,” which appeared in more than a dozen film festivals.

Daniels resides in Pittsburgh, where he is the Thomas Stockman Baker Professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University.

The reading is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Sponsored by Voices in the Valley and the Melvin J. Zahnow Library
.

Win Cash In The Student Book Collection Contest

The deadline for entering the contest is Friday, March 26, at 5:00 pm.

Read "Precious" And See Sapphire In Person - 3.3.10

Sapphire, the author of the book that inspired the critically acclaimed film “Precious,” will speak Wednesday, March 3, at 6 p.m. in the Malcolm Field Theatre. Her novel won the Book of the Month Club Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award, and was named by “The Village Voice” as one of the top ten books of 1996. It is based on the story of an illiterate 16-year old girl from Harlem, pregnant with her father’s child, who meets a determined and radical teacher, leading her on a journey of education and enlightenment.

You can find Precious in our Popular Reading Collection, as well as two other books written by Sapphire in the General Collection, American Dreams and Black Wings & Blind Angels: Poems.

Discover The Stories Of African Americans In Michigan

Discover the many engaging and little-known stories of African Americans in Michigan, from Idlewild to Saginaw, Flint to Detroit, and Grand Rapids to the small town of Covert in southwestern Michigan. Simply type African Americans – Michigan in the Encore search box on our home page and you’ll find:

Black Eden: The Idlewild Community by Lewis Walker and Ben C. Wilson

F574.I35 W35 2002

African Americans in Michigan by Lewis Walker, Ben C. Wilson, and Linwood H. Cousins

E185.93.M5 W35 2001

Twentieth Century Black Migration to Saginaw and the Impact of Black Churches on the Community [Videorecording] Roosevelt Austin, Sr. F574.S15 A97 2000

Saginaw Mosaic: The African Americans [Videorecording] F574.S15 S35 1994

Enterprising Images: The Goodridge Brothers, African American Photographers by John Jezierski TR139.J48 2000

Bronze Pillars: An Oral History of African-Americans in Flint by Rhonda Sanders

F574.F62 S26 1995

African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids by Randal Maurice Jelks F574.G7 J45 2006

A Stronger Kinship: One Town’s Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith by Anna-Lisa Cox F574.C73 C69 2006

Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit’s African American Community by Elaine Latzman Moon F574.D49 N476 1994

Pieces from Life’s Crazy Quilt by Marvin V. Arnett F574.D49 N424 2003

Race and Remembrance: A Memoir by Arthur L. Johnson F574.D453 J64 2008

Spotlight On Online Resources For Black History Month

Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. It provides students and researchers with more than 10,000 articles by top scholars in the field. Over 1,750 images, more than 300 primary sources with specially written commentaries and nearly 150 maps have been collected to enhance this reference content. 150 charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.

African American Experience is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora. Wide-ranging and easy-to-use, AAE is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field. Its two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 400 volumes, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians of color, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.

Black Abolitionist Papers is an extraordinary primary source collection, the first to comprehensively detail the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the massive, international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings and publications of the activists themselves. The approximately 15,000 articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works of almost 300 Black abolitionists show the full range of their activities in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany.

Listen Up: Streaming Audio From Naxos Music Library

Naxos Music Libray is the world's largest online classical music library, offering streaming access to more than 39,000 CD's with over 565,000 tracks. On average, 500 new CD's are added every month.

NML offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. Through a sophisiticated online search engine, you can select works by keyword, composer, artist, period, year of composition, instrument or genre. Playlists can also easily be created for educational use, or for hours of continuous enjoyment.

The resource section includes synopses of over 700 operas, composer and artist biographies, a pronounciation guide for composer and artist names and a glossary of musical terms.

Naxos Music Library is available to all SVSU students, faculty, and staff - anywher, anytime. Listen and enjoy!

Library Workshops On Discovery Tools And Google Scholar - Friday, January 29th

Discovery Tools: 11-11:30AM
Discover how to search the library's electronic and print collections with two new approaches to research: Encore, the new interface to the library catalog, and ResearchPro, which allows you to search multiple databases simultaneously.

Google Scholar: 11:30AM - Noon
Search library databases and academic websites with Zahnow Library's Google Scholar.

Both workshops will be held in Z-235, the mini-lab near the Student Technology Center. You can register online at apps.svsu.edu/workshops or by contacting Kathleen Kroll, kmkroll@svsu.edu, extension - 7054.

New Online Resource: The Black Abolitionist Papers

This extraordinary primary source collection is the first to comprehensively detail the extensive work of African-Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the massive, international impact of African-American activism against slavery in the writings and publications of the activists themselves.

The approximately 15,000 articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works of almost 300 Black abolitionists show the full range of their activities in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany.

This collection, when first published in microfilm, literally transformed scholarly understanding of Black activism during this period. Now it is available in a searchable, easily accessible format for research, teaching and study

You can access the Black Abolitionist Papers here or from our Databses by Name web page.

Read & Relax with a Good Book over the Holidays!

Time to relax next to a cozy fire and start enjoying those books you've put off reading all semester. Here are some to check out from our Popular Reading Collection.

- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

- Under the Dome by Stephen King

- Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom

- True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy

- Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

- Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem

- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

- Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

- The Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora by Samuel Barclay Charters

- The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow

- Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin

- Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

Discover many more great titles in the Popular Reading Collection!

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Extended Hours for Final Exams Continue!

Wednesday-Thursday, December 9-10: 8:00 am – 11:00 pm

Friday, December 11: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm

Saturday, December 12: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Sunday, December 13: 1:00 pm – OPEN ALL NIGHT!

- Free coffee and cookies available (while they last) during the

all-night exam cram on Sunday, December 13!

Monday, December 14: STILL OPEN – 1:00 am

Tuesday, December 15: 8:00 am – 1:00 am

Wednesday-Thursday, December 16-17: 8:00 am – 11:00 pm

Friday, December 18: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm

Saturday-Sunday, December 19-20: CLOSED

The Library Computer Lab (Z111) will also be open during extended hours.

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Take The Michigan eLibrary Survey!

Experience library searching like never before powerful and information-rich, yet highly intuitive, simple to use and loaded with useful new features: Zahnow Library is one of 380 libraries that participate in MeL, the Michigan eLibrary. Because of our participation in MeL, you have free access to 47 online databases that support your research from any computer at any time. These databases, many of which provide access to the full text of journal articles, include Academic OneFile, Business and Company Resource Center, CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online), Gale Virtual Reference Library, Health Reference Center Academic, LegalTrac, NewsBank Michigan Newspapers, and WorldCat.

Our membership in MeL also enables you to borrow books, movies and other media we do not own for free from participating Michigan libraries. In an effort to continue improving MeL so that libraries and Michigan residents get the most benefit from the program, the Library of Michigan has contracted with the marketing firm EPIC MRA to do a study of the Michigan eLibrary.

Please take a few minutes to respond to the MeL survey along with students and faculty from other colleges and universities across the state. The survey will be open through December 6. Thank you for your feedback on the Michigan eLibrary!

The Michigan eLibrary is funded by the Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) via the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through the Library of Michigan. The cost of MeL is approximately $5 million per year with a savings to the state's libraries, schools, colleges and universities of over $72 million per year.

Career Author To Speak On Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Lindsey Pollak, author of Getting from College to Career: 90 Things

To Do Before You Join the Real World, will be on campus to speak to students this Thursday, Sept. 24, at 4:00 pm in the Malcolm Field Theatre for the Performing Arts.

In Getting from College to Career, Lindsey Pollak offers the first definitive guide to building the experience, skills, and confidence you need before starting your first major job search. This book is packed with career advice for students and focuses on how to get a job after college. Her 90 action-oriented tips include strategies ranging from the simple to the expert, including:

Avoid the biggest mistake in career prep and job hunting
Subscribe to a daily newspaper
E-mail like a professional
Make every event a networking success
Practice the eight essentials of internship achievement
Perform five minutes of stand-up

For more information about Lindsey Pollak, visit her website or her blog.

September 16^th - September 17^th

September 17^th Is Constitution Day!

Most Americans know that July 4^th is our nation's birthday. Far fewer Americans know that September 17^th is the birthday of our government, the date in 1787 on which delegates to the Philadelphia Convention completed and signed the U.S. Constitution.

The ideas on which America was founded--commitments to the rule of law, limited government and the ideals of liberty, equality and justice--are embodied in the Constitution, the oldest written constitution of any nation on Earth. Constitution Day is intended to celebrate not only the birthday of our government, but the ideas that make us Americans.

Learn 10 Fast Facts on the Constitution

Read the text of the Constitution in its original form

View a display of materials about the Constitution from our collection at the 2^nd floor entrance to the library.

Summer 2009

Follow Us On Facebook

Sign up for Facebook and keep up to date with whats happening in Zahnow Library. You’ll find brief notices of special events, changes in hours, new best sellers, featured databases, helpful hints on using the library and more.

You’ll also find links to unusual news stories that grabbed our attention, like Michael Jackson, the bookworm? from the Los Angeles Times. As reported in the story, Jackson was known to visit several LA bookstores, often wearing very large sunglasses and a surgical mask while browsing for books under a black umbrella held by an assistant. He apparently had a collection of 10,000 books housed in a wood-paneled library at Neverland. Jacksons favorite author? Go to our Facebook page to read the full story!

Week of June 22nd - July 5th

Summer Reading

Time to sit back under a shady tree and start enjoying those books youve put off reading all academic year. Here are some to check out from our Popular Reading Collection:

Divine Justice — David Baldacci

Geography of Bliss: One Grumps Search for the Happiest Places in the World — Eric Weiner

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society — Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran — Azadeh Moaveni

Letter to My Daughter — Maya Angelou

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance — Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! — Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith

The Sea is so Wide and My Boat is so Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation — Marian Wright Edelman

20 West: The Great Road across America — Mac Nelson

Two Billion Cars: Driving toward Sustainability — Daniel Sperling & Deborah Gordon

Unlikely Disciple: A Sinners Semester at Americas Holiest University — Kevin Roose

Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa — R.A. Scotti

The Women: A Novel — T. Coraghessan Boyle

Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities — Elizabeth Edwards

Discover many more great titles in the Popular Reading Collection.

Week of March 2nd - 4th

Zahnow Library Presents Howard Kohn

Howard Kohn is a native of Bay City and a graduate of Central High School and the University of Michigan. A runner-up for a Pulitzer Prize, The Last Farmer is a memoir of his fathers last seasons working the Bay County farm where they both were raised.

Kohn is also the author of the books Who Killed Karen Silkwood? (which led to the Meryl Streep movie, Silkwood) and We Had a Dream, a non-fiction examination of the aftermath of the civil rights movement in Prince Georges County, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC.

A former senior editor of Rolling Stone, Kohn is still an occasional contributor. His work has also been published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Esquire, Mother Jones and other periodicals. He currently hosts the program Second Look on public television in Prince Georges County, MD

Week of February 17th - 22nd

Check Out The New Online CQ Weekly

No matter what legislative issue you follow or research, CQ Weekly is the one source that can be relied on to cover it, to make it simple to understand, and to do so in a manner that is even-handed and accurate.

CQ Weeklyis known as the pre-eminent resource for Congress-watchers who need non-partisan information on Capitol Hill. The award-winning magazines legislative news and analysis is consistently hailed for its accuracy and comprehensiveness. CQ Weekly on the web includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983. Users may browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles by words, dates, subjects or other criteria. The online version also provides users with access to some CQ Weekly articles prior to when they are available in print.

Week of February 10th - 16th

Happy 200th Birthday, Lincoln and Darwin

February 12, 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birthdays of two historic figures whose ideas and actions shaped the modern world, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. For historians and political scientists, the bicentennial of Abraham Lincolns birthday has taken on new meaning with the election of our nations first African American president. For scientists, Darwins 200th birthday anniversary is an opportunity to reflect on how far knowledge about our natural world has come since the publication of On the Origin of Species? and to examine the future direction of biology and other disciplines.

Discover the many books written about Lincoln and Darwin by searching CardCat by Subject.

And be sure to stop by the Darwin Day celebration organized by the Biology Department and taking place in the Allen Reading Room of the library from 10am – 1pm on Thursday, February 12. There will be refreshments, displays, presentations, posters and more!

Week of February 2nd - 9th

New Online Database: The African American Experience

The African American Experience is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans. It features access to full-text content from more than 400 titles, 3,000 slave narratives, over 2000 images, 5,000 primary sources, 250 vetted web sites, and 67 classics in black scholarship published by the Negro University Press from the late 1700s to the early 1970s. Wide-ranging and easy to use, African American Experiencehas been called the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field, Greenwood Press.

Week of January 26th - February 1st

New Online Database: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

One of our newest online databases, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, contains biographies written by SVSU faculty members Jane Girdham, Music Dept., and Robert Braddock, History Dept.

The online edition provides fast desktop access to the complete text of the award-winning Oxford DNB: 56,000 lives, 64 million words, 10,400 portrait illustrations. Included are men and women who have shaped all aspects of English history, literature, language and culture, from the ancient (explorer Pytheas of the 4^th Century BC) to the modern (Princess Diana). Every article has detailed citation information (including MLA and Chicago formats), which shows when it was first published and when it was last changed. And, there are options for print-friendly versions and e-mailing articles.

Log-in to the online Oxford DNB from the librarys Databases by Name page, and then search for Jane Girdham and Robert Braddock as Contributors to view their articles.

See What's Happening In The Library

With The 2008 Fall Newsletter - 09.15.08

Week of January 19th - 25th

The New 'Ask Us' Instant Messaging Service

When you need information, help with your library research or have library-related questions, Click on the "Ask Us" button. You can instant message, email or call a librarian during Reference Desk hours. Of course, you’re always welcome to visit the Reference Desk in person and speak to a librarian, too!

Reference Desk Hours:

Sunday 1:00 – 9:00 pm

Monday–Thursday 8:00 am – 10:00 pm

Friday 8:00 am – 4:30 pm

Saturday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

January 19th, 2009

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Monday, January 19th is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Check out the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic Speeches and Interviews website. Created by the Detroit Area Library Network, the site includes links to YouTube videos with speeches by and about Dr. King, a biography, timeline and links to related websites.

Related web sites include African-American Odyssey from the Library of Congress American Memory Project; the King Center, established in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King; Martin Luther King Day: The Official U.S. Government web site; Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Story of Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement; and With Liberty and Justice for all, a permanent exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI.

Week of November 13th - November 20th

Check Out Our New Arrivals

Check out our latest arrivals on the New Books shelves just behind the Reference Desk on the first floor. Dont have time to stop by the library? You can browse our New Books List online! Remember, if you would like to recommend a book for purchase by the library, you can do so here.

Week of November 5th - November 12th

Celebrate The Centenial Of Roethke

As part of the Theodore Roethke Centennial Celebration, actor and playwright Richard Fitzpatrick will portray the Saginaw native and Pulitzer Prize–winning poet in his play Roethke & Me: Conjuring the Garden Master on Wednesday, November 12, at 7:00 p.m. in the Malcolm Field Theatre for the Performing Arts.

Fitzpatrick has worked on Broadway, in regional theatres across the country, and at The Stratford Festival of Canada. His performance is made possible by grants from Citizens Bank and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

A number of events celebrating the Centennial, including the Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize award ceremony, a poetry slam, a tour of Roethkes favorite haunts, and more begin on November 8. A complete listing of all events can be found here.

Week of October 20th - November 4th

Are You Ready To Choose The Next President?

Prepare yourself with books about Barack Obama and John McCain from our Popular Reading Collection and the General Collection. You can find more information on the upcoming election, including the Michigan ballot proposals, on the Michigan eLibrary Election 2008 web pages.

Resources on the MeL Election 2008 web pages include sites for all represented political parties on the ballot and the candidates representing those parties with biographical data, speeches, and information on where the candidates stand on various issues. Sites from non-partisan organizations such as FactCheck.org and Project Vote Smart attempt to provide clear, unbiased political information and debunk false claims with reputable resources. Wording from statewide ballot proposals is also included.

Week of October 13th - October 19th

Stop The Hate All Media Art Show

"Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."
This quote, from the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, is one of several that exemplify the message of the exhibition. Through the use of art of all kinds, the Stop the Hate All Media Art show portrays all aspects of hate and hate crimes in an effort to bring them forward into the public consciousness.

Sponsored by SVSUs Gay Straight Alliance, the art show is on display in the Roberta Allen Reading Room of Zahnow Library from Monday, October 13, through Friday, October 17. Support for the exhibit has been provided by the SVSU Student Life Center, Zahnow Library, the Office of Diversity Programs, and the College of Arts and Behavioral Sciences.

Week of October 6th - October 12th

Library Information Sessions

Want to find out whats new in the library? Want to know how to find the full text of articles in the over 17,000 electronic journals we offer? Just have a question or suggestion for us?

Stop by Z111 this Friday, October 10, for the following information sessions:

Whats New in the Library (11:00-11:30 a.m.)
Learn about recent database acquisitions, library services, and other news.
Find Text (11:30-12 noon)
Locate full text articles using Zahnows link resolver software, SFX.
Contact Kathleen Kroll (kmkroll@svsu.edu, ext. 7054) to register or just stop by!

Week of September 30th – October 5th

Celebrate Your Freedom to Read during Banned Books Week, Sept. 27 – October 4!

Observed since 1982, this annual event reminds us that while not every book is intended for every reader, each of us has the right to decide for ourselves what to read.

The Great Gatsby, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Beloved, Catch–22, Native Son and many other books considered to be among the best novels of the 20^th century have all been challenged throughout the years.

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose and the freedom to express ones opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular, and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.

Check out Google’s salute to Banned Books Week!

Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, American Library Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Association of American Publishers, National Association of College Stores, and is endorsed by the Center for the Book of the Library of Congress.

Week of September 22nd - 29th

Check Out The Lates Books By Best-Selling Authors

The Popular Reading Collection features fiction and non-fiction books found on the New York Times best sellers list, the Amazon.com top sellers list, and many award-winning titles. Authors include Mitch Albom, Madeleine Albright, Nora Ephron, John Grisham, Khaled Hosseini, Walter Isaacson, Jhumpa Lahiri, Toni Morrison, David Sedaris, Alexander McCall Smith, and Tim Weiner. The loan period for Popular Reading Collection books is 3 weeks. You can find a list of titles here. Have a suggestion for the Popular Reading Collection? Tell us!