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Just don’t fall : how I grew up, conquered illness, and made it down the mountain / Josh Sundquist.

Wild child : stories / by T. Coraghessan Boyle.

Ordinary thunderstorms : a novel / William Boyd.

The mystery of Lewis Carroll : discovering the whimsical, thoughtful, and sometimes lonely man who created Alice in Wonderland / Jenny Woolf.

Point Omega : a novel / Don DeLillo.

Boris Karloff tales of mystery archives. Vol. 2 / introduction by Hugh M. Hefner.imageDB.cgi

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New IEEE Xplore Coming Soon

IEEE Xplore is a digital library providing full text access to IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications. A new redesign of IEEE Xplore is going to launch in mid-February. Watch the overview video below.

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In the New IEEE Xplore, you’ll be able to receive e-mail alerts or RSS feeds when new relevant content is uploaded. Perform a search and when you are satisfied with your criteria, click “Save this Search” button.

If you have table of contents alerts from IEEE Xplore, you’ll need to set up alerts in the new IEEE Xplore.

To access IEEE Xplore, use the link provided by the library website: http://www.library.gsu.edu/resources/ieex

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African-American Labor History: Oral History Collections in the Southern Labor Archives

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In addition to manuscripts, photographs, and labor union records, the Southern Labor Archives collects oral histories, which preserve first-person accounts of the successes and struggles of men and women in the labor movement. Oral histories in the Southern Labor Archives cover a wide variety of topics: strikes, negotiations, organizing, and politics. While these topics are standard when discussing labor history, many of the oral histories also offer accounts of the civil rights movement and integration of monorities and women into unions that had maintained exclusively white, male memership for years.

The Voices of Labor Oral History Project, part of the Southern Labor Archives, has over 30 oral history interviews with labor leaders from the South. Included are interviews with the following African-American labor leaders: Reverend James E. Orange, Dorothy Bolden, Clarence Williams, and Elmer Hamilton. In addition to their stories, the interviews with the following white labor leaders discuss the need for integration in unions and difficulties faced in the South: Richard Ray, Charlie Key, Harlon Joye, and Al Kehrer. You can visit the Voices of Labor page to learn more about the project and the interviews.

If you have questions about the Voices of Labor Oral History Project or the Southern Labor Archives please contact the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Georgia State University Library at 404.413.2880 or archives@gsu.edu.

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Faculty Art Show Opens in GSU Gallery

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Happenings //: 2010 Works by Faculty Exhibition opened on February 4th in the GSU Art Gallery.

Want to see more? The library has some books written by or featuring the Art & Design faculty, such as:

Mark Burleson
The Ceramic Glaze Handbook: Materials, Techniques, Formulas
Lark Books, 2001

Nancy Floyd
She’s Got a Gun
Temple University Press, 2008

Ralph Gilbert
The Dream Life of Babies
Fay Gold Gallery, 2000

Cheryl Goldsleger
9 Women in Georgia: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art
Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1996

Pam Longobardi
Drifters: Plastics, Pollution, and Personhood [currently on order]
Milano Edizione Charta, 2010

Mia Merlin
Birthday Party

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New Publications from the School of Social Work

Dr. Nancy Kropf and Dr. Peter Lyons of the School of Social Work have recently published books and articles that are accessible via the University Library.

  • Human Behavior Theory: A Diversity Framework
    by Roberta R. Greene and Nancy P. Kropf

    This work provides social workers and students with information on using human behavior theories for serving diverse and unique clients.Kropf Handbook of Psychosocial Interventions with Older Adults
  • Sexual Harassment Experiences and Their Psychological Correlates Among a Diverse Sample of College Women
    by Eunkyung Yoon, Roni Stiller Funk, and Nancy P. Kropf
    Journal of Women & Social Work
    , Feb 2010, volume 25 issue 1, pages 8-18.

    (off-campus access to full text is available only to GSU students and employees.)
    This empirical article details the findings of a study on the “relationship between sexual victimization and psychological outcomes” in female college students. This work could provide the starting point for student course research in the human services fields, but might also be of general interest to college students from any department.

These books are available for checkout.

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Women’s Studies Speaker

The Women’s Studies Institute is presenting the Spring 2010 Anne L. Harper Annual Lecture on Febuary 25th.  The lecture is being delivered by Gayatri Gopinath, associate professor of social and cultural analysis and director of gender and sexuality studies at New York University.  Her talk is entitled “Affect, Archive, and the Everyday: Queer Diasporic Re-visions.”

impossible_desiresThis free event takes place in General Classroom Building 939 [the Troy Moore Library] at 5:00pm.

Gopinath’s areas of research interest include queer studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory.  She is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, which is available in the library in both print and electronic formats.  She also contributed a chapter to Queer Globalizations: Citizenship, Sexualities and the Afterlife of Colonialism, an edited collection of essays also available in the library.

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Try the LibX search plugin

Wouldn’t it be handy if Amazon could tell you whether the library had the book you’re looking for? Or if Wikipedia citations included links to articles in the library’s online collection?

That’s just one of the tricks the free LibX library toolbar can do: it adds one-click GSU Library links to Amazon book pages, Wikipedia articles, New York Times book reviews, and more.

LibX is a plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer. Its features include:

  • A search bar that searches the library’s catalog and databases
  • A right-click library search menu — just select some text like a book title, right-click and choose “Search GIL” to search the catalog
  • Automatic links to library resources added to sites like Amazon, Google and Wikipedia
  • An easy “reload via library” option to get access to paid subscription resources

It’s free — get it (and more information) from our LibX guide.

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New Browsing Books on Library North 1

Among thieves / David Hosp.

Thirteen going on eighteen. [Volume 1] / [John Stanley] ; edited by Rebecca Rosen.

Blood ties : a Bishop/Special Crimes Unit novel / Kay Hooper.

Durrow bookcoverThe girl who fell from the sky : a novel / by Heidi W. Durrow.

Fatal system error : the hunt for the new crime lords who are bringing down the internet / Joseph Menn.

The brightest star in the sky / Marian Keyes.

McNaughton Audio Books
The brightest star in the sky [sound recording]/ Marian Keyes.

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Celebration for Dr. Merl E. Reed’s New Book

The library and the Department of History are cosponsoring an event to celebrate the publication of Dr. Merl E. Reed’s new book, Educating the Urban New South: Atlanta and the Rise of Georgia State University, 1913-1969.  It will be held on Tuesday, February 16th, at 2:00pm in the Colloquium Room (Library South, 8th floor).  If you would like to join the celebration, please RSVP by February 9th to Pam Lucas at plucas@gsu.edu or 404-413-2703.

reedDr. Reed’s book traces the history of Georgia State University from its founding in 1913 as Georgia Tech’s evening school to its establishment of university status in 1969.  His work clearly demonstrates how GSU’s symbiotic relationship with urban Atlanta has been fundamental to the institution’s existence and growth.

Dr. Reed, professor emeritus at Georgia State University, specializes in education and labor history.  He was also instrumental in establishing the Southern Labor Archives in the library’s Special Collections and Archives.  Some of his other publications include:

Seedtime for the modern civil rights movement: the President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practice, 1941-1946

New Orleans and the railroads: the struggle for commercial empire, 1830-1860

Race, class, and community in Southern labor history

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ARTstor Travel Awards 2010

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Image from ARTstor; provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Images for Academic Publishing

As a subscriber to ARTstor, Georgia State graduate students and faculty are eligible to apply for one of five ARTstor Travel Awards.  Each research travel award is $1,500 and must be used by September 1, 2011.  The intent of the awards is to help support the educational and scholarly activities of scholars in any field in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences.

To be considered for a research travel award, applicants must create and submit an ARTstor image group (or a series of image groups) and a single accompanying essay that creatively and compellingly demonstrates why the image group(s) is useful for teaching, research, or scholarship.  The five winning submissions will be determined by ARTstor staff.

Application deadline: April 1, 2010
Winners announced: May 1, 2010
Awards will be made by: June 1, 2010

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