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Religious Studies Discussion in Atlanta

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: October 12, 2009
Gary M. Laderman, Professor of American Religious History and Cultures at Emory University will discuss his new book, Sacred Matters:  Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, the Living Dead, and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States (The New Press, 2009) on Thursday, October 8 at 7:30 pm in Room 209/210 at the Unitarian Universalist [...]
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Banned Books Week Exhibit: Celebrating the Freedom to Read

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: September 9, 2009
The Georgia State University Library is celebrating banned books week with an exhibit highlighting banned, censored and challenged comic books and graphic novels. Check out the display case on Library North 1 to see comic book examples from our collection, as well as scholarly works about censorship of the comics medium. Banned books week [...]
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New Browsing Books on Library North 1

By Daryle | Published: September 4, 2009
Mama dearest / E. Lynn Harris. Trotsky : a graphic biography / by Rick Geary. Aya, the secrets come out / Marguerite Abouet, Clement Oubrerie ; [translation by Helge Dascher]. McNaughton Audio Books Nocturnes [sound recording] / Kazuo Ishiguro. The year of the flood[sound recording]:a novel / Margaret Atwood.
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Book Swap

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: April 24, 2009
Due to recent cuts in the library budget, it was necessary to reduce the size of our browsing collection. In order to continue to make leisure reading easy for all of our patrons, we have started a brand new Book Swap program! The new Book Swap bookshelf is located near the circulation desk in Library [...]
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“Winning Hearts”: A Eudora Welty Centennial Exhibition

By Traci | Published: April 10, 2009
Are you a Eudora Welty fan?  If not, you could be!  The 100th anniversary of her birthday is Monday, April 13, 2009.  To help celebrate, the University Library’s Special Collections & Archives has an exhibit of rare books, manuscripts, artifacts, and audio recordings for your viewing and listening pleasure. “Winning Hearts”:  A Eudora Welty Centennial Exhibition University [...]
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Automatic Book Machine

By Sarah | Published: September 19, 2008
According to a University of Michigan press release, the university library is the first academic library to install the Espresso Book Machine. The machine “produces perfect-bound, high-quality paperback books on demand” and has been called “the ATM of books.” Read the full press release. (originally posted by Bernie Sloan to the COLLIB Listserv)
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Books in PZ1-PZ4 Being Reclassed

By admin | Published: August 21, 2008
General collection books in PZ1, PZ3 and PZ4 (subclasses used by the Library of Congress prior to 1980) are being reclassified to the appropriate subclasses of literature. This will bring works together in PQ, PR, PS, etc. that were previously shelved in different places. For example, Roald Dahl’s Kiss, Kiss has gone from PZ3.D1374Ki to [...]
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