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CRL Primary Source Awards

The Center for Research Libraries is accepting nominations for its 2010 Primary Source Awards, which recognize the contributions of research and teaching faculty, librarians and library staff, graduate students, and others within the CRL community for their creative use of primary source materials in three arenas: research, teaching, and access. Award winners will receive a gift [...]
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Presentation: The Origins of Labor-Union Democracy: A US-British Comparison

Presentation: The Origins of Labor-Union Democracy: A US-British Comparison Matthew Dimick, winner of the 2009 Merl E. Reed Fellowship in Southern Labor History, will present on his topic on Friday, November 20, 2009. The presentation will be held at noon in the Colloquium Room at the Georgia State University Library (Library South, 8th Floor). The presentation [...]
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Dr. Nadine Sinno reads from Canceled Memories

Dr. Nadine Sinno of the Georgia State University Middle East Institute will read on Monday, November 16 at 10:00 am from her translation of the Lebanese novel Canceled Memories. The reading will take place in Classroom 2 on the second floor of Library North. A description of the novel follows: Set during the Lebanese [...]
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New Browsing Books on Library North 1

Michael / by the editors of Rolling Stone. Ice : a novel / Linda Howard. The Sandman. The dream hunters / original words by Neil Gaiman ; graphicplay and art by P. Craig Russell; coloring by Lovern Kindzierski ; lettering by Todd Klein. High society : the life of Grace Kelly / Donald Spoto. The lacuna : a [...]
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GALILEO Annual User Survey and iPod Nano Prize

“ The annual GALILEO user survey offers you the chance to sound off on your experience using GALILEO and the chance to win an iPod Nano. The link to the survey will appear on the GALILEO website Monday, November 9-Sunday, November 15. Your feedback is important, so add a note to your calendar or to-do list [...]
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Kindred in death / J.D. Robb. Under the dome : a novel / Stephen King. Googled : the end of the world as we know it / Ken Auletta. A Christmas blizzard / Garrison Keillor.
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The most they ever had / by Rick Bragg. Che : a graphic biography / Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon. Eating animals / Jonathan Safran Foer. Rainwater / Sandra Brown. Paul McCartney : a life / Peter Ames Carlin. Anita Blake, vampire hunter. Guilty pleasures / writer, Laurell K. Hamilton & Jonathon Green ; adaptation, Stacie Ritchie & Jess Ruffner-Booth [...]
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Journalist and author Susan Faludi to speak at GSU

The following news was originally posted on the Georgia State University News blog by Liz Babiarz: ATLANTA – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Susan Faludi will lecture at Georgia State University Nov. 2 about gender, media, popular culture and political life in the contemporary age. Her lecture, titled “Losing Ourselves in the 21st Century,” is part [...]
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Heidegger and a hippo walk through those pearly gates : using philosophy (and jokes!) to explore life, death, the afterlife, and everything in between / Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein. I am the new black / Tracy Morgan ; with Anthony Bozza. The Scarpetta factor / Patricia Cornwell. Look at the birdie : unpublished short fiction / Kurt [...]
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ECAR Study of Undergraduates and Information Technology

The 2009 ECAR Study of Undergraduates and Information Technology is now available.  This year the special section is on ownership and use of internet-capable mobile devices.  The study found that 33% of students own the devices, and use them for internet access, while 18% own them, but do not use the internet function.  Also found [...]
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