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New Browsing Books on Library North 1

By Daryle | Published: November 3, 2009
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

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: October 27, 2009
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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New Browsing Books on Library North 1

By Daryle | Published: October 23, 2009
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 Look at the birdie : unpublished short fiction / Kurt [...]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

By Laura | Published: October 22, 2009
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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APA Style Guide 6th edition “laden with errors”

By Tammy | Published: October 20, 2009
Since the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association was released in July, there have been many comments from librarians, faculty, and students, about rules that have been changed from the 5th edition.  It is no easy task to interpret the 188 style rules contained in the 6th edition. One change that I find confusing is [...]
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“Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access”

By Laura | Published: October 20, 2009
A webcast of interest from Educause on Open Access: In the past decade, the proliferation of Web 2.0 tools for sharing and creating knowledge, coupled with the creation of open-access journals, databases, and archives across the web, has begun to redefine the concept of  “openness” in higher education. Advocates of the open-access campaign argue that [...]
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Learning Commons Theater 4 available

By Sarah | Published: October 19, 2009
In the fourth installment of the Learning Commons Theatre vidcast series, the library undead have returned, and they’re preventing students from reaching the Research Support Desk! Learn how they (and you) can get by them online by using Georgia State University’s Ask a Librarian services.
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New Browsing Books on Library North 1

By Daryle | Published: October 19, 2009
The wild things : a novel / by Dave Eggers. Cheating death : the doctors and medical miracles that are saving lives against all odds / Sanjay Gupta ; with research by Caleb Hellerman. The children’s book : a novel / A.S. Byatt. The casebook of Victor Frankenstein : a novel / Peter Ackroyd. Unseen academicals : a novel [...]
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Darwin’s Impact

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: October 15, 2009
Georgia State University is hosting a lecture series celebrating Charles Darwin’s 200 year anniversary. Sponsored by the GSU Center for Collaborative Scholarship in the Humanities, the lecture series features scholars from various disciplines and institutions. To support this event, the Georgia State University Library has created an online research guide on Darwin. This guide features Darwin [...]
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Constellations: of Comparative Literature and the new Humanities

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: October 14, 2009
The Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University is hosting an interdisciplinary conference this weekend from October 16-18 called Constellations: of Comparative Literature and the new Humanities. The conference features a round table discussion between Geoffrey Bennington, Peggy Kamuf, Thomas Keenan and Gayatri Charkravorty Spivak. The Georgia State University Library has items from all of [...]
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