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Category Archives: General News
“Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access”
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
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.
New Browsing Books on Library North 1
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
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
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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Professor Lynne Huffer – Lecture and Book Reception
Emory Professor Lynne Huffer is extending an invitation to a lecture and reception to launch her new book, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory (Columbia University Press). The book launch is being held in connection with her Life of the Mind lecture, “Why Is Sexuality a Moral Experience?” The [...]
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Religious Studies Discussion in Atlanta
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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Exhibit – The Investiture of President Mark P. Becker
Come witness history in the making at Georgia State University!
The Georgia State University Library is celebrating the Investiture of President Mark P. Becker with an exhibit on Library North’s first floor. The case behind our broadcast screen will display recognitions of the event from institutions around the nation. Our exhibit case next to Saxbys entrance [...]
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Collegiate Readership Program
The New York Times and USA Today newspapers are available free of charge for students for the next two weeks. The newspapers are located in near the elevators on the 1st floor of Library North.
Happy Reading!
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APA Style Guide 6th edition “laden with errors”