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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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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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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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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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Reed Fellowship is now the Reed Fink Award in Southern Labor History

The Merl E. Reed Fellowship in Southern Labor History is now the Reed Fink Award in Southern Labor History. Professors Merl E. Reed and Gary Fink were instrumental in the establishment, development, and use of the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University from the early 1970s. Today, the Southern Labor Archives has over 500 collections used [...]
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Learn how to….

fulfill your information needs via these podcasts and tutorials and more!
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2009 Merl E. Reed Fellowship in Southern Labor History – Award Winners

2009 Merl E. Reed Fellowship in Southern Labor History – Award Winners  Three recipients were recently selected to receive the Merl E. Reed Fellowship in Southern Labor History:   ·         Matthew Dimick, graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His research topic is “Labor Law and Union Democracy: A British-U.S. [...]
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Miranda Rhynes – Student Employee of the Year

April 15, 2009 marked the First Annual Student Employee of the Year Award. The library’s own, Miranda Rhynes was the campus winner out of 26 nominations. Miranda has been with IS&T Department for almost 4 years in various student positions and now supervises the technical student assistants in the University Library and other computer labs [...]
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Audiobooks guide

Going out of town after classes finish?  Need something to listen to on the long flight or drive? We’ve just posted a guide to finding audiobooks for free, both in the library (we have a small collection on CD) and online.  Before you shell out to Amazon or Audible for listening material, take a look! Audiobooks Guide
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“Text Me” Service

Western Illinois University Libraries is offering its new “Text Me” service, through which students can text reference call numbers to their mobile phones. Would you like to see this here?
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