Categories
- Digital Archive @ Georgia State University (32)
- Digital Collections (40)
- For Faculty (737)
- For Graduate Students (748)
- For Students (740)
- General News (966)
- GSU Centennial (13)
- Instruction (49)
- Publications and Research (245)
- Resources (861)
- Books (378)
- Databases (353)
- Ejournals (127)
- New Resources (151)
- Oral Histories (8)
- Primary Resources (19)
- Services (72)
- Software (68)
- Special Collections & Archives (204)
- Subject Areas (786)
- Accounting (1)
- African American Studies (94)
- Anthropology (55)
- Applied Linguistics and ESL (4)
- Art & Design (46)
- Biology (51)
- Business (62)
- Chemistry (22)
- Communication (58)
- Computer Information Systems (6)
- Computer Science (24)
- Criminal Justice (35)
- Early Childhood Education (8)
- Economics (62)
- Education (122)
- Educational Policy Studies (9)
- Educational Psychology & Special Education (12)
- English (62)
- Film & Video (39)
- Finance (2)
- Geosciences (35)
- Gerontology (17)
- Government Information (32)
- Health & Human Sciences (64)
- Health Administration (16)
- History (200)
- Hospitality (5)
- International Business (4)
- Journalism (7)
- Kinesiology & Health Education (11)
- Management (4)
- Marketing (7)
- Mathematics & Statistics (14)
- Middle & Secondary Education / Instructional Technology (8)
- Middle East Studies (28)
- Modern & Classical Languages (12)
- Music (34)
- Neuroscience (11)
- Nursing (33)
- Nutrition (10)
- Philosophy (30)
- Physical Therapy (6)
- Physics & Astronomy (22)
- Political Science (93)
- Psychology (50)
- Public Health (58)
- Public Management & Policy (43)
- Real Estate (3)
- Religious Studies (43)
- Respiratory Therapy (6)
- Risk Management & Insurance (3)
- Social Work (38)
- Sociology (137)
- Speech (1)
- Theatre (4)
- Women's Studies (87)
- Uncategorized (367)
Archives
-
Share this blog
Access Menu
Disclaimer
Georgia State University Library welcomes your feedback and comments, but we request that they be polite and library-related. Views expressed here are not necessarily the views of Georgia State University.Tag Cloud
African American Studies Announcements Astronomy Atlanta Behavioral Science News Biology Books and Libraries Chemistry Computer Science copyright Counseling & Psychological Services Customer Service Education Educational Policy Studies Educational Psychology & Special Education Education and Psychology News EndNote Georgia Georgia State University Health Health & Science higher education hours Internet Resources journalism Journalism & Speech Language and Literature Learning Technologies Library - Instruction Middle-Secondary Ed & Instr Tech Online Education Online Guides Online Indexes Online Journals open access Photographs Psychology research Research Services Research Studies science Science News Social Software technology zotero
Tag Archives: Language and Literature
MLA Embraces “Green” Open Access

MLA Director of Scholarly Communication Kathleen Fitzpatrick announced that the Modern Language Association is endorsing the open access publishing movement. Her article, “Openness, value, and scholarly societies – The Modern Language Association model,” published in the December issue of College … Continue reading
St. Elmo Murray, Byronic Hero?

Born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835, in Wynnton (now the MidTown area in Columbus), Georgia, Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson (1835-1909) wrote nine highly successful novels, but her St. Elmo was among the most popular works of American fiction … Continue reading
Interview with Dr. Viviana Cortes, Applied Linguistics & ESL Department

Dr. Viviana Cortes is the Faculty Liaison for the Applied Linguistics & ESL Department. Dr. Cortes joined the GSU faculty in the fall of 2008 and right away took on the duties of department ‘librarian’ which involves communicating with their … Continue reading
Happy Belated Birthday Miss Welty!

Happy Belated Birthday Miss Welty! Eudora Welty was born April 13th, 1909, in Jackson, Mississippi. Georgia State Univesity is the home of the Eudora Welty Newsletter, edited by English Department faculty member, Dr. Pearl McHaney and our Special Collections Department … Continue reading
Alice in Wonderland

Are you intrigued by Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland? The GSU Library offers many resources on this classic work. You might start with the Annotated Alice which contains Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass plus original … Continue reading
Posted in Books, English, For Students, General News, Resources
Tagged Children's Literature, Language and Literature, Psychology books
Leave a comment
Coleman Barks Poetry Reading and Book Signing

Coleman Barks, a renowned poet and Rumi translator, will give a poetry reading and sign his books Thursday, January 28th, 7-9 pm in the Troy Moore Library (9th floor General Classroom Building.) He has taught poetry and creative writing at … Continue reading
Posted in For Faculty, For Graduate Students, For Students
Tagged Language and Literature, poetry reading
Leave a comment
Mustn't Grumble
I found a wonderful book yesterday, The Anglo Files LN 5 DA589.4 .L93 2008 by American journalist Sarah Lyall about her experience with British culture and language. She married a man from Great Britain and her take on British culture … Continue reading
Posted in English
Tagged British culture, British English, English, Language and Literature
Leave a comment
Read the book or see the movie?
I was reading an issue of Library Journal today which included an editorial by John Berry confessing that he hates reading and would rather see the movie. This editorial was in the context of an article that dealt with libraries … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Books, Children's Literature, Film & Literature, Language and Literature, movies, reading
Leave a comment
Animals in the Library

A few days ago I wrote about a pigeon who wandered into the library which made me think about animals in libraries. The Lilian Jackson Braun detective books, The Cat Who….. series featuring two siamese cats who help their millionaire journalist human Jim … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Animals, cats, Cats in Literature, Language and Literature
Leave a comment
Did Dickens invent Christmas?

Illustration by John Leech from The Victorian Web A new book in the library’s browsing collection The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol Rescued his Career and Revived our Holiday Spirits, Browsing Collection Sta , … Continue reading

(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)