Sylvester Monroe Class of 1969

In the May 2008 issue of Ebony magazine, Class of 1969 St. George's alum, Sylvester Monroe has written an article entitled, "Afraid to Hope," which details why African Americans are heistant to get too emotionally invested in the 2008 Presidential campaign. Stop by the library to read the article or use ProQuest Direct to see the article full text.

Alumni Authors Exhibt at the Library

It's Alumni Weekend at St. George's School and the library has created a little exhibit from our Alumni Authors Collection. Stop by the library and check it out!

New Library Databaes Available

The Databases section of the library web site has recently been updated. We have added several New databases that can be accessed at: http://dragon/library/Menu_Pages/Databases.htm

• Business Source Premier


• Biography Resource Center


• Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia


• Health Source Consumer Edition


• Health Source Nursing Academic Edition


• MasterFile Premier - General Reference Database


• Naxos Music Library


• Regional Business News


• Topic Search - Current Events Database


• World Book Online Reference Center

New Non-Fiction of the Week

Faithful to Fenway. Michael Ian Borer. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

Boston's Fenway Park has become as valued as any star player in those cities and as much an attraction as the teams themselves. Borer, a sociologist and lifelong New Englander, explores the history of Fenway and its place in Bostons culture through research and interviews with players, stadium personnel, fans, and team owners... He explains Fenway's place in the culture as an example of identity continuity. Fenway is an emotional anchor for fans in the sense that it encompasses a part of an individuals past and present. Source: Booklist

New Fiction of the Week

Lemonade Mouth
by Mark Peter Hughes. New York: Delacorte Press, 2007.

From the book jacket:

The members of the legendary band Lemonade Mouth have been called all of these things. But until now, nobody's known the inside story of how this powerhouse band came to be. How five outcasts in Opoquonsett High School's freshman class found each other, found the music, and went on to change both rock and roll and high school as we know it. Wen, Stella, Charlie, Olivia, and Mo take us back to that fateful detention where a dentist's jingle, a teacher's coughing fit, and a beat-up ukelele gave birth to Rhode Island's most influential band. Told in each of their five voices and compiled by Opoquonsett's "scene queen," freshman Naomi Fishmeier, this anthology is their definitive history.

Faetured Website: Children's Hospital Boston Research

Complex medical and biological concepts are featured on the Research section of the Boston Children's Hospital Boston website. Visitors to the website can watch interviews of researchers discuss topics such as dyslexia, stem cell research, and angiogenesis. In addition, the website includes interactive videos that allows users to create neurons and heart cells from embryonic stem cells and learn how cancer grows. All of these features can be found at: http://www.childrenshospital.org/research/

Featured Website: Japan Society

Japan Society

http://www.japasociety.com/

The Japan Society is an internationally recognized nonprofit, nonpolitical organization that provides access to information on Japan, offers opportunities to experience Japanese culture, and fosters sustained and open dialogue on issues important to the U.S., Japan, and East Asia.

The website features a Topics section that includes information on Theater, Social Issues, Business, Dance, Art, Cinmea and Popular Culture. In addition the website contains information about Programs for Teachers and Students and has image galleries that may be useful for classroom use. The most relevant feature for classroom teaching and learning is the section titled, About Japan: A Teacher's Resource (http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/). The site provides "...educators and specialists in Japan Studies a space for sharing, discussing and developing teaching ideas and resources about Japan." Resouces include essays, lesson plans, and historical documents organized around a theme.

The link to the Japan Society is also available from the Library homepage in the History section under the Asia tab.

New Fiction and Non-Fiction in the Library

The library has received New books that are on display near the entrance of the library - comy by and have a look at them!

New Fiction

New Non-Fiction

Database Updates

The JSTOR database interface has recently been updated. You can now create a "My JSTOR Account" and save citations, email citations, and export citations to bibliographic software. Once you create a "My JSTOR Account," you can keep your username and password and use it beyond St. George's. If you have any questions email a librarian for help.

Use the "Snapshot Tool " feature in ProQuest Historical Newspapers to print a section of a lengthy newspaper article. You can use the tool to highlight a section of the article, select it and then print it.

Global Issues Week - Events In the Library

This week is Global Issues Week at St. George's and the library is hosting a series of events. On Tuesday evening, April 15th following the IncaSon performance, the library will host a Kids Read Event. St. George's students who are native speakers of Chinese, Spanish, French, and Latin will read a children's story to the kids and then a St. George's student who is learning the language will translate for the audience. We will be having pizza and drinks so stop by and listen. The event should last a half hour or so.

"Seen from Abroad: How America can win friends and influence people in the 21st Century." On Thursday, April 17 at 6:30PM, the Library will host a panel discussion. Five international officers from the Naval War College representing the countries of Pakistan, Sweden, Norway, Senegal and Spain will share reflections on America and offer their thoughts about how America can keep or regain a position of influence during the coming century. Questions from the audience will be welcomed and refreshments will be served.

See you at the library!!

April is National Poetry Month

Stop by the library and find yourself some POETRY to read. We have lots of choices!

Library of Congress and Flickr

The Library of Congress has posted over 3000 photos up on Flickr in an effort to "..afford better access ot the vast trove of historical photographs and invite user feedback." Photos include images from the Depression era and World War II. None of the photographs have any known copyright restrictions. The staff at the Library of Congress are hoping people will add caption information to photos and add information to the documentary record.

Go to: http://www.flickr.com/commons/

Pictures of Books Included in Card Catalog

New Feature! The Ocean State Libraries catalog now has pictures of the materials indexed. When you do a search the result list will show an image of the materials. Go to: http://catalog.oslri.net/

New Non-Fiction of the Week

New Non-Fiction of the Week:

Ezra Pound: The Young Genius, 1885-1920 by A. David Moody. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

In this first volume of a definitive new biography of the poet, Moody charts the huge strides Pound took during his first 35 years toward the realization of his ambitious goal. Readers follow the astonishingly confident-even brash-young Idaho native as he wins his place in a London rich in tradition yet pregnant with revolutionary new literary movements.And no writer has ever ransacked the past-from Dante to Li Po-with fiercer energy in his quest to forge a modern prosody that will make everything astonishingly new. Pound's restless imagination also draws inspiration from contemporaries such as Yeats and Ford and resonates with the ideas propounded by Imagists and Vorticists. Determined to cut his own way, Pound champions the early work of Eliot, Frost, and Joyce, but he never relents in his own pursuit of poetic fame. Moody indeed concludes this volume with Pound's publication of Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, a luminous poem assuring an astonishing world that a gifted artist has found his way onto the world stage.With The Pisan Cantos still ahead, readers will wait impatiently for Moody's second volume. Source: Booklist (December 2007)

NBC News and the Presidential Campaign

Source: Classroom News, March 2008
NBC News is making its top political reporters and experts
available to answer questions about the 2008 presidential
election from the nation’s students and teachers. “Ask
NBC News” is an exclusive feature of NBC News Archives
on Demand, a compilation of thousands of primarysource
video resources created specifically for classroom
instruction. The Archives on Demand are available on
HotChalk, a free web-based learning management system
for K-12 teachers and their students. Students and
teachers can submit questions about the presidential campaign
via eMail to asknbcnews@nbcuni.com.

In addition to Ask NBC News, the NBC
News Archives on Demand features a “Decision ’08” curricular
resource offering up-to-the-minute presidential
election news. Features include full profiles on the candidates,
information about their positions on major issues,
video clips of speeches and debates, campaign trail news,
historical footage from past presidential campaigns, and
political analysis from the award-winning NBC News
team. The video-on-demand user interface allows teachers
to customize their lesson plans with relevant content
to bring the election process and political issues to life in
their classrooms, NBC News said.

Go to: http://www.hotchalk.com

One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure

Swing by the library to check out our newly stocked Discards Shelf (over by the computers at the Circulation Desk). We have a range of book titles from Theft and Mortgage: What "They" Don't Want You to Know to dated Cambridge Encyclopedias of China, India and Russia. There are also back issues of magazines such as W, CosmoGirl, Marie Claire (in French), and The New Republic.

All items on the discard shelf are up for grabs. We will leave them on the shelf for 2 weeks before sending them on to be recycled. Come by to see what we have!

Upcoming Spring Exhibits

Spring semester has begun! We have many exciting exhibits coming up in the library. The GSA is sponsoring an exhibit in the early part of April and in the later part of the month, the library will have a number of items on display to celebrate St. George's Day on April 23rd.

New Fiction of the Week

Like Trees, Walking A Novel
By: Ravi Howard


The town of Mobile, Alabama, in the summer of 1981, when headlines were dominated by the Atlanta child killings, awakens to find a black youth hanging from a neighborhood tree. Sixteen-year-old Roy Deacon, son of the local black funeral director, offers the first-person narrative of his brother Paul's discovery of the body of a friend and classmate, and the town's struggle to reconcile the lynching with any notions that its black residents have of racial progress. Paul has managed to escape the expectations that he will go into the family business, seven generations long. The burden falls all the heavier on Roy, whose distaste doesn't outweigh his strong sense of duty. Looking back 22 years after the event, Roy wrestles with the memory of the lynching at a turning point in the life of the town and his family. Based on the true story of one of the last recorded lynchings in the U.S., Howard's debut novel offers a subtle and stirring look at the complexities of racial hatred and family obligations. Sounce: Booklist

Interlibrary Loan Requests for Spring Research Projects

If you need books for your research project from the Ocean State Library System, please don't order them before you leave for break. If you order them NOW, then the books will have to be returned when we get back. Please email me the book you would like to request and we will place a HOLD on the book for you the last week of break so when you return, the books will be here for you to use. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me Jen_Tuleja@stgeorges.edu

Read Read Read

Read Books Over Break!!!

Come by the library and check out books to read over break!!!

New Non-Ficiton of the Week

The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg

From Publisher's Weekly:
According to Ashenburg (The Mourner's Dance), the Western notion of cleanliness is a complex cultural creation that is constantly evolving, from Homer's well-washed Odysseus, who bathes before and after each of his colorful journeys, to Shaw's Eliza Doolittle, who screams in terror during her first hot bath. The ancient Romans considered cleanliness a social virtue, and Jews practiced ritual purity laws involving immersion in water. Abandoning Jewish practice, early Christians viewed bathing as a form of hedonism; they embraced saints like Godric, who, to mortify the flesh, walked from England to Jerusalem without washing or changing his clothes. Yet the Crusaders imported communal Turkish baths to medieval Europe. From the 14th to 18th centuries, kings and peasants shunned water because they thought it spread bubonic plague, and Louis XIV cleaned up by donning a fresh linen shirt. Americans, writes Ashenburg, were as filthy as their European cousins before the Civil War, but the Union's success in controlling disease through hygiene convinced its citizens that cleanliness was progressive and patriotic. Brimming with lively anecdotes, this well-researched, smartly paced and endearing history of Western cleanliness holds a welcome mirror up to our intimate selves, revealing deep-seated desires and fears spanning 2000-plus years.

New Fiction of the Week

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Excerpted from the Book Jacket:

In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock the book’s mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book’s journey from its salvation back to its creation. In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city’s rising anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason for the Haggadah’s extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna’s investigation unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come to love. Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.

New DVDs in the Library

New Entertainment DVDs Are Available in the Library!

We would like to hear from you about what movies you would like to see added to our DVD Colletion. Please email us at: library@stgoerges.edu

Our newest titles include:

Roman Holiday

Ground Hog Day

Shrek

Rush Hour

Indiana Jones Trilogy

The Incredibles

A Fish Called Wanda

Reference E-Books at Nathaniel P. Hill Library

Did you know the library has reference books full text and searchable online? E-book reference materials are on the rise in libraries and are slowly replacing the traditional print reference sources. E-Books are available 24/7, have keyword search capability, browsing options, and contain links at multiple levels within the source. Vendors like Gale Publishing offer several E-Book titles that can be search simultaneously or indepedently.

At the Nathaniel P. Hill Library, we have several E-Book reference titles from Gale Virtual Reference Library. All of the titles below are available at http://dragon/library/

Alternative Energy

Chemistry: Foundations and Applications

Dictionary of American History

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia

Encyclopedia of Religion

Macmillian Encyclopeida of Energy

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations

New Non-Fiction of the Week

I To Myself

Edited by: Jeffrey S. Cramer, Yale University Press, 2007.

From the book jacket:

Making selections from the entirety of the journal Henry David Thoreau, Cramer presents all aspects of Thoreau: writer, thinker, naturalist, social reformer, neighbor, friend. No other single-volume edition offers such a full picture of Thoreau’s life and work. Cramer’s annotations add to the reader’s enjoyment and understanding. He provides notes on the biographical, historical, and geographical contexts of Thoreau’s life. The relation between Journal passages and the texts of works published in the author’s lifetime receive special emphasis. Cramer is also the editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition, published by Yale University Press.

Jennifer Lawless Speaking at SG Friday 2/22

Jennifer Lawless, author of It Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office, will be addressing the SG community Friday, February 22, 2008. Lawless is a professor of political science and public policy at Brown University.

Her book It Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office "constitutes a systematic, nationwide empirical account of the effects of gender on political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Study, a national survey of 3,800 "potential candidates" conducted by the authors, it relates these findings: --Women, even at the highest levels of professional accomplishment, are significantly less likely than men to demonstrate ambition to run for elective office. --Women are less likely than men to be recruited to run for office. --Women are less likely than men to consider themselves "qualified" to run for office. --Women are less likely than men to express a willingness to run for a future office. According to the authors, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations, despite contemporary society's changing attitudes towards female candidates. While other treatments of gender in the electoral process focus on candidates and office holders, It Takes a Candidate makes a unique contribution to political studies by focusing on the earlier stages of the candidate emergence process and on how gender affects the decision to seek elective office." (synopsis from Amazon.com).

Come to the library and check out our copy of It Takes A Candidate today!

How To Hand-Outs

It's Research Paper Time!!!!


If you are attempting to select a research topic, struggling to narrow your topic or create a thesis statement and are in need of help formating citations, then you should check out our NEW How To Hand-Outs.

How To Hand-Outs:

Selecting a Research Topic and Developing a Thesis Statement/Question

Evaluating Web Sites

Citations: Bibliography and Footnotes (Chicago)

RISD Grad Wins Caldecott Medal

From the Providence Journal- Sunday, February 17, 2008

Brian Selznic wins Caldecott Medal for The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Synopsis: ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message all come together...in The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

This 526-page book is told in both words and pictures. The Invention of Hugo Cabret is not exactly a novel, and it’s not quite a picture book, and it’s not really a graphic novel, or a flip book, or a movie, but a combination of all these things. Each picture (there are nearly three hundred pages of pictures!) takes up an entire double page spread, and the story moves forward because you turn the pages to see the next moment unfold in front of you. From theinventionofhugocabret.com

Come by the library and check it out!

New Fiction Book of the Week

The New Fiction Book of the Week is:


The Clique #9: Bratfest At Tiffany's
by Lisi Harrison


From the Publisher:
The Clique tells the story of an elite group of thirteen-year-old girls from the wealthy suburbs north of New York City, the likes of whom the world has never before seen. Through the coolly observant eyes of their leader, Massie Block, we enter a sophisticated suburban world of ferocious put- downs, fabulous gossip, and fantastic Frederic Fekkai haircuts. The Clique. . . . The only thing harder than getting in is staying in.