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!