Fall 2009 Reserve Items

New items have just been added to the Library’s reserve holdings.

Click here to search the current reserve list

Searching Tip: ‘Emmanuel’ will appear in front of the instructor’s name, department, and course.

Word of the Week

Ad Hominem
as in:“But they are apparently not interested in the law or the justice’s work on the Court, only (and sadly, still) in ad hominem politics.”

Walker, H. (2007, October 11). Why are the media so angry at Clarence Thomas? The Boston Globe, p. A11.

Explore definitions at the library’s E-Ready Reference Resources site using the Dictionaries listed: http://www1.emmanuel.edu/library/subsplus/subjects/display_eref.php?subject=ER_ereference#58

Posted by the Reference Department

Thinking Outside of the Box

Visit the Cornell University Library Witchcraft Collection.

This online collection provides sources on the history of superstition and witchcraft persecution in Europe.

Evaluating web sites

Do you need help evaluating a web site?

Click here for the Library’s “How do I … ?” guide on evaluating web sites!

ALA’s Digital Library of the Week

Looking for some Halloween excitement? Check out a spooky website we just found. The Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection has been featured by the American Library Association, you can check it out here:

http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/poedc/

Enjoy!

Thinking Outside of the Box

Don’t miss the Boston Book Festival on Saturday October 24, 2009.

http://bostonbookfest.org/

Book Display for the Nobel Prize Winners 2009

Nobel Prize Winners 2009

Visit our book display in the Library Reading Room!

Thinking Outside of the Box

Discover Cool + Collected:  Treasures of the BPL

This free exhibit showcases several pieces from the Boston Public Library’s special collections.

New economics e-books

In honor of Elinor Ostrom being the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Economics, we would like to highlight a few economics e-books available through Credo Reference.

A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists

Collins Dictionary of Economics

An Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics

An Encyclopedia of Macroeconomics

Thinking Outside of the Box

On October 1, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro launched the Digital Library on American Slavery.

Search data on race and slavery extracted from 18th and 19th century documents at:  http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/about.aspx