Word of the Week – Augury

as in: “The document was naive, pretentious, and patronizing, though an augury nonetheless of the more sophisticated and ideological statements of the self-conscious, activist student movement of later years.”
Marcus, H. G. (1999). 1960, the year the sky began falling on Haile Sellassie. Northeast African Studies, 6, 12. doi: 10.1353/nas.2003.0004

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Spring 2010 Reserve Items

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

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

Sr. Peggy Cummins’ lecture

As one of the College’s Founder’s Week events, Sr. Peggy Cummins, SND gave a thought-provoking lecture about human trafficking. If you are interested in learning more about this topic, the Library has several resources for you use. Here is a small selection:

Disposable People : New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales

Ending Slavery : How We Free Today’s Slaves by Kevin Bales

Understanding Global Slavery : A Reader by Kevin Bales

Please ask a librarian for help finding other relevant resources.

Word of the Week

De novo

As in: “For Balanchine, art was not something created de novo.”

Croce, Arlene. “Balanchine Said.” The New Yorker 26 Jan. 2009: 38. Print.

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- Consult the “Full text finder” link on the library’s homepage to learn which databases include full-text of The New Yorker.
- For more about choreographer George Balanchine see the New York City Ballet website
http://www.nycballet.com/company/history/balanchine.html

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Proquest unavailable 1/30,10PM-1/31,10AM

Proquest will be unavailable for 12 hours for maintenance, from 1/30, 10PM-1/31, 10AM.

Celebrate Founders’ Week at Emmanuel College

 

January 31st through February 5th

For more information about Founders’ Week, visit the the Emmanuel College Calendar of Events.

Ebrary will be unavailable 2/6/2010, 1-3 PM

Ebrary will be unavailable 2/6/2010, 1-3 p. m.

Word of the Week

 
Conspectus

as in: “Ole Benedictow, Professor of History at the University of Oslo, provides in this book an essential conspectus of many aspects of current debates about the Black Death, its causes and effects.”

James, Tom Beaumont. “Black Death.” JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association 295. 6 (2006): 698. Print. [Review of The Black Death 1346 – 1353: The Complete History.]

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For information about the Black Death in Italy, see the Brown University web page titled Plague: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/

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Ebrary will be performing maintenance 1/21/2010, 8PM-2AM EST.

Ebrary will be performing maintenance, affecting access, 1/21/2010, 8PM-2AM EST.

Science Direct down 1/23/2010 (Sat.) 8AM-8PM

Due to scheduled maintenance, the Science Direct database will be unavailable on Saturday, 1/23/2010, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.