New titles

Hello everyone,

Here's an update of new materials recently added to the catalog.

Jesus Camp
Palgrave Advances in Intellectual History
Cities of God and Nationalism
Historical Knowledge, Historical Error
Friends of Foes?
Frontiers of History
Panorama of the Enlightenment
Surviving the Street
Hadassah and the Zionist Project
Girls at War and Other Stories
Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature before Heterosexuality
The Storyteller
Slumming in New York
The Female Complaint
Nature's Engraver
Freedom's Empire
Savages
Nowhere in Africa
The Story is True
A People's History of the Supreme Court
Inhuman Bondage
Peace Be Upon You
The Changing Face of Antisemitism
Women in the Middle East
Hell in the Holy Land
Being Maasai
Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila
Young Soldiers
Sierra Leone
Unreliable Sources
Sudan
Out of Bounds
Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa
Children of Heaven
In the Land of Plenty
The Spice Route
Liberia, the Promised Land
From Congo to Zaire
Marcel Proust, a Writer's Life
Indian Revolt
Law, Key Concepts in Philosophy
Challenging Liberalism
The Slum
The Panama Hat Trail
God's War
Campfire
The Greatest Silence
Missing
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Sahara
Wyatt Earp

more new titles

Hello,

here are a few more new titles at our library.

The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson, 2001
Violence against women
Dressing in feathers: the construction of the Indian in American popular culture
New Media and the New Middle East
The bomb: a life
Why am I afraid to tell you who Iam?
Our Mother's War: American women at home and at the front during world war 2.
Zebulon Pike: The life and times of an adventurer.
Becoming O'Keeffe: the early years
Historical Dictionary of Somalia.

Lara

New books and films

Hello All,

Here is a list of new titles now avaliable at the library.

El Libertador: Writings of Simon Bolivar
Politics of Latin America: The Power Game
American Technological Sublime
From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western
Story Building: Narrative Techniques for news and feature.
Critical Cyberculture Studies
Science On Stage: From DR. Faustus to Copenhagen
Woody Allen: an essay on the nature of the comical
Gore Vidal: a comprehensive bibliography
On the Road
Ending the war on drugs: a solution for America
Diaspora Criticism
Bodies in dissent:spectacular performances of race and freedom
OurSpace: resisting the corporate control of culture
Same time, same station: creatine American television
Leni Riefenstahl: a life
Worldview, the orichas, and Santeria: Africa to Cuba and beyond
"Evil" Arabs in American popular film: orientalist fear
Berlin in the balance 1945-1949: the blockade, the airlift, the first major battle of the cold war.
The fate of the corps: what became of the Lewis and Clark explorers after the expedition.
Che Guevara: a revolutionary life
Neither saints nor sinners: writing the lives of women in Spanish America
Henry Adams and the making of America
Ancient America
Readings in African Politics
Hidden histories of gender and the state in Latin America
The Jews of the United States, 1654-2000
Religious art: from the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Public cowboy no.1: the life and times of Gene Autry
When the Press fails: political power and the news media from Iraq to Katrina
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How big oil bought the Harding White House and tried to steal the country
American carnival: journalism under siege in an age of new media
Enola Gay and the court of history
Plays by American women, 1900-1930
Lights, camera, history: portraying the past in film
Women of the Northern Plains: gender and settlement on the homestead frontier, 1870-1930
Western lives:a biographical history of the American west
Huck's raft: a history of American childhood

New Films

Schindler's list
The Godfather Parts 1&2
Wizard of Oz
It's a wonderful life
Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars Episode 2 Attack of the clones
Raging bull

Trial database: Images of the Civil War

We currently have a one-month free trial of a database from Alexander Street Press which can be accessed at http://cpho.alexanderstreet.com/.

A short description from the publisher:
This beta release includes nearly 1,400 images and is searchable by place, date, battle/campaign/event, photographer, setting and more. Additionally, short contextual descriptions about these images are included.

If you have an comments about this trial or the database, please e-mail me at jnelson@western.edu or add your comments to this blog post.

Summer Hours...

From Nancy:
Through Saturday, August 23, 2008, library hours will be:

Monday through Thursday: 7:30 am – 8:00 pm
Friday: 7:30 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday: 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm

The following are exceptions:

Tuesday, May 20 through Thursday, May 22: closed at 5pm due to the planned campus-wide power outage
(Library databases will be available to Western students, faculty, and staff from off campus.)

Sunday, May 25: Closed
Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day holiday): 1:00pm – 8:00pm

Friday, July 4 (holiday): Closed

Congratulations Nancy!

From John Sowell:

Campus community,

I am pleased to announce that Nancy Gauss has been hired is the new director of library services. Nancy joined the library staff in 1992 and has assumed varied responsibilities through the years. She has served as interim director of library services since August 2007.

We look forward to working with Nancy as the library continues to enhance services and incorporate technologies to meet the ever-changing information and learning needs of students, faculty, staff, and the community.

I'd like to express my great appreciation to members of the search committee and all others who provided input on the finalists. Your efforts have resulted in the hiring of a student- and service-centered leader of library services who works hard to enhance the overall Western experience.

John Sowell

Vice President for Academic Affairs

Library West Wing Open....

From Nancy's e-mail to campus:

Good news! The West Wing of the library (the old library building) is open for business at 7pm this evening! We will maintain our regular hours of operation. Therefore, the West Wing will be open until midnight tonight. Enter the building through the red doors on the south side.

For the students, being restricted to the West Wing may be a retro-library experience. We have 5 workstations (thin clients) for students to use and a large, beautiful reading room for studying. The building does have wireless networking.

The structural engineer has authorized library staff to occupy our offices. Therefore, we can be reached at our regular office numbers.

The engineer has also authorized us to provide access to the 1^st floor of the library including the Writing Center, Government Documents, and instructional lab. At present, Facilities Services is working hard to secure the building so that access can expand beyond the West Wing but is still restricted to the 1^st floor.

The following addresses some of our services and how they will operate during this transition.

Reserves, Interlibrary Loans, and Books on Hold
These materials will be relocated to the West Wing to be picked up there.

Book Drop
The book drop by the main entrance is closed. Please return materials to the West Wing during our regular hours. We will set up a box inside the red doors for library returns

Scantron Reader
The Grade Master (scantron reader) has been relocated to the West Wing.

Our Book Collection
Library staff will have access to the DVD, CD, and video collection, because it is located in a more protected area. But, the book collection, located on the top floor, will be off limits until further notice. We apologize for the inconvenience. You can, however, request materials from other libraries and have them sent here even if they are materials that we own. Many of our colleagues at other libraries have offered to provide assistance. If you have a need that another library can help with, we will work out an arrangement.

If you have any questions, please ask, and let us know how we can help you and your students.

Thanks again to everyone who has made it possible for us to get back to doing what we like best --- helping you and the students.

Regards,

Nancy Gauss

Interim Director of Library Services

Leslie J. Savage Library

Western State College of Colorado

Gunnison, CO 81231

(970) 943-2278 (voice)

(970) 943-2042 (fax)