Elinor's Archive

2009-03-30T11:14:00.001-07:00

Information Literacy for English Instructors (Collaboration Day Workshop)

Information Literacy Process - handout/worksheet for students
Research Tips for Instructors - WorldCat, periodical locator & more
MLA Citation Style Guide - updated, 2008 version
Web Evaluation Guide - worksheet for students
Workshop Menu - select from a variety of IL offerings
Information Literacy mind map - the "big picture," with examples

2008-12-05T13:05:00.000-08:00

Fall eLearning Workshop

Images in the public domain (delicious links) & Flickr (adv. search)

Plagiarism tutorials (delicious links)

Presentation slides (shorter version)

Wikimedia Commons - media files of all kinds

Articles

"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" - Atlantic Monthly

"Brave New World of Digital Intimacy" - NYT

2008-06-17T22:03:00.000-07:00

Summer Reading 2008

Looking for something different to read this summer? Take a look at our current exhibit.You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll be amazed at the range of topics in these modern comics!

2007-10-02T13:57:00.000-07:00

New @ North

Graffiti "art terrorist" Banksy is a rebel, an enigma, and extremely talented to boot (see this New Yorker article). Whatever you think of his guerilla art tactics and politics, I guarantee you will be riveted by Wall and Piece (2005). This book contains photos of his in-your-face yet ephemeral stencils along with a smattering of statements reflecting his art and personal politics: "Any advert in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and reuse. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock that has been thrown at your head."

Find Wall and Piece on the New Books Shelf along with Infidel, On Chesil Beach, and others.

Come on in -- and check them out!

2007-09-03T12:24:00.000-07:00

Summer 2007

Faculty News

Book orders. While I am not coming in over the summer I am checking my email and working on book orders from home. Let me know what you'd like!

LIB150. I'm delighted to be offering this class again Fall Quarter, on Wednesday evenings from 6 - 8 pm. Please let your students know how much they will benefit from learning how to conduct academic research online.

New Books. If you requested material from me last June, chances are it's in. Please let me know if you have any questions. You'll also find enticing titles on the New Books Shelf for your end-of-summer reading delectation.

Hotel Room (1931), Edward Hopper. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

Spring 2007

Faculty News

Thinking ahead to your summer reading plans? (It's never too soon.) Talk to me -- I always have suggestions. Or start your search online, with two wonderful web resources:

Nancy Pearl - by everyone's favorite librarian

Novel World - by Nick DiMartino, another local author and book addict

Got Kids? Take a look at Book Crush by Nancy Pearl, new on the reference shelves. Open this engaging book to find good summer reading titles for your children and teens -- or just look through it and remember old book friends!

Have a wonderful summer,

Elinor

New @ North

Born on a Blue Day - fascinating memoir by British autistic savant Daniel Tammet
Digging to America - Ann Tyler's most recent novel
House of Rain - a new look at the Anasazi people by "naturalist, adventurer, desert ecologist" Craig Childs
Infidel - controversial writer and political figure Ayaan Hirsi Ali's life story and criticism of Islam
Three Cups of Tea - "one man's mission to promote peace, one school at a time"
The Witch's Boy - this fairy tale, by local author Michael Gruber, is a page turner

These, and more, are on the New Books shelf. Come on in -- and check them out!

In Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, author Felipe Fernandez-Armesto reminds us that globalization has been occurring for centuries, driven by varying mixtures of curiousity, greed, religious zeal and technology. Though scholarly, this book is no academic slog through nautical history. It contains countless rich details, among them: the reports of 8th-century Irish monks, who sailed north where, "around the summer solstice, nights were so bright that 'whatever task a man wishes to perform, even to picking lice out of his shirt, he can manage it precisely as if in broad daylight.'" Call number: G80.F37 2006b

Half of a Yellow Sun, by More reviews (from Adichie's website).award-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie takes place during the short-lived African republic of Biafra. Biafra's rise and fall was was brought about by a tragic combination of idealism, hypocrisy, brutality, and greed. In his New York Times book review, Bob Nixon wrote, "At once historical and eerily current, 'Half of a Yellow Sun' honors the memory of a war largely forgotten outside Nigeria, except as a synonym for famine. But although she uses history to gain leverage on the present, Adichie is a storyteller, not a crusader." This is a story worth reading. More reviews (from Adichie's website). Call number: PR9387.9.A34354H35 2006