tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28708705122721577492012-02-01T23:30:42.813-05:00Sean Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06791318377558946080noreply@blogger.comBlogger1381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-55512667620263470722012-01-29T20:02:00.004-05:002012-01-29T20:16:39.328-05:00

It's time for the FOR for the week of January 30th.This week's Featured Online Resource is the blog 21st Century Information Fluency. Curated by Dennis T. O'Connor, an ISTE standars consultant, among other things, the blog is formatted as a news digest, pulling together relevant articles from the web, all dealing with some facet of information fluency, the place where information literacy,

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and other ways to maximize your use of Wikipedia, some of them quite cool. From mashable.com

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A lot of people are annoyed by some of the features implemented by facebook a few months ago, such as the news ticker and the strip of friends on the right, with one or two of them available for chat. This slideshow from mashable.com shows you slick tricks for reversing some of these. While at mashable, you may wish to check out the latest news on facebook timeline, also with ways to lessen the

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Theresa Mastrodonatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03574470555326887201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-11351252111014139012012-01-18T09:14:00.003-05:002012-01-19T11:50:41.477-05:00

Wikipedia is one of the high profile web sites that affected a blackout starting midnight last night as a way of protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). This NYT story explores ways around the blackout. Meanwhile, HuffPo rounds up some highly-censored student tweets reacting to the lack of access.And The Washington Post gives a survival guide. It of course refers to libraries, "where you

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-23430297831580407642012-01-06T22:54:00.003-05:002012-01-06T22:59:55.858-05:00

Craig Popelars, marketing director of Algonquin Books, is the author of this fantastic blog post in which he re-purposes R.E.M. songs as future books. A must!

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This week's Featured Online Resource is just what we love around here--a list list. Largeheartedboy.com has posted a list of a couple hundred online lists of "best" books of 2011. Included are EarlyWord's "books for kids you don't know very well", Film Vs. Books "best books", FutureBooks' "best book apps", and Library Journal's "best acknowledgments." This, to me, is the best list of Best

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The Ort Library launched its brand new library website today at http://www.frostburg.edu/lewis-ort-library/! Check it out! It has some new features like a tutorials page where you can view short instructional videos for many online library tools for in-depth research and distance education. This is the library's first major website redesign since 2004 and all the links have changed, so please

Sean Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06791318377558946080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-33048331381930438962011-12-16T01:39:00.002-05:002011-12-16T01:41:39.617-05:00

Merriam-Webster online has released its list of 10 most-searched words for 2011. It's a fanciful thing to do, something to be appreciated by people with full bellies and plenty of free time, quite the opposite of the definition of the word topping the list: pragmatic.

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Mashable.com posted an enlightening and surprising story and series of infographics on the modest but growing number of people who have landed jobs via social networking sites. See if you can pry yourself away from facebook long enough to read it.

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Theresa Mastrodonatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03574470555326887201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-50765984180084923222011-11-14T12:14:00.002-05:002011-11-14T12:17:22.959-05:00

Take a look at the web page of the Occupy Wall Street Library.

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Here's a New York Times piece on Google X, a lab at which Google attempts to make its long-range plans involving robots, space elevators, and much more.

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The Featured Online Resource for the week of Nov. 14 is The Avalon Project, documents in law, history, and diplomacy.The project comes to us from the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale. HTML-format digitized documents include post 9/11 laws and speeches, as well as the 9/11 commission report. But the scope of the project takes it back through the centuries, and it is arranged by headings

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Theresa Mastrodonatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03574470555326887201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-43195267221433944472011-10-28T14:55:00.003-04:002011-10-28T15:19:11.681-04:00

Featured Online Resource for the week of Oct. 31 is culturalpolitics.net.A multi-disciplinary metasite with links to sites and articles on theory in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The site is run by TV Reed, Professor of American Studies and English at Washington St. University.CP.net is divied up into main headings: Popular Culture, Digital Cultures, Social Movements & Culture,

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Theresa Mastrodonatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03574470555326887201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-29642079040716306192011-10-16T18:44:00.006-04:002011-10-16T19:06:23.806-04:00

This week's Featured Online Resource is Toondoo.com, a great tool for educators and more. Take your announcements, instructions, explanations and more and represent them visually in the form of cartoons. Toondoo provides you with cartoon panels, a selection of characters, settings, props, etc., and you do the rest. You can put your resulting work out there with facebook or twitter, and can of

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Theresa Mastrodonatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03574470555326887201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-90791370296350980452011-10-07T11:03:00.003-04:002011-10-07T11:07:27.563-04:00

Barry Eisler decided not to sign the half-million dollar contract offer from St. Martin's Press for his novel Detachment, but instead to publish it first as an e-book via Amazon. Here's the story from npr.org--it aired on Morning Edition today.

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-18666987039197198872011-10-06T09:11:00.003-04:002011-10-06T09:17:38.745-04:00

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded this morning to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer. The Guardian UK wins the prize for best lead paragraph on the topic:"The Swedish Academy has responded to accusations of insularity over recent years by awarding the 2011 Nobel prize for literature to one of their own: the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer."Here's an analysis of Transtromer's work by poet

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Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, died today at age 56, after waging a battle with cancer.New York TimesSteve Jobs' Commencement Address, Stanford: How to Live Before You Die (video)Wired.com

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This week's Featured Online Resource is Northwestern University Library's List of Foreign Governments. It's hard to think of a country not included, and this menu of non U.S. government websites is a wrapped-up, ribboned gift for anyone in need of economic, political, or demographic information on an international scale. Click on the alphabetical ranges along the top of the page to get

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Sometimes you're not here to ask us for help. Our webpage features many tools to help you wherever you are. In addition to our guides to various topics and FSU programs, we are nowin the process of rolling out several course-specific research guides.International Business 330English 101--MaehreMCOM 105MCOM 346Surf's up!

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-48425770715710727632011-09-14T17:59:00.003-04:002011-09-14T18:15:45.262-04:00

Compute high up overlooking the Lane Center in our three new group computing rooms on the fifth floor. These rooms are equipped with new PCs with big, widescreen monitors for your group PowerPoint or other presentation. Grab a key from the Circulation Desk (3rd floor), and with a total of three or more people, take advantage.We also have three fifth floor cubicles for group computing, overlooking

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Welcome to the new semester! We have a lot of people in the building already--great!Be sure to familiarize yourself with our updatedCode of Conduct. See the signs in the building--grab a bookmark at the circ desk or reference desk!

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Welcome back! Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com. As you can see things are about to get very bustling here at the library. New this semester: 1. 3 new group computer rooms on 5th Floor. 2. 3 group computer carrels on 5th Floor, overlooking the baseball diamond. 3. A great new database, S&P Net Advantage, for business research. Be sure to check out The new titles display in the 3rd

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As an instruction librarian, I try to get students thinking of the character-growth issues inherent in research. I've done it by way of video, and I've adopted the moniker junderground to try it by way of comic strip: By junderground | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

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Mashable.com reports that the august institution The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is focusing on Millenial cyberspeak for this year's update, adding the words "retweet" "sexting" "cyberbullying" and "woot." Thus, when I write the sentence "Last week I figured I'd break my retweeting addiction by taking up sexting, but I found that this, too, took up too much time I could've been using on my

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Having failed on three previous occasions, Google is trying again to enter the social networking fracas with Google+, a new social networking site in "invite only" phase. One of the crucial ways in which it differs from facebook is that it doesn't mash all your contacts together. Instead it creates circles, into which you divide your various acquaintances. That way you can complain about work

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Featured Online Resource for June 20: JURN.ORGJurn.org is a directory of open-source journals, indexing 4,283 arts and humanities titles. Searching is powered by google and doesn't offer advanced search functions; the collection is also browsable, and getting into the directory is good way of grounding oneself in the scope of the collection. Many of the journals--probably the majority--are

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This week's Featured Online Resource is voki.com, which one of our librarians, Dr. Sean Henry, discovered yesterday. Like xtranormal.com, it supplies animated characters for short videos (60 seconds max at voki) you can create and share. However, unlike xtranormal, you can use your own or any recorded voice if you so choose; you can also use text-voice mode. Characters run the expected gamut of

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In case you're not attending the D9 conference, the All Things D blog affords a sneak peek at Windows 8, which actually is very, very different from Windows 7.

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-57095085538851123522011-06-02T11:21:00.005-04:002011-06-02T14:05:02.590-04:00

A featured Government Document is Toward a Theory of Spacepower: Selected Essays, from the Institute for National Strategic Studies. It's edited by Charles D. Lutes et al.It's a fascinating volume on an intriguing and partially-frightening concept. The intro says the essays in the book define spacepower as "the ability to use space to influence others, events, or the environment to achieve one's

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Pronounced "Scribbed" (not "scrib-D", which I'd probably recommend the site go with), Scribd.com is a site you may have already heard of, but which deserves a belated FOR anyway. It's a big site, and not easy to describe, but it goes by the label "social reading and publishing." In short, you can read e-books on the site, but you can also publish your own work in a variety of formats. Not

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-88062439157754343552011-05-03T11:55:00.003-04:002011-05-03T11:59:12.175-04:00

Following the slaying of Osama Bin Laden, a quotation attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr., beginning with "I will mourn the death of a thousand precious lives" began circulating. Those words, as it turns out, were actually written by an everyday person named Jessica Dovey, an English teacher in Japan. She penned that sentence and then followed with a quotation from King. Here's Megan McArdle

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Critical thinking. Creativity. Individual Thought. Problem Solving. Our instruction program aims to partner with FSU faculty to instill these traits. Here it is on tape:

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This week's Featured Online Resource is not exactly an online resource, but something you'd have to buy, and something that is either a hoax or just more bizarre than the objects of most hoaxes.The facebook box is a handsome little printer/ticker-tape machine that you hook up to your computer. It prints out every item in your facebook news feed, apparently on separate little ticker squares. It

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Featured Online Resource for the week of Apr. 25Small Press DistributionSPD is the only national distributor dedicated solely to small presses. It's based in Berkeley and its web site affords an airport hangar full--a whole naval base full--of information on the latest work from small presses. Books of all genres are found here, as well as a list of all publishers who distribute through SPD--if

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-14354806571858814702011-04-12T12:10:00.003-04:002011-04-12T12:15:09.210-04:00

As part of National Library Week, today is National Library Workers Day, which means you have four shopping hours plus forty minutes to get us a gift! Thanks in advance.

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This week's Featured Online Resource is a valuable multimedia presentation called Future Media Outlook. With video clips from Georgia Tech professors and many external links, as well as text, this document orients the user to the mediascape of the future. Concepts covered aredata tsunamitrue personalizationcontent integritymultimedia assumedmixed realitycollaborationEvery week, the Ort Library

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Featured Online Resourcefor the week of Apr. 4QR codes from WolframAlphaQuick response codes are little barcodes that can be scanned by smartphones and other computer applications for fast, easy access for the user. WolframAlpha now provides a utility for the creation of QR codes.

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Featured Online Resource for the week of Mar. 7 Xtranormal.com is one of the most interesting of the recent "give us your content and we'll get it web-ready" applications to pop up in recent months. It takes a script you type and produces a short movie with animated characters. You can choose from dozens of pre-fab characters: skateboarders, businessmen, geeks, celebrities like George W. Bush or

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-51205128674289646282011-03-07T11:43:00.004-05:002011-03-07T16:30:29.058-05:00

Talkingwriting.com, an online journal comprised mostly of commentaries on writing and reading, contains an interesting think piece by Said Nuseibeh on the lack of means for intelligent analyses of photographs.

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Featured Online Resource for the week of Feb. 28UCSB CYLINDER PRESERVATION AND DIGITIZATION PROJECTStreaming and downloadable recordings of cylinders from the early 20th century: spirituals, waltzes, polkas, sermons, whistling, fiddle tunes, jazz and much more.The University of California-Santa Barbara has digitized approximately 6,000 cylinders from the Donald C. Davidson Library's Department of

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-72294209841418444382011-02-24T12:46:00.002-05:002011-02-24T12:48:39.609-05:00

Salon.com reports the travails of a Florida student whose mother has forced him to wear a sign announcing his high school GPA: 1.22.

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Featured Online Resource-- Feb. 14Storify.comThis gem of a tool allows you to create stories--or to present melanges of information in multimedia formats--from information from various social networking platforms. Blend tweets from everyday people with those from media outlets; embed youtube video; let the major networks chime in--however you want to create web's best-of on a particular event or

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Featured Online ResourceJan. 31, 2011Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.THIS WEEK'S Featured Online ResourceWebCiteAs this blog hopefully demonstrates, there is a vast amount of

Kim Detterbecknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-60420988870636216972011-01-21T16:18:00.002-05:002011-01-21T16:25:00.883-05:00

Featured Online ResourceJan 24, 2011Billing itself as a Gadget Guide For Geeks By Geeks, Gearlog.com is really a lot more. It updates several times daily with news pertaining to latest developments with the i-phone and other popular gadgets; computer accessories; advances in robotics; video games; and other hard-to-classify oddities. It's really a focused current-events blog that affords an

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-6668467634007706652011-01-20T08:50:00.002-05:002011-01-20T09:04:01.268-05:00

They grow up so fast. Wikipedia celebrated its tenth birthday this week, and for many, it's a cause for a party. Worldwide, in Peshawar, London, Seoul, Moscow, Athens, and Bend, Oregon, groups of Wikipedia contributors, enthusiasts, and other info people are meeting for birthday drinks, coffee, mini-conferences.Gearlog.com gives an interesting timeline of Wikipedia's first decade.

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Featured Online ResourceJan. 17, 2011Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.THIS WEEK'S Featured Online ResourceJFK Presidential ArchivesMarking the 50th anniversary of the

Kim Detterbecknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-48115192736628765392011-01-07T13:56:00.004-05:002011-01-07T14:07:36.345-05:00

Egiate.comEgiate.com is a maps-based college search site that used 3-D animation to afford a clear view of the details of campuses.The site uses google maps, and in some cases gives the standard google satellite view of a university or college you are looking for. But for many schools, it has 3-D models of buildings around which you can navigate 360 degrees, with tilting options.Aside from the

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-9166251835034845342011-01-05T12:05:00.001-05:002011-01-05T12:07:19.703-05:00

Peta, Exa, Zetta, newly-coined denominations of computer storage, as explained by memeburn.com.

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-14554632800856829192011-01-04T19:04:00.002-05:002011-01-04T19:25:40.534-05:00

NewSouth, Inc., a small publishing house in Montgomery, AL, is releasing a new edition of Mark Twain's ubiquitous novel Huckleberry Finn that erases all two-hundred and nineteen instances of the word "nigger" from the original text.The company waxes, one might say, creative, when explaining this choice:"If the publication sparks a good debate about how language impacts learningor about the nature

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-736853955263745562010-12-18T07:40:00.004-05:002011-01-04T09:12:44.932-05:00

A day after one of its employees leaked a slide from a meeting saying Yahoo! planned to "sunset" Delicious.com, the company now says it is instead trying to sell the social bookmarking site. Blogs and discussion boards erupted with criticism and dismay after the rumblings of Delicious's demise began. Yahoo! acknowledged customer anger in a blog post. Stay tuned.

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-24298781888340039182010-12-16T00:01:00.004-05:002010-12-16T00:12:38.231-05:00

They really re-touched his freckles: Here's the brand new online issue of Time, christening facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg the Person of the Year. As for the green lizard eyes, I was going to make a joke about the Geico Gecko, but I found out he has brown eyes. Pretty brown eyes.

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-471560268911192022010-12-09T20:15:00.006-05:002010-12-09T20:48:24.714-05:00

Featured Online ResourceDecember 13, 2010OECD Stat ExtractsSources for U.S. statistics are plentiful and well-known. But here's a great, frequently-updated selection of international statistics. The OECD is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development; the StatExtracts, part of the organization's i-library, pertain to many economic and commerce-oriented issues, but extend well beyond

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-27520432021204481592010-12-07T17:06:00.005-05:002011-01-04T09:10:30.222-05:00

Or...so good?This is the kind of news story that seems to be in front of us perpetually. There's no surprise in it, or even a sense of newness, but its importance cannot be questioned. Here's msnbc's report on the U.S.'s poor performance on the 2009 PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment).

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-90724657225939468702010-12-03T15:48:00.008-05:002010-12-06T13:29:21.964-05:00

Featured Online ResourceDec. 06, 2010Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.THIS WEEK'S Featured Online ResourceBBC World Music ArchiveThe BBC has unveiled a new archive of world

Kim Detterbecknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-47116119189258816302010-11-30T10:20:00.002-05:002010-11-30T10:25:41.571-05:00

i-pad owners will now have their own newspaper, The Daily, published by Rupert Murdoch and available nowhere and no-how but via the i-pad. Mashable.com, in a news story with an editorial below, says the newspaper has a fledgling staff of a hundred journalists. It will cost users $0.99 per issue to download.

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Featured Online Resource for Nov. 22WOLFRAMALPHA.comWolframalpha.com computes, compares, crunches, enlightens and astounds. Use it to find out how pears and bacon compare in terms of fiber, the gross domestic product of Finland in 2009, how many cubic decimeters in a Danish pot, and when the next solar eclipse will occur.You may wish to use the "Examples of Topics" menu from the home page.Every

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-71019803474782189182010-11-18T09:50:00.003-05:002010-11-18T10:38:22.564-05:00

Jaimy Gordon's Lord of Misrule takes prize for fiction.At Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, the National Book Awards were sprinkled upon the delighted recipients last night, including Jaimy Gordon, a professor at Western Michigan University, for her independently-published novel Lord of Misrule.Other winners:Poetry: Lighthead, Terrance Hayes, Penguin BooksNonfiction: Patti Smith, Just Kids,

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Featured Online ResourceNov 15, 2010Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.THIS WEEK'S Featured Online ResourceThe Cassiopeia ProjectThe Cassiopeia Project is an effort to make

Kim Detterbecknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-64036430114027517012010-11-04T15:15:00.007-04:002010-11-04T15:41:49.357-04:00

Featured Online ResourceNov 8, 2010Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.THIS WEEK'S Featured Online ResourceTin Eye Reverse Image Search EngineGot a picture? Want to see where

Kim Detterbecknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-57144215725194244642010-10-29T14:31:00.003-04:002010-11-01T13:01:48.294-04:00

Featured Online Resource Nov 1, 2010 Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info. THIS WEEK'S Featured Online Resource 360 City World Panoramic Photography 360 city uses

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Senator Robert Byrd was born in North Carolina as Cornelius Calvin Sale in 1917. His mother became a victim of the 1918 influenza epidemic and his father sent his son to live with relatives residing in the coal fields of West Virginia. Sen. Byrd's death in June of 2010 leaves a legacy that will be difficult to match. As the longest serving member of Congress, he will be remembered for his lengthy

MaryJo Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494715733747706934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-70069829006994222212010-08-25T15:28:00.004-04:002010-08-25T15:34:52.205-04:00

BOM for Sept: Reality Hunger: a Manifesto, David Shields.Knopf. 2010. Probably the best way to review David Shields’ bizarre new screed Reality Hunger: A Manifesto is to present one passage: I find nearly all the moves the traditional novel makes unbelievably predictable, tired, contrived, and essentially purposeless… I like work that’s focused not only page by page but

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-74103243085464537872010-08-23T09:49:00.003-04:002010-08-23T09:58:42.824-04:00

Welcome back to FSU for the new semester! We're sure we'll see many of you here in the library for studying, research, instruction sessions, and computer use. If you're a new student or faculty member, be sure to familiarize yourself with our homepage to learn about our policies and services. Here's a libguides page with an overview of library policies.Have a great semester!

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-41327861665112994752010-08-05T11:03:00.007-04:002010-08-05T11:55:36.744-04:00

BOM for August: Black: The History of a Color. Michel Pastoureau. Princeton University Press: 2009. Medieval historian Michel Pastoureau continues his work on the history of colors and patterns with his latest book Black: The History of a Color (he has previously written on the color blue and stripes). Pastoureau tackles this admittedly complex subject in the context of European art, beginning

Kim Detterbecknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-7800412698645351042010-08-05T11:01:00.006-04:002010-08-05T11:08:16.143-04:00

Catalog USMAI, the online catalog system for Frostburg State University and the entire University System of Maryland, will be unavailable from 3 pm Saturday, August 7 to 5 pm Sunday, August 8 for a scheduled upgrade.

Seán Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08926491151421937730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-61458317904568056512010-07-16T11:17:00.002-04:002010-07-16T11:26:08.416-04:00

Smithsonian celebrates its 40th anniversary with a double issue, Jul-Aug.,that looks into the next 40 years, with projections and promotions fromexperts in agriculture, astronomy, nanotechnology and other fields.Highlights:Just as cell phones are given away today, electric cars will be freeTo tap new sources of energy, people will do business in spaceBy 2050, biologists will discover at least

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-89173291225629085342010-06-29T13:46:00.005-04:002010-06-29T14:05:50.212-04:00

Library Staff greeted Dr. David Gillespie with donuts and coffee on Thursday, June 24 to celebrate his return to work after three months of medical leave for a total knee replacement.

Pam Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10015624133285858323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-60070131919494869042010-06-21T09:22:00.003-04:002010-06-21T09:42:52.615-04:00

Times Topics is a feature of The New York Times that serves as a type of reference source for people, companies, and a myriad other newsworthy items. Examples of entities included are Jennifer Granholm, St. Jude Medical, Inc., Boy Scouts, and Marshall University. Entries sometimes give brief synopses of the significance of the topic, and, when available, give an archive of NYT articles. Thus,

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-49101540489091556802010-06-16T16:12:00.004-04:002010-06-16T16:23:42.143-04:00

BOM for June-July: The Game From Where I Stand: a Ballplayer's Inside ViewDoug Glanville. Times Books. 2010 GV867.64.G58 2010Doug Glanville played centerfield for the Texas Rangers and the Philadelphia Phillies and isn't a half-bad writer. This memoir of his major-league career has a true behind-the-scenes feel, and serves as a good tour guide through the life of a big-leaguer for the truly

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-76406921749610311652010-05-10T22:05:00.000-04:002010-05-10T22:06:21.749-04:00

2010 Summer Hours begin May 24.

Elizabeth Kellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14925046278101399490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-64652180015088062452010-05-10T21:57:00.002-04:002010-05-10T22:04:09.177-04:00

May 14- August 13, 2010Regular Summer Hours:Monday- Thursday 7:30 AM- 6:00 PMFriday 7:30 AM- 5:00 PMSaturday ClosedSunday 1:00 PM- 6:00 PMExceptions to Regular Summer Hours:Sunday May 30 ClosedMonday, Memorial Day May 31 ClosedSunday July 4 ClosedMonday July 5 ClosedPost Summer Session HoursAugust 14- August 29Monday- Friday 8:00 AM- 5:00 PMSaturday ClosedSunday ClosedMonday August 30 Resume

Elizabeth Kellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14925046278101399490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-42673982198092399922010-05-07T09:09:00.005-04:002010-05-07T09:25:07.464-04:00

Mary Elizabeth Williams' Salon.com story details a shocking and flagrant act of plagiarism committed by NPR's "Morning Edition."This Wednesday, correspondent Beth Accomando delivered a segment entitled "The Cell Phone Always Dies First," spoofing cell-phone-oriented plot devices in horror films.However, the sketch was composed almost entirely of material--used without acknowledgement--from a

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-12537685016210525602010-05-06T09:55:00.005-04:002010-05-07T14:25:41.295-04:00

Here's a Huffington Post column by writer and publishing-industry veteran Jason Pinter discussing how choices made by a female-dominated publishing industry affect the number of male readers. One of the incidents that alerted him to this problem was his difficulty pitching a memoir by pro wrestler Chris Jericho (pictured).Laura Miller of Salon.com gives a digest of reactions to the piece.

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-17150619945224963102010-05-04T10:50:00.002-04:002010-05-04T10:59:19.793-04:00

Paula Webb, Reference and Electronic Government Documents Librarian at the University of Southern Alabama, in Mobile, has created this great bibliography on the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from British Petroleum's rig Deepwater Horizon.The bib lists exclusively electronically-available documents, most produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Included are

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-20269422344919242012010-04-27T08:24:00.006-04:002010-04-27T09:21:47.758-04:00

BOM (Book of the Month) for May: New China New ArtEd. Richard Vine. Prestel, 2008.A man wearing a rack of ribs; goats' heads popping out of a ball of blue fur; headless dolls on plates; a vat of soy sauce cooking a man and a boar; the images in New China New Art are striking and sometimes shocking. Many depict violence, exploitation, degradation, the crassness of capitalism and the oppression of

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-77842029998785700432010-04-21T14:21:00.002-04:002010-04-21T14:30:55.300-04:00

When political cartoonist Mark Fiore originally approached Apple with a pitch to have his cartoon strip NewsTunes available as an app. for the i-phone, the company turned him down, saying their policy was not to use apps that made fun of public figures.Months later, Fiore won the Pulitzer Prize, and now i-phone owners can download his work.From PC World:"'It feels a little weird, it feels almost

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-43056455550639165012010-04-07T14:03:00.003-04:002010-04-07T14:26:55.646-04:00

Researching Mine Disasters Over the YearsWhile there's still a lot to learn and to ascertain about this week's tragedy at Massey Energy's mine, Upper Big Branch, in WVA, you may be interested in researching past mining disasters. Use our online catalog to search for titles we own. These will include books, Senate hearings, and videos. Here's a brief sampling:Schwartz-Barcott, T.P. After The

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-64943171369526396992010-04-07T09:39:00.005-04:002010-04-07T09:55:36.691-04:00

Celebrate National Library Week, April 11-17th with Bob E. Cat at the Ort Library. Students, drop by the Circulation desk and enter the "Guess the Number of Tootsie Rolls in the Jar" contest. This year's lucky winner will receive a $25.00 gift certificate to Appalachian Station presented by Bob E. Cat himself. The winning student will also receive the jar of candy and be photographed with Bob to

Elizabeth Kellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14925046278101399490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-79887676524852066782010-04-01T15:15:00.002-04:002010-04-01T15:32:02.825-04:00

BOM (Book of the Month) for April: Reading In the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. Stanislas Dehaene. Viking, 2009. Author of The Number Sense, Dehaene explores how our neurons must be rewired when we, as children, begin to learn to read. Per the dust jacket, "Dehaene convincingly argues that the emergence of cultural inventions, including writing, is constrained by the

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-25700368759669562532010-04-01T14:28:00.005-04:002010-04-01T15:16:31.793-04:00

As of April 1, 2010, the database Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will be available free of charge on the Getty Research Institute Web site. In January of 2010 The Getty Research Institute announced that it was no longer financially feasible to maintain BHA and solicited other interested institutions to step forward and take over maintenance of the database. With no suitable arrangement

Kim Detterbecknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-55023817536981194962010-03-24T20:29:00.002-04:002010-03-24T20:32:36.893-04:00

A Gallup Poll published today shows that by a slim margin, American adults support the recently-passed bundle of reforms to the nation's healthcare industry. 46% of those identifying themselves as "Independents" call the legislation a "good thing" while 45% call it a "bad thing."

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-64262777644965067692010-03-23T10:02:00.006-04:002010-03-24T08:07:30.992-04:00

The historic health care legislation passed by the House of Representatives this week not only means sweeping health care reform but also revamps the federal student loan program.In short, the bill, attached to the health care legislation, "would end government payments to private, commercial student lenders, leaving the government to lend directly to students. It would also redirect billions of

Kim Detterbecknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-24319896433511038382010-03-23T10:02:00.004-04:002010-03-23T10:06:25.919-04:00

Here's a story from AppIndie.org reporting that Census workers will be available at City Hall from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. this week, Wednesday and Friday for anyone with questions about or needing assistance with their census form. Mayor Bond urges all members of the community to submit their census form.

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-78217560335283293822010-03-22T15:37:00.002-04:002010-03-22T15:52:43.578-04:00

In the wake of the passage by Congress of the much-debated and historical health care reform bill, here's a quick rundown of the breadth of coverage in the last few hours:CSPAN healthcare hub: includes links to streaming video from CSPAN-3: Speaker Pelosi's press briefing, the House vote on the bill and reconciliation, House floor debate, President Obama's remarks, and comments from Senator

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-72508894153774787922010-03-22T15:18:00.000-04:002010-03-22T15:21:27.082-04:00

The historic H.R. 3962, the bill to reform healthcare insurance was passed by The House of Representatives, having already passed the Senate. Click the link above for the entire text of the bill, made available by the Government Printing Office at www.gpoaccess.gov.

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-78574557042852307002010-03-12T15:13:00.002-05:002010-03-12T15:27:58.308-05:00

Going through the Maryland General Assembly is House Bill 1533, the Deficit Reduction Financing Act of 2010.Features:would repeal the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund and the Stem Cell Research Commissionwould repeal some requirements that contractors pay their employees minimum wagewould provide that retirees eligible for a prescription drug plan under Medicare would not be eligible for the

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-84022975320363072242010-03-08T09:51:00.003-05:002010-03-08T09:59:04.665-05:00

Digital Americana bills itself as the first digital literary journal, which is not to be confused with online literary journals, of which there are thousands.DA is designed for the Apple i-pad and includes, according to the magazine's web site, "insightful articles, interviews, and of course, the best fiction.Featured extras include compelling short independent films, indie music, modern

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-81575693094894134072010-03-04T16:21:00.003-05:002010-03-04T16:48:24.434-05:00

Below is a video highlighting materials that Mary-Jo Price has in Special Collections pertaining to coal mining in Western Maryland and its role in the origin and early history of this university.

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-22475424612151326012010-02-13T09:10:00.001-05:002010-02-13T09:11:19.965-05:00

Sunday, Feb. 14, we will re-open after the weather-related closure at 1 p.m. and will be open until midnight.

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-41148289319213488802010-01-14T16:13:00.005-05:002010-01-14T16:28:33.648-05:00

Book Of the Month, Jan.Searching For Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America. Rich Benjamin. Hyperion, 2009. E184.A1 B374 2009This nugget of middle-brow pop-sociological exploration finds journalist Rich Benjamin staying for a time in various all-white exurbs and reporting his findings.Whitopia is Benjamin's term for towns like St. George, Utah and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho,

Jeff Maehrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08412714917453546146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870870512272157749.post-25265989889573679892010-01-07T12:33:00.002-05:002010-01-07T12:50:02.361-05:00

January 4- January 24, 2010Regular Intersession Hours:Mondays-Fridays 7:30 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.Saturdays 2:00 p.m.-6.00 p.m.Sundays 1:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.Exceptions to Regular Intersession Hours:Martin Luther King DayMonday January 18

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Half Book-Half Video, All for naughtWhile I may be a book lover, that doesn't mean I'm reflexively hostile to any technological advance that is hailed as a replacement of the form. For example, while I resist traditional e-books because they involve either sitting at your uncomfortable desk chair or crushing your thighs with a laptop, the Apple Kindle seems promising because, by most accounts,

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BOM: Book of the Month for Dec.The Trouble With Boys. Peg Tyre. Crown, 2008. LC 1397.T97 2008.From the dusk jacket:"(boys) get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they're diagnosed with learning disorders four times as oftn. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level."Negative ReviewDescriptive ReviewPositive Review

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Campus-wide newsRick Bass will read at 7:30, TH, Dec. 3 at the Lyric Theater, 20 Main St. in Frostburg. He's hosted by FSU's Center for Creative Writing and is the environmental writer for the Fall semester.Bass's short stories have been anthologized in The Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O Henry Awards.His books include The Book of Yaak (non-fiction), The

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Amber Harrison (pictured, left), cataloging, and Nancy Frost, acquisitions, coordinated the collection of donations for the library's contribution to this year's Sponsor A Family program. Two baskets from the library join many others that will provide Thanksgiving meals to families throughout the county. The drive is sponsored by FSU's Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement.

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