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From the Archives & Special Collections: De Architectura

Welcome back Loggers! I hope you’re all enjoying your return back to campus, with all of its beautiful people and architecture! Speaking of architecture… is that something you’re interested in? If so, come and visit the Archives & Special Collections! … Continue reading

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Collins Library Links: Collins Library joins “The Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Research”

Collins Library joins The Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Research, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), Artstor, and the Mellon Foundation CIC and Artstor, with support from the Mellon Foundation, have launched an ambitious three year … Continue reading

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Great Crime Mystery: “The Martini Shot” by George Pelecanos

The Martini Shot consists of a novella and stories, a first from the award-winning author/producer of The Wire George Pelecanos. Some plots include: the hunt for an allegedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, an aging underachiever’s final attempt at … Continue reading

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Great Drama Read on the Catholic Church: “A History of Loneliness,” by John Boyne

From the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas comes another emotional and evocative novel. A History of Loneliness tells the story of Father Odran Yates, a man who turned to the Catholic Church after a life-changing family tragedy. … Continue reading

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From the Archives & Special Collections: 400 years of Don Quixote

“For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.” It is the 400th anniversary of the second part of Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of … Continue reading

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Rocking Chair Room Story Hour, “Get Dirty!” on Saturday, October 3, 10-11 a.m.

Please join us! Ben Johns and students from the Greek Life Council will be reading several books then visiting the DIRT? Exhibit. Painting afterwards in Room 020!

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Banned Books Week is Sept. 27 – Oct. 3, 2015.

Collins Library celebrates free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. Celebrate your right … Continue reading

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Behind the Archives Door: October 6, 4:30 p.m., featuring Suzanne Moore, “A Musings in Honor of Aileen Kane”

Please join us for Behind the Archives Door featuring Suzanne Moore – a letter artist, painter, and printmaker whose eclectic interests meld in the diversity of her artists’ books. Her books blend abstract and representational imagery, rich color and surface … Continue reading

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Hoover’s Company Profiles: A New Business Database for Firm Research

Over the summer the library added a subscription to Hoover’s Company Profiles, a database that contains proprietary information about public and non-public companies and their key executives. Each company record includes a company overview, history, products, and operations, subsidiaries and … Continue reading

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Holy Cow, School’s Back in Session!

Today we’re highlighting Holy Cow by X-Files star David Duchovny. In it, three unlikely heroes embark on an odyssey for a better life. The trio includes a witty and optimistic cow by the name of Elsie Bovary, a pig who’s … Continue reading

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