Revisiting Iraq Through The Eyes Of An Exiled Poet
In addition to holding original copies of every issue of The Trail, previously known as Ye Recorde and The Maroon, digital versions are available via Sound Ideas! Take a look at what professors, students, and your parents were up to!
Read this New Yorker article about the many ways artists use books!
Read this huffingtonpost article on revisiting the classic books!
Recommended Books:
Beloved: Toni Morrison, Screwtape Letters: C. S. Lewis (a collection of fictional epistles from one devil to another regarding temptation. very philosophical) Cat’s Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5: Kurt Vonnegut The Year of Living Biblically: A. J. Jacobs (agnostic tries to read and obey the bible as literally as possible for a year) Blink: Malcolm Gladwell (psychological book, but really interesting nonetheless)
-Library Student Staff
Did you know that… the citation tools RefWorks and Zotero can save you time by organizing citations and PDFs? Both also format bibliographies to virtually any citation style!
Pierce County Library System is bringing Paris to Pierce County this spring with its community one book program: Pierce County READS. Now through May 17, thousands of people will come together as a community and read copies of this year’s Pierce County READS’ book the New York Times best seller and award-winning “The Paris Wife,” by internationally known author Paula 
McLain.
Be a part of the largest free reading event in Pierce County: the sixth annual Pierce County READS, presented by Pierce County Library System and The News Tribune and sponsored by KeyBank Foundation and Pierce County Library Foundation.
“The Paris Wife” gives an intriguing account of one of the world’s greatest authors, Ernest Hemingway, seen through the eyes of his first wife, Hadley Richardson. This book has been very hot on the best-seller’s list, and with significant social media chatter, it soared and stayed at the top of the list. “The Paris Wife” garnered the Winner for Best Historical Fiction in the Goodreads Choice Awards, which is the only major book award that readers decide.
During the Pierce County READS program people may participate in events where they may learn how to write and get their book published, plan their trip to Paris, and make art deco jewelry.
Professor Ann Putnam
In addition to the many hands-on activities, Pierce County READS will feature other authors including: author and Professor Ann Putnam who will discuss the role of women in Hemingway’s life and works at King’s Books, Thursday, May 2, 7 p.m.; Kathleen Flinn, an award-winning author of two memoirs with recipes, who will inspire listeners to participate in her passion for home cooking at University Place Pierce County Library, Thursday, May 16, 7 p.m.; and Gregg Olsen, a New York Times best-selling author, who will talk about how he researches and writes about the lives of others at Pierce College Puyallup, Friday, May 17, 12 p.m.
People may meet Paula McLain at a free event and book signing at McGavick Conference Center @ Clover Park Technical College, in Lakewood, Friday, May 17, 2013, 7 p.m. She will speak and sign books.
Twenty community partners participate in Pierce County READS: Associated Ministries, Barnes & Noble, Clover Park Technical College, Emergency Food Network, Garfield Book Company, The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Joint Base Lewis McChord Libraries, King’s Books, Lakewood Arts Commission, Lakewood Historical Society and History Museum, Mostly Books, Pacific Lutheran University, Pierce College Puyallup, Pierce College Fort Steilacoom, Puyallup Public Library, Roy Public Library, Sumner Arts Commission, Tacoma Art Museum, and University of Puget Sound. Seventeen cities and towns and Pierce County are also signing proclamations for Pierce County READS.
Pierce County READS @ www.piercecountylibrary.org search site: READS
Interested in reading about current events from an economic perspective?
Concise and current, blogs are a great resource for keeping up with current events and conversations for scholars, laypeople, and those in between. Blog entries can run the gamut from serious to whimsical, but their very nature allows a uniquely unmediated opportunity for writers to communicate with their audience.
While they’re no replacement for our subscription databases when it comes to serious research, blogs are a fertile source for still developing ideas and research.
Here’s a select list of economics blogs that you can bookmark, or add to your RSS feeds (RIP Google Reader). Thanks to Prof. Matt Warning for helping to compile this list.
By Ben Tucker, Business, Economics and Social Sciences Librarian
Example of Marissa's work
Marissa Irish is a freshman at Puget Sound and hopes to major in both English and Art. She loves her home in Portland, OR. and is learning to love Tacoma, WA too. Her favorite books include anything written by John Green, Jonathan Safran Foer, and of course, J.K. Rowling. Marissa has been working in the library since the beginning of the school year and plans to work there as long as they will let her. She enjoys the opportunity to create various posters and graphic design projects for the library and loves the wide range of people she gets to work with and meet there too.
Read this great Huffington Post article about challenges students face sifting through opinionated information!
