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In this show & tell session, we will recommend the best mobile web sites and apps for use in your academic research. We'll demo apps for library research, productivity, PDF-reading & annotating, citation management and more. Some of the apps we will demo include EBSCOhost, Worldcat, Inside Higher Education, Evernote, GoodReads, EndNote and many more. We'd also like to hear about what you are using so come prepared to share. Intended Audience:  Campus Wide Dates & Times:  Thursday, February 6, Noon Location:  LRC 318 Instructor:  Troy Espe & Mindy King Re gister Here More information

Winner of the 2014 Newbery Award for the best in  Children's literature! Flora & Ulysses: the illuminated adventures By Kate DiCamillo, illustrations by K. G. Campbell Call Number:  IMC Collection  PZ 7 .D5455 Flo 2013 Publisher's Description :  It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry—and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. From #1 New York Times best-selling author Kate DiCamillo comes a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing charact...

Superdads : how fathers balance work and family in the 21st century By Gayle Kaufman Call Number:  HQ 756 .K375 2013 Publisher's Description :  “Look! There in the playground -- with the stroller and diaper bag! It's Superdad! Yes, it's Superdad—the most involved fathers in American history. And with this careful, compassionate and also critical group portrait, Gayle Kaufman has finally told their story. If you think men aren't changing—or if you think they somehow get neutered if they are changing—you need to read this book.”—Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland  In an age when fathers are spending more time with their children than at any other point in the past, men are also facing unprecedented levels of work-family conflict. How do fathers balance their two most important roles—that of father and that of worker? In Superdads , Gayle Kaufman captures the real voices of fathers themselves as they talk about their struggles with balancing work ...

One Summer:  America, 1927 By Bill Bryson Call Number:  E 791 .B79 2013 Review from the New York Times Sunday Book Review Publisher's Description :  In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop, and when he landed in Le Bourget airfield near Paris, he ignited an explosion of worldwide rapture and instantly became the most famous person on the planet. Meanwhile, the titanically talented Babe Ruth was beginning his assault on the home run record, which would culminate on September 30 with his sixtieth blast, one of the most resonant and durable records in sports history. In between those dates a Queens housewife named Ruth Snyder and her corset-salesman lover garroted her ...