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We continue our Library Labs series this year with new workshops.  Google Scholar -  Learn how to find research articles, link to the University Library, and track citations during this hands-on workshop.  Workshop is  FREE  but does require   registration . Coffee & refreshments will be served!! Intended Audience:  General Audience Dates & Times:  Thursday, October 2, Noon-1 p.m. Location:  LRC 316 Instructor:  Troy Espe, Reference/Interlibrary Loan Librarian Re gister Here

In Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month! Our America:  a Hispanic History of the United States By Felipe Fernández-Armesto Call Number:  E 184.S75 F46 2014 Review from the NY Times Publisher's Description :  An eminent scholar finds a new American history in the Hispanic past of our diverse nation.  The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America’s Hispanic past. With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic, the importance of recovering the Hispanic dimension to our national story has never been greater. This absorbing narrative begins with the explorers and conquistadores who planted Spain’s first colonies in Puerto Rico, Florida, and the Southwest. Missionaries and rancheros carry Spain’s expansive impulse into the late eighteenth century, settling California, mapping the American inte

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read by highlighting the value of open access to information. While books have been and continue to be banned, part of the Banned Books Week celebration is that the books have remained available. This happens thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, students, and community members who stand up and speak out for the freedom to read. For more information about Banned Books Week, please see resources from the ALA’s site Banned Books Week and the most frequently challenged books here. And check out a few from the University Library. Other resources to explore: Frequently Challenged Books Dav Pilkey, Creator of CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS, on Banning Books Which Banned Book Are You? Play the Quiz! Banned Books Week Celebrates Comics

The Library is happy to announce our new subscription to Biblioboard – a digital collection of books, images, articles, audio and video from around the world, including many primary sources and arranged by subject. Biblioboard is browsable from your mobile device, and you can create bookmarks, notes and other favorites that sync between devices. Campus users can access Biblioboard through our list of databases. Questions about this product? Chat with or stop by the Reference Desk and we will be happy to help you.

Marriage markets : how inequality is remaking the American family By June Carbone and Naomi Cahn Call Number:  HQ536 .C348 2014 Reviews from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Publisher's Description :  In Marriage Markets , June Carbone and Naomi Cahn examine how macroeconomic forces are transforming our most intimate and important spheres, and how working class and lower income families have paid the highest price. Just like health, education, and seemingly every other advantage in life, a stable two-parent home has become a luxury that only the well-off can afford. The best educated and most prosperous have the most stable families, while working class families have seen the greatest increase in relationship instability. Why is this so? The book provides the answer: greater economic inequality has profoundly changed marriage markets, the way men and women match up when they search for a life partner. It has produced a larger group of high-income men than wom

Softly, With Feeling: Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music By Edward Berger Call Number:  ML 419 .W522 B57 2014 An article from the LA Times on the recent death of Joe Wilder (1922-2014) Publisher's Description :  Trumpeter Joe Wilder is distinguished for his achievements in both the jazz and classical worlds. He was a founding member of the Symphony of the New World, where he played first trumpet, and he performed as lead trumpet and soloist with Lionel Hampton, Jimmy Lunceford, Dizzy Gillespie, and Count Basie. Yet Wilder is also known as a pioneer who broke down racial barriers, the first African American to hold a principal chair in a Broadway show orchestra, and one of the first African Americans to join a network studio orchestra. In Softly, with Feeling , Edward Berger tells Wilder's remarkable story from his youth in working-class Philadelphia and his apprenticeship in the big bands, to his experience as one of the first 1,000 b