Library Hours: July 4th

In observance of Independence Day, July 4th, Ashland University Library hours are as follows:

Friday, July 3rd: Library Closed
Saturday, July 4th: Library Closed
Sunday, July 5th: Library Closed

Summer hours resume on Monday, July 6th.

Library Spotlight: Snyder Poetry

Interested in poetry? Located on the fifth floor of Ashland University Library, the Snyder Poetry collection features current, American poetry.

Recent additions to this collection include:

• Elegy: Poems
  
  PS3552.A47546 E55 2007
• Watching the Spring Festival
  
  PS3552.I33 W38 2008


• Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
  
  PS3554.O798 F57 2008


• Without Saying: New Poems
  
  
  PS3558.O8826 W58 2008


• Sleeping it Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected
  PS3561.L3842 S57 2009


• Blond Dazzler: Poems
  
  PS3569.M53783 B56 2008

The Library of Congress Poetry web page has great resources for the poetry lover. Currently featured are links for Poet Laureates, Poetry Webcasts, and an Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.

Poet Laureate Kay Ryan at the National Book Festival, 2008. Visit the Library of Congress Channel on YouTube for more videos.

Library Spotlight: New Books

New books are added to the library collection throughout the academic year. When shelf ready, they are featured on the new book shelf located on the main floor, adjacent to the reference and circulation area.

Books are selected by AU librarians and subject to the library's collection development policy which includes professional reviews and recommendations by faculty members. Recent additions to the collection include:

• The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
  
  CS1129.B552 2009


• A People's History of Poverty in America
  
  HC110.P6 P56 2008


• Licensing Parents: Family, State, and Child Maltreatment
  
  HQ536.M414 2009
• Speaking Up: The Unintended Costs of Free Speech in Public Schools
  
  KF4127.5.D87 2009


• Rethinking Juvenile Justice
  
  
  KF9779.S36 2008
• Mentoring Beginning Teachers: Guiding, Reflecting, Coaching
  
  LB1731.4.M4655 2009
• Film Music: A History
  
  ML2075.W54 2009


• The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
  
  PN6725.H33 2008


• Moral Madness: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong
  
  TJ211.W36 2009


• Web Video: Making it Great, Getting it Noticed
  
  TK6680.5.B68 2009

Interested in recommending a book for the collection? Contact your library liaison for more information.

Juvenile Collection, Library 2nd Floor

For the remainder of the summer we will be moving juvenile books within the stacks on the library second floor. Working from the end of the collection to the beginning, an additional four sections will be allotted to juvenile books. This means more room on the shelf, an easier time locating and returning books to the stacks, and opportunity to grow the collection. During this time there will be large gaps in the stacks and the above sign placed in the empty sections. At any time, just move several sections to your right and the remainder of the collection will be at your fingertips.

As always, please feel free to ask for help locating titles in the juvenile collection. Thanks for your patience!

Summer Reading!

Summer is the perfect time relax with a book and we have a great suggestion; explore the library's recreational reading collection! Located on the main floor, beyond the journal and periodical collection, our recreational collection includes popular titles, classic titles, award winning titles and a few books that are just fun to read.

Here is a sampling of titles recently added to the library's recreational reading collection.

Sit back and enjoy a good book!

• Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
  CT275.P5767 A3 2009
• Stone's Fall: A Novel
  PR6066.E167 S76 2009
• The White Tiger: A Novel
  PR9619.4.A35 W47 2008
• First Family
  PS3552.A446 F57 2009
• No Such Creature: A Novel
  PS3552.L887 N6 2009
• Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
  PS3552.U723 S93 2008
• Just Take My Heart
  PS3553.L287 J87 2009
• Long Lost
  PS3553.O225 L66 2009
• Steal Across the Sky
  PS3561.R46 S67 2009
• Handle with Care: A Novel
  PS3566.I372 H36 2009

Perusing the catalog? Be sure to click on the book cover for additional about each book; results may include summary, excerpt, cover image, and reviews. Everything you need to make a great summer reading choice.

Library Spotlight: New Books

New books are added to the library collection throughout the academic year. When shelf ready, they are featured on the new book shelf located on the main floor, adjacent to the reference and circulation area.

Books are selected by AU librarians and subject to the library's collection development policy which includes professional reviews and recommendations by faculty members. Recent additions to the collection include:

• Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
  BF575.L7 C23 2008
• Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of National Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
  DS371.4.R34 2008
• Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid
  E185.97.W6128 A3 2008
• Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations from 1945
  E744.J6693 2009
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
  HG172.A2 A43 2009
• Of Khans and Kremlins: Tatarstan and the Future of Ethno-Federalism in Russia
  JN6693.5.S8 G73 2009
• Revealing Minds: Assessing to Understand and Support Struggling Learners
  LB1060.P64 2008
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
  ML3521.G56 2008
• Life Class
  PR6052.A6488 L54 2008
• White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  PS1541.Z5 W545 2008
• Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature
  Q172.5.S95 D87 2008

Bill's Retirement Wish

As I leave Ashland University to explore life as a retired librarian I want to share what I stumbled upon in the library stacks. I was looking for something to read with my lunch. Yes, we allow food in the library, and yes there is still something to be said for discovery by browsing library shelves.

Ursula Goodenough is a leading cell biologist at Washington University. In The Sacred Depths of Nature (p. xxi) she talks of memory and learning; things we in higher education should know something about.

“Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor. Some readers with scanty scientific backgrounds have told me that at the time they were reading one of my stories about Nature, they felt like they understood everything I said, but the next day they couldn’t remember a thing about it. No hooks, I explain. Then I remind them that there isn’t going to be a test, and that as they were reading the story they were in fact creating hooks for their next encounters with scientific explanation. And then, the most important part: the point of hearing a story for the first time is not to remember it but to experience it.”

My hope for faculty and staff is that you take pride in the hooks made here at Ashland. I hope you craft them well and make them attractive and sturdy. I hope you create many and varied hooks because our students are indeed many and varied. I hope the hooks you make encourage students to make their own hooks as they become learners and teachers in their own right. Hook making is, indeed, a noble profession. And this is my wish for AU students of all ages. May the hooks you’ve used and the stories you’ve heard at AU help you experience life in all its awe and wonder. God bless.

Library Hours: Memorial Day

In observance of Memorial Day, Ashland University Library hours are as follows:

Friday, May 22nd: Close at 4:00 pm
Saturday, May 23rd: Library Closed
Sunday, May 24th: Library Closed
Monday, May 25th: Library Closed

Regular summer hours will resume on Tuesday, May 26th.

2009 CMCIG Spring Workshop

The Academic Library Association's (ALAO) Curriculum Materials Interest Group (CMCIG) held it's 2009 Spring Workshop at the Dwight Schar College of Education. Below is a slide show of the event which featured a presentation by Dr. Deanna Romano, Assistant Professor with the Dwight Schar College of Education and Ashland University Library Curriculum Librarian, Diane Schrecker.

Their presentation, Realigning Teacher Education: Using 2.0 Technologies to Meet 21st Century Skills, is available via Ashland University Library's LibGuides.