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Na na na na na na na......Batman!!

Yup, that's right there has been a Batman sighting in FHG Library!  Along with X-Men, Captain America, Wolverine and the other Marvel and DC superheros.

Stop by Francis Harvey Green Library on the 2nd floor across from the elevators for the newest exhibit "Graphic Narratives."  Materials showcased in this exhibit include comic books from Special Collections' J. Peter Adler Collection and graphic novels from the circulating collection.

The J. Peter Adler Collection contains 264 comics including popular titles such as Spider Man, Aquaman, Superman, and Bat Girl, to name just a few.  The collection was a gift of then WCU president, Dr. Madeline Wing Adler, in memory of her son J. Peter Adler who was killed in a car accident in Texas in 1995. The comic book collection is housed in FHG Library's Special Collections and can individual titles and the collection in its entirety can be found by searcing PILOT.

Other materials in the exhibit include graphic novels and titles about the genre from the library's circulating collection as well as a brief history of these works.  Books in the circulating collection can be checked out please stop by the circulation desk to obtain these volumes.

The exhibit is open during normal library hours until November 2012. 

Want to learn more about Comics and Graphic Novels?  Check out our online reference works for more information.

Wednesday Special Event in FHG Library to Celebrate National Library Week!

April 10 - 16 is  National Library Week!  To celebrate this event, we have created an exhibit of nostalgic Library Read Posters and special edition children's books.  The exhibit can be viewed during normal library hours on the 6th floor of Francis Harvey Green Library outside of Special Collections (room 615). 

Also Remember our upcoming event, this Wednesday, April 13th:

Howard Pyle and the Red Rose Girls 

A presentation featuring Cathering Quillman, author of the recently published 100 Artists of the Brandywine Valley.  Quillman will explore the importance of this impressive triumvirate of local artists.  Trained by Howard Pyle, the Red Rose Girls (Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, and Jessie Willcox Smith) dominated America's "golden age" of illustration (1880-1911).

 

Event Details: 

Wednesday, April 13, 2011; 2:00-4:00 PM

Francis Harvey Green Library, Special Collections, Room 615

Following the presentation the author will be on hand to sign books and light refreshments will be served.

To RSVP call: 610-436-2747

“Our History is Our Strength:" Celebrating Women and Art

Library Services celebrates Women’s History Month with a new exhibit, “Our History is Our Strength,” coinciding with the nationwide month-long celebration. 

Our exhibit, located on the second floor of Francis Harvey Green Library across from the elevators, showcases beautiful art books purchased by WCU’s Institute for Women with the Pamela Hemphill endowed book fund.  Complementing these books is artwork by WCU’s own women art faculty, Sally Van Orden, Nancy Rumfield, Kate Stewart, Margaret Hill, Virginia da Costa and Donna Usher.  The exhibit will run until the end of April and can be viewed during normal library hours. 

For more information about the exhibit please contact Tara Wink at 610-436-3456 or twink@wcupa.edu. Stop by and celebrate women and art with F.H. Green Library!

Celebrating the holidays through Pop-ups

Stop by the second floor of FHG Library to see the newest additions to our "Pop-ups can be...The Imaginative and Creative World of Pop-Up Books."  To celebrate the holiday season, new books have been added showcasing traditions from Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Christmas.  The pop-ups in this case titled, "Pop-ups can be...Merry" are from Special Collections Uel W. Combs Pop-up Book and the Barbara Loftus Perrone Night Before Christmas Collections as well as the circulating juvenile collection available on the first floor of FHG Library.

The exhibit will remain up until the end of January during normal library hours.  Happy Holidays from FHG Library!

New exhibit celebrating Frederick Douglass Institute Director, Dr. C. James Trotman's Retirement

A new exhibit in F.H. Green Library now showcases items from Dr. Trotman's tenure as Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute in addition to select Frederick Douglass items from FHG's Special Collections. The exhibit is opposite of the elevators on the second floor of FHG Library.

Included in the exhibit is an autographed copy of Douglass' 1893 book "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass."  This book is part of the Philips Autograph Library.  Other items include photographs of Dr. Trotman, letters from Frederick Douglass to WCU President George Morris Philips regarding Douglass' lecture on WCU's campus in February 1895, and related publications.

Congratulations Dr. Trotman on your retirement!

For more information on the Frederick Douglass Institute please see their website at: http://www.wcupa.edu/_academics/fdouglass/

To see a digital version of Douglass' autograph check out FHG's digital collection of books in Philips Autograph Library here: http://digital.klnpa.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/philips&CISOPTR=42&REC=16

 

 

So you thought Pop-Ups only occurred on your web browser...

A new exhibit at F.H. Green Library showcases a selection of welcomed pop-ups from Special Collection's Uel W. Combs Children’s Literature Collection.  The exhibit, titled "Pop-ups can be…The Imaginative and Creative World of Pop-Up Books," covers the gambit from "traditional" children’s pop-up books to sassy adult-themed volumes. 

Stop by and see the colorful 3-D display on the second floor of F.H. Green Library during normal hours through January 2011 and be reminded of how much fun and beautiful books can be.  Check back as some cases may change with the season or holiday!

Interested in libraries and books?  Curious as to how the digital world is changing the nature of the book and the library?  Be sure to check out the Friends of the Library and English Department's speaker Mark Dimunation on Monday, November 1, 2010 in Philips Library from 4-5pm.  The presentation is titled "Living with the Real Thing: from the Original to the Digital."  For more information see this announcement: http://ramble.wcupa.edu/fol.

Library Celebrates 1,000,000th Record!

1,000,000th record entered into the WCU Library Catalog

On Friday March 26, 2010, Technical Services Librarian Pat Newland entered record number 1,000,000 into the WCU library catalog. This marks a significant milestone in the work of the Library, but it does not mean the library has 1,000,000 books.

Since WCU introduced its first online catalog in 1987, one million records have been entered into the catalog. Records are added to describe all the things added to the library collections: print books, electronic books, print journal subscriptions, electronic journals, electronic databases, audio visual materials, microforms, and much more. The records are numbered consecutively as they are entered, but the number of records is not reduced when items are removed from the library collections or when old records are updated with new information.

The number of cataloged items in the library is over 900,000, but it has not reached 1,000,000.

The Library will have a special celebration when the collection of cataloged items reaches one million, but, before then, we want to mark these significant milestones in the catalog.

Record 999,999: Untaming the frontier in anthropology, archaeology, and history, entered by Technical Services Librarian Pat Newland 

Record 1,000,000: Geography of the Holy Land: Perspectives, entered by Technical Services Librarian Pat Newland

Record 1,000,001:Ear training immersion exercises for choirs :  a companion to Choral ensemble intonation,entered by Music Librarian Paul Emmons.

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Summer Reading - Library Display

Check out the book display in the FHG Reference area ~
Recommended summer reading from the English Department faculty!

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
FHG: 641.0973 K55

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
FHG: 973.0496 O12z

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
FHG: 973.0405 O12z 2004

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie
FHG:  Dai D132sb (Fiction collection)
Also DVD of 2005 film: IMC DVD 306.7 B198 2005

Bearing the Body by Ehud Havazelet
FHG: Hav H383eb  (Fiction collection)

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
FHG: F Men (Popular Book collection)

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
FHG: Atw A887mbi  (Fiction collection)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
FHG: Zus (Juvenile Fiction collection)

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
FHG: Rus R969tb  (Fiction collection)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
FHG: Jun J95  (Fiction collection)         

The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
FHG: Aus A934pb  (Fiction collection)

Childhood's End & Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
FHG: Cla C597; Cla C597cr  (Fiction collection)

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
FHG: 813.54 F848

Collected Short Stories by Andre Dubus, Sr.
FHG has Selected Stories: Dub  D821rb  (Fiction collection)

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
FHG: Dum D886c  (Fiction collection)

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
FHG: 620.82 N842 2002

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
FHG: Coe C673rd  (Fiction collection)         

The Electronic Literature Collection
Web: http://collection.eliterature.org/      

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
FHG: Cha C456hf  (Fiction collection)

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
FHG: Har H314tf  (Fiction collection)

Fixer Chao by Han Ong
FHG: Ong O58h  (Fiction collection)

The Gathering by Anne Enright
FHG: Enr E59ag (Fiction collection)

Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
FHG: Har H314tg  (Fiction collection)

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
FHG: Von V947fg
   
The Hakawati by Rabib Alameddine
FHG: Ala A318rh  (Fiction collection)
 
The Illiad & The Odyssey by Homer
FHG: 080 G786 v. 4
WCU Libraries online collections (ECCO): The Illiad and the Odyssey

In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
FHG: Hug H893b  (Fiction collection)

Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
FHG: 949.618 P186

The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
FHG: Sco S428jr v.1  (Fiction collection)

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
FHG: 967.5 H685

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
FHG: Hos H829kk  (Fiction collection)
Also DVD of film: IMC DVD 302.3408 K62 2008

The Known World by Edward P. Jones
FHG: Jon J76pk  (Fiction collection)

Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie
FHG: 956.9405 C825z

Ludlow: A Verse-Novel by David Mason
FHG: Mas M398iL  (Fiction collection)

Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
FHG: Asl A835n  (Fiction collection)

March by Geraldine Brooks
FHG: Bro B873em  (Fiction collection)

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
FHG: Fit F554do   (Fiction collection)
   
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
FHG: 394.12 P771
   
Out  Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
FHG: Pet P499po  (Fiction collection)                               
   
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
FHG:  915.8104 S851

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
FHG: Cai C135jp  (Fiction collection)

The Professor’s Daughter by Emily Raboteau

Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida by Hent de Vries
FHG: 205.697 V982

The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
FHG: 833.914 S443z 1999

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
FHG: 813.54 M123
         
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour
FHG: 954.035 G488

The Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
FHG: Cha C456js  (Fiction collection)

The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
FHG: Win W788js  (Fiction collection

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
FHG: 973.7 L736zgo                               

Things Are Disappearing Here by Kate Northrop
FHG: 811.6 N877                               

The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction by Tim O'Brien
FHG: Obr O13rth

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
FHG: Nif N683at  (Fiction collectioin)

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
FHG: 299.5148 L298a4                                    

Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
FHG: Coe C673rw  (Fiction collection)

White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
FHG: Smi S664pw  (Fiction collection)