Ancestry.com (library edition) is now available on our Indexes and Databases pages and on the History Research Guide and Primary Sources Research Guide. http://www.citadel.edu/library/databases/ancestry.htm
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
ACLS Humanities ebook collection
Visit the site at www.humanitiesebook.org . You can browse books by title, or search within the 2200 full-text scholarly books for information on your research topic. Like a book index without the paper cuts. ACLS stands for American Council of Learned Societies. In case anybody asks.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Reward for Reading Winner for Sept. 14
Congratulations to this week's Reward for Reading winner, Norman Childress!
Norman read Cather in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Book description from Amazon.com:
"Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation."
Norman read Cather in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Book description from Amazon.com:
"Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="340" caption="Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger"]
[/caption]"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation."
Friday, September 11, 2009
Trial language-learning "database"
Despite being assured that few new library resources are being considered, the vendor Auralog offered us a trial to their language-learning software, Tell Me More. You can find the link here.
If you want to try this, you'll need to create a user account because the system is designed to track your progress. It's designed to help you learn via hearing, speaking, writing, and reading, so it might well be something you'd prefer to use at home. If you want to try to learn Dutch, French, German, Italian or Spanish during the next 30 days, go for it! Use INTERNET EXPLORER.
Please leave a comment here or email kirstin.steele@citadel.edu if you have questions or comments.
If you want to try this, you'll need to create a user account because the system is designed to track your progress. It's designed to help you learn via hearing, speaking, writing, and reading, so it might well be something you'd prefer to use at home. If you want to try to learn Dutch, French, German, Italian or Spanish during the next 30 days, go for it! Use INTERNET EXPLORER.
Please leave a comment here or email kirstin.steele@citadel.edu if you have questions or comments.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
QUOTATION OF THE WEEK
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. --Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)
Monday, September 7, 2009
Reward for Reading Winner for Sept 7.
Congratulations to this week's Reward for Reading winner, Stephen Kinn!
Stephen read The Apostle: A Thriller by Brad Thor
Book description from Amazon.com:
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"Master of suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most riveting international thriller yet.
A new administration and a new approach to dealing with America's enemies have left covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath without a job. But when American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action.
In a dangerous assignment that the United States government will deny any knowledge of, Scot Harvath must secretly infiltrate Kabul's notorious Policharki Prison and free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom - al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan.
But when Harvath arrives, he quickly learns that there is more to the kidnapping than anyone dares to admit. And as the subterfuge is laid bare, Harvath must examine his own career of hunting down and killing terrorists, and ask himself if he has what it takes to help one of the world's worst go free.
Brimming with the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity Brad Thor's internationally bestselling novels are known for, The Apostle doubles down on the blockbuster success of The Last Patriot and reaffirms Thor's status as the master of the political thriller."
Stephen read The Apostle: A Thriller by Brad Thor
Book description from Amazon.com:
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="184" caption="The Apostle - Brad Thor"]
[/caption]"Master of suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most riveting international thriller yet.
A new administration and a new approach to dealing with America's enemies have left covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath without a job. But when American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action.
In a dangerous assignment that the United States government will deny any knowledge of, Scot Harvath must secretly infiltrate Kabul's notorious Policharki Prison and free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom - al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan.
But when Harvath arrives, he quickly learns that there is more to the kidnapping than anyone dares to admit. And as the subterfuge is laid bare, Harvath must examine his own career of hunting down and killing terrorists, and ask himself if he has what it takes to help one of the world's worst go free.
Brimming with the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity Brad Thor's internationally bestselling novels are known for, The Apostle doubles down on the blockbuster success of The Last Patriot and reaffirms Thor's status as the master of the political thriller."
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