Odyssey Online

POETRY READING

“Have You Seen A. Lincoln? Searching for Old Abe in the National Archives”
Presented by Dr. David Gerleman, Assistant Editor, Papers of Abraham Lincoln

Thursday, November 5
4:30 p.m.
Josephine Young room, ODY Library

Sponsored by the History Department, ODY Library, and the SLU Sophomore Initiative

Hope to see you there!

…with Bill Fox’s inauguration at hand and the air of celebration much about the autumnal scenes here at St. Lawrence, I thought it would be in the spirit of things to point to books written by our faculty that are home here in the St. Lawrence University Library Collections.  These folks are great teachers, they’re fine writers.  This is not a comprehensive list, but, rather, a sampling for an inauguration weekend:

• Rabbit (un)Redeemed: the Drama of Belief in John Updike’s Fiction by Peter Bailey
• The Springfield Story: A Satire by Roy Caldwell
• El Interticio de la Colonia: Ruptura y Medicion en la Narrativa Antisclavista Cubana by Ilia Casanova-Marengo
• Los Corridos en la Memoria del Migranta by Martha Chew Sanchez
• Dream Season: A Professor Joins America’s Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team by Bob Cowser Jr.
• The Good Society: An Introduction to Comparative Politics by Alan Draper and Ansil Ramsey
• Shaping the Upper Canadian Fronteir: Environment, Society, and Culture in the Trent Valley by Neil Forkey
• Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: the Austrian Perspective by Steve Horiwitz
• Queer Family Values: Debunking the Myths of the Nuclear Family by Val Lehr
• African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum edited by Patricia Alden and David Lloyd
• The Sky is Not the Ceiling: An Astronomer’s Faith by Aileen O’Donoghue
• Freedom’s Promise: Ex Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation by Elizabeth Regosin
• Memory from a Broader Perspective by Alan Searleman and Douglas Herrmann
• Scraping by in the Big Eighties by Natalia Singer
• Economics as Moral Science: the Political Economy of Adam Smith by Jeffrey Young

…much has been going on in our Interlibrary Loan Office in the name of moving requests more quickly, and while most of this is things-technical that don’t effect how the SLU Community makes requests to borrow materials, we did come up with Five Really Helpful Things to Know About Interlibrary Loan. All five things do in fact help, this takes just a minute to read, take a look!

…with September upon us it is time, it is time, it is time to put off whatever you are doing and spend another twenty minutes in Facebook. We now have a SLU Libraries Facebook Page, so, all of you Facebook enthusiasts, simply look for us “Fanned” on the main SLU Facebook Page, or search St. Lawrence University Libraries and you’ll see all that we’re up to Facebook-wise.

…also, under the banner of all things Facebook, an interesting little piece from Atlantic Online about Facebook’s business strategy.  Seems they are thinking big and trying, according to Derek Thompson, to be  social networking’s “one portal to rule them all”…and under under the banner of something simultaneously sublime and ridiculous a Washington Post feature about people

turning to Facebook for religious companionship…

Dr. Celia Nyamweru and Michael Sheridan will be presenting on their book African Sacred Groves: Ecological Dynamics and Social Change on Friday, April 3rd, at 4:00 p.m. in the Josephine Young Room. The event is open to the public, and there will be an informal reception following the presentation. Hope to see you there!

Friday January 9th (Tomorrow) Paul Doty of the SLU Libraries (and author of this blog) will be giving a presentation on Firefox add-ons for the Northern New York Library Network.  In the past Odyssey Online has touched on Firefox add-ons (or as they are sometimes called, extensions), which are small utilities Firefox users have created to further the functionality of the browsers. The notes for the presentation on the 9th are available online. Add-ons are on of the big reasons that Firefox is the better browser…although, interestingly, Google’s new browser Chrome is dipping a metallic toe into the add-on pond (wow, there’s a metaphor).  Add-on support and functionality are in the very preliminary stages for Chrome, but it is interesting to see that Google is thinking along these lines.  Firefox add-ons are simply put: very good things.

In a side note CNN is reporting that Microsoft may already be rethinking Vista…