Wednesday, December 19, 2007

I Am Not Making This Up


We've heard that people are using their booktrucks in the craziest ways! Are you? Send us a photo of you using your booktruck in the most unusual, non typical way and win these great prizes...

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Circulate the fun! Tell your friends about this contest, too. Plus, you'll all get the chance to vote for your favorite!
I received this in my email today. The filename for the picture is "Rodeo Joe." The Demco web site has the contest rules and a section for entrants to submit their photos. I have a feeling I am going to get a lot of mileage out of this. This group will probably enter.

R. Philip Reynolds
preynolds@sfasu.edu
rm. 202b
936.468.1453
Subjects - Computer Science, Military Science, Philosophy/Religion, Political Science/Geography


Monday, December 17, 2007

Librarian's Advice: How to Conduct an Exhaustive Literature Review in the Earth Sciences

The Earth Sciences can be a daunting field to research. Lines between disciplines often overlap or blur beyond recognition. This makes it difficult to distinguish between them. Three library faculty willing to help include: R. Philip Reynolds preynolds@sfasu.edu (Geography) Don Richter drichter@sfasu.edu (Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology) and Bernice Wright bwright@sfasu.edu (Agriculture, Forestry).

In a guide on how to do literature reviews in the Earth Sciences, librarian
Phil Stoffer, of the Western Earth Surface Processes Team, US Geological Survey provides six steps to conducting an exhaustive search in the Earth Sciences. "How to conduct an exhaustive literature review in the earth sciences" on the USGS web site.

We are here to help.
R. Philip Reynolds
preynolds@sfasu.edu
rm. 202b
936.468.1453
Subjects - Computer Science, Military Science, Philosophy/Religion, Political Science/Geography
Don Richter
drichter@sfasu.edu
rm. 202a
936.468.1714
Subjects - Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology, Mathematics/Statistics, Music, Physics/Astronomy

Bernice WrightBernice Wright
bwright@sfasu.edu
rm. 202j
936.468.1528
Subjects - Agriculture, Forestry, Human Sciences, Human Services, Speech/Communication


Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Ask Stupid Questions

"Ask Stupid Questions": A Collaborative and Solution-Driven Reference Service

Ask Stupid Questions (ASQTM) is a radically new reference enquiry methodology developed by the National Library Board (NLB) of Singapore.... ASQ has transformed the reference enquiry transaction ... where the librarian assumes the role of the host in a game show format which encourages with fun, spontaneity and creative expressions.


R. Philip Reynolds
preynolds@sfasu.edu
rm. 202b
936.468.1453
Subjects - Computer Science, Military Science, Philosophy/Religion, Political Science/Geography

2007 Pulitzer Prize Winners

From Bowker's Patron Books in Print at Steen Library
Winner(s):
Native Guard: Poems

by Natasha Trethewey

Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire


The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright


The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
by Debby Applegate


The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff


The Road
by Cormac McCarthy


Finalists:

After This
by Alice McDermott


Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw

Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
by Pete Earley


Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks


Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2004
by David Wojahn

John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty
by Arthur H. Cash


Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

by Nathaniel Philbrick

Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
by James T. Campbell

The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers


The Republic of Poetry: Poems
by Martín Espada

R. Philip Reynolds
preynolds@sfasu.edu
rm. 202b
936.468.1453
Subjects - Computer Science, Military Science, Philosophy/Religion, Political Science/Geography

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

One Place Where You Will Probably Never See a Legislator



Images From Google Earth
See if you can guess the Library.


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Interior Photographs by Horacio Arevalo
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R. Philip Reynolds
preynolds@sfasu.edu
rm. 202b
936.468.1453
Subjects - Computer Science, Military Science, Philosophy/Religion, Political Science/Geography