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The Library hours during Summer Interim (May 8 - May 24) are:

The Library's hours during Summer Semester (May 27 - July 24, 2008) are:

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It starts with:

Come into the Garden, Fred,
For the neighborhood tabby is gone.
Come into the garden Fred.
I have nothing but my flea collar on....

For more information on poetry check out Columbia Granger's World of Poetry. Use it to find the full text of poems, or to locate the book a poem was published in. Grangers also includes biographies of poets, and streaming audio of poems in the "listening room". Or take a look at the Poetry for Student's 26 volume series. Read about the poet Dana Gioia to learn more about him, his poems, their style, themes and criticisms of his writings. Gale's Poetry Criticism series is another important collection with over 50 volumes available online, providing substantial critical essays and biographical information on major poets from all eras.

Search the Library Catalog for other books of poems written by Dana Gioia to take with you for your enjoyment during National Poetry Month.

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Celebrate National Library Week, April 13-19, 2008. First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. All types of libraries - school, public, academic and special - participate. Take a look at this National Library Week fact sheet for more information.

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In 1933, Mrs. Ada Wright, an African-American resident of the state of Alabama, went on a six-month, 16-country speaking tour of Europe. The trip was sponsored by the International Labor Defense, an arm of the Communist Party. Mrs. Wright was touring the world to speak out about the case against nine black youths, now famously known as the Scottsboro Boys, accused of raping two white women on a train going from Chattanooga to Memphis. Mrs. Wright had a particular interest in this case because two of the boys were her sons.
Women have sometimes been called on in the history of the United States to step forward in protest of injustice. The story of Mrs. Wright, and of many other women who played a role in the history of the United States, can be found in Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000, Scholar's Edition, a database available to members of the Pellissippi State community for their research needs. Here is a link to the article: Mrs. Ada Wright -- Mother of Two of the Scottsboro Boys -- Just Returned from Europe -- Will Make her First Public Appearance in Harlem.
To learn more about the database and research women and U.S. History, please follow this link: Women and Social Movements (in the U.S. 1600-2000) .

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If you walk by the New Book Shelf, it's hard not to notice some of the book titles. The following three in particular are real neck craners.

In Are Women Human?, the author Catherine A MacKinnon asks if women were human would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide, veiled, silenced, and imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay; stoned for sex outside marriage or burned to death within it; mutilated genitally, impoverished economically, and mired in illiteracy--all as a matter of course and without effective recourse?

The Frailty Myth strikes a more hopeful and upbeat note, suggesting that the difference between men and women in physical strength is a matter of learning and training and that when men and women are matched in terms of size and level of training, the strength gap closes. Author Colette Dowling who in 1981 confronted women's fear of independence in The Cinderella Complex, questions that women must accept their physical inferiority and offers that true equality isn't possible until women learn how to stand up for themselves--physically.
And finally for some practical advice for any woman who wants to move ahead career-wise is Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office 101. by Executive Coach Lois P. Frankel, Phd. According to Frankel, women hold themselves back in the corporate world by such self-defeating behaviors as working too hard, decorating their offices like their living room, feeding others, asking permission, and smiling inappropriately.

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The Library's March 2008 Newsletter is now available. Featured this month is an article about ACLS Humanities e-Books. This is a collection of full text history and humanities books that include titles such as "The Death Penalty: an American History", " The medieval idea of marriage". Read the Library newsletter for more suggested titles . Pick up a copy at the Library's Reference Desk, Satellite Campus ERCs or follow this link to the newsletter:
March 2008 Newsletter

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Take a few moments to visit the Black History Month book exhibit in the Division St. ERC, Room 208. Here are a few titles that might be of interest:

• Children of the Night: the Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to present
• The N Word: who can say it, who shouldn't and why by Jabari Asim
• Forbidden Fruit: Love stories from the Underground Railroad by Betty DeRamis
• Brown Sugar: over one hundred years of black female superstars by Donald Bogle
• Dreamer: a novel by Charles Johnson
• The African American Kitchen: Cooking from our Heritage by Angela Medearis (cookbook)
• Fatherhood by Bill Cosby
• Love and Marriage by Bill Cosby
• Hallelujah! The Welcome Table by Maya Angelou (cookbook)
• Yesterday will make you cry by Chester Himes
• Natural Health for African Americans by Marcellus Walker
• Building Homes out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power by Psyche A. Williams-Forson (cookbook w/stories)

Search the Library's Online Catalog for more!

Image from: Library of Congress: African American Odyssey


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The January 2008 issue of the Library Newsletter is now in publication! Get the latest in new resources including books on the New Book Shelf, new DVDs available for viewing in Educational Technology Services, and featured online databases. For example, Poetry for Students and Short Stories for Students are now available through Gale Virtual Reference Library. Here are links to both:

Poetry for Students
Short Stories for Students

Learn more from the Newsletter about these databases and other new resources: January 2008 Library Newsletter

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Good news! Tennessee's four major newspapers--the Knoxville News Sentinel, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, The Tennessean, (Nashville) and The Commercial Appeal(Memphis) -- are now available and searchable through NewsBank on Pellissippi Library's Web site. Paid ads are excluded. What is included is the latest news through today with one exception--since the News Sentinel is a local paper, the current day's news is not available until the next day. Get the latest: Tennessee Newspapers

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John Derbyshire's book Unknown Quantity: A Real And Imaginary History of Algebra has received excellent reviews and has just become available as a NetLibrary eBook.

Longstaff, Ben.Equal this.(Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra." New Scientist 190.2557 (June 24, 2006):. Academic OneFile. Thomson Gale. Pellissippi State Tech Comm College. 14 Apr. 2007.

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