News Item: As a major petroleum producer, Venezuela has one of the world’s largest reserves of crude oil, and President Hugo Chávez has been applauded for using his country’s oil wealth to establish social welfare programs that target the poorest populations. Yet, periodic electrical blackouts have frustrated many Venezuelan citizens who are protesting the government’s irresponsible management of its energy programs. United States officials have often seen Chávez as a threat to democracy in the Latin American region. Chávez, a leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, has been equally disapproving of the U.S., especially after its alleged involvement in the 2002 coup which temporarily removed Chávez from office.
5 Factories: Worker Control in Venezuela(DVD) By Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler. California Newsreel, 2006
Call Number: HD70 .V4 A15 2006 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Birds of Venezuela By Steven L. Hilty. Princeton University Press, 2003
Call Number: QL689 .V4 H56 2003
Bush Versus Chávez: Washington’s War on Venezuela By Eva Golinger. Monthly Review Press, 2008
Call Number: E183.8 .V4 G65 2008
News Item: French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the fathers of “structuralism,” died on October 30. Educated in law and philosophy at the Sorbonne, some of Lévi-Strauss’ major works include Tristes Tropiques, The Savage Mind, and Myth and Meaning. Through the years, structuralism has influenced studies in philosophy, film, and literature.
Anthropology and Myth: Lectures, 1951-1982
Claude Lévi-Strauss; translated by Roy Willis. Blackwell, 1987
Call Number: GN362 .L4613 1987
Claude Lévi-Strauss
By Denis Bertholet. Plon, 2003
Call Number: GN21 .L4 B47 2003
Claude Lévi-Strauss By Roland A. Champagne. Twayne Publishers, 1987
Call Number: GN21 .L4 C48 1987
The Digital Library celebrates November with a brand new digital collection from the Department of Music. All of the Department’s 2008 performances, concerts and recitals are available online for your listening pleasure.
November is a notable music month with the births of legendary composers Aaron Copland, Scott Joplin, and Manuel de Falla.
News Item: On Monday, November 2, Afghan officials declared President Hamid Karzai the winner of the presidential runoff elections after his opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, dropped out of the race a day earlier. Dr. Abdullah believed a transparent election was not possible if changes were not made in the Independent Election Commission. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama continues to contemplate whether or not to send as many as 40,000 additional military personnel to Afghanistan. Lastly, October marked the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the war began eight years ago.
Afghan Women: Identity and Invasion
By Elaheh Rostami-Povey. Zed Books, 2007
Call Number: HQ1735.6 .R67 2007
Afghanistan’s Uncertain Transition from Turmoil to Normalcy By Barnett R. Rubin. Council on Foreign Relations, 2006
Call Number: DS371.4 .R82 2006
After the Taliban: Life and Security in Rural Afghanistan By Neamatollah Nojumi, Dyan Mazurana, and Elizabeth Stites. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009
Call Number: HN670.6. A8 N65 2009
Dance in Video features more than 200 videos on 20th century dance productions and documentaries, and covers genres such as ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. Users can browse video selections by character role, choreographer, ensemble name, and venue, or utilize the “Quick” or “Advanced” search options. They can also create playlists that contain whole videos, tracks, or segments (clips). Playlists have their own unique static URL and can be shared with others. Dance in Video is periodically updated by the publisher and will eventually feature more than 500 hours of video material.
News Item: Fort Collins, Colorado - A six-year-old boy, his parents, and their homemade balloon recently made headlines after it was reported that the balloon floated away with the boy trapped inside its chamber. Not surprisingly, “Balloon Boy” received widespread media attention. Local law enforcement officials eventually declared the incident a hoax and said the family concocted the elaborate plan in order to achieve reality TV stardom. A popular genre among television viewers, reality shows often garner high Nielsen ratings. Why are they popular among television viewers? What is their allure? Pick up one of these books and see what the academics have to say.
Arresting Images: Crime and Policing in Front of the Television Camera By Aaron Doyle. University of Toronto Press, 2003
Call Number: HM1206 .D69 2003 (At Jupiter)
Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship By Laurie Ouellette and James Hay. Blackwell Pub., 2008
Call Number: PN1992.8 .R43 O84 2008
Big Brother: Reality TV in the Twenty-First Century By Jonathan Bignell. Palgrave MacMillan, 2005
Call Number: PN1992.8 .R43 B54 2005
‘”The thing about a visual form like a graphic novel is that so much of what you need to describe is done through art. It’s the impact of the visual that conveys the story to the reader.” Terry Brooks, “A very Graphic Interview,” Publishers Weekly, 07/07/08.
Those of us who did not grow up with comic books, may dismiss the burgeoning graphic novel form as strictly focused on fantasy and super-herosim. In fact, graphic novels can convey themes of adult proportions, creating emotional complexities and plot subtleties through “sequential images.” You can search “graphic novels” in the library catalog to discover resources on collecting, education, and the novels themselves, or use the Graphic Novels Core Collection: A Selection Guide to find recommended titles including reviews. The Libraries’ Jaffe Center for Book Arts Collection also has a selection of carefully chosen graphic novels.
Below, are titles from the circulating collection that will introduce you to a new aspect of this literary form. Read more »
News Item: Food lovers across the country were shocked with the announcement that Gourmet, the 69-year-old “magazine of good living,” will cease publication after its November issue. Publisher Condé Nast cited the current state of the economy and losses in ad pages as major reasons for shutting down Gourmet’s presses. Although not necessarily a substitute for the magazine, here are a few titles related to foodways, cooking, and cuisine that Gourmet readers can “devour” after their subscriptions expire.
African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture Edited by Anne L. Bower. University of Illinois Press, 2007
Call Number: TX715 .A2428 2007
American Cookery, or The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables, and the Best… By Amelia Simmons. 1798
Call Number: Available online via Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800
Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America By Linda Furiya. Seal Press, 2006
Call Number: F534 .V34 F87 2006
The Government Printing Office (GPO) has developed a new platform calledFDsys -Federal Digital Systems- which facilitates the discovery of some important information resources. Users can locate the CongressionalRecord, Congressional Hearings, Compilation of Presidential Documents (includes Daily & Weekly), FederalRegister, and much more. Search options in this new discovery tool allow for easier identification of items of interest to users. In addition, GPO has incorporated the important abilities to authenticate and preserve official information in this new platform.
News Item: The Nobel Committee announced that President Barack Obama would receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway on December 10. Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Literature, and the Prize in Economics will be awarded in Stockholm, Sweden later this year.
The Art of Peace: Nobel Peace Laureates Discuss Human Rights, Conflict and Reconciliation By Jose Ramos-Horta et al. Snow Lion Publications, 2000
Call Number: JZ5538 .A78 2000
Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank By Muhammad Yunus and Alan Jolis. Oxford University Press, 2001
Call Number: HG3290.6.A3 Y869 2001
A Century of Nobel Prizes Recipients: Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine Edited by Francis Leroy. Marcel Kedder, 2003
Call Number: Q141 .C252 2003
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