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.
To access the collection, please click here.
FAU Libraries is excited to announce our first LibGuide to coincide with Blink, the
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A LibGuide is like having a librarian in your back pocket with superabundant tips and suggestions to improve your research! On these pages you will find interesting tidbits about author, Malcolm Gladwell, an informative bibliography, videos, and MOST importantly a place to share your observations, ideas and revelations about Blink with your fellow freshmen classmates.
To access your Blink LibGuide, click here!
At the close of National Poetry Month, April 2009, we would like to leave you with some audio thoughts that may encourage further exploration. Some may feel that poetry is inaccessible, but finding the right poem, or the right way a poet describes a poem, can open you up to reinterpreting the mundane. Below are some DVD’s about poetry, and the tortured and not so tortured poetic soul.
Arrows of desire: Poets on poems
A four-part series exploring English poetry providing insight into the poetic craft by looking at classic examples in a number of forms, such as love poems, elegies, nature poems, and comic verse.
Call Number: PS323.A7723 2003 (Boca Media Center) -DVD
Before night falls
The story of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas.
Call Number: PN1997 .B44126 2001 (Boca Raton Media Center) – VHS
The collected poetry of Nikki Giovanni
Poet Nikki Giovanni talks about her book, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998.
Call Number: PS3557.I55Z474 2003 (Boca Media Center) – DVD
Checking-out, shelving, answering, searching, finding, collecting, researching, interlibrary loaning, cataloging, reserving, instructing, a little shushing (not too much), and a lot of help
Join us in wishing our hard working colleagues at the FAU Libraries a Happy National Library Workers Day, and remember to show appreciation for your public and school librarians—all, unsung heroes of the information madness.
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK APRIL 12-18 2009
As the first event to honor independent film exclusively, Film Independent’s Spirit Awards has made a name for itself as the premier awards event for the independent film community. It’s a celebration of the spirited pioneers who bring a unique vision to filmmaking. See Film Independent’s Spirit Awards for a complete description.
This years Spirit Award’s ceremony will be held on February 21st, and will recognize achievements in independent film, including Best Feature, Best First Feature, and Best Feature Made for Under $500,000 (the John Cassavetes Award). Below are past Spirit Award winning films that can be checked out from the FAU Library Media Center. To find books on independent cinema, see In the News: Independent Cinema.
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