Notes & Quotes
News and Announcements
MBC--MBC--MCNAUGHTON BOOK COLLECTION--MBC--MBC
Are you interested in reading current fiction or nonfiction books which have been published in the last twelve months? Because the Library does not purchase a lot of popular fiction for its collection, the Library now subscribes to the McNaughton Book Collection. Each month approximately fifteen titles are added to this Collection and are available for circulation during the next year. The idea is that there are always fresh, new titles for your reading enjoyment. When you enter the Library, turn right as if you are walking towards the copiers. The collection is on the left by the stairwell railing. Several lounge chairs are in this area for you to sit and browse your selections. Happy reading!!
More Computers in the Library!
If you look to the right as you enter The Brendlinger Library, you will notice a many new computers now available to students. These have been moved recently from the Learning Assistance Lab. They have been moved for many reasons, including in response to student request for more computers in the Library (as evidenced in the Library Survey); to make computers available to students between semesters; students working at the computers are closer to citation guides and librarians for assistance; and the move makes the LAL more dedicated to tutoring.
National Library Week April 13-19, 2008
National Library Week is a yearly national observance sponsored by the American Library Association and libraries across the nation. It celebrates contributions of our nation’s libraries and librarians and to support library use and support. The Week, in which all types of libraries participate, was first held in 1958. This year, the theme is “Join the circle of knowledge @ your library.”
Quotes on Libraries:
“A library doesn’t need windows. A library is a window.”
Stewart Brand, U.S. author and futurist, in How Buildings Learn (1994)
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady,…reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.”
Germaine Greer, Australian author and feminist, Daddy We Hardly Knew You (1989)
“I…had always thought of Paradise
In form and image as a library.”
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer, in “Poem of the Gifts” (1959)
Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes: “Medicine for the Soul.”
Diodorus Siculus: i. 49, 3
“Libraries are where is all begins.”
Rita Dove, former Poet Lauriate of the United States
