VCC Presents a KU Reading Exchange

The State of Exception:
Have We Become a Homo Sacer?

Based on Giorgio Agamben’s Theory

Discussion led by

Pietro Toggia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Criminal Justice Department
Kutztown University

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

3:00 p.m.

The VCC Gallery

Guests are invited to read about the topic for discussion. Copies of an excerpt from State of Exception are available at the library’s circulation desk.

"Affirmative Action in 2007: What’s left to be done?"

A Frederick Douglass Institute Lecture Series discussion on the state of affirmative action in the USA today will be presented by Dr. Nathaniel J. Williams, FDI Scholar-in-Residence, on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at noon, in the Voices and Choices Center Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.

Introducing the Gale Virtual Reference Library

The library has recently subscribed to a new virtual reference collection called the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Gale is one of the largest publishers of reference titles for libraries. More info below.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of 26 full-text encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These works fall under the subjects of Business, History, Law, Medicine, Multicultural studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, Social Science, and Technology.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (link to search all titles)

The Library currently subscribes to the following titles:

American Decades: Primary Sources
Countries and Their Cultures
Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources
Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns – Volume 2
Encyclopedia of Philosophy – 2nd ed.
Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America
Encyclopedia of Religion
Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources
Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine – 3rd ed.
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources
Government – Politics – and Protest: Essential Primary Sources
Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources
Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources
Issues and Trends in Technology and Human Interaction
Medicine – Health – and Bioethics: Essential Primary Sources
National Survey of State Laws – 5th ed.
Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources
Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources
West’s Encyclopedia of American Law – 2nd ed.
World of Forensic Science

These titles are linked at the library’s database pages at: http://www.kutztown.edu/library/er/

Read a Banned Book during Banned Books Week

The Rohrbach Library will take part in celebrating the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week from September 29th – October 6th. Get a jump on celebrating your freedom to read by getting more information about banned and challenged books at:

American Library Association’s Challenged and Banned Books page:
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/challengedbanned.htm

American Library Association’s Banned Books Week page: http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm

MSNBC article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20480366

Amerian Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Issues page:
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/ifissues/Default883.htm

New Way to Access RefWorks at Home!

You can now access RefWorks from home using the standard off-campus authentication (your KU ID card #). Previously users had to use a special password for off-campus access. This will simplify the process.

New link for RefWorks: http://voyager.ship.edu/remote/validate.cgi?db=REFWORKS

RefWorks is an online bibliographic management program that allows faculty, students, and staff at KU to create a personal database of e-references. References can be automatically imported from a search performed in some online databases or references can be entered manually. References can be formatted in a variety of output styles, including APA, MLA, Turabian, and Chicago as well as the styles preferred by a number of journals. KU faculty, staff and students have unlimited access to this software. Library Help Guide. This database purchased with student technology fees.

Book Fest Bus Trip

Attention Children’s Literature Aficionados
Alpha Beta Alpha Library Science Fraternity is sponsoring a bus trip to Washington D.C. on September 29, 2007, for Book Fest on the Mall. The bus leaves Beekey parking lot at 6:30 a.m. and leaves D.C. at 5:30 p.m. No stops along the way.

Head to this website to see authors and more details about the day:
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/

The Book Fest is fun – lots of authors. Last year Barnes and Noble had books for sale – no discount, however.

Bus drop off is within walking distance of monuments, Smithsonian, etc.
Click here for a map of the National Mall: http://www.washington-landmarks.com/map_national_mall.html

Cost is $32. ($27 for ABA members) If interested, please send a check for $32, payable to ABA. Please include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address.

For more information, contact Eloise Long at: long@kutztown.edu or 610-683-4302 or stop by the Library Science and Instructional Technology office in “RL12″ on the ground floor of Rohrbach Library.