Iwasaki Library Blog

Whether you’re new or returning, now is a great time to get familiar with the Library and all of its amazing resources.

Stop by for a guided tour on

Wednesday, September 6 between 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, September 7 between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
Friday, September 8 between 10:00 a.m. and noon

We're at 120 Boylston Street on the third floor.

Or take a self-guided tour anytime that the Library is open. Find cutouts of Stewie Griffin throughout the Library and learn about our collections and services. Stop by the Circulation Desk and set up your Library MyAccount for a chance to win one of the Stewies.

If you haven’t made it to campus yet, you can live vicariously through our online map and the photos on our Flickr page. You’ll need to come in to fully enjoy the chocolate, though.

We look forward to seeing you during orientation and throughout the semester!

Erich Maria Remarque: Arch of Triumph and A Time to Love and a Time to Die

Thanks for your suggestions! We'll order them.

You can also get a copy of Arch of Triumph sent over from a school in our library consortium by placing a request in the FLO Library Catalog.

Robert B. Parker: Night Passage

Thanks for your suggestion! We'll order this book.

Books related to the CRVE 2007 theme “The Struggle for Free Expression” are on display in the President’s Room of the Library. You can also browse this display through our flickr page to see book titles and availability.

Replace the photo-copiers. Or at least repair the card readers so they actually tell me my balance. It saddens me that this school so eager to flaunt its technological savvy has been so negligent of these copiers. Also, to suggest that I travel to the print and copy shop is irresponsible due to the restrictions on reserve materials. Kindly take all of my tuition and purchase a new copier. Or if that doesn't work what if the "million dollar Freston gift" I am forced to read about. Or perhaps that alleged $82 million endowment. Surely the funds could be found somewhere. Lastly, I will say that the most aggravating thing about the copiers is that they are, for me, the library's only short-coming. All the more reason to address this at once. Thank you for reading this.

The copiers are on a contract that runs through next summer. Next spring we will probably begin the process of putting out an RFP for copiers and service. We will take all the comments and complaints we get very seriously in evaluating the proposals from vendors.

The swipe-card readers are standardized throughout the campus labs and printing facilities and are maintained by IT. If you swipe your card at one of the print stations (not the copiers) it will tell you your total balance (ECcash plus print credits). If you have complaints about the card readers, you should address them to IT staff.

It would be great to have the Emerson Race Book on file. It’s new this year and was created by Emerson students.

We didn’t realize the Race Book had been published yet! We’ve now received a copy and it will soon be available in the reference collection.

The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows, 3rd edition, by David Schwartz, Steve Ryan, & Fred Westbrook

We own this book. It is located in the reference collection at [X] PN 1992.8 Q5 S38 1999.

Something by Aleister Crowley!

Thanks for your suggestion. We’ll order The Book of the Law. Many of his books are available at the Boston Public Library, or you may request them through interlibrary loan.

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll order this.

Electoral Guerilla Theatre by Larry Bogad

Thanks, we’ll order it.

Photographs by Lauren Shaw, Associate Professor of Visual & Media Arts, are on display in the Library for the Fall 2007 semester.

Artist's Statement

It is with great pleasure that I present a small selection of my work that spans thirty-three years. To have the opportunity to combine one's vocation with one's avocation has been a gift while teaching at Emerson College. Looking back at my work over a period of time gives clarity and understanding of my photographic evolution. Each body of work has always led me to the next project, which has been guided by my intuition and curiosity. The work is a response to the immediate world around me. I think of my work as autobiographical because of the way it resonates with my life. The power of the photograph to convey the evocative as well as the cerebral has provided me the means to express myself both as an individual and an artist.
September, 2007

My thanks to Bob Fleming and Emily Garner who made possible this exhibition as well as Maine Women: Living on the Land in the Huret and Spector Gallery. September 2007

Lauren Shaw

Storied landscapes: 1989-1994

In 1989 while using the Polaroid 20x24 camera in the studio, I was able to place clear acetates of my writing inside the back of the camera. Shortly thereafter, while traveling in the Southwest with my medium format camera, I began to see language everywhere not only in the written petroglyphs left by the Anaszi but in the layers of geology revealed in the landscape. As I looked through the viewfinder, I saw a new field in which to record my own stories.

Maps: 1977-1985

After working with the Diana camera for four years, I felt the need to get close and sharp again. I began by photographing myself and then extended to my family and friends. I wanted to be anonymous and personal simultaneously by getting closer than the eye can focus. This body of work began my interest in “mapping,” representing on a flat surface the whole or part of an area. These close-ups are suggestive of a map. The lines and marks on their faces are references to who they are.

Dianas: 1973-1977

Batboy the Musical by Keythe Farley & Brian Flemming (2007 Emerson Stage Show)

We have a copy of Bat Boy: the Musical on reserve: call number ML50.O538 B3 2002.

Neurolinguistic Programming for Dummies Romilla Ready Kate Burton

We’ll order this. If you’d like to be notified when it comes in, you may place a request in the Library Catalog.

Selling the President 1968

We have two copies of this in the main stacks: call number E851 .M3. If you have trouble finding it, please ask at the Reference Desk.

“Hirohito” – Herbert Bix The definitive book on WWII-era Japan and beyond (Short of Dower’s Embracing Defeat).

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll order it.

Words that Work
The True Believer, Eric Hoffer
Popol Vuh, Dennis Tedlock

We have these three books in the library. Please see a librarian if you have trouble finding them.

Title: Words that work : it’s not what you say, it’s what people hear
Call Number: PE1431 .L87 2007

Title: The true believer : thoughts on the nature of mass movements
Call Number: HM716 .H63 2002

Title: Popol vuh : the definitive edition of the Mayan book of the dawn of life and the glories of gods and kings
Call Number: F1465 .P813 1985

The next meeting of the Emerson College Book Discussion Group will be on Monday, October 29, 2007 from Noon – 1:00 pm in the Walker Building 4th Floor Conference Room (#416). Our title is Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. For some background, you can see the author's web site, watch a speech she recently gave, or study a reading guide prepared by Penguin Books. I hope you all enjoyed the patisseries during our Suite Francaise discussion. Since Eat, Pray, Love concerns itself, among other things, with the author’s fervent desire to travel to Italy mainly just to eat (I hear she gained 23 pounds), I am probably going to bring along something Italiano from La Cucina de Paolo. Buon Appetito! (from Paul Twist, Staff Assistant)