Iwasaki Library Blog

Beyond Kvetching and Jiving
by Joseph Boskin 1987

This essay is available in the book Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor. We’ll order a copy for the library.

Air Guitar and The Invisible Dragon
By Dave Hickey

The Lorax by: Dr. Seuss

We should have a copy of The Lorax! So we’ll order one.

Looking for a copy of any episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”

There’s just one episode available for purchase called Gun Control. We’ll order that one.

Losing your laptop, video camera or cell phone can be a devastating experience. The best way to prevent theft of your personal possessions while in the Library or on campus is to not leave them unattended. Even for a bathroom or vending machine break, as a theft can occur in a matter of seconds. Vigilance over your personal possessions will help to ensure that they remain your own.

The Office of Public Safety recommends several steps you can take to increase the likelihood of recovery in the event that a theft does happen. First, register your valuable at JustStolen.net, a database established by police officers to help people retrieve lost or stolen valuables. Second, register your valuable with Public Safety’s Operation Identification program. Call x8555 to make an appointment to have a sticker affixed to your property and all pertinent information entered into a searchable database maintained by Public Safety. You can also sign out an engraver to mark your property. It is recommended that you mark or engrave the two-letter abbreviation for your licensing/issuing state and your driver's license (or RMV identification) number in a visible place on your property.

The reference/regular selection for writers is severely limited in comparison with the bookstore. There are a lot of useful writing workbooks we should have, such as: The Little Red Writing Book The 3 AM Writing Epiphany A Writer’s Workbook The Pocket Muse & more! They’re fun.

We’ll order A Writer's Workbook: Daily Exercises for the Writing Life and The Little Red Writing Book: 20 Powerful Principles of Structure, Style, & Readability.
We have many other books for writers in the library. Try a search for these subject headings or ask a librarian for help locating what you need:

Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language-Style
Fiction-Authorship

Come celebrate the opening of Maine Women: Living on the Land, Lauren Shaw's documentary photography series featuring ten Maine women that have lived most of their lives on the land either by producing goods or building a community.

The reception will take place on Thursday, October 18, 2007, from 6-8 p.m. The Huret & Spector Gallery is located on the 6th floor of the Tufte Center building (10 Boylston Place).

“The show not only celebrates the tenacity and integrity of these ten women, but also those individuals that have lived their life in a similar fashion,” declares Shaw. Her black and white photographic installation also includes a video documentary as well as a series of triptychs that marry photographs with topographical maps of the area.

New England photographer Lauren Shaw has been spending the past twenty-six years in Maine as a part time resident. The exhibition began to take shape in 1996 when Shaw decided to start documenting women in Maine in attempt to understand the community.

Shaw’s work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and included in nationally known photography collections such as the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Getty Museum. She is currently an associate professor and the head of the photography program in the Department of Visual And Media Arts, where she has taught since 1972.

Books donated by Dr. Shoo Iwasaki 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.

Oliver Sacks - “Musicophilia: Tales of Music & the Brain”

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll order it.

Would it be possible to subscribe to Monocle magazine? It’s a new-ish global affairs and culture magazine that I think many people would enjoy.

A subscription to Art Forum

Thanks for the suggestions. We select new journals once a year and we’ve already selected new titles to start in January 2008. We’ll request sample issues of these journals and review them at our periodicals meeting next year. In the meantime, you can read selected articles at http://www.monoclemagazine.com and http://artforum.com.

I'd like to see the library subscribe the journal "Cyberpsychology and Behavior."

Good news! We do subscribe to this journal. We have 2002 through the current issue (August 2007). The full-text articles are also available in Academic Search Premier from 2000 through July 2007 (there's 3-month publisher embargo). Please ask at the reference desk if you have any trouble finding it.

I would really like to see a more complete collection of sci-fi/fantasy fiction in the library. Authors such as Judith Tarr, Tad Williams, Gene Wolfe, and even Ursula K. Le Guin are either absent or woefully under-represented. For example, you have books 1, 2, and 4 (of ) of the Earthsea Cycle by Le Guin, which is a classic fantasy work. The Farthest Shore is missing. And The Tomb of Atuan is in very poor condition.

Thanks for your suggestions. We’ll replace several of the older Le Guin paperbacks and order The Farthest Shore. We have several books by Gene Wolfe and we’ll order titles by the other authors you suggested. If you have any other recommendations, please let us know.

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