Iwasaki Library Blog

The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan and The Paris Review Interviews, Volume II

Thanks for your suggestions. We’ll order the Carl Sagan book. The other book was recently cataloged and should be available soon.

P.I.G. (Politically Incorrect guides) series

We’ll order a couple of titles from the series:

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwin and Intelligent Design

If you’d like to read any other titles in the series, you can request them through the MA Virtual Catalog or interlibrary loan. Please check with a reference librarian if you need help placing the requests.

Colors Magazine, please!

Theme Magazine, please!

XLR8R Magazine
(wonderful reference for design, writing, and photography in magazines).

Thanks for the magazine suggestions. Library staff meet once a year in the spring to select new subscriptions. We’ve already selected new titles for 2008, so we’ll try to get samples and then we’ll review them later this year. We’ve had several requests for Colors but haven’t been able to obtain a sample issue. If you have one that you’d like to drop off in the library, that would be great!

Books celebrating Black History Month 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.

To the Emerson Community:

Late last week, two incidents of anti-Semitic graffiti (e.g. depiction of a swastika and phrase alluding to Jews, money and power) were discovered in one of the Library bathrooms. These incidents were reported to Public Safety and the offensive language has been removed, but I want to make it clear to those who viewed or heard about these incidents, and to the Emerson community at large, that this type of hate speech is unacceptable in our Library or anywhere on our campus.

While our Library has long been a place where free expression is championed and censorship opposed, it is important to distinguish between those worthy aspirations and the use of hurtful language intended to degrade or intimidate individuals or groups based on their race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation. It is essential that incidents like this be addressed promptly, so I ask that anyone who has information about this incident, or discovers similar incidents in the future, to contact Public Safety or me immediately.

Robert Fleming
Executive Director, Iwasaki Library

I was incredibly frustrated/disappointed to see that there were no reference librarians to help me with a photocopier problem at 5:30 this evening. The sign on the reference desk says you are available until 6pm on Fridays and I had not witnessed anyone there the whole time I've been here. (since about 3pm).

We’re sorry that the sign had the incorrect hours. We’ve corrected it to show the hours for this semester:

Monday through Thursday from 9:30 am until 11:00 pm
Friday from 9:30 am until 5:00 pm
Saturday from noon until 6:00 pm
Sunday from noon until 9:00 pm.

The circulation desk is staffed all hours that the library is open, so please ask for help at the circulation desk when a librarian is not available. Again, sorry for the inconvenience.

The Emerson College Book Group's next meeting will be on Monday, February 25th, 2008 at noon in the Spiritual Life Conference room located on the second floor of the Walker Building. The book for February is The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Below you will find the author's own site as well as an interesting NYTimes interview with the author. Enjoy and hope to see you there!

http://www.michaelpollan.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/magazine/29questions-pollan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

What color is your parachute 2008

Inkheart -Funke

Thanks for these suggestions. We'll order both books.

Film School Confidential: the Insider's Guide to Film Schools -2nd edition -revised in 2007

No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

The Library has added subscriptions to the following periodicals: Studies in Theatre and Performance, Believer, TapeOp, Comics Journal, Geek Monthly, Social Marketing Quarterly, and I.D. Magazine of International Design and Aperture.

Subscription to 125 Magazine?

Maggie Taylor: Adobe Photoshop Master Class

awesome surrealist artist who uses scanned images & photoshop

The Age of American Unreason by Jacoby

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll order it.

You should have more GRE prep books available, particularly more updated ones as the test is in the process of changing. I need to borrow one, but can't get a hold on any copies to take out from either the FLO or BPL catalogs.

Thanks for the suggestion. The test prep books do get outdated quickly, so we'll order a few newer ones for the library collection. In the meantime, you may want to request one through interlibrary loan by filling out the form at http://www.emerson.edu/library/about/services/book-request-form.cfm.

Could you consider a subscription to 'The Comics Journal'?

Good news! We just started a subscription to The Comics Journal for 2008. Our first issue should be here soon.

Hello, can you please consider Vman Magazine as new a subscription to add to our library? This highly stylized, well-written magazine is semi-annual but is well worth it.

Eurydice (a play) Sarah Reuhl

Divine fire: eight contemporary plays inspired by the Greeks

The clean house and other plays

The complete play is also available in the journal Theater, 34, no. 2 (2004): 36-67, in the library’s periodical collection. The play has not been published separately.