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To better serve you, we will be upgrading the FLO Library Catalog software on July 10 & 11. During this time, you can view Library holdings through WorldCat.
Books can still be checked in and checked out at the Library Circulation Desk. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
If you have any questions or need help locating a book, please ask a librarian.
Question
There is never anyone at the reference desk in the morning. Today there was no doorbell.
Answer
Summer Reference Desk hours start at 9:30 with an "on call" staffing model until 11:00. This typically means that we leave a doorbell at the Reference Desk so you can summon help when you need it. If you need assistance before 9:30 or don't see the doorbell, please ask at the Circulation Desk. A staff member there can assist you or help locate a reference librarian.
The Norton Anthology of Theory and CriticismThanks for the suggestion. We’ll order it.
We just received American Film: A History by Jon Lewis. This book is a sort of one-stop shop for American film. Lewis covers everything from the origins of film to the creation of studio systems, to specific films and filmmakers and their effects on film in general, the star system, film marketing, and of course the best part, lots of pretty pictures.
The ReadyReference collection - those fancy looking shelves behind the Reference Desk and those ultrafriendly librarians - has a shiny gold book just sitting there waiting for someone to open it up. What is this fancy book made of gold? It could be none other than volume 86 of the ADC Art Directors Annual: The Best Visual Communications Around the Globe. You can't check it out, but you can use this book as a resource for fantastic and innovative examples of advertising, design, photography, and illustration. It's all so good that someone decided it was the best. The common theme throughout the examples in this book is that each one uses creative ways to get its message across and make its viewer think differently about the subject being presented. Take a look if you're into good design, creative advertising, and great photography, or if you're just like me and like pretty pictures and shiny things.
Also, another good source for design, advertising, photography, and their creative application is our huge collection of the Communication Arts journals. We have all the way back to 1986 in the periodicals shelves next to all the computers. These however, are mostly bound in dark green covers and aren't quite as shiny.
