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Here are the titles we added during the month of September. The titles are arranged in call number order, followed by Fiction and Audiobooks.

CIRCULATING

153.6 Q6b
Quilliam, Susan. Body language. Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2004.

289.9
Layton, Deborah. Seductive poison : a Jonestown survivor's story of life
and death in the Peoples Temple. 1st Anchor Books trade paperback ed.
New York : Anchor Books, 1999.

299.7 C346J 1972
Castaneda, Carlos. Journey to Ixtlan : the lessons of Don Juan. [Book Club
ed.]. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1972.

The internet provides a wealth of great information, but we don't always know who is providing that information, or if they are qualified. One tool we can use to narrow our searches are library related web sites, databases, and indexes that are evaluated by people (not machines). Many such sites exist on the internet with free access, but it can be difficult to search them all individually. Google has made a tool available for us to customize a search. Try this custom search out:

Here is a transcript of the video and a link to additional information from the end of the video.

What do you think? Do we need to change the way our library operates to meet the needs of you, the student?

OK, last week I gave you Professor Welsh's take on classrooms and students. Here is another video from his digital ethnography project at Kansas State University. Introducing Information R/evolution:

Come join us in the library this week for a very special event. We are honored to host the annual Day of the Dead exhibit this year. The altars are quite stunning. According to the brochure, "ancient Mexicans believed dead people moved on to a different world. Death was another kind of living. Spanish priests, wanting to replace the indigenous religion with the Catholic one, tried to stop the people's celebrations for the dead. When that didn't work, they combined the traditions with the ancient Catholic holy days for the dead. All souls and All Saints Day, on November 1st and 2nd."

Interested in learning more?