Lynda Barry‘s What It Is examines her creative process and shows you new ways to approach your own creative writing.
What It Is is based on Barry’s “Writing the Unthinkable” workshop.
c2009 Lynda Barry
Learn, Study, Discover
The Periodical Reading Room holds the current unbound journals and is open Sunday 12:00 pm Noon – Friday 9:00 pm, 24-hours a day and Saturday, 9:00 am – 9:00 pm.
Newspapers are located to the left along the back wall.
Current periodicals (magazines and journals) are arranged alphabetically by title.
The most recent issue is on the shelf. Older issues are located behing the shelf, just lift the shelf up.
Magazines and journals are bound after a year or so. Bound journals look a lot like books. The title is printed on the spine, along information such as the year, volume, and issue numbers so that you can locate the volume with the article you are looking for.
Bound journals are arranged alphabetically by title. During the renovation all bound journals are located on the first floor on the original side of the building.
Journals cannot be checked out but you can photocopy articles in the copier room located on the first floor.
Scholarly Texts and Research at Valdosta State University
Vtext is an open access institutional repository established and maintained by Odum Library at Valdosta State University. Vtext collects, preserves, and distributes Valdosta State University’s intellectual capital.
What do we mean by intellectual capital?
- Faculty and staff research
- Pre-prints & post-prints
- Journal articles – if the publisher permits it
- Student research papers & projects
- Conference proceedings
- Presentations
- University publications & documents
- Teaching materials
Vtext can accommodate a variety of formats including audio files, photographs, videos, posters, and more.
Why use the Vtext repository for your scholarship?
- The software makes dissemination quick and efficient. Authors or library staff can easily upload files and add descriptive information (metadata).
- Increases visibility for your research and your department. Vtext will bring new readers to your research. Vtext can be searched through Google or searched directly.
- Helps you meet grant requirements for dissemination. Most federal grants require that you describe how you will disseminate the results of your funded research.
- Provides stable long-term maintenance. The library is committed to maintaining long-term access to content housed in the repository, including durable file-names and addresses.
- Collects the intellect output of the VSU community in one location.
Benefits to authors include:
- Broadens worldwide access to material
- Increases citations of your research
- Preserves your research
- Eases access to material via search engines such as Google and Google Scholar
- Raises the profile of VSU researchers
How do I view the Vtext repository?
To view our institutional repository please visit the Vtext website at:
https://vtext.valdosta.edu/
You can browse the contents, or search.
How can I participate?
Vtext is a free service that the library offers to any member of the VSU community. If you are interested in participating, or if you would like to learn more, please contact:
Michael Holt
Reference Librarian
Odum Library
Valdosta State University
Phone: 229.333.7105
Email: vtext-help@valdosta.edu
Fall Break is next Monday & Tuesday, October 19 & 20.
Odum Library will be open regular hours this weekend and during Fall Break.
- Saturday Hours -9 am – 9 pm
- Sunday Hours – 12 pm – 2 am
- Monday Hours – 7:45 am – 2 am *with reduced services (see below)
- Tuesday Hours – 7:45 am – 2 am
*Monday, October 19 the library will be open with reduced services. The Reference Desk, Media Center, and 3rd floor computer lab will all be closed. You can still check out books, use computers in the second floor computer area, study, etc.
At flu.gov you’ll find everything you need to know about the flu.
It’s an attractive and easy-to-use site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
You can find out where flu shots are available, take a quiz to assess your symptoms, learn what to do if you’re sick, read up on flu myths, find archived press conferences and Webcasts from experts, and watch public service announcements— some featuring celebs like Elmo or Marc Anthony.
(Because when you’re worried about the big public health issues, who else but Marc Anthony springs to mind)?
OMG, me olvidé de lavarme las manos!
Atrium
Where the fun books are.
Browsing books are located on the first floor near the main circulation desk, on the tables to either side of the room.
The new movie Whip It is based on Shauna Cross’ novel Derby Girl, about a teenager who secretly joins a Texas roller-derby team.
Here Shauna Cross– herself a roller derby vet– talks about Whip it and becoming a screenwriter.
In Georgia we have the Atlanta Rollergirls (one of them was a stunt double in the movie), Savannah Derby Devils, and Classic City Rollergirls (Athens). Nearby in Florida are the Jacksonville Rollergirls (aka First Coast Fatales) and Tallahassee Rollergirls.
Here’s the official site for Whip It, but before you click, kids, know that it is LOUD.
At Information is Beautiful London-based designer David McCandless blogs visual representations of topical issues (or oddball ideas) such as
Demographics of troops in Afghanistan
How to be more successful at online dating
Getting a good night’s sleep
The Leona Hudson Collection was unveiled today in the VSU Archives & Special Collections.
The collection spans a long time frame, 1884-2008, and includes a variety of primary material including Letters and Documents, Photographs and Scrapbooks, and Books and Artifacts.
Deborah Davis, Michael Holt, and many student assistants and volunteers worked to collect, preserve, and make the collection accessible. Many of the letters are indexed individually. The collection can searched via Google, making the information easy for researchers to discover.
Dr. Catherine Oglesby wrote a short biography for Leona Hudson.
Leona’s parents, Rose and William Strickland.
The letters in the collection span four generations!
Leona married Dugald Hudson. They wrote many letters back and forth as he traveled in the Army. Later, they continued to travel the world together.
The Leona Hudson Collection contains materials that are potentially interesting to researchers in Military History, 20th century American and World History, South Georgia History, Valdosta, Georgia, Women’s Studies, photography, genealogy and many with other interests as well.
The Leona Hudson Collection was given to the VSU Archives and Special Collections by the estate of Leona Hudson in May of 2008. In addition, they gave Archives a grant that paid for the cost of processing the collection.