Learn, Study, Discover
Need to practice your foreign language reading skills? Want to read something fun?
Odum Library has Spanish and German translations for several of the Harry Potter books.
Search for the title Harry Potter in the GIL catalog to see what’s available.
This week we’ve added a few Spanish and German translations of J.K. Rowling‘s Harry Potter books.
Search for the title Harry Potter in the GIL catalog to find what’s available in Odum Library.
We also have Harry Potter’s World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives with essays on whether Harrymania is good or bad for kids, and how learning, education, and gender identity come across in the Potter stories.
Many of our comic books and graphic novels are located on the third floor in the PN 6728 call numbers.
On April 17, 2009 approximately 150 Pre-K students from three local schools visited Odum Library for Read Fest 2009, held in honor of National Library Week. Our goal is to promote a life-long love of reading through a variety of fun reading-related activities.
We had read-a-louds
Some read-a-louds include dancing
We had two puppet shows, with ice cream (yum!)
Students could get their faces painted
with great results
or scary results (spiders are the scariest!)
snakes are scary too!
or not on their faces after all
Students could color
or make bookmarks
Students had fun hula hooping
so did librarians
Students could spin the Chick-fil-A Wheel to win a prize
There was jump roping too.
Eventually the students had to go back to school.
This week we can offer you several books about comics or writing comics, for instance Dangerous Drawings: Interviews with Comix & Grafix Artists, or Anime Interviews: the First Five Years of Animerica, Anime & Manga Monthly (1992-97).
From Scott McCloud we have Reinventing Comics, Understanding Comics, and Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels.
Also, from three veteran authors– Alan Moore’s Writing for Comics, Will Eisner’s Comics & Sequential Art and Stan Lee’s How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way.
Lastly, Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! Writers on Comics, is a literary take on comic books from Brad Meltzer, Myla Goldberg (author of Bee Season) and the like.
You can find books about comics in GIL (the online catalog) or ask a librarian for help.
A page from Will Eisner's sketchbooks.
The Information School at the University of Washington is conducting a multi-year study to find out how college and university students do research— as they put it, “how early adults conceptualize and operationalize research activities for course work and ‘everyday use’ and especially how they resolve issues of credibility, authority, relevance, and currency in the digital age.”
Check out Project Information Literacy‘s Web site for a list of publications, videos and progress reports.
Their exploratory research with students at Saint Mary’s College of California found “the majority of students (87%) did not go to Google’s search engine first when conducting research as many previous studies have suggested.”
Number:Â 229-219-1362
Located at the main Circulation Desk, on the second floor.
Rates
- Free to recieve
- $0.25 per page to send local or long distance
- $1.00 per page to send international
This is one of several quiet study areas on the first floor. The afternoon sunlight coming in through the windows brightens up this area.