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Odum Library Blog

Odum Library Blog

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Learn, Study, Discover

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by Laura Wright on May 18, 2009 in Odum Library

These are a few of our newest reference books. As you can see we have reference books on a wide variety of topics. If you can’t find what you are looking for please ask us!

Set a row of random book titles on the desk and within minutes a librarian will organize them for you! 🙂

Fast cars, rowdy drinking, wild dancing, and the bobbing of hair

by Maureen Puffer-Rothenberg on May 11, 2009 in Odum Library

“It’s hotter here than in Eau Claire.”

Bernice bores her dance partner with the above in “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” one of ten Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald you can read online here.

1922 Film based on a Fitzgerald Novel

"She fed on her popularity and was disposed to like many men."

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by Laura Wright on May 8, 2009 in Odum Library

It’s a beautiful spring day. Perfectly suited to growing bananas!

Have a great weekend!

P.S. The library is open regular hours all weekend.

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by Laura Wright on May 5, 2009 in Odum Library

Studying hard on the first day of finals.

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by Laura Wright on May 1, 2009 in Odum Library

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.

¡Harry no pudo contener la risa!

by Maureen Puffer-Rothenberg on May 1, 2009 in Odum Library

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.

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by Laura Wright on April 29, 2009 in (Almost) Daily Photo

Many of our comic books and graphic novels are located on the third floor in the PN 6728 call numbers.

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by Laura Wright on April 27, 2009 in Odum Library

Need a quiet area to study for finals? Odum Library has designated Quiet Study Zones.

Read Fest 2009

by Laura Wright on April 21, 2009 in Odum Library

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.

Books About Comic Books

by Maureen Puffer-Rothenberg on April 14, 2009 in Odum Library

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.

A page from Will Eisner's sketchbooks.