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New GALILEO Password

by Laura Wright on January 9, 2009 in Odum Library

Password Discovery Station located near the GALILEO Computers

The Password Discovery computer does not need a password, just hit Enter.

Firefox will open up automatically, taking you to the Library’s home page.

Select Anywhere Access, located in the left red margin.

Login with your BlazeNet username and password.

The current GALILEO password will be revealed! The password will remain the same through the spring semester. The password changes at the start of each new semester.

New book: 90's-era Dallas Cowboys

by Maureen Puffer-Rothenberg on January 7, 2009 in Odum Library

In Boys Will Be Boys: the Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty, Jeff Pearlman recounts off-the-field doings and wrongdoings of Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, and other key figures around the mid-1990’s Cowboys.

Find this book at BROWSE GV956.D3 P375 2008, shelved next to the HUB entrance on the 2nd floor.

“The author doesn’t delve too deeply into the on-field strategy behind the Cowboys’ winning ways, but he makes up for it with countless salacious stories of late-night strip-club hijinks, backstabbing gossip and sordid legal affairs . . . “–Kirkus Reviews

We've Cataloged Our 1st Book for 2009 . . .

by Maureen Puffer-Rothenberg on January 5, 2009 in Odum Library

. . . it’s Political Philosophy, edited by Anthony O’Hear, a collection of essays about terrorism, the just war, and the role of emotion in political discourse.

By Tuesday it’ll be shelved on the 3rd floor at JA71 .P62245 2006

Contents:

Making the World Safe for Utilitarianism

Innocent Before God: Politics, Morality and the Case of Billy Budd

Democracy and Openness

Rights and Human Beings

Prerogative to Depart from Equality

Casting the First Stone: Who Can, and Who Can’t, Condemn the Terrorists?

Against Egalitarianism

Big Decision: Opting, Converting, Drifting

The Epistemology of Unjust War

High Culture, Low PoliticsEdmund Burke and the Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty

The Politics of Emotion: Liberalism and Cognitivism

Sunbathing in December

by Laura Wright on December 17, 2008 in Odum Library

Celebrate!

by Laura Wright on December 12, 2008 in (Almost) Daily Photo

Hello, Neighbor!

by Laura Wright on December 9, 2008 in Odum Library

FYI, you’re looking for the blurry raccoon in the center. I am still working on my wildlife photo skills.

Seeing Green

by Laura Wright on December 8, 2008 in (Almost) Daily Photo

Regift Without Fear!

by Maureen Puffer-Rothenberg on December 4, 2008 in Odum Library

In “12 Rules for Regifting Without Fear,” MSN Money’s MP Dunleavey tells how best to give away oddball gifts you’ve received but couldn’t possibly keep. Time to let someone else enjoy that special item your in-laws thought was perfect for you.

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Maureen Puffer-Rothenberg on December 2, 2008 in Odum Library

Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio calls Steig Larsson‘s novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo “a super-smart amalgam of the corporate corruption tale, the legal thriller, the Agatha Christie-type ‘locked room’ puzzle, and the dysfunctional family suspense story.”

Find it at BROWSE PT9876.22.A6933 M3613 2008, on the 2nd floor next to the HUB entrance.

Zig Zag

by Laura Wright on December 2, 2008 in Odum Library