200 YEARS OF THE TIMES OF LONDON ONLINE

Search the full text of the entire paper!

A recent donation from the Blanche Abrams Fund has allowed the University Library to purchase the Times Digital Archive, 1785 – 1985. This online treasure trove provides PDF-formatted scans of complete pages from this venerated news source.

You can:

• Search advertisements, articles, and illustrations/photos using keyword, date, or category searches, among others.

• View full facsimile images of both individual items and entire pages are available.

• Read more about the project at Gale’s web site.

This resource has been added to pertinent subject pages on the library’s web site. It will require you to sign in if you happen to be off-campus.

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD TURNS 50, AND "PARTIES ARE PLANNED" (New York Times)

To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, a variety of communities all over the country--including and especially in Monroeville, Alabama--are planning re-enactments, parties, movie screenings, readings and scholarly discussions. Read all about it here.

Urgent Nationwide Alfalfa Sprout Recall

STUDS TERKEL ARCHIVES COMING ONLINE

"If someone was an important figure in American culture in the 20th century, chances are he or she was interviewed by Studs Terkel.

Conversations with Rosa Parks, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King Jr. and Louis Armstrong are among the nearly 6,000 hours of interviews conducted by Mr. Terkel, the colorful Chicago author and oral historian, for WFMT radio from 1952 to 1997.

Under a deal signed Monday between the Chicago History Museum and the Library of Congress, tapes of those interviews will be digitally preserved and given new life online.

Remembered by Chicagoans for his political activism and distinctive red checkered shirts, Mr. Terkel, who died in 2008 at 96, donated the tapes to the museum in 1997.

The Library of Congress will digitize the Studs Terkel Oral History Archive, according to the agreement, while the museum will retain ownership of the roughly 5,500 interviews in the archive and the copyrights to the content."

Click here to read the full article from the New York Times.


(Source: New York Times May 13, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14cncpulse.html?emc=eta1)

ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS NEEDED MORE THAN EVER

"For all the concern expressed about the imminent demise of the college library, librarians are needed more than ever:" http://chronicle.com/article/Marian-the-Cybrarian/65570/

Ban on Texting while Driving

BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY/JCLC FINE FREE FRIDAY!

Attention Birmingham Public Library/JCLC Users: Fine Free Friday! On Friday, May 21, 2010, the Birmingham Public Library and the public libraries of Adamsville, Bessemer, Botanical Gardens, Gardendale, Homewood, Hueytown, Irondale, Leeds, Pleasant Grove, Trussville, Vestavia Hills, & Warrior will forgive fines. Some conditions apply. To learn more, visit http://bplolinenews.blogspot.com/2010/04/fine-free-friday-may-21-2010.html.

COPYRIGHT NEWS

Get all the latest news on copyright in the digital age on SU Library’s Copyright guide: http://samford.libguides.com/copyright .

Click on “In the News” to see news updated weekly.

Subscribe to the “RSS Updates” to see updates as they happen.

ARTS & LETTERS DAILY

I can't say enough good things about "Arts & Letters Daily," a service of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

It's a compendium of articles, book reviews, and essays from a wide variety of print and online sources. If you've ever wished for a one-stop go-to place for finding the best writing in the areas of literature, philosophy, music, art, language, literature, and criticism, this is the place for you.

VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE ANNE FRANK HOUSE

Fifty years after the opening of the Anne Frank House museum, which has more than a million visitors every year, the museum is launching an online virtual tour of the space where Anne and her family hid from the Nazis for two years. The online tour displays the space in detail, including photographs on the wall, the print on bedspreads, the tiny kitchen, and the cramped space where the eight-member family lived in daily fear of discovery.

Anne, her sister, her parents, and others hiding in the space were arrested in August of 1944 after their location was betrayed by an unknown informant. Otto Frank, Anne's father, was the only family member to survive. He posthumously published his daughter's diary.

You may also be interested in this YouTube video, which displays images and narrative from the online virtual tour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um3umnwgK3k

Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Resource List

HAS FACEBOOK GONE "ROGUE?"

This provides some food for thought. Anyone who has used Facebook has had the experience of setting and resetting and struggling with a complex and ever-changing range of privacy seettings. Here's what one writer at Wired magazine has to say about all this:

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue/#ixzz0nU0e19sw

SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS!!!

Okay, the semester is winding down, and we hope that our students and other patrons (but students especially!) are beginning to breathe easier and feel the relief of that summer break on the horizon.

And we thought it would be a good time to ask:
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What did you like about the library this year?

What worked for you?

And what didn't?

If you had the power to change something(s) about the library, what changes would you make?
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Please share your thoughts and ideas with us! Thanks!!!

CATASTROPHIC OIL SPILL IN THE GULF OF MEXICO--AND BEYOND

On April 22, 2010, a mobile offshore drilling rig located in the Gulf of Mexico, the Deepwater Horizon, experienced an explosion and fire. The impact of that explosion and the resulting catastrophic oil spill will be felt for years to come. Thanks to government documents librarian Carla Waddell for creating this guide: http://samford.libguides.com/deepwater_horizon.

MAY IS JEWISH-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

"The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Jewish Americans who have helped form the fabric of American history, culture and society." Please visit http://jewishheritagemonth.gov/.

EARTH DAY ART EXHIBIT WINNERS

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Earth Day Art Exhibit in the University Library.

1st Place: Danny Smith for his photograph "Village Creek."

2nd Place: Jordan Jarvis Hughes for her photograph "Almost Forgotten."

3rd Place: Lindsay Calhoun for her painting "Into Your Calling."

Many thanks to everyone who submitted their work, and congratulations to our winners.

LIBRARY SUMMER HOURS

We know you're already wondering about our summer hours. If you'll visit http://library.samford.edu/about/hours.html# and click on the month of your choice in the menu on the left, you can learn all you need to know.

GULF OIL SPILL RESOURCES AND IMAGES FROM SU GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

Stay up to date about this developing crisis with our government documents blog. Thanks to Carla Waddell, our Government Documents librarian.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALABAMA COAST CLEANUP

The Mobile Bay National Estuary Program, Mobile BayKeeper and the Alabama Coastal Foundation are collecting contact information from individuals who are interested in assisting with cleanup efforts along the Alabama coast should oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill reach the state's shores. Both the below sites have links to organizations recruiting volunteers:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/30/impact.oil.spill/

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/04/alabama_groups_seeking_oil_spi.html