American Nerd and Beautiful Chemistry

We now have a print copy of American Nerd: The Story of My People (Benjamin Nugent, 2009) ready for check-out. Here's a description of the book from EBSCOhost's Book Index with Reviews database:
"A social exploration of the concept of the intellectual misfit presents a tour of nerd subcultures while tracing the personality's evolution in the media, literature, and society, in a report that reveals lesser-known common traits and interests among various subcultures."

To find more books like this one, search the library from the home page for such terms as: nerd; geek; gifted persons; popular culture; digital media; or technology and youth.

Off-campus folks: Fill out the Book Request Form linked to the library home page under the Services > Forms tab to have print circulating books shipped to you from the library. (We pay to ship to you; you pay to ship them back.)

Or, satisfy your inner-geek with a visit to the Beautiful Chemistry website. One of its videos was featured in the online Time magazine article "These Amazing Chemical Reactions Will Show You the True Beauty of Science" (8Oct14 reprint of Rachel Oakley's Lost at E Minor article). Talk about beautiful chemistry.
 
Then, enjoy looking through Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art (Harry W. Greene, 2013), another eBook in our collection that continues the discussion of science as art.

What a great day for Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, wouldn't you say?

--Sandy Hawes, Online Services Librarian

OxfordArtOnline Update

Artist: Carlo Crivelli,
"Madona and Child"
in OxfordArtOnline

OxfordArtOnline is the library's "go-to" online resource for your art research projects.  This database provides online access to the well-known Grove Dictionary of Art, a multi-volume print encyclopedia. 

In addition to the Grove Dictionary of Art, the library's subscription includes electronic access to: The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Oxford University Press is updating this resource in stages.  It has recently updated all of the bibliographies and articles in the Italian Renaissance section.  Check out the OxfordArtOnline home page after you logon from the library's site for more information about featured content and new essay, such as the one on "Science and Contemporary Art."

Oxford Art Online

The Oxford Art Online database, from the Oxford University Press, includes online access to the classic art reference Grove Dictionary of Art, which we have in our print reference collection. The Oxford Art Online database added the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art to our subscriptions this summer. We also have updated  Italian Renaissance Bibliographies .