Humor and Facts in the Stacks for Tuesday Afternoon

from Wall Street Journal online

Marshall Cook's "A Video History of Every Book Ever Written" (Wall Street Journal online, 6.2.2010), is a humorous 6-minute video purporting to cover the history of the book "from the beginning of time"--or, at least, the Gutenburg Bible and the invention of the printing press.  It's something lighten up your Tuesday. 

Afterward, take a look at the "New Books @ Your Library" LibGuide, which organizes the new books and eBooks by subject categories.  You can link to eBooks from the list and read them on your computer.  To read one of the print books from the circulating collection, use the Interlibrary Loan request form to have it shipped to you.  (N.B. We pay to ship books to you; you pay to ship books back to the library.)

Updated Library Tour

Welcome to the Reference Collection at Cannon Memorial Library.

Take our virtual library tour to get an idea of the resources and services available from Cannon Memorial Library.  You will find two links to the tour on the library home page, one in the left-hand frame and the other beneath the picture.  If you have a comment to share, please use the comments feature here.

Wilson Web

Important Message

Click the "Important Message" link above for information about Wilson's new "going mobile" feature. Also, using the Biography Reference Bank alone is the easiest way to find biographies by name or occupation. Check the bottom of the screen for featured biographies, or on results pages, narrow by subject.

SLU Construction

Check out the "SLU Construction Update"" blog to follow the progress on the new School of Business building and other construction projects on campus. You can subscribe to the blog or get RSS feeds.

Gosic

The 21 institutions of the Florida Institute of Oceanography and USF Libraries have created the Gulf Oil Spill Information Center. It Provides links to the information about legal, political, environmental, and health impacts of the disaster, as well as related research.  

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 .

Credo Reference

Credo Reference eBooks now has topic pages for select search terms. Topic Pages will appear as the first thing in your results list. These pages include options to link to some of our other online resources, images and videos on the web, results deom the Credo collection, and more. Try this video to learn more about the Topic Pages.