Food for Fines

In celebration of National Library Week, April 15-18, 2008, the library is having Food for Fines.  Bring back your overdue library books and your fines will be forgiven.  One can of food equals $0.50.  For each can of food that you donate, we will forgive fifty cents worth of fines.  It’s a great way to get rid of those library fines and help a worthy cause.  All donated items will go to Bristol Faith in Action.

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New Items in the Library

Check out one of these new items available in the E.W. King Library:

Fiction

• A changed man : a novel / Francine Prose.
• A room called Remember : uncollected pieces / Frederick Buechner.
• Feathers / Jacqueline Woodson.
• Good faith / Jane Smiley.
• Henry’s freedom box / by Ellen Levine   illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
• Living to tell the tale / Gabriel Garci­a Marquez   translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
• Los gatos black on Halloween / Marisa Montes   illustrated by Yuyi Morales.
• November blues / Sharon M. Draper.
• Now and forever / Ray Bradbury.
• Peeling the onion / Gunter Grass   translated from German by Michael Henry Heim.
• Solo : my adventures in the air / Clyde Edgerton.
• The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel / Michael Chabon.
• The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures  / by Brian Selznick.
• The learned banqueters / Athenaeus   edited and translated by S. Douglas Olsen.
• The white darkness : a novel / by Geraldine McCaughrean.

Nonfiction

• American Gothic : a life of America’s most famous painting / Steven Biel.
• American musical theatre : a chronicle / Gerald Bordman.
• Augustus : the life of Rome’s first emperor / Anthony Everitt.
• Blue dreams : Korean Americans and the Los Angeles riots / Nancy Abelmann and John Lie.
• Bound for Canaan : the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America / Fergus M. Bordewich.
• Building a bridge to the 18th century : how the past can improve our future / by Neil Postman.
• Dictionary of the social sciences / edited by Craig Calhoun.
• Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
• First lady of the Confederacy : Varina Davis’s Civil War / Joan E. Cashin.
• Harvest of empire : a history of Latinos in America / Juan Gonzalez.
• Massive resistance : southern opposition to the second reconstruction / edited by Clive Webb.
• My year in Iraq : the struggle to build a future of hope / L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell.
•  Negro president  : Jefferson and the slave power / Garry Wills.
• Shakespeare : the biography / Peter Ackroyd.
• Teaching to transgress : education as the practice of freedom / Bell Hooks.
• The anatomy of hope : how people prevail in the face of illness / by Jerome Groopman.
• The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream / Barack Obama.
• The judgment of Paris : the revolutionary decade that gave the world Impressionism / Ross King.
• The poet slave of Cuba : a biography of Juan Francisco Manzano  / Margarita Engle   art by Sean Qualls.
• Wikinomics : how mass collaboration changes everything / Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.
• Young Hickory : the making of Andrew Jackson / Hendrik Booraem.

Spring Semester…already in progress.

It’s hard to believe it’s almost mid-term. I hope that you are having a good semester. Hang in there because soon, you’ll be finishing up your tests, papers, and projects to head for whatever alternate destination is available. Enjoy some time away whether it’s relaxing at home, taking a vacation, or doing mission work. Whatever choice you have made for Spring Break will be a welcome diversion from classes and assignments. Travel safely.

Consequently, during this busy week we’re here for you:

• There are two copiers available near the periodicals area, now.
• A television with a VCR/DVD player is now available for use with headphones near the periodicals area. You can check out the remotes and headphones at the circulation desk.
• AV Room 2 is now available for group study.
• You can print from your laptop in the library. Just ask for help if you don’t know how.
• There is wireless upstairs in the library.
• We regularly order new materials for the library. If there is something we don’t have that you think we should, please let us know.
• The E.W. King Library is open until midnight Sunday through Thursday nights, until 5:00 p.m. on Fridays, and 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays. Hours will be limited during Spring Break.

Merry Christmas!

Congratulations to Drew Price, who is the winner of the iPod Shuffle giveaway. Thanks for your tremendous response to the library survey. Check back here in January for results of the survey.

Exam hours begin on Thursday, Dec. 6th and run through Dec. 12. Exams hours can be found on the library’s website.

Merry Christmas from the E.W. King Library Staff!

New Items at Kingsport Campus Library

These items are now available for use at the Kingsport Campus Library located on the 6th floor of the Holston Valley Physicians Building.  Check here for hours.

• A Thousand Barrels a Second : The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World by Peter Tertzakian.
• Commander of all Lincoln’s Armies : A Life of General Henry W. Halleck by John F. Marszalek.
• Encyclopedia of Southern Culture 
• Essential Study Skills by Christine Ely and Ian Scott.
• Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance by Paul Wilmott.
• Globalization and Its Enemies by Daniel Cohen.
• Greed and Corporate Failure : The Lessons from Recent Disasters by Stewart Hamilton and Alicia Micklethwait.
• Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations : A Story of Economic Discovery by David Warsh.
• Microtrends : The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes by Mark J. Penn   with E. Kinney Zalesne.
• Science, Religion, and Society : An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Controversy
• Strangers & Pilgrims : Female preaching in America, 1740-1845 by Catherine A. Brekus.
• The Cigarette Century : The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America by Allan M. Brandt.
• The Disposable American : Layoffs and their Consequences by Louis Uchitelle 
• The Encyclopedia of Obesity and Eating Disorders
• The Essential Guide to Aging in the Twenty-first Century by Donald H. Kausler, Barry C. Kausler,  Jill A. Krupsaw.
• The Kids are Alright : How the Gamer Generation is Changing the Workplace by John Beck and Mitchell Wade.
• The Science of Success : How Market-based Management Built the World’s Largest Private Company by Charles G. Koch.
• The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies by Jagdish N. Sheth.

New DVDs/Videos for October & November

Check out one of these new DVDs or videos purchased in October and November:

An Ideal Husband
Bridge to Terabithia
Brokeback Mountain
Charlotte’s Web
Dead Sea Scrolls, Bible & Covenant
Dreamgirls
Flags of our Fathers
Ice age: The Meltdown
Jack & Sarah
Junebug
Keeping Mum
Letters from Iwo Jima
Marie Antoinette
Miss Potter
Over the Hedge
Pinky
Ratatouille
Ray
Seabiscuit
Superman Returns
Taxi Driver
The Chosen
The Journey of August King
The Last Sin Eater
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Nativity Story
The New World
The Queen
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The White Countess
Walk the Line
Wallace & Gromit: the Curse of the Were-rabbit
William Wyler’s The Heiress

All of these DVDs or videos are available in the video section located on the first floor of the library.

2007 Library User Survey

It’s survey time again.  Help us improve the library services by responding to the Library User Survey.  We take your comments and suggestions seriously.

This year, each person who takes the survey can enter to win an iPod shuffle.

Library Fest: Tales from the Stacks

Join us for the first ever LibraryFest:  Tales from the Stacks.  Enjoy stories, readings, songs, and more.  Plus, there will be lots of great food.

Friday, October 26 from 7-9 p.m. in the library.

Advice for students: N’allez pas trop vite - lifehack.org

Advice for students: N’allez pas trop vite - lifehack.org

Here’s some more good advice for students (and all of us) on how to find some connections to your present surroundings.  If you’ve never taken time to learn any of these things about King College, I would encourage you to do so whether you’re a new student or new faculty.

For example, the other day I attended a retiree luncheon where I ate lunch with a lady who both graduated from King and also worked here for many years.  She told me about living in Bristol Hall when it was a dorm.  Her stories were fascinating, and I loved learning about where King College has been.

For those of you who have been here a while, leave us a comment and tell us about one of your favorite King College stories or places.

Happy Friday,

Julie Roberson