New Books of Interest

There have been a number of new books of interest coming in! Here are just a few to peak your curiosity:

Handbook of online education by Shirley Bennett, Debra Marsh and Clare Killen. This work promotes active learning in an online setting. Why not revamp a course? (LB1044.87.B44 2007)

A Guide to getting arts grants by Ellen Liberatori. Why not write a grant this summer? (NX705.5.U6L53 2006)

Environmental crime and the media: news coverage of petroleum refining industry violations by Melissa L. Jarrell. Dig a little deeper into the latest whistleblowing. (PN4888.P47J37 2007)

Book of the Week

Good Girls and Wicked Witches: changing representations of women in Disney's feature animation 1937-2001 by Amy M. Davis (Indiana University Press, 2006) NC1766.U52 D53245 2006. Looks at the notion of Disney's heroines within American culture by analyzing the construction of female characters in the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio.

NetLibrary E-Books Usage

Since NMU has subscribed to netLibrary e-books, 5 of the top 10 most often accessed books have to do with Latin America. What are these five titles?
Bitita's Diary : The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria De Jesus {Latin American Realities} (used 176 times)
Death Without Weeping : The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (used 66 times)
Indian Women of Early Mexico (used 51 times)
Real Life in Castro's Cuba {Latin American Silhouettes} (used 51 times)
Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love : The Arpillera Movement in Chile, 1974-1994 (used 51 times)

BOOK OF THE WEEK:

The Story of French by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow. Published by St. Martin's Press of New York, 2006. (PC 2075.N33 2006) The authors unravel the mysteries and histories of the language in a narrative that spans the time of Charlemagne to the birth of Cirque du Soleil.

Since July 2006 152 art , 84 CAPS, and 16 modern language titles have been added to the Olson Library collection.

Introduction

Welcome to NMUmaniTies! This is a blog created for the use of passing library information along to the Departments of Art & Design, Communication & Performance Studies, and Modern Languages & Literature at Northern Michigan University. It is hoped that this can become a space where discussions regarding new materials in the library, new program developments, and areas of shared interest amoung these disciplines can occur.