Category: General News

Described by Douglas Adams in his introduction to Sunset at Blandings as “the greatest musician of the English language”. P.G. Wodehouse published 96 novels during his lifetime, and is the man we have to thank for introducing the world to Jeeves and Wooster, one of the most potent comedy pairings literature has ever known. He would have been 129 today. Cheers!

Students!
Do you know that library faculty are available for research appointments? The end of the semester can be tough, but library faculty are here to help you! If you’d like to sign up for a session to develop a research question or search strategy, learn about available resources, or talk about how to incorporate research into your projects, you can sign up for individual appointments with library faculty who can help you get started or help you polish off your citations. To sign up for an appointment, just fill out the Research Appointments form.

New in the library: European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
This database is not full-text. It indexes European works that relate to the Americas. Topics include the history of European exploration, portrayals of native American peoples, disease outbreaks and slavery.  more information

So, today’s date is 10/10/10. A binary number! Why is this one (101010) so lovely? Because in binary, 101010 translates into 42, which, according to Deep Thought, (the supercomputer in Douglas Adams’ Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), is the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.
10.10.10 at BBC News
10.10.10 at io9

• 2010 PEN Literary Awards : http://bit.ly/d6gbB4 via @addthis #
• Twitter Test #
• Happy Banned Books Week! http://is.gd/fyg4t #

2010 PEN Literary Awards : http://bit.ly/d6gbB4 via @addthis

Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.(ALA)
Some of you may have noticed the book collection featured in the exhibit window of the library. Each of the books on display has been challenged or banned in recent years, and all are available in CUNY collections. If you’re interested in finding out more about Banned Books Week, and the ways that libraries (and others) work to insure that readers have access to all kinds of ideas, you may be interested in some of the following resources.
ALA Library Bill of Rights
ALA Banned Books Week
Brooklyn Public Library Banned Book Reading Lists
NYPL post and reading list.
Huffington Post: The Eleven Most Surprising Banned Books
Banned in the USA, a history of book censorship in the US.

Faculty, come to a workshop on Wed 9/22 to learn how to use our new InterLibrary Loan system! details: http://is.gd/fmgKR