10/15/2008

Homecoming @Your Library

Top Ten Reasons to Celebrate Homecoming at Marian College
October 15-18

There is no better way to show school spirit than losing all your chips at a Casino Night. Too bad you can’t write that off as a donation to the scholarship fund.

Resurrecting a cherished fall tradition – burning effigies at the bonfire Friday night. Watch out for flaming marshmallows!

Have you heard? Sr. Norma plans to QB one of the powder puff teams. Rumor has it she taught Brady Quinn everything he knows.

Homecoming. Not just a song by Green Day anymore.

It’s really too bad there won’t be a parade. We’ve been stockpiling tissue paper and chicken wire for months. Indestructible piƱatas, anyone?

Plans to build a Trojan Knight have been cancelled. Turns out that idea mixes mascot metaphors, and we just can’t have that kind of thing.

Well, you need something to entertain your family with during Family Weekend. They aren’t coming all that way just to hang out in your dorm room, now are they?

Does anyone drive a vehicle that actually has a tailgate? And what about the back of a truck says “let’s eat”, anyway? Funny how some traditions evolve…

Admit it – you secretly enjoy it when ancient alums show up VERY early in the morning (i.e. before noon), wanting to see their old dorm room.

I love the smell of bratwurst grilling in the morning. Smells like victory! (Go Knights!)

10/07/2008

Fall Break is just days away. Whether you are headed to the apple orchard, corn maze or haunted house, or staying on campus to catch up on some zzzz’s, the library is happy to offer you a few distractions:

New on DVD:
Iron Man, 1588V
Forgetting Sarah Marshall, 1587V
Persepolis, 1549V
One Tree Hill (seasons 1-5), 1581-1585V

New in the Leisure Reading Collection:
Hot, Flat and Crowded, by Thomas Friedman. Call number: GE197 .F76
The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America,
by Tom Buk-Swienty. Call number: CT275 .R6 B85

Foreign Body, by Robin Cook. Call number: PS3553 .O5545 F67
Paul of Dune, by Brian Herbert. Call number PS3558 .E617 P38
American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld. Call number: PS3619 .I94 A5


So, stop by the library and pick up a few things to take your mind off school during
Fall Break. Don’t worry, we won’t tell – we’re taking a breather, too!

Adjusted library hours during Fall Break:
Saturday and Sunday, October 11-12 closed
Monday and Tuesday, October 13-14 8:30 am – 10:30 pm
Regular hours resume on Wednesday, October 15.

10/06/2008

LibGuides

Mother Theresa Hackelmeier Memorial Library is pleased to announce the addition of Libguides, a new service designed to help students, faculty and staff locate research resources specific to their discipline or course. Previously we have relied on our print guides available for download, but this new online platform is much more dynamic.

Basically, LibGuides is a library-specific content management systems that allows us to list our most important resources in tabular format, to help ease the burden of research related assignments and to provide a general starting point when students simply don't know where to start looking for research items. Books, journals, databases, online resources, we are able to list them all according to subject for quick access.

Though we're in our beginning phase of creating our guides, we have about fourteen created and are continually adding more. So if you are either a student or faculty member who doesn't see a subject listing, let us know and we'll create one for you.