Oct 23
| The Emerald Coast Campus Library is featuring the sculpture of local artist Maxine Hadfield in its new display case near the Reference area. |
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Oct 23
Let the Writing Lab Technicians help you to never be wrong!
The Curriculum Materials Library, in conjunction with the College of Professional Studies, is happy to announce our new partnership with the UWF Writing Lab. With financial support from the Graduate Studies department and COPS, we have a Writing Lab Assistant in the Curriculum Materials Library twice weekly. The satellite Writing Lab is active on Tuesday and Thursday from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. Appointments can be made by calling 474-2438 or in person at the information desk in the CML. Walk-ins are taken in the event of last minute cancellations.
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Sep 01
The Emerald Coast Student Government Association made a generous donation of nearly $700 to purchase core reference titles for the Combs, Eglin and REEF locations of the Emerald Coast Campus. Each of these locations will now have the following books available for students and faculty to use:
May 04
This week’s post is a guest entry by Marsha Clark from the Making Way for Excellence Communications Team reviewing Results That Last by Quint Studer.
As I was breezing through the Pensacola News Journal one day I saw another great article about Quint Studer and a local seminar he was giving. Being such a great fan of Mr. Studer and an active member of the Making Way for Excellence Coordinating Committee which introduced me to this great man, I wished I could have attended. As always, he had his audience mesmerized by his motivational message to be all they were intended to be. Since I couldn’t go, I decided to do the next best thing; I scrounged around the office for a book of his and came across “Results That Last”. It was then I was asked to write a small blog and will attempt to summarize the wealth of knowledge that is in this fascinating book.
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Apr 27
How would you like online assistance with keeping track of citations to books, articles, web pages, and other resources when you are writing a paper? Could you use an automatically generated bibliography in the style of your choice (e.g., Turabian, MLA, or APA) that can be cut and pasted into your document? How about something that will organize your citations so you can use them when you need them?
Apr 17
A popular battle cry of those seeking to call citizens to fully embrace their social and civic responsibilities is: Think globally! Act locally! Our current global economic woes are now evident to all, and while the John C. Pace Library can do little to change the global economy, we can at least attempt to have some positive impact on what happens locally. With this in mind, the library has recently updated its guide to local businesses, jobs, chambers of commerce, governments, community organizations, community services, and more. Please feel free to visit this guide at the following site: Pensacola Area Information: Business
Apr 06
The 2009 Caldecott Medal winning book is The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. The Caldecott Medal Award is given annually to the illustrator of the most distinguished American Picture Book for Children published in the United States.
Mar 29
This week’s post is a guest entry by Jerre Brisky from the Making Way for Excellence Communications Team reviewing Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, MD.
Every time I hear or say the title of this article, I’m immediately transported back to a four-letter word saying that was popular when I was in high school and college. It basically meant the same thing, but it usually followed an occurrence that wasn’t considered positive. When I was first given Who Moved My Cheese? years ago, I didn’t place much stock in it. After all, it is a fairly short book with a large font size and really looks much more like a children’s book than one for adults. I’m also not one to endorse self-help kind of books in general. But following some important changes in my life a few years ago, I happened upon the book again, reread it and was truly moved.
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Mar 23
In December, 2008 we posted a blog about the tens of thousands of electronic books (e-books) which are available through our online catalog and about the leisure reading pleasure which awaits you after a few keystrokes.
That blog was just a preview. In actual fact the library has more than 95,000 full-text e-books in all subjects, from literary classics to books in the “for Dummies” series to classic scholarly monographs to some of the latest books in computer science to books in just about any field you can think of. In addition we have access to nearly 8,400 digital classical music score records. Counting everything, through our library website a user has access to well over 100,000 e-book and digital music score items!
Mar 16
English author Neil Gaiman is already well known for his graphic novel series The Sandman, which has outsold comic book favorites such as Batman and Superman. Gaiman’s newest novel, The Graveyard Book, is the 2009 Newbery Award winner. Targeting the younger young adult market, Gaiman tells the story of Bod. No“Bod”y escaped from a murderer when he was just a toddler and found himself under the care of a diverse group of ghosts in a nearby cemetery. Unfortunately, the murderer who killed Bod’s family is still looking for him! And growing up in a graveyard has its own set of challenges. Why not check it out and see what happens to Bod?
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