Please enjoy some of the new books and the services the Library is offering this month. This month we are spotlighting Constitution and Citizenship Day in the Library lectures on September 15th!

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September Newsletter

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Please enjoy some of the new books and the services the Library is offering this month.
For a listing of all of the Library's Newsletters check out our Archives!

What you can find this month!

NON-FICTION	FICTION	EBOOKS
LIBRARY RESOURCE	EVENT	SPOTLIGHT

NON-FICTION

The Tree of Life: a phylogenetic classification

Lecointre, Guillaume

The Breakbeat poets: new American poetry in the age of hip-hop

Why geology matters: decoding the past, anticipating the future

Macdougall, J. D.,

Newton's apple and other myths about science

Buried glory: portraits of Soviet scientists

Hargittai, István

Junk DNA: a journey through the dark matter of the genome

Carey, Nessa

Bitter fruit: the story of the American coup in Guatemala

Schlesinger, Stephen C.

God's Long Summer: stories of faith and civil rights

Marsh, Charles

Writing Online: rhetoric for the digital age

Pullman, George

The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self : an intellectual history of personal identity

Martin, Raymond

El narco: inside Mexico's criminal insurgency

Grillo, Ioan

FICTION

My best friend's exorcism: a novel

Hendrix, Grady

EBOOKS

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

Schumer, Amy

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

Ward, Jesmyn

LIBRARY RESOURCE

Instruction Services | Book-A-Librarian

Do you have a research/information literacy component as part of your class or a class assignment?

The Library can help out with A Library Instruction Session! Classes can include ...

Developing Research Questions
Defining Search Strategies
Using Library Resources (such as databases)
Determining Credibility and Evaluating Sources

For more information on please see our Instruction Services page or talk to Instruction Services Librarian, Carolyn Ciesla.

LIBRARY EVENT

Constitution Day and Citizenship Day in the Library | September 15th | 12:30-1:45pm

Join us in the Library for a celebration of Constitution Day and Citizenship Day on Thursday, September 15th from 12:30-1:45pm.

The celebration will include a lecture entitled “This Process Affords a Moral Certainty” The Election of the U.S. President by Professor Andrew Schott and Citizenship Game Show - How Much Do You Know About Citizenship by Professor Jennifer Eick-Magan.

For more information on the event and for Library resources on the topics check out the Event's Information Page.