New Items At Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

• Minaret by Leila Aboulela
• No Silent Night: The Christmas Battle for Bastogne by Leo Barron & Don Cygan
• Islamic Arts by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair
• Modern Shakespeare Off Shoots by Ruby Cohn
• Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang
• Event of Literature by Terry Eagleton
• In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar
• Comfort of Things by Daniel Miller
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• History of Spain by Peter Pierson

More ScotsRead Titles Arrived

Another batch of ScotsRead popular books and bestsellers arrived for the collection.  Check out:

• Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure by Dean Koontz
• Servant's Hall: A Real Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance by Margaret Powell
• Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker: A Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini
• Kinsey and Me: Stories by Sue Grafton
• Private Berlin by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
• Until the End of Time: A Novel by Danielle Steel
• The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse by Sam Sheridan

Changes to Alexander Street Press Video Databases

Alexander Street Press combined all of its online video collections into one product known as VAST: Academic Video Online.  The following collections are no longer listed on the the Databases: Find Articles page, but are included in VAST. 

Collections that are now contained within VAST: Academic Video Online

·         American History in Video

·         Counseling and Therapy in Video

·         Dance in Video

·         Education in Video

·         Ethnographic Video Online

·         Filmmakers Library

·         Opera in Video

·         Theater in Video

·         World History in Video

Collections from Alexander Street Press that remain the same:

·         Black Thought and Culture

·         Music Online

·         Women and Social Movements

 

Access to databases is limited to the current students, staff, and faculty of Monmouth College.

Database of the Month: Europa World Plus

Europa World Plus

Are you looking for background information on the Syrian crisis?  Are you curious about the history of Korea before it split into North and South Korea?  Want to know what the flag of Thailand looks like?  Need statistics on any county? If you are looking for information on these topics or many others about a particular country or region, then start with this database which offers a wide variety of information and statistics on every country, territory and autonomous region on earth.  Each of the country entries contains a map suitable for use in presentations or for illustration, an image of the country’s flag, a brief history, information on holidays, physical and social geography, economics, politics, and much more. 

There are many search options found on the home page.  If you know the country in which you are interested, you can directly enter its name in the box found on the top of the page. (1)  However, this may bring up many results you are not interested in.  It is simpler to select the country from the tab on the top right hand side of the home page (2) (very helpful if you are not sure how to spell Tajikistan or Azerbaijan).

If you are not sure which country you need information on, you can select a region from the left side bar on home page. (3) Also found on the left hand side of the home page are links to international and regional organizations and a link which allows comparisons between countries. 

If you select a region you will find a map, recent news articles on the region and other selections Also, in the middle section of the regional home page is a linked listing of countries considered part of the region.

The help pages offer answers for questions on database use such as saving searches and data and other information.

Europa World Plus offers limited cultural information.  If you are in more need of cultural information on a country or region, begin with the following resources all found in the library’s reference section:
1. Countries and their cultures
2. Cultures of the world
3. Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life

Access to databases is limited to the current students, staff, and faculty of Monmouth College.

Check out a ScotsRead book! New Titles

A new batch of recently released popular books has been added to the ScotsRead Collection.  Check them out on the main floor.

• Habits of the House by Fay Weldon
• Mistress of my Fate by Hallie Rubenhold
• The History of Us by Leah Stewart
• Ashenden by Elizabeth Wilhide
• The Husband List by Janet Evanovich
• The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer

Tonight! Program: What is Islam? at the Buchanan Center for the Arts

Tonight the program ISLAM 101: What is Islam? will be presented at the Buchanan Center for the Arts in downtown Monmouth at 7:00 pm. 

Presenter: Hannah Schell, Professor of Philosophy & Religion, Monmouth College.

Professor Schell will introduce Islam to the audience. Her opening presentation will be supplemented by comments from a panel of respondents from Monmouth College, including Mohsin Masood, Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Monmouth College, Farhat Haq, Professor of Political Science, Petra Kuppinger,  Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. Masood & Haq are both Pakistani Muslims who have lived in the United States for many years. Masood has recently established a fund in the U.S. to support Malala, the young female student shot by Taliban extremists for her advocacy of education for females in Pakistan.

The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association, the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, Oxford University Press, and Twin Cities Public Television. Support was provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional support for the arts and media components was provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

New ScotsRead Titles

The following titles recently arrived and are available in the ScotsRead Collection:

• Extra Credit by Maggie Barbieri
• Two Graves by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
• Because I Said So: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to its Kids by Ken Jennings
• Dying on the Vine by Aaron Elkins
• Threat Vector by Tom Clancy

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library Collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

• Law of Superheroes by James E. Daily & Ryan M. Davidson
• Modern American Religion by Martin E. Marty
• Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein
• Plato Unmasked translated by Keith Quincy
• Future is Our Only Goal edited by Peter Noever
• Teaching Music Through Performance in Jazz by Richard Miles
• Half The Sky (video recording) by Independent Lens
• Web-Spinning Heroes edited by Robert Moses Peaslee
• Everyday Writing in Graeco-Roman East by Roger S. Bagnall
• School of Rome by W. Martin Bloomer

Gallery Opening Today: Tom Berenz

Please join the Art Department for an artist’s opening reception today, January 18, from 3:00-4:30pm in the Len G Everett Gallery 204 on the Upper Level of Hewes Library.  Artist Tom Berenz will discuss his work with a Gallery Talk at 3:15pm.

Hewes Library receives Bridging Cultures: Muslim Journeys Grant

Hewes Library, Monmouth College, has received a 2013 Bridging Cultures Bookshelf grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association on the theme of Muslim Journeys.  The library has received a collection of 25 selected books and 3 videos related to the people, places, history, faith and cultures of Muslims around the world, including those within the United States.  As part of the 2013 Bridging Cultures theme of “Muslim Journeys”, the Monmouth College community has planned the following series of events this Spring 2013 to promote these valuable resources enriching the Hewes Library collection.

Spring 2013 Events

Thursday, January 24, 2013, 7:00 pm

ISLAM 101: What is Islam?

Presenter: Hannah Schell, Professor of Philosophy & Religion, Monmouth College. 

Location: Buchanan Center for the Arts

Professor Schell will introduce Islam to the audience. Her opening presentation will be supplemented by comments from a panel of respondents from Monmouth College, including Mohsin Masood, Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Monmouth College, Farhat Haq, Professor of Political Science, Petra Kuppinger,  Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. Masood & Haq are both Pakistani Muslims who have lived in the United States for many years. Masood has recently established a fund in the U.S. to support Malala, the young female student shot by Taliban extremists for her advocacy of education for females in Pakistan. "Pakistanis in U.S. setting up fund for Malala" Dawn.com /20121011. 

Monday, February 11, 2013, 7:00 pm

ISLAM - AN OLD AMERICAN RELIGION: The long journey from 17/18th century Africa to 21st centuries US cities 
Presenter: Petra Kuppinger, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Monmouth College

Location: Hewes Library / Barnes Electronic Classroom

This presentation chronicles the arrival and dynamic existence of Islam in the USA, starting from the arrival of Muslim Africans forced into slavery, to a survey of contemporary Muslim communities and movement in the 21st century. Special focus is given to the difficult period of Muslim religious practices during the era of slavery and the first decades afterward. The second part of the presentation focuses on "new" Muslim movements (e.g. the Nation of Islam) in the early 20th century, and the large scale influx of Muslim immigrants beginning in the 1960s. A central question in the discussion of American Islam is whether or not the two historical experiences (Islam as a slave religious and 20th-century Muslim movements and communities) are connected. 

Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 7:00pm

Film: ISLAMIC ART SPOTS developed by D. Fairchild Ruggles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Location: Hewes Library / Barnes Electronic Classroom 

The video will be introduced and followed with a discussion led by D. Fairchild Ruggles, the producer of this video. 

Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 7:00 pm – SUFI POETRY READING (National Poetry Month)

Location: Buchanan Center for the Arts

 

Members of the college and Monmouth community will be invited to read selections from Sufi poetry. Coordinated by the Monmouth College Muslim Journeys programming committee. 

 
GREAT DECISIONS 2013 – January 23–March 20, 2013

Meets weekly on Wednesdays, 7:30–9:00pm in the Highlander Room, which is located on

             the upper level of Stockdale Center.  Programs are open to all.

·         January 30 – EGYPT – Petra Kuppinger, discussion leader

·         February 27 – IRAN – Mohsin Masood, discussion leader