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23 April 2002

List of Recent Acquisitions Updated

The list of Recent Acquisitions (which includes CDs, DVDs, Videos, Software, Juvenile and Young Adult Literatures, and Reference Books, as well as books on the New Books shelf) has been updated. Books new to the list this week include subjects in the areas of:

American Literature
Art
Bible
Biology and Natural History
Botany
Education
Italian Literature
Marriage and the Family

Mathematics and Computer Science
Medicine
Motion Pictures
Physiology
Psychology
Rhetoric (English)
United States Antiquities
United States Ethnology

The list of recent acquisitions is updated weekly. Items remain on the list for one month or until they are checked out

Webliography Updated

New items included in the Webliography this week are in the areas of Education and Literature, and a new Virtual Reference Desk has been added to the list. Literature this week focuses on John Milton. Thanks goes to Janet Spencer for including these remarkable sites in her syllabus. The virtual reference desk is Bartleby.com, a ready reference resource providing a wide range public domain material on the web. Sources range from encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauruses to literary anthologies, poetry finders and quotation books and the Bible. There are a number of ways to find either a reference or the full text. One may search by reference "book," fiction by author or non-fiction by author--all by drop-down menu. Common ready-reference tools are accessible from a navigation menu.

Trivia Question:

Who wrote:

EIGHTY years have passed, and more,

Since under the brave old tree

Our fathers gathered in arms, and swore

They would follow the sign their banners bore,

And fight till the land was free.

Hint: It's in one of the profiled web-sites. The answer and how to get there will be in next week's edition.

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