Recent Acquisitions: Videos
The following videos are now available in the EKS Library:
Vietnam [videorecording] : a television history / a co-production of WGBH Boston with Central Independent Television, UK, and Antenne-2, France in association with LRE Productions ; produced by Judith Vecchione ; written by Austin Hoyt, Judith Vecchione.
S. Burlington, Vt. : WGBH Video, [2004]
DVD Video
DS557.7 .V547 2004
Last Chinese revolution [videorecording] / written and photographed by Ed Dubrowsky.
[S.l.] : Video Knowledge Inc., 2006.
DVD Video
DS775.7 .L37 2006
Fully awake [videorecording] : Black Mountain College / a film by Catherine Davis Zommer and Neeley House.
Elon, N.C. : Elon University, c2007.
DVD Video
NX405.B55 F85 2007
French connection [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox presents ; a Philip D’Antoni production ; in association with Schine-Moore Productions ; screenplay by Ernest Tidyman ; produced by Philip D’Antoni ; directed by William Friedkin. , [Widescreen].
Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c1971, 2005.
DVD Video
PN1995.9.D4 F74 2005
From here to eternity [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; screen play by Daniel Taradash ; produced by Buddy Adler ; directed by Fred Zinnemann.
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2001]
DVD Video
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Recent Acquisitions: Main Collection
Recent acquisitions now available on the New Books shelves!
Kabuki heroes on the Osaka stage, 1780-1830 / C. Andrew Gerstle with Timothy Clark, Akiko Yano.
Honolulu : University of Hawai’i Press, c2005.
Temporarily at New Books
NE1321.8 .G47 2005
Cultural norms and national security : police and military in postwar Japan / Peter J. Katzenstein.
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c1996.
Temporarily at New Books
UA845 .K376 1996
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WU Special Collections Tapped
The Traveling Archivist Program (TAP) is a pilot project developed by the North Carolina State Historic Records Advisory Board and the North Carolina State Archives. The goal of the program is to offer direct assistance to institutions that preserve North Carolina’s historical heritage. TAP provides archival care instructions to institutions with collections potentially at risk (rare, delicate holdings, etc.).
In late November 2009 the EKS Library received confirmation from Mr. Jeffrey Crow (Deputy Secretary, Office of Archives and History) that the Wingate University Archives has been selected for the program. Forty institutions from around the state will be served throughout a series of two 8-month cycles beginning this Spring.
Contributor: Debra H. Hargett, E-Resources/Special Collections Librarian, MLIS
FOL Book Signing for Dr. Jerry Surratt
The FOL will hold a book signing and reception next month for Dr. Jerry Surratt, Wingate University Emeritus Faculty – History. Dr. Surratt is author of Part II (1985-2009) of The History of Wingate Baptist Church 1810-2009.
The book signing and reception will be held in the Efird Memorial Library, Wingate University Academic Quadrangle, on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 9:30am.
For more information, please contact Luanne Barbee at 704-233-8089 or lbarbee@wingate.edu.
Science Direct Maintenence
ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled upgrade maintenance for approximately 12 hours between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 23, 2010.
This upgrade is designed to allow the following:
- Redesigning the pages for easier reading.
- Adding graphical features to RSS and e-mail alerts.
- Improved book search by adding volume information to browse and quick search options.
- Added search refinements by adding a topics option–drawn from the keywords one selects–to one’s current search.
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Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna (Bloomsbury 2009).
There is a story of a newly minted Ph.D. entering her first position as an assistant professor of philosophy. The department chair assigns her (as one might expect) to teach a basic course in the history of philosophy. “Well,” the new assistant returned with some hesitation “I suppose I could go back to Early Russell.” It is a bit of an exaggeration, but there was a time with the Anglo-American (or Analytic) School of philosophy that it seemed generally assumed that–with the possible exception of David Hume–philosophy, real philosophy, hadn’t really been practiced until the advent of G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell. Logicomix is a graphic novel of the world of Bertrand Russell.
A graphic novel, a comic book about a philosopher, you ask? Well, why not? First of all, Russell was not only a philosopher and public intellectual, he was an out-sized character. While Logicomix leaves out a fair bit of Russell’s life prior to World War II (and includes nothing thereafter), what it does include of Russell’s personal life will show that a philosopher does not have to be dull. Read the rest of this entry »
Library Hours for MLK Day
The Library will be opening at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, January 18th in observance of the Martin Luther King holiday. It will, however remain open until 12:00 midnight as usual.
Recent Acquisitions: Videos
The following videos are now available in the EKS Library:
Blazing saddles [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures ; 30th anniversary special ed.
Burbank, Calif. : Warner Bros. Pictures : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2004.
DVD Video
PN1995.9.C55 B529 2004
Indochine [videorecording] / BAC Films ; Extended international version.
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video ; [S.l.] : Sony Pictures Classics, [1999]
DVD Video
PN1995.9.F6 I52 1999
All about Eve [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox.
Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2002.
DVD Video
PN1997 .A456 2002
Anywhere but here [videorecording] / Fox 2000 Pictures presents a Laurence Mark production ; Standard and widescreen versions.
Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2002.
DVD Video
PN1997 .A59 2002
Network [videorecording] / [presented by] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Two-disc special ed.
Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2006.
DVD Video
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Recent Acquisitions: Main Collection
Recent acquisitions now available on the New Books shelves!
Making of modern Japan / Marius B. Jansen.
Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
Temporarily at New Books
DS871 .J35 2000
From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor : who was responsible? / foreword by editor-in-chief Tsuneo Watanabe ; edited by James E. Auer.
Tokyo, Japan : Yomiuri Shimbun, c2006.
Temporarily at New Books
DS888.5 .K4613 2006
Japan, China, and the growth of the Asian international economy, 1850-1949 / edited by Kaoru Sugihara.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Temporarily at New Books
HC427.92 .J35 2005
Logic of Japanese politics : leaders, institutions, and the limits of change / Gerald L. Curtis.
New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.
Temporarily at New Books
JQ1631 .C87 1999
Japanese women writers : twentieth century short fiction / translated and edited by Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye Selden.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1991.
Temporarily at New Books
PL782.E8 J37 1991
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EKS Library Selected To Receive Books On Understanding Contemporary Japan
Over the course of the Summer of 2009, the EKS Library applied for and was selected as a recipient of a book donation project sponsored by The Nippon Foundation. Dr. James Hastings, Assistant Professor of History at Wingate University, brought the program to the attention of the Librarians. The focus of the book collection is “Understanding Contemporary Japan.”
A total of 43 titles were selected by Dr. Hastings and Mr. Richard Pipes, Collection Development Librarian, in order to best support the University curriculum. The books arrived during the Fall semester. Currently, these titles are on display near the Reference Desk and are available for check out. To find this collection in the Library’s online catalog, simply enter “Nippon Foundation” into the Basic Search box and you will be linked to the entire list of items. Each item has a Nippon Foundation bookplate to recognize the work in our collection.
We would like to extend our appreciation to Dr. Hastings and Mr. Pipes for their instrumental roles in the application and selection process. These materials will serve and enhance the resources for multiple disciplines.
