Library News
Krupp Library Fall 2010 Volume 2, Issue 3
Spotlight On: Priscilla Welch
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For the past two years, Priscilla Welch has been volunteering as a transcriptionist for the Krupp Library’s collection of World War II letters. Priscilla has helped transcribe letters sent to the Bryant Service Club as well as letters from Professor Judy Litoff’s U.S. Women and WWII collection. She recently completed transcribing the extensive set of correspondence from Saidee R. Leach to her serviceman son, Douglas E. Leach (pictured at right), part of the larger collection of U.S. Women and WWII. The Leach family lived locally, in Edgewood, RI. Saidee Leach’s letters, sent from October 1943 through April 1945, present a highly-detailed example of life on the Rhode Island home front during WWII. Douglas Leach’s book, Now Hear This: The Memoir of a Junior Naval Officer in the Great Pacific War, is avail-
able in the Krupp Library. Priscilla is looking forward to her next volunteer project, transcribing a bundle of letters from Edith Sokol Speert. Priscilla, who has always had an interest in the WWII home front, says, “I feel so lucky to be doing a volunteer job that I just love.” For more information, please visit the Digital Commons at digitalcommons.bryant.edu.
Learn Creative Teaching Tools with the Library! To follow up on our successful spring Tech Fair, Information Services will host another event this semester. Join us for demonstrations of new teaching and learning tools and their applications. Bring your questions…and ideas!
This is a great opportunity to test drive the latest technology. Be sure to check out the iPad’s “Elements” app!
Information Services Tech Fair Thursday, October 7 10am-2pm in the Upper Rotunda Stop by for the latest and greatest news from the IS Division. Find out what’s on offer from the Krupp Library, Academic Computing/Media Services, Laptop Central, and more. Meet some folks, ask a tech question, get a cookie! And remember to ask about our new iPads, which will be available for a 7-day loan period with optional 7-day renewal.
Yolink — Move From Searching to Finding Yolink, a new browser add-on, promises to improve your research skills and help you search faster by searching smarter. Yolink scans web pages and browses e-books in seconds, finds and organizes search results, and seamlessly imports those results into Google Docs or your favorite social networking site. The goal is for you to spend less time
searching and more time finding, so you can write papers and create projects without wasting time. For more information, demo videos, and a free yolink download, visit: www.yolinkeducation.com
Introducing Andria Tieman Krupp Library is pleased to welcome our new Part-Time Reference Librarian, Andria Tieman! Andria comes to us with varied experience in customer service, libraries and higher education, including work at the Fargo (ND) Public Library, Quinebaug Valley Community College, and Warwick Public Library. We asked Andria to tell us a little bit about herself: How long have you lived in Rhode Island? I moved to Rhode Island three years ago from Fargo, North Dakota (of movie fame) — the snowiest scenes of the movie were shot right outside my hometown! I grew up in extreme northeastern Minnesota and North Dakota, 30 minutes from Canada. It was cold. Favorite place you’ve visited? I can't pick a favorite, but I do have a soft spot for England since I did a semes-
ster abroad there as an undergrad (plus, I love the accents). Do you prefer dogs or cats? CATS! My kitty, Watson, is a genius. Dogs are smelly and overeager. Visit Andria at the reference desk on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday evenings, or contact her at atieman@bryant.edu.
Mobile HELIN: The Library in Your Hand The HELIN Catalog is now available for your mobile phone. You’ll be able to search the catalog, make book requests, and more — all from your phone! Accessing your library account allows
you to perform functions such as renewing books, checking requests, and saving preferred searches. To use Mobile HELIN on your iPhone, Blackberry, or other smartphone, simply point your phone’s browser to: http://mobilehelin.uri.edu For other phones, use:
browser-enabled
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Crash Course: the American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster by Paul Ingrassia This is the saga of the American automobile industry's rise and demise, a story of hubris, denial, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit's Big Three car companies—once proud symbols of prosperity—through bankruptcy. Pulitzer winner Paul Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit's self-destruction inevitable? What were the key turning points? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? He also describes dysfunctional corporate cultures and Detroit's perverse system of "inverse layoffs." Along the way we meet Detroit's frustrated reformers and witness the wrenching decisions that Ford executives had to make to avoid GM's fate. Informed by Ingrassia's 25 years of covering the auto industry for The Wall Street Journal, and showing an appreciation for Detroit's profound influence on our country's society and culture, this is a uniquely American and deeply instructive story. LOCATION
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Ethnic Entrepreneurs : Identity and Development Politics in Latin America by Monica C. DeHart Ethnic Entrepreneurs examines how diverse groups, including indigenous communities in Latin America and Latino communities in the United States, have become visible and valuable as agents of economic development in Latin America in recent years. LOCATION
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The Human Footprint: a Global Environmental History by Anthony N. Penna The Human Footprint is a global, thematic, and multidisciplinary history of the planet, from its earliest origins to its current condition. Avoiding conventional narratives and using the latest research in a diverse range of fields, Penna brings harmony to human history and ecology and provides a fresh, much-needed narrative of world history. LOCATION
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Building Character: Strengthening the Heart of Good Leadership by Gene Klann Building Character is written for leaders who understand their responsibility to develop authentic leaders within their organizations. Without presenting an overarching moral code or a prescriptive code of behavior, this book offers leaders and managers a practical model complete with the tools, information, and processes to develop character in leaders at all levels. The author explains the role character plays in leadership success and effectiveness and outlines how character can be developed through the Five E's: Example, Education, Experience, Evaluation, and Environment. LOCATION
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Diversity Council Book Club Join the Diversity Council in reading their Fall 2010 book club selection, Laura Esquivel’s best‐selling novel Like Water for Chocolate. Subtitled “A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies,” Like Water For Chocolate has quickly become a modern classic. Publish‐ ers Weekly praised it as an “exquisite first novel” that “centers around the kitchen, the heart and soul of a tradi‐ tional Mexican family.” Like Water for Chocolate is on reserve at the Circulation Desk, and is also available on our Amazon Kindle e‐readers.
Visit our new homepage! library.bryant.edu
Learn with the Library!
NEW!
What is Mobile HELIN? Find out inside this issue! For details, see page 3.
Information Services Tech Fair Thursday, October 7 10am‐2pm in the Upper Rotunda of the Unistructure
Featuring our new iPads!
For more information, flip to page 2.
Library News is produced by Mackenzie Dunn, Public Services Librarian Email: mdunn2@bryant.edu