Library News This Week
September 21, 2015
Videos Games available @ the Library
Check them out!
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Library Recital and Art Exhibit Program @ Giovatto
Share your talent with the Metropolitan Campus community
To find out more, or to schedule your recital or art exhibit, contact Paul (recitals) or Jessie (art exhibits) @ the Library
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New! — 3D Printer available for current faculty, staff, and students!
Contact Jessie to make an appointment for your get acquainted session!
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Volunteers needed for Library Language Tables
Share your knowledge of another language and culture by hosting a Library Language Table
Contact Kathy or Paul @ the Library
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One-on-One research consultations available with the Giovatto reference librarians.
Contact Paul @ the Library to make an appointment
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Express Check-Out – Pick up Your Books, Magazines, and DVDs at the Circ Desk Ready to Go – Just Call Ahead, and We Will Pull Them for You
Faculty and Staff – Express Delivery — Delivery to Your Campus Office by Intercampus Mail. Return Your Items to the Library by Intercampus Mail. Please allow time for Intercampus Mail delivery when placing your requests.
Contact Debbie @ the Library
This Week @ the Library
Movie Talk Film Discussion Group – Monday, 9/21 @ 1 PM, Ruth Schwartz Reading Room
Kathy’s Picks
15 food books to salivate over http://www.ew.com/15-food-books-to-salivate-over
The National Book Awards Longlist: Fiction http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-national-book-awards-longlist-fiction
PW Picks: Books of the Week, September 21, 2015 http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/68071-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-september-21-2015.html
‘Twilight’: Expanded Content For Special 10th Anniversary Reissue Of Novel http://www.etcanada.com/blogs/etc_157470/twilight-expanded-content-for-special-10th-anniversary-reissue-of-novel/film/
Self-Directed Independent Learning @ the Library
The Great Courses @ Giovatto Library – It is always a wonderful time to enjoy a “Great Course. The Giovatto Library collection includes many of “The Great Courses” on DVD and/or CD!
Giovatto Library Reader’s Advisory Service — If you would like to develop a plan for independent self-directed learning, please contact the reference librarians for assistance. We will be happy to help you to find the best reading and research materials for your needs.
For Alumni Only – Welcome May 2015 Graduates!
FDU Alumni Library Privileges — As an FDU Alumnus/a, you are entitled to lifetime Library privileges. Borrow books, magazines, DVDs, language CDs, and more from the Library. Attend Library events and programs. Use Library spaces.
To get your Library card, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations @ fdualumni@fdu.edu or at 201-692-7013.
If you would like more involvement with the Library, consider joining the Giovatto Library Alumni Advisory Board.
New Books This Week
Acadiana: Louisiana’s Historic Cajun Country
The Book of Shells: A Life-Size Guide to Identifying and Classifying Six Hundred Seashells
The Cajuns: Americanization of a People
The Career Fitness Program: Exercising Your Options
Cauca’s Indigenous Movement in Southwestern Colombia: Land, Violence, and Ethnic Identity
The Constitution: An Introduction
Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Institutional Powers and Constraints
Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance
Ethnic Dress in the United States
Genetics: A Conceptual Approach
A Guide to Forensic Testimony: The Art and Practice of Presenting Testimony as an Expert Technical Witness
The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It
Invasion of Privacy, a novel
Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics & the Struggle over Land
Native America and the Question of Genocide
The Old Farmer’s Almanac, 2016
Purity, a novel
Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
Scriptualizing the Human: The Written as the Political
Shells
Shells: Nature’s Exquisite Creations
The Story of the Lost Child, a novel
The Strategic Career
Undercover, a novel
Who Do You Love, a novel
New DVDs This Week
Arsene Lupin
Foundations of Organic Chemistry (The Great Courses)
The Guide to Essential Italy (The Great Courses)
The Mummy Triology
Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler
The Scorpion, season 1
Sound and Fury