Step up to the plate @ your library

Lila is pretty excited about the regular season starting up. So excited, in fact, that she pulled some super cool baseball books just in time for you to brush up your baseball trivia or read about a favorite team. Just do it!

Fromage frais and other literary delicacies

Bookseller Magazine recently held its annual competition for the quirkiest book title. Bloomberg reported that 42% of readers voted for Crocheting Adventures With Hyperbolic Planes and 30% for What Kind of Bean Is This Chihuahua? Last year's winner, The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais, is perhaps Lila's all time favorite.

Keep your eyes open next time you're browsing for books...you're sure to stumble upon an odd title or two. Let Lila know when you do.

Asian Studies Symposium!

Belmont is hosting its first ever (and annual?) Asian Studies Symposium this week! The kick-off convo will be held in the library (MMH) at 7pm tonight, Moday 3/15. There are several convos scheduled for the week, so read the press release and plan your schedule accordingly. As always, Lila has pulled some related books to help you continue to learn about some of these topics, issues and ideas.

Writing women back into history

Celebrate Women's History Month! Lila recommends checking out the Library of Congress resource Women's History Month and taking advantage of the *free access* (during the month of March) to Women and Social Movements in the United States a database with primary sources and excellent secondary material.

There will be tons of convos this month that deal with the theme resisting/feminism. We've pulled some books on the topic to help you prepare for the convos and figure out what feminism has meant historically and what it means to you.

Friday = No printing

We will be installing new printers on the first floor on Friday, March 12. This means that printing will be unavailable on the first floor during the installation. Third floor printing will be available and you'll still be able to log on and use all of the computers on the first floor.

Printing should be restored by Saturday morning at the latest and *fingers crossed* we should encounter fewer printing problems!

Spring Break PARTY!!!

Your spring break plans should absolutely include a visit to the Lila D. Bunch Library! We'll be open to serve 8am-4:30pm Monday - Friday.

And to welcome back those of you fortunate enough to get away over break, regular hours will not merely resume on March 15, they will resume and be EXTENDED!!! That's right, we'll be open 'til 12:30am instead of 11pm. Check out the hours for more info and see you soon!

Library Convos!!!

Library Skills 101 Rachel Scott Feb. 10 10:00am Hail Hall

This convo will (re)introduce you to the library's website, resources, and services...all from the comfort of Hail Hall's cozy lobby. Come and bring your questions!

LexisNexis Has a New Look! Judy Williams Feb. 25 4:00pm MILC

LexisNexis is one of the library’s most useful databases. You can search international newspaper coverage as far back as 1980, or right up to today’s editions. You can search law reviews and federal and state legal cases. You can do comparative business research on companies, or retrieve socioeconomic profiles of countries around the world. And that’s just for starters!

LexisNexis has a new friendly interface to make your research quick and easy. Come see what it’s all about!

Tennessee’s Virtual Library: Free Online Resources! Jenny Rushing Mar. 3 2:00pm MILC

Did you know that the state of Tennessee offers free databases and archival material on the Web to all residents? If you need something that Bunch Library doesn’t have, or if you’re graduating soon, learn about some other online free options for quality information resources.

Evaluating Internet Health Information Alisa Breece Mar. 16 10:00am MILC

Do you turn to the Internet for health information? With so much information out there what should you believe? Come and learn how to evaluate health information websites using: accuracy, authority, bias, currency, and coverage.

Finding Full Text: Use the Web and the Library Together Jenny Rushing Mar.24 3:00 MILC

So, you've found all these great citations on Wikipedia. Now how do you find the full text? You've heard about some interesting research from CNN. How do you find the actual study? Learn to use the library to locate articles you find through the Web or other secondary sources.

All convos except Library Skills 101 will be in the McWhorter Information Literacy Classroom on the 1st floor of the library