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Category Archives: Books
Tuesday Tips: Need something to read?
Try an ebook from the GSU Library. You can always search the library catalog by ebook title if you’ve have something in mind already. However, browsing is easier through an ebook database. Find out more in this video tutorial or … Continue reading
Posted in Books, For Faculty, For Graduate Students, For Students, Resources
Tagged Ebooks
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Join Us for Open Education Week, March 1-5
Open Education Week is an annual event celebrated around the world to promote open sharing and other open practices. This week brings increased awareness to open content and issues surrounding education access, pedagogical effectiveness, and more. Each year, the corpus … Continue reading
Course Materials for Students – Spring Semester
Since the spring semester will arrive before we know it, considering alternatives to common challenges can reduce frustration for both instructors and students. Reserves Health and safety measures currently preclude our ability to offer print reserves. Small portions of a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Digital Collections, For Faculty, Research Guides, Resources, Services, Videos
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Access to Course Materials for Fall 2020
During the summer, the University has had access to the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service, which provided access to scanned copies of many of the print volumes in the library. Under the terms of this access, we will no longer … Continue reading
HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service provides temporary access to 1 million volumes in USG libraries
HathiTrust opened up copyrighted material in their digital library to member institutions with copies of those items in their physical collections. This means that any books available through HathiTrust which are also in University System of Georgia’s physical collections will … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Digital Collections, For Faculty, For Graduate Students, For Students, Services
Tagged COVID-19, HathiTrust, Keep Learning, Keep Teaching, online learning
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An Antiracism Reading List
On February 12, Ibram X. Kendi, professor and Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, published “A Reading List for Ralph Northam” in the Atlantic Monthly. Kendi wrote specifically in response to Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s … Continue reading
Posted in African American Studies, Books, For Faculty, For Graduate Students, For Students, History
Tagged Black History Month, Black Lives Matter
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Is banning books a thing?
This week (Sept. 23-29) is #BannedBooksWeek Now celebrated annually, Banned Books Week was started in 1982 “in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries,” and its purpose is to “bring … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Data Services, Ejournals, For Faculty, For Graduate Students, For Students
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