Milligan Library Life

by the staff of P.H. Welshimer Memorial Library & Seminary Library

Second Annual Edible Books Festival–A Yummy Success!

Featuring books ranging from the most ancient (The Epic of Gilgamesh) to the most contemporary (The Hunger Games), the Milligan College Library held its Second Annual Edible Books Festival on March 26-27. Building upon a successful first festival last year, this year’s festival was easily better–and possibly even yummier! The event was held in the Welshimer Room on the main floor of the Library.

See this Wikipedia article for an explanation of the origins of this delightful festival. The submission guidelines are fairly simple: Create an edible treat that either looks like, alludes to, or describes a book in some way. It can be literal, artistic, or humorous.

This year we had 23 very creative entries–double the number of from last year–from Milligan students, faculty, and staff, or their family members. About 130 votes were cast on Monday for favorites in our four categories: Most Book-like, Funniest/Punniest, Most Creative, and Overall Favorite.

Congratulations to our winners (who each received an Earth Fare gift card):

  • Most Book-LikeThe Hunger Games by Grace Jackson
  • Funniest/PunniestPigs in Heaven by Seth and Stacy Tramel
  • Most Creative Where’s Wal-Dough? By Grace Jackson
  • Overall FavoriteCurious George by Brittany and Mariana Robinson

Once the winners were announced on Tuesday, the books were fair game to be sampled. In addition to their bookish qualities, all the entries were very, very tasty!

We received some great press on the event, including this March 27th story (with video) in the Johnson City Press, and this March 28th story in the Elizabethton Star.

Thanks to everyone who participated. Special thanks go to Mary Jackson, our Research and Instruction Librarian, and Meredith Sommers, our Information Resources Librarian/College Archivist, for planning and organizing the event. It’s not too early to get your ideas together for next year’s festival. Mary and Meredith are already looking forward to it, and how to make it even better.


Million Pennies Campaign raises $922.69 since January 2012!

We’re proud to announce that you, our loyal library users, have contributed $922.69 in cash and change to our Million Pennies Campaign since January 2012. We have now raised $6,494.85 since the start of the campaign in April 2010, which means we’re nearly two-thirds of the way there!

The Library staff would like to extend a hearty thank you to our most recent donors: Louise Clites, Jama Darnell, Victor “Tracy” Edwards, Matt Goehner, Matt Haren, Sterling Herron, Clint Holloway, Anna Lennox, Rebecca Miller, Lauren Tomlinson, and Matt Watkins. Remember, if you’d like us to thank you by name, please write your name down on the slips of paper in the tray next to the donation box, and we’ll let everyone know about your generosity.

Matt Haren is the winner of our monthly drawing. He will receive the hardcover Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank by Beth Hoffman. Congratulations!  Next month’s prize is the 2009 hardcover Our Front Pages from The Onion. Donate to the campaign, write your name on a slip of paper, and place it in the box. On May 1st, we’ll draw a winner from the names we’ve collected!

We still need your help in raising funds to help us reach our goal of a totally renovated library. Bring your loose change and help us get closer to $10,000. Remember, when we raise the money, we’ll allow you, the contributors, to name a study room whatever you like. Every penny helps! If you’re not familiar with the Campaign, check out original post on the library blog. And remember you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter as well. Thank you!


New Books and Media Received (March 2012)

The following Books, CDs, and DVDs (160 titles) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during March 2012:

1 Corinthians : a community not of this age / Christopher R. Hutson. Abilene, Tex. : Hillcrest, 2003.

The 4% universe : dark matter, dark energy, and the race to discover the rest of reality / Richard Panek. Richmond : Oneworld, 2011.

35 in 10 : thirty-five ten-minute plays / compiled and edited by Kent R. Brown. Woodstock, Ill. : Dramatic Pub., c2005.

Amazing Animals by Design.

An anatomy of addiction : Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the miracle drug, cocaine / Howard Markel. New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.

Ancestral appetites : food in prehistory / Kristen J. Gremillion. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011, 2011.

Ancestral leaves : a family journey through Chinese history / Joseph W. Esherick. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Ancient Christian commentary on Scripture : New Testament / general editor, Thomas C. Oden. Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c1998-

Andy and the lion : a tale of kindness remembered or the power of gratitude / by James Daugherty. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Puffin Books, 1989, c1938.

The anxiety of influence : a theory of poetry / Harold Bloom. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Appalachian health and well-being / edited by Robert L. Ludke and Phillip J. Obermiller ; foreword by Richard A. Couto. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2012.

As if : modern enchantment and the literary prehistory of virtual reality / Michael Saler. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Becoming who we are : temperament and personality in development / Mary K. Rothbart. New York : Guilford Press, c2011.

Berenike and the ancient maritime spice route / Steven E. Sidebotham. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

The book of universes : exploring the limits of the cosmos / John D. Barrow. New York : W.W. Norton, 2011.

The boy’s changing voice [videorecording] : take the high road / the Hal Leonard Corporation ; conceived and hosted by Henry H. Leck ; produced by Emily Crocker. [Milwaukee, WI] : Exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard, [2007].

Breaking Murphy’s law : how optimists get what they want from life– and pessimists can too / Suzanne C. Segerstrom. New York : Guilford Press, c2006.

Breaking Stalin’s nose / written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin. New York : Henry Holt, 2011.

The Caesars / Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus ; translated, with introductions and notes, by Donna W. Hurley. Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., c2011.

Caligula : a biography / Aloys Winterling ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Glenn W. Most, and Paul Psoinos. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Capital and interest, a critical history of economical theory / Translated with a preface and analysis by William Smart. S. C., Charleston : Nabu Pr. (BiblioBazaar/BiblioLife), 2011.

Career diplomacy : life and work in the U.S. foreign service / Harry W. Kopp, Charles A. Gillespie. Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, c2011.

Case studies through the healthcare continuum : a workbook for the occupational therapy student / Patricia Halloran, Nancy A. Lowenstein. Thorofare, NJ : Slack, c2000.

The changing body : health, nutrition, and human development in the western world since 1700 / Roderick Floud … [et al.]. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Chopin’s letters / Frederic Chopin ; collected by Henryk Opienski ; translated, with a preface and editorial notes, by E.L. Voynich. New York : Dover, 1988.

Christian materiality : an essay on religion in late medieval Europe / Caroline Walker Bynum. New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2011.

Christian peace and nonviolence : a documentary history / edited by Michael G. Long ; foreword by Stanley Hauerwas. Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, c2011.

The collected plays of Neil Simon. Volume 2 / with an introduction by Neil Simon. New York : Plume, 1986.

College drinking and drug use / edited by Helene Raskin White, David L. Rabiner. New York : Guilford Press, c2012.

A complete plain-English guide to living with a spinal cord injury : valuable information from a survivor / Carolyn Boyles. New York : iUniverse, c2007.

Compulsive acts : a psychiatrist’s tales of ritual and obsession / Elias Aboujaoude. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

A concise history of the Baltic States / Andrejs Plakans. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Consumer culture / Celia Lury. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.

A cord of three strands : a new approach to parent engagement in schools / Soo Hong ; [foreword by Jean Anyon]. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, c2011.

Counseling couples in conflict : a relational restoration model / James N. Sells & Mark A. Yarhouse. Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2011.

Critical and creative perspectives on fairy tales : an intertextual dialogue between fairy-tale scholarship and postmodern retellings / Vanessa Joosen. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2011.

Crooked smile : one family’s journey toward healing / Lainie Cohen. Toronto : ECW Press, c2003.

David Hockney : a bigger picture / [exhibition curators, Marco Livingstone and Edith Devaney]. New York : Abrams, c2012.

The devil’s milk : a social history of rubber / John Tully. New York : Monthly Review Press, c2011.

Dialectic of enlightenment : philosophical fragments / Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno ; edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr ; translated by Edmund Jephcott. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.

Digital media ethics / Charles Ess. Cambridge : Polity, 2009.

Doctor Who [videorecording] : the complete 1st series. [London] : BBC Video ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Warner Home Video ; [North Kingston, R.I. : Distributed by BBC Audiobooks America, p2006].

Doctor Who. The complete 2nd series [videorecording] / BBC ; BBC Wales ; executive producers, Russel T. Davies and Julie Gardner ; produced by Phil Collinson. Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video ; [England] : BBC Video, 2 Entertain, [2007].

Doctor Who : the complete 3rd series  [videorecording]. England : BBC Worldwide, 2007.

Doctor Who. The complete 4th series [videorecording] / BBC Wales ; BBC Worldwide; produced by Phil Collinson. Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, c2008.

Doctor Who. The complete 5th series [videorecording] / BBC ; producers, Tracie Simpson, Peter Bennett ; executive producers, Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger, Beth Willis. [United States] : BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2010.

Doctor Who: the complete 6th series  [videorecording]. British Broadcasting Corporation, 2011, c2010.

The dose makes the poison : a plain-language guide to toxicology / Patricia Frank, M. Alice Ottoboni. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2011.

Durer and beyond : Central European drawings before 1700 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Stijn Alsteens and Freyda Spira ; contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth … [et al.]. New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2012.

Education in Nazi Germany / Lisa Pine. Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Berg, 2010.

The emergence of civilisation : the Cyclades and the Aegean in the third millennium BC / Colin Renfrew. Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co., c2011.

Emma / Jane Austen ; edited with an introduction and notes by Fiona Stafford. London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2009, c2003.

The enigma of arrival : a novel / V.S. Naipaul. New York : Knopf, 1987.

Enrique’s journey / Sonia Nazario. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007.

The essential naturalist : timeless readings in natural history / edited by Michael H. Graham, Joan Parker, and Paul K. Dayton. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Ethics and animals : an introduction / Lori Gruen. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Europe today : a twenty-first century introduction / edited by Ronald Tiersky and Erik Jones, with Saskia van Genugten. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.

Evolutionary and interpretive archaeologies : a dialogue / Ethan E. Cochrane, Andrew Gardner, editors. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2011.

The fact of evolution / Cameron M. Smith. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2011.

Fifty contemporary film directors / edited by Yvonne Tasker. London ; New York : Routledge, c2011.

A history of Finland / Henrik Meinander ; translated from the Swedish by Tom Geddes. New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.

The first Maya civilization : ritual and power before the classic period / Francisco Estrada-Belli. London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Framing Muslims : stereotyping and representation after 9/11 / Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

A free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought / by Michael Frede ; edited by A.A. Long ; with a foreword by David Sedley. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Funny pictures : animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood / edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Georgia’s bones / written by Jen Bryant ; illustrated by Bethanne Andersen. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2005.

The Gibraltar crusade : Castile and the battle for the Strait / Joseph F. O’Callaghan. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.

God has a plan for you : The riches of Ephesians for women / Billie Silvey; foreword by Helen M. Young.. Nashville, Tennessee : 21st Century Christian, c2010.

Halos and avatars : playing video games with God / edited by Craig Detweiler. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2010.

Heritage that hurts : tourists in the memoryscapes of September 11 / Joy Sather-Wagstaff. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2011.

Historical comedy on screen : subverting history with humour / edited by Hannu Salmi. Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2011.

How racism takes place / George Lipsitz. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

I had brain surgery, what’s your excuse? : an illustrated memoir / by Suzy Becker. New York : Workman Pub, c2005.

An idea whose time has come / Floyd E. Rose. Columbus, Ga. : Brentwood Christian Press, c2002.

Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union / edited by Gyorgy Peteri. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2010.

The Incas : lords of the four quarters / Craig Morris and Adriana Von Hagen. New York : Thames & Hudson, 2011.

Incognito : the secret lives of brains / David M. Eagleman. New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.

Introducing palaeontology : a guide to ancient life / Patrick N. Wyse Jackson ; with illustrations by John Murray. Edinburgh : Dunedin, c2010.

Introverts in the church : finding our place in an extroverted culture / Adam S. McHugh. Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, c2009.

Inventing the PC : the MCM/70 story / Zbigniew Stachniak. Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, c2011.

John Milton : a biography / Neil Forsyth. Oxford : Lion, 2008.

Joseph Campbell and the power of myth [videorecording] / a production of Apostrophe S Productions, Inc., in association with Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc. [and] Public Affairs Television, Inc. ; presented by WNET, New York, WTTW, Chicago ; executive producers, Joan Konner, Alvin H. Permutter ; series producer, Catherine Tatge. Silver Spring, MD : Athena, [2010].

Journalism and realism : rendering American life / Thomas B. Connery ; foreword by Roy Peter Clark. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2011.

Kingdom beyond borders : finding hope along the refugee highway. [S.l.] : West Bow Pr, 2011.

Knowing full well / Ernest Sosa. Oxford ; Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.

The last days of Judas Iscariot / Stephen Adly Guirgis. New York : Faber and Faber, 2006.

Last stand : America’s virgin lands / Barbara Kingsolver ; photographs by Annie Griffiths Belt. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2002.

Latin America’s Cold War / Hal Brands. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2012.

Lee Krasner : a biography / Gail Levin. New York, NY : William Morrow, [2011], 2011.

A lion among men / Gregory Maguire ; with illustrations by Douglas Smith. New York : William Morrow, c2008.

Lucian Freud : portraits / Sarah Howgate ; essay and interviews by Michael Auping ; with a contribution by John Richardson. London : National Portrait Gallery, 2012.

The makeup artist handbook : techniques for film, television, photography, and theatre / Gretchen Davis and Mindy Hall. Waltham, MA : Focal Press, 2012.

Media perspectives for the 21st century : concepts, topics and issues / edited by Stylianos Papathanassopoulos. New York : Routledge, 2011.

The memory workbook : breakthrough techniques to exercise your brain and improve your memory / Douglas J. Mason & Michael L. Kohn ; foreword by Karen A. Clark. Oakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, : c2001. : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Publishers Group West, c2001.

Mightier than the sword : Uncle Tom’s cabin and the battle for America / David S. Reynolds. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2011.

Moonshiners and prohibitionists : the battle over alcohol in southern Appalachia / Bruce E. Stewart. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c2011.

Moral intelligence 2.0 : enhancing business performance and leadership success in turbulent times / Doug Lennick, Fred Kiel with Kathy Jordan. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2011.

Mr. Popper’s penguins / by Richard and Florence Atwater ; illustrated by Robert Lawson. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [1988], c1938.

Music from the Venetian Ospedali [sound recording] / San Francisco Girls Chorus. San Francisco, CA : The Chorus, 1998.

Mutation : the history of an idea from Darwin to genomics / Elof Axel Carlson. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2011.

My brother Sam is dead / by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier. New York : Four Winds Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, [1985] c1974.

The mystery of godliness : great themes from 1 Timothy / Kenneth L. Cukrowski. Webb City, Mo. : Covenant Pub., c2004.

Nine days to Christmas / by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida illustrated by Marie Hall Ets. New York : Viking Press 1987,1959.

On what matters / Derek Parfit  ; edited and introduced by Samuel Scheffler. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Once out of nature : Augustine on time and the body / Andrea Nightingale. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

The origins of morality : an evolutionary account / Dennis L. Krebs. Cambridge ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

The other Boleyn girl [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures and Focus Features present ; in association with BBC Films ; in association with Relativity Media ; a Ruby Films/Scott Rudin Production ; produced by Alison Owen, Scott Rudin ; screenplay by Peter Morgan ; directed by Justin Chadwick. Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2008].

An Ottoman traveller : selections from the Book of travels of Evliya Celebi / translation and commentary by Robert Dankoff and Sooyong Kim. London : Eland, 2011.

Ourselves unborn : a history of the fetus in modern America / Sara Dubow. Oxford  ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Owning William Shakespeare : The King’s Men and their intellectual property / James J. Marino. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.

Oxford handbook of positive psychology / edited by C.R. Snyder, Shane J. Lopez. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Parallel Gospels : a synopsis of early Christian writing / [translated by] Zeba A. Crook. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Parting ways : new rituals and celebrations of life’s passing / Denise Carson. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

A people of one book : the Bible and the Victorians / Timothy Larsen. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

The perfect blend [videorecording] / producer/director, Shawn Northcutt. Nashville, TN : Shawnee Press, 2006.

The perfect blend : over 100 seriously fun vocal warm-ups / Timothy Seelig. Delaware Water Gap, PA : Shawnee Press, c2005.

The perfect rehearsal : it’s a trip! / by Timothy Seelig. Nashville, TN : Shawnee Press, Inc., c2007.

Philosophy of Chemistry. North-Holland 2011.

The picture of health : medical ethics and the movies / edited by Henri Colt, Silvia Quadrelli, and Lester D. Friedman. New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Pilgrimage and household in the ancient near East / Joy McCorriston. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Political epistemics : the secret police, the opposition, and the end of East German socialism / Andreas Glaeser. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2011.

Portraits and persons : a philosophical inquiry / Cynthia Freeland. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

The postcolonial unconscious / Neil Lazarus. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Principles of economics : an introductory volume / Alfred Marshall. Philadelphia : Porcupine Press, 1994.

The quarrel [videorecording] / American Playhouse Theatrical Films and Atlantis Releasing present, in association with Comweb Productions Inc., the Ontario Film Development Corporation and Super Ecran, an Atlantis Films Limited and Apple & Honey Productions production ; produced by David Brandes and Kim Todd ; screenplay by David Brandes ; directed by Eli Cohen. New York : Fox Lorber Films : Distributed by WinStar TV & Video, [2000].

Reading Native American literature / Joseph L. Coulombe. London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Reversed gaze : an African ethnography of American anthropology / Mwenda Ntarangwi. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

Revolutions that made the Earth / Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

The rhetoric of certitude : C.S. Lewis’s nonfiction prose / Gary L. Tandy. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2009.

RNA : life’s indispensable molecule / James Darnell. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2011.

Rufus M. / Eleanor Estes ; illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. San Diego : Harcourt, 2001.

SAT wars : the case for test-optional college admissions / edited by Joseph A. Soares ; foreword by David Hawkins. New York : Teachers College Press, c2012.

Shen of the sea : Chinese stories for children / by Arthur Bowie Chrisman ; illustrated by Else Hasselriis. New York : Dutton, 1968, c1953.

Silence and listening as rhetorical arts / edited by Cheryl Glenn and Krista Ratcliffe. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2011.

The silvering screen : old age and disability in cinema / Sally Chivers. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2011.

Songs from the black chair : a memoir of mental interiors / Charles Barber. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Student relevance matters : why do I have to know this stuff? / Mickey Kolis. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2011.

The Sudan handbook / edited by John Ryle … [et al.]. Suffolk : Rochester, NY : James Currey Ltd 2011.

Sun come up [videorecording] / Big Red Barn Films presents ; produced in association with Chicken & Egg Pictures ; a film by Jennifer Redfearn & Tim Metzger ; directed by Jennifer Redfearn ; produced by Jennifer Redfearn & Tim Metzger. New York, NY : New Day Films, c2010.

Tales of lights and shadows : mythology of the afterlife / Robert Ellwood. London ; New York : Continuum, c2010.

Theory from the South : or, How Euro-America is evolving toward Africa / Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. Boulder, Colo. ; London : Paradigm Publishers, c2012.

The theory of ecology / edited by Samuel M. Scheiner and Michael R. Willig. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Thimble summer / written and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright. New York : Square Fish / Henry Holt, 2008.

Thinking through quality questioning : deepening student engagement / Jackie Acree Walsh, Beth Dankert Sattes. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2011.

Three versions of Judas / Richard G. Walsh. London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2010.

Uncle Tom’s cabin and the reading revolution : race, literacy, childhood, and fiction, 1851-1911 / Barbara Hochman. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2011.

Understanding revolution / Patrick Van Inwegen. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner, 2011.

The unknown nation : Australia after empire / James Curran, Stuart Ward. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2010.

An unpredictable Gospel : American evangelicals and world Christianity, 1812-1920 / Jay Riley Case. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Until the cows come home / J.T. Blakemore. [S.L.] : Xlibris Coporation, c2003.

Van Gogh : The Life / Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. New York : Random House, [2011].

Viewpoints : mathematical perspective and fractal geometry in art / Marc Frantz, Annalisa Crannell. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.

Vivaldi : Red Priest of Venice / Susan Adams. Oxford : Lion, 2010.

Vivaldi : voice of the baroque / H.C. Robbins Landon. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

The wheel on the school. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. New York, Harper [1954].

Where I live : new & selected poems, 1990-2010 / Maxine Kumin. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.

Why the North won the Civil War / essays by Henry Steele Commager … [et al.] ; edited by David Herbert Donald. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2005.

Women building history : public art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition / Wanda M.

Corn ; with contributions by Charlene G. Garfinkle and Annelise K. Madsen. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Words of protest, words of freedom : poetry of the American civil rights movement and era / Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, ed. Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

You lost me : why young Christians are leaving church– and rethinking faith / David Kinnaman with Aly Hawkins. Grand Rapids, Mich. : BakerBooks, c2011.

The following Books (5 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during March 2012:

Abundance : the future is better than you think / Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler. New York : Free Press, 2012.

The fault in our stars / John Green. New York : Dutton Books, c2012.

Girl reading : a novel / Katie Ward. New York : Scribner, 2012.

The snow child : a novel / Eowyn Ivey. New York : Reagan Arthur Book/Little, Brown and Co., c2012.

You’re not doing it right : (tales of marriage, sex, death, and other humiliations) / Michael Ian Black. New York : Gallery Books, c2012.

The following Books (3 items) were received into the Library collection as Gift Donations during March 2012:

Blue Spring Cave / Larry E. Matthews and Bill Walter. Huntsville, Ala. : National Speleological Society, 2010.

Caves of Knoxville and the Great Smoky Mountains / Larry E. Matthews. Huntsville, Ala. : National Speleological Society, 2008.

Control through communication : the rise of system in American management / JoAnne Yates. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993.


MCSearch & Milligan College featured in EBSCO’s “Customer Success Story” marketing

By creating a strong library research platform with the speed and simplicity of a commercial Internet search engine, Milligan College makes its library holdings even more accessible to students and faculty.

Soon after Milligan College Library’s launch of MCSearch in early September 2011, we were contacted by the public relations folks at EBSCO Publishing to do a “Customer Success” story for their promotional/marketing materials.

MCSearch is our custom implementation/branding of EBSCO’s Discovery Service platform. MCSearch is best described as a search engine that provides a user experience not unlike Google, but its search capabilities focus on library-provided information resources instead of the open Web. In our own promotion, we have branded MCSearch with the tagline “One search box–for the good stuff” to underscore the ease of use search experience applied to accessing the quality information resources provided by the Library.

We recently learned that our story has been released. Here is a direct link to the five page piece (pdf) covering the launch. Links to the story appear in two locations on EBSCO’s website: On the EBSCO Customer Success Center (see  http://www.ebscohost.com/customerSuccess/ > Colleges/Universities > Customer Success Stories), and on the EDS Support Center (see http://support.ebsco.com/eds > the Customer Success Stories section on the home page. Our story is the third item.) It’s a nice read that features both the Library and Milligan College. Check it out!


Library website voted “College Library Web Site of the Month” by ACRL!

I just received the following email from the chair of the Communications Committee of the College Libraries Section – Association of College and Research Libraries:

I am pleased to inform you that the Milligan College Library website has been selected as the “College Library Website of the Month” for March 2012 by the Communications Committee of ACRL’s College Libraries Section.

The College Libraries Section recognizes that a library’s website, in addition to enhancing access to a library’s resources and services, serves in general as a major means of communicating with current and future users. As a result the Communications Committee has decided to feature one college site a month that we feel showcases noteworthy contents, features, designs, etc.

Once selected, the sites are listed on the College Libraries Section’s site along with a brief summary outlining the reasons for their selection. Beyond simple recognition, it is hoped that by highlighting these Web pages we are providing the library community with a convenient listing of sites that can be used by others to gain insights and inspiration to enhance their own library’s online presence.

The Communications Committee would like to extend our congratulations to the all of those who have worked to build and maintain your library’s outstanding site. We also hope that you and members of your library and academic community will take a few moments to visit our “Site of the Month” page to read our review of your library’s site as well as those of past winners.

We are very proud of our website. We have worked hard to make it uncluttered yet attractive, easy to navigate, and resource-focused. It is a great honor to receive this recognition from our professional colleagues.