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Jake the therapy dog visits Milligan students during Finals Week

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Jake

The Library played host to some very special guests on Monday-Wednesday of Finals Week. Jake, a certified therapy dog and his owner/handler, retired Milligan College Biology Professor Dr. Julia Wade, were here for three mornings last week to help students cope with the potential stresses of final exams.

“In recent years, therapy dogs have been popular in educational settings,” says Dr. Wade. “Children who have trouble reading aloud in front of a class can read to a therapy dog without fear or anxiety. The dog does not judge or talk back, and is an excellent listener. They are counselors with fur! In 2009, colleges and universities started using therapy dogs to relieve stress in students studying for final exams.”

Jake is a Golden Retriever certified through Therapy Dogs International. He also passed the test to become an American Kennel Club Canine Good Citizen. Jake and Dr. Wade have been involved in this rewarding mission for about three and a half years.

“I wanted to combine my love of dogs with a respect and admiration for those in the medical profession by volunteering to visit hospital patients who might need an emotional lift. God’s Word teaches us that it is important to help those who are in need. About a month ago, I visited a lady from ETSU who said that they sometimes had therapy dogs come to their library the week of final exams to de-stress students preparing for those exams. It occurred to me that Jake might come to Milligan College for an hour or two during exam week and let the students pet him.”

“I am so glad that Dr. Wade contacted us about having Jake come to Milligan College,” said Gary Daught, director of the library. “He was an instant hit with the students! I hope Jake will come back and visit us again–maybe at the end of Spring semester.”

 

New Books and Media Received (November 2013)

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The following Books, CDs, and DVDs (99 items) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during November 2013:

Algorithms unlocked / Thomas H. Cormen. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013].

Animal personalities : behavior, physiology, and evolution / edited by Claudio Carere and Dario Maestripieri. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

An archaeology of the cosmos : rethinking agency and religion in ancient america / Timothy R. Pauketat. New York : Routledge, 2013.

Ascending peculiarity : Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : interviews / selected and edited by Karen Wilkin. New York : Harcourt, c2001.

The British aesthetic tradition : from Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein / Timothy M. Costelloe. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

The Cambridge companion to theatre history / edited by David Wiles and Christine Dymkowski. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Captain America and the nationalist superhero : metaphors, narratives, and geopolitics / Jason Dittmer. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.

Christians in an age of wealth : a biblical theology of stewardship / Craig L. Blomberg. Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, 2013.

The cinema and its shadow : race and technology in early cinema / Alice Maurice. Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2013].

The complete marketer : 60 essential concepts for marketing excellence / Malcolm McDonald and Mike Meldrum. London ; Philadelphia ; New Delhi : Kogan Page Limited, [2013].

Conservation / Clive Hambler, Susan M. Canney. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2013.

The covert sphere : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state / Timothy Melley. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

Cultures in contact : from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C. / edited by Joan Aruz, Sarah B. Graff, and Yelena Rakic. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven, Conn. : distributed by Yale University Press, 2013.

The darkening spirit : Jung, spirituality, religion / David Tacey. Hove ; NewYork, NY : Routledge, 2013.

Democratic statecraft : political realism and popular power / J. S. Maloy, Oklahoma State University. Cambridge  : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5. Washington, D.C. : American Psychiatric Association, c2013.

Dictatorship in South America / Jerry Dávila. Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Digital anthropology / edited by Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller. London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Digital religion : understanding religious practice in new media worlds / edited by Heidi A. Campbell. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Disability and passing : blurring the lines of identity / edited by Jeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.

Doctor Who : the complete 3rd series [videorecording]  / BBC ; producer, Phil Collinson ; executive producers, Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner ; BBC Wales in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. [England] : BBC Video, 2 Entertain : BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007].

Each Hour Redeem : Time and Justice in African American Literature / Daylanne K. English. Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2013].

Education in the school of dreams : travelogues and early nonfiction film / Jennifer Lynn Peterson. Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.

Education, justice, and democracy / edited by Danielle Allen and Rob Reich. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2013].

Encountering Jesus, encountering scripture : reading the Bible critically in faith / David Crump. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2013.

Estimating Emerson : an anthology of criticism from Carlyle to Cavell / edited by David LaRocca. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Evaluating empire and confronting colonialism in eighteenth-century Britain / Jack P. Greene. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Family : photographers photograph their families [compiled by Sophie Spencer-Wood]. London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2005.

Gap year : how delaying college changes people in ways the world needs / Joseph O’Shea. Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Gods like us : on movie stardom and modern fame. New York : Anchor, 2013.

Going to the sources : a guide to historical research and writing / Anthony Brundage. Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, a John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication, 2013.

Google and the world brain / directed by Ben Lewis. [Barcelona, Spain] : Polar Star Films ; [Northampton, MA] : Media Education Foundation [distributor], 2013.

Governing security : the hidden origins of American security agencies / Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar. Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2013].

The handbook of journal publishing / Sally Morris… [et al.]. Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Heidegger, an introduction / J. Jeremy Wisnewski. Lanham, Md. : Rowan & Littlefield Pub. c2013.

Higgs force : cosmic symmetry shattered : the story of the greatest scientific discovery for 50 years / Nicholas Mee. Marple, U.K. : Quantum Wave, 2013,c2012.

Hollow men : writing, objects, and public image in Renaissance Italy / Susan Gaylard. New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Hollywood in the new millennium / Tino Balio. London ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2013.

Imperial debris : on ruins and ruination / edited by Ann Laura Stoler. Durham ; London : Duke University Press, c2013.

Including children with cerebral palsy in the early years Foundation Stage / written by Lindsay Brewis ; illustrated by Martha Hardy. Moorabbin, Vic. : A&C Black/Featherstone Education, c2008.

International ethics : concepts, theories, and cases in global politics / Mark R. Amstutz. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013].

An introduction to German pietism : Protestant renewal at the dawn of modern Europe / Douglas H. Shantz ; foreword by Peter C. Erb. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

The invention of craft / Glenn Adamson. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Launching a business : the first 100 days / Bruce Barringer. New York : Business Expert Press, 2013.

Leo Strauss’s defense of the philosophic life : reading “What is political philosophy?” / edited by Rafael Major. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2013].

The life & pontificate of Pope Pius XII : between history & controversy / Frank J. Coppa. Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2013].

The longest journey : Southeast Asians and the pilgrimage to Mecca / Eric Tagliacozzo. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013].

The marrying kind? : debating same-sex marriage within the lesbian and gay movement / Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor, editors. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013].

Medieval English lyrics and carols / edited by Thomas G. Duncan. Cambridge, UK : D. S. Brewer, 2013.

Moon bound : choosing and preparing NASA’s lunar Astronauts / Colin Burgess. New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Praxis Publishing, c2013.

Noise : a human history of sound and listening / David Hendy. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2013].

Occupational therapy in community-based practice settings / Marjorie E. Scaffa, S. Maggie Reitz. Philadelphia : F.A. Davis, c2014.

Paging God : religion in the halls of medicine / Wendy Cadge. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2012].

Passing by the dragon : the Biblical tales of Flannery O’Connor / J. Ramsey Michaels ; with a foreword by Thomas Howard. Eugene, Or. : Cascade Books, c2013.

Paula Scher : maps : paintings, installations, drawings and prints / Paula Scher; foreword by Simon Winchester. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2011.

Peacebuilding, power, and politics in Africa / edited by Devon Curtis and Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa ; foreword by Adekeye Adebajo. Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012.

Penjing, the Chinese art  of bonsai : a pictorial exploration of its history, aesthetics, styles and preservation / Zhao Qingquan ; [photographs, Zhao Qingquan … [et al.] ; translation, Jiang Yajun, Ma Suping]. New York : Better Link Press, c2012.

Philippians / Lynn H. Cohick. Grand Rapids, MI : Zondervan, 2013.

Pink globalization : Hello Kitty’s trek across the Pacific / Christine R. Yano. Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Plant-thinking : a philosophy of vegetal life / Michael Marder ; with a foreword by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala. New York : Columbia University Press, c2013.

The power and the people : paths of resistance in the Middle East / Charles Tripp. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

A primer of botanical Latin with vocabulary / Emma Short, Darwin, NOrthern Territory, Australia, Alex George AM, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Projecting tomorrow : science fiction and popular cinema / James Chapman & Nicholas J. Cull. London [England] ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Questionnaire design : how to plan, structure and write survey material for effective market research / Ian Brace. London : Kogan Page Limited, 2013.

Race : a philosophical introduction / Paul C. Taylor. Cambridge : Polity, 2013.

Racial science in Hitler’s new Europe, 1938-1945 / edited by Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013].

Rebellion in Black and white : southern student activism in the 1960s / edited by Robert Cohen and David J. Snyder ; foreword by Dan T. Carter. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Reducing gun violence in America : informing policy with evidence and analysis / edited by Daniel W. Webster, and Jon S. Vernick. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Relentless evolution / John N. Thompson. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Religion and sustainability : social movements and the politics of the environment / Lucas F. Johnston. Sheffield ; Bristol, CT : Equinox, 2013.

Remembering United States District Judge Robert L. Taylor : a collection of memories / edited by Judge Charles D. Susano, Jr.; foreword by Don K. Ferguson. Knoxville, Tenn. : Tennessee Valley Pub., 2009.

Researching student learning in higher education : a social realist approach / Jennifer M. Case. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Roald Dahl / edited by Ann Alston & Catherine Butler. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

The science writers’ handbook : everything you need to know to pitch, publish, and prosper in the digital age / the writers of SciLance, edited by Thomas Hayden and Michelle Nijhuis. Boston, MA : Da Capo Lifelong Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013].

Seeing red : Hollywood’s pixeled skins : American Indians and film / edited by LeAnne Howe, Harvey Markowitz, and Denise K. Cummings. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2013.

The Sermon on the mount / Scot McKnight. Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 2013.

Shatterzone of empires : coexistence and violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman borderlands / edited by Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013.

Side effects : Mexican governance under NAFTA’s labor and environmental agreements / Mark Aspinwall. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013].

A sneetch is a sneetch and other philosophical discoveries : finding wisdom in children’s literature / Thomas E. Wartenberg ; illustrations by Joy Kinigstein. Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013.

Societies beyond oil : oil dregs and social futures / John Urry. London ; New York : Zed Books, c2013.

Still the same hawk : reflections on nature and New York / edited by John Waldman. New York : Empire State Editions, [2013].

A student’s guide to textual criticism of the Bible : [its history, methods & results] / Paul D. Wegner. Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic/InterVarsity Press, 2006.

Sustainability / Leslie Paul Thiele. Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2013.

The text and contexts of Ignatius Loyola’s autobiography / John M. McManamon. New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

There was a country : a personal history of biafra. [S.l.] : Penguin Books Ltd, 2013.

To catch a virus / John Booss, and Marilyn J. August. Washington, DC : ASM Press, c2013.

The transformational self : attachment and the end of the adolescent phase / Harold K. Bendicsen. London : Karnac, 2013.

Turning the pages of American girlhood : the evolution of girls’ series fiction, 1865-1930 / Emily Hamilton-Honey. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013].

Universal sense : how hearing shapes the mind. [S.l.] : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Urban China / Xuefei Ren. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2013.

Wal-Mart wars : moral populism in the twenty-first century / Rebekah Peeples Massengill. New York : New York University Press, [2013].

Warped mourning : stories of the undead in the land of the unburied / Alexander Etkind. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013].

The way of Chinese painting, its ideas and technique; with selections from the seventeenth-century Mustard Seed Garden manual of painting. New York, Random House [1959].

Wayward shamans : the prehistory of an idea / Silvia Tomásková. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013].

What is not sacred? : African spirituality / by Laurenti Magesa. Maryknoll : Orbis Books, 2013.

Women and wars / edited by Carol Cohn. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2013.

Working hard for the American dream : workers and their unions, World War I to the present / Randi Storch. Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication, 2013.

Writing successful grant proposals from the top down and the bottom up / edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Oklahoma State University. Los Angeles : Sage, [2014].

Your ad here : the cool sell of guerrilla marketing / Michael Serazio. New York : New York University Press, [2013].

The following Books (5 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during November 2013:

The book of Jezebel : an illustrated encyclopedia of lady things / edited by Anna Holmes ; written by Kate Harding, Amanda Hess. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2013.

Hyperbole and a half : unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened / Allie Brosh. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2013].

The secret daughter of the tsar / Jennifer Laam. New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013.

What the dog knows : the science and wonder of working dogs / Cat Warren. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.

“When did you see her last?” / Lemony Snicket ; art by Seth. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

The following Books (2 items) were received into the Library collection as Gift Donations during November 2013:

Boy meets girl : say hello to courtship / Joshua Harris. Sisters, Or. : Multnomah, c2001.

To be or not to be / a chooseable-path adventure by Ryan North ; William Shakespeare, [creator of original work] ; and YOU. [Massachusetts] : Breadpig, Inc., [2013].

Million Pennies Campaign successfully completed: Where do we go from here?

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2013-PennyWe’re happy to announce that the Million Pennies Campaign has met its $10,000 goal! That’s right–your small donations added up to more than one million pennies to benefit the Library’s ongoing renovation! Here’s the Milligan College press release announcing the good news. Thank you for your generosity and support!

So now that we’ve met our goal, what’s next? You may recall that our goal was $10,000 because that’s the level of giving at which a donor can name a Library study room. Since we’ve achieved that total, that’s exactly what we’re going to let you do! The room we’ll name, by the way, is the semi-enclosed study space on the first floor that contains the whiteboard (pictured below).

IMG_0361Before the end of the year, Library staff will compile a list of people we’d like to honor–people who have been important to both the life of Library and of Milligan College. Then, we’ll allow you, the donors, to select your favorite. In January 2014, at the beginning of the Spring semester, we’ll announce the process by which you can cast your ballot. By early Spring, we’ll tally the votes, announce the winner, and celebrate our room dedication with a public event!

Though we’ve met our goal, the renovation of the Library is not yet complete and will require additional funding. Thus, the Million Pennies Campaign will continue, but in a less-public manner. We’ll remove the donation box from the Circulation Desk, but Library staff will still accept direct coin, cash, and check donations. We’ll continue collecting gently-used textbooks, books, and media through the Million Pennies Book Drive, the sales from which benefit both Million Pennies and the National Center for Family Literacy. Any further contributions we receive will continue to benefit Million Pennies and larger Library renovation efforts until the Library is complete. Who knows, maybe we’ll raise enough to name a second study room before all is said and done!

Thanks once again for your incredible generosity. We appreciate all our donors for taking action to honor the Library and make it a better place for all its users.

Library Homecoming 2013 event: Reimagining books as works of art

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As we considered how the Library might participate in this year’s Homecoming weekend celebration (October 25-27, 2013), we stumbled upon a wonderful idea from the Claremont (California) Colleges Library. They have developed a “repurposed book art contest” called RE:BOOK. The RE:BOOK contest was conceived to “[invite] students to submit projects made from worn-out books and other forms of cast-off paper.” The planners posed a question as the basis of RE:BOOK: “When does a book outlive its intended use, and what (legitimately) happens next?”**

We weren’t (at this stage) so much interested in delving into a philosophical conversation about the life-cycle of books as we were looking for a creative Fall book-related event to engage Milligan College students, faculty, and staff, which could also serve as a nice complement to the Edible Books Festival we put on in the Spring.

Since we didn’t know what to expect in terms of entry response the first time around, we decided to pair the idea of reimagining books as art with a display of some of the wonderful art books we have in the Library collection. This led naturally to a name for our event: Art Book+Book Art. We also decided that instead of awarding prizes for favorite entries, we would simply hold a drawing where one lucky (non-staff) entrant could win a $25 Amazon gift card.

We were very pleased by the initial response. We had 14 entries submitted by 6 artists, representing both students, faculty, and library staff. Student Anna Dukart was the winner of the Amazon gift card. The exhibit was set up in the back study area on the Main Floor of the Library throughout Homecoming weekend. It will remain up through Friday, November 8 if you haven’t yet had a chance to see it in person.

We love the idea of having the Library serve as a venue for art. We definitely plan to hold the event again next year. We hope that it will become an annual Fall/Homecoming tradition. Here are photographs from this year’s Art Book+Book Art exhibit (click on a thumbnail to enlarge):


** Tagge, N. and Booth, C. (2013, September). Constructive destruction: Examining the life cycle of texts through RE:BOOK. College & Research Libraries News, 74(8), 402-407.

“They won’t stay dead!”

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Adam and I’s Halloween scary movie tradition stayed alive this year with Night of the Living Dead (1968). This film, directed by George Romero, is about a strange night where people who have recently died are not staying dead. They are coming back to life and murdering other people. The tagline to this movie is “they won’t stay dead!” and it is a very fitting description of this film.

While this film is 45 years old, it is still delivers everything you would want in a classic horror film. With this film, Romero revolutionized the horror-film genre and the idea of a “zombie,” even though in Night the undead are referred to as “ghouls”. Even though when this film was made they did not have the modern special effects, these “ghouls” are actually still quite scary, which is pretty impressive. At one point while Adam and I were watching the movie and the ”ghouls” were trying to get into a house, there was banging on our front door and I jumped because I thought the ghouls were trying to come into our house!

I really enjoyed this horror film and believe that it is a true horror classic. Hopefully you find it as frightful and surprising as I did.

If you’re looking for a post-Halloween thrill check out this movie from the Milligan Library!
Milligan Library Call Number  PN1997.N57 2008