Milligan Library Life

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

A quarter gets us there!

ImageWe’re very close to meeting the $10,000 goal of the Million Pennies Campaign! So close, in fact, that if every Milligan Library user contributed 25 cents, we could end the Campaign today!

Our campaign donations now total $9,185.04, thanks to the $68.77 donated in August 2013. Last month’s totals reflect an average contribution of around 2 cents per Library user. So contribute a quarter (or more!) and let’s build some momentum as we move closer to our $10,000 goal!

Bring your loose change (or cash or checks!) and drop it into the plastic cube at the Circulation Desk. When we reach our $10,000 goal, we’ll allow you, the contributors, to name a study room whatever you like in the newly renovated Library!** (If you’re not familiar with the Campaign, check out original post on the library blog.) We’ll do a count of new contributions around the first of each month this semester and announce the results here, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and MilliganToday.

Flat broke? We will also take your unwanted but gently used books, textbooks, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and audiobooks for our Million Pennies Book Drive, which also benefits the Campaign. There’s a donation box in the library lobby. Thanks again, and please ask a member of library staff if you have any questions!
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** A note from Gary F. Daught, Director of Library Services: It is exciting to think that we are so close to our goal. Obviously, the Library renovation project will require significantly more than $10,000 to complete, and it is still awaiting major funding even after the initial phase of Milligan College’s Forward Ever capital campaign was successfully concluded in June 2011. The Million Pennies Campaign was launched concurrent with Forward Ever to engage our users–particularly students–in this project in a way that was meaningful, accessible, and concrete. It is a small but tangible way for everyone to show their support for the Milligan College Library. I want to ‘second’ Jeff Harbin in thanking everyone who has contributed their pennies to date. Let’s see if we can reach our goal before the end of the semester!


New Books and Media Received (Summer 2013)

The following Books, CDs, and DVDs (76 items) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during June & July 2013:

About time : cosmology and culture at the twilight of the big bang / Adam Frank. New York : Free Press, c2012.

Aesthetic education in the era of globalization / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.

Afghanistan : a cultural history / St John Simpson. Northampton, MA : Interlink Books, 2012.

The aha! moment : a scientist’s take on creativity / David Jones. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Anne Frank unbound : media, imagination, memory / edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt -Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.

Anthropology and the cognitive challenge / Maurice Bloch. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The archaeology of China : from the late paleolithic to the early bronze age / Li Liu, Stanford University, Xingcan Chen, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The beach book : science of the shore / Carl H. Hobbs. New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

Breasts : a natural and unnatural history / Florence Williams. New York : Norton, 2013.

Cicero’s practical philosophy / edited by Walter Nicgorski. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts / edited by Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen. Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy, 2012.

Contracts in the real world : stories of popular contracts and why they matter / Lawrence A. Cunningham. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2012.

Drugs for life : how pharmaceutical companies define our health / Joseph Dumit. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.

Durer / Jeffrey Chipps Smith. London ; New York : Phaidon, c2012.

Early European castles : aristocracy and authority, AD 800-1200 / Oliver H. Creighton. London : Bristol Classical Press, 2012.

Earth : a tenant’s manual / Frank H.T. Rhodes. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

The emotions : a philosophical introduction / Julien A. Deonna and Fabrice Teroni. London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Entrepreneurship : an evidence-based guide / Robert A. Baron. Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2012.

Environmental health ethics / David B. Resnik. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Eyes on labor : news photography and America’s working class / Carol Quirke. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

The family : a world history / by Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

A field guide to radiation / Wayne Biddle. New York : Penguin Books, 2012.

Film genre reader IV / edited by Barry Keith Grant. Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2012.

The flute book : a complete guide for students and performers / Nancy Toff. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2012].

Francis of Assisi : the life and afterlife of a medieval saint / Andre Vauchez ; translated by Michael F. Cusato. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2012.

From stars to stalagmites : how everything connects / Paul S Braterman. Singapore ; London ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2012.

Geometries / A.B. Sossinsky. Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2012.

The governance of friendship : law and gender in the Decameron / Michael Sherberg. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2011.

Government versus markets : the changing economic role of the state / Vito Tanzi. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

A guide to Asian philosophy classics / Puqun Li ; with Arthur K. Ling. Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2012.

Hollywood left and right : how movie stars shaped American politics / Steven J. Ross. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013].

The (honest) truth about dishonesty : how we lie to everyone–especially ourselves / Dan Ariely. New York : Harper Perennial, [2013].

Ideology in America / Christopher Ellis, James A. Stimson. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Inequality in America : facts, trends, and international perspective / Uri Dadush … [et al.]. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2012.

The instant economist : everything you need to know about how the economy works / Timothy Taylor. New York : Plume, c2012.

Integrated but unequal : Black faculty in predominately white space / edited by Mark Christian. Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, c2012.

An introduction to the three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital / by Michael Heinrich ; translated by Alexander Locascio. New York : Monthly Review Press, 2012.

Japanese philosophy : a sourcebook / edited by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, John C. Maraldo. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2011.

Knowledge / Ian Evans and Nicholas D. Smith. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2012.

LGBT youth in America’s schools / Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2012.

Libya : the rise and fall of Qaddafi / Alison Pargeter. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.

Life everlasting : the animal way of death / Bernd Heinrich. Boston : Mariner Books, 2013.

Looking North : writings from Spanish America on the US, 1800 to the present / edited by John J. Hassett and Braulio Munoz. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012.

Magnetism : a very short introduction / Stephen Blundell. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Moral classrooms, moral children : creating a constructivist atmosphere in early education / Rheta DeVries, Betty Zan. New York : Teachers College Press, c2012.

The moral foundation of economic behavior / by David C. Rose. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Moving data : the iphone and the future of media / edited by Pelle Snickars & Patrick Vonderau. New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.

My business is to create : Blake’s infinite writing / Eric G. Wilson. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011.

National security intelligence : secret operations in defense of the democracies / Loch K. Johnson. Cambridge : Polity, 2012.

The nature-nurture debates : bridging the gap / Dale Goldhaber, University of Vermont. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The ocean of life : the fate of man and the sea / Callum Roberts. New York : Penguin Books, 2013, c2012.

Opening up Middle English manuscripts : literary and visual approaches / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

The persistence of the sacred in modern thought / edited by Chris L. Firestone and Nathan A. Jacobs. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

Prophetic encounters : religion and the American radical tradition / by Dan McKanan. Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2011.

The publishing business : from p-books to e-books / Kelvin Smith. Lausanne, Switzerland ; [Worthing] : AVA Academia, 2012.

Raffaello. English. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Polity Press, [2012].

Reawakening the learner : creating learner-centric, standards-driven schools / Copper Stoll and Gene Giddings. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2012.

Republic of noise : the loss of solitude in schools and culture / Diana Senechal. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2012.

Robotic exploration of the solar system / Paolo Ulivi ; with David M. Harland. Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Published in association with Praxis Pub., c2007-

The Russian folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp / edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester ; foreword by Jack Zipes. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2012].

The sacrifice of Socrates : Athens, Plato, Girard / Wm. Blake Tyrrell. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2012].

The secrets of economic indicators : hidden clues to future economic trends and investment opportunities / Bernard Baumohl. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, c2013.

Sexual harassment : an introduction to the conceptual and ethical issues / Keith Dromm. Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2012.

The social conquest of Earth / Edward O. Wilson. New York ; London : Liveright Publishing Corp., 2013, c2012.

Social trends in American life : findings from the General Social Survey since 1972 / edited by Peter V. Marsden. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.

The Spanish Civil War / Stanley G. Payne. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Subliminal : how your unconscious mind rules your behavior / Leonard Mlodinow. New York : Vintage Books, c2013.

Suicide : the philosophical dimensions / Michael Cholbi. Peterborough, Ont. ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Broadview Press ; London : Eurospan Group [U.K. distributor], c2011.

Tanak : a theological and critical introduction to the Jewish Bible / Marvin A. Sweeney. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2012.

Text, image, and otherness in children’s Bibles : what is in the picture? / edited by Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper. Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2012.

Understanding probability / Henk Tijms. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Using SPSS : an interactive hands-on approach / James B. Cunningham, James O. Aldrich. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2012.

Vision and brain : how we perceive the world / James V. Stone. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.

Voice and the young actor : a workbook and dvd / Rena Cook ; illustrated by Carey Hissey ; DVD designed and created by Adam Davis Beatty, Royce Sharp, Matt Kendrick. London : Methuen Drama, 2012.

What are you laughing at? : a comprehensive guide to the comedic event / Dan O’Shannon. New York : Continuum, 2012.

The following Books (9 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during June & July 2013:

American Savage : insights, slights, and fights on faith, sex, love, and politics / Dan Savage. New York, New York : Dutton, [2013].

The fall of Arthur / by J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Christopher Tolkien. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Fin & lady / Cathleen Schine. New York : Sarah Crichton Books; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

The impossible lives of Greta Wells / Andrew Sean Greer. New York : Ecco, c2013.

Lost girls : an unsolved American mystery / Robert Kolker. New York, NY : Harper, [2013].

Mermaid in Chelsea Creek / Michelle Tea. [San Francisco, California] : McSweeney’s McMullens, [2013].

The moon and more / Sarah Dessen. New York : Viking, 2013.

Revolutionary summer : the birth of American independence / Joseph J. Ellis. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

Someone could get hurt : a memoir of twenty-first-century parenthood / Drew Magary. New York : Gotham Books, [2013].

The following Book was received into the Library collection as a Gift Donation during July 2013:

The message of the Qura’an : the full account of the revealed Arabic text accompanied by parallel transliteration / translated and explained by Muhammad Asad. Bristol, England : Book Foundation, 2008.


All we need from you is 31 cents!

31centsA donation of 31 cents from every Milligan Library user will get us to our goal of a Million Pennies, or $10,000, toward Library renovation! Our campaign donations now total $9,116.27, thanks to the $147.77 donated in July 2013. Thanks for your generosity!

How can you help? Bring your loose change (or cash or checks!) and drop it into the plastic cube at the Circulation Desk. When we reach our $10,000 goal, we’ll allow you, the contributors, to name a study room whatever you like in the newly renovated Library!** Every penny helps! (If you’re not familiar with the Campaign, check out original post on the library blog.) We’ll do a count of new contributions around the first of each month this semester and announce the results here, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and MilliganToday.

Flat broke? We will also take your unwanted but gently used books, textbooks, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and audiobooks for our Million Pennies Book Drive, which also benefits the Campaign. There’s a donation box in the library lobby. Thanks again, and please ask a member of library staff if you have any questions!
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** A note from Gary F. Daught, Director of Library Services: It is exciting to think that we are so close to our goal. Obviously, the Library renovation project will require significantly more than $10,000 to complete, and it is still awaiting major funding even after the initial phase of Milligan College’s Forward Ever capital campaign was successfully concluded in June 2011. The Million Pennies Campaign was launched concurrent with Forward Ever to engage our users–particularly students–in this project in a way that was meaningful, accessible, and concrete. It is a small but tangible way for everyone to show their support for the Milligan College Library. I want to ‘second’ Jeff Harbin in thanking everyone who has contributed their pennies to date. Let’s see if we can reach our goal before the end of the semester!


My Ultimate Summer Flick

Is there one movie that just screams summer to you? For me it is The Sound of Music (1965) starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Whenever the sun is bright and the grass is green, I sometimes cannot help myself from thinking of Maria singing “the hills are alive, with the sound of music.” Seeing the Von Trapp children running around town, playing in the trees, singing on mountaintops, and swimming in the lake in their old drapes makes me wish I could do the same. Every time there is a warm summer thunderstorm, I think of Rolfe and Liesl dancing in the gazebo and of all my favorite things.

The Sound of Music is one of my favorite movies of all time. I love the music, the scenery, and the very captivating love story. It is a little on the long side, almost three hours, but I would say that it is well worth it. In 1965, The Sound of Music won several Oscars including Best Director and Best Picture. It is truly beautiful to watch and hear.

If you have not seen this classic musical, I highly recommend it, especially on a cool summer evening with the threat of a thunderstorm. Check it out tonight from the Milligan Collection!

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What movie screams summer to you?


What can 36 cents get you?

FrenchCokeNot much, really. It can’t buy you a postage stamp. Or a song on iTunes. Or a Kindle Single. Or a Ferrari Testarossa. It used to be enough to buy a French Coke, but probably not anymore. 36 cents can’t even get you a theoretical 37-cent coin that would solve all our coinage inefficiencies. But your 36 cents will definitely get us closer to a fully renovated Library!

Our campaign donations now total $8,968.50, thanks to the $146.40 donated in June 2013 by our donors. The only name in the donation cube was Anna Lester, a 6th-grade Bible Bowler from Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Ky. Thanks, Anna!

How can you help? Bring your loose change (or cash or checks!) and drop it into the plastic cube at the Circulation Desk. When we reach our $10,000 goal, we’ll allow you, the contributors, to name a study room whatever you like in the newly renovated Library!** Every penny helps! (If you’re not familiar with the Campaign, check out original post on the library blog.) This summer, we’ll do a count of new contributions around the first of each month and announce the results here, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and MilliganToday.

If you’re doing some belated Spring cleaning, we will also take your unwanted but gently used books, textbooks, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and audiobooks for our Million Pennies Book Drive, which also benefits the Campaign–in June alone, we made $133.90 from the sale of Library discards and donations alone. There are donation boxes in the library lobby and the hallway of the FOB. Thanks again, and please ask a member of library staff if you have any questions!
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** A note from Gary F. Daught, Director of Library Services: It is exciting to think that we are so close to our goal. Obviously, the Library renovation project will require significantly more than $10,000 to complete, and it is still awaiting major funding even after the initial phase of Milligan College’s Forward Ever capital campaign was successfully concluded in June 2011. The Million Pennies Campaign was launched concurrent with Forward Ever to engage our users–particularly students–in this project in a way that was meaningful, accessible, and concrete. It is a small but tangible way for everyone to show their support for the Milligan College Library. I want to ‘second’ Jeff Harbin in thanking everyone who has contributed their pennies to date. Let’s see if we can reach our goal before the end of the summer!