Lehman Engel and the Millsaps-Wilson Library

You may or may not know that the Millsaps-Wilson Library has a special room named for Lehman Engel, a Jackson-born musician, composer, conductor, author and teacher.  The library's Engel Room houses the collection that was once his personal library.

Recently, Jeffrey Sweet wrote "The Innovators:  Lehman Engel" about Engel and his work:
http://schooltheatre.org/publications/dramatics/2012/04/innovators-lehman-engel

You will see images in this piece from the Millsaps College Archives and Special Collections.  To learn more about the Millsaps College Archives and Special Collections, visit this link:  http://www.millsaps.edu/library/library_archives.php

For more information about the Lehman Engel Collection at the Millsaps-Wilson Library, click here: http://www.millsaps.edu/library/library_engel_collection.php

Finals Week - Open Extended Hours

We hope that Finals Week is going well for everyone.  Remember that the library is open extended hours through Saturday, May 5.  Below is the library schedule:

Thursday, May 3:   Open All Day and All Night

Friday, May 4:        Open All Day – 2 a.m.  (early Saturday morning)

Saturday, May 5:    7:50 a.m.  -  4:00 p.m.

Sunday, May 6:       Closed

Monday, May 7:      8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

For the full library calendar, visit the link below:

http://www.millsaps.edu/library/library_hours.php

Facebook Timeline updated

We posted some historical facts and pictures about the library on the library facebook page.  Our favorite is the audio tape storage unit from the 1970's.

https://www.facebook.com/millsapslibrary

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Millsaps-Wilson Library – On Your Smartphone!

Are you interested in accessing the Millsaps-Wilson Library’s online services from your Smartphone?  The Millsaps-Wilson Library’s mobile interface may be just what you need.  Click on the link below to view the mobile website:

http://library.millsaps.edu/m/

Smartphone-friendly links on the mobile site include:

-        EBSCO databases

-        Library Hours

-        Library Catalog

-        JSTOR

-        Project Muse

A link to the mobile site is also on the library’s webpage.  Look for the link in the bottom left corner of the webpage.

What do you think of the mobile library site?  Please send your feedback to librarian@millsaps.edu

New Titles - March 2012

The Millsaps-Wilson Library recently added new academic titles and also books by recent speakers in Millsaps College’s Visiting Writers Series to the collection.

New books are often displayed on the shelf in the hall just to the west of the front desk.  If you have any questions, feel free to ask for assistance at the front desk or e-mail us at librarian@millsaps.edu

The titles below are arranged by title, author, and call number:

Recent Visiting Writers Series Authors:

The Night Swimmer: A Novel

Bondurant, Matt

PS3602.O657 N54 2012

The Wettest County in the World:  A Novel Based on a True Story

Bondurant, Matt

PS3602.O657 W48 2008

Gryphon:  New and Selected Stories

Baxter, Charles

PS3552.A854 G79 2012

Army Cats:  Poems

Sleigh, Tom

PS3569.L36 A88 2011

New Academic Books:

Alexander the Great and His Empire:  A Short Introduction

Briant, Pierre.

DF234.37 .B7413 2010

Beyond Fundamentalism:  Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization

Aslan, Reza.

BP182 .A65 2010

Building Brains:  An Introduction to Neural Development

Price, David J.

QP363.5 .B85 2011

Business Writing in the Digital Age

Canavor, Natalie

HF5718.3 .C365 2012

The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath

Gill, Jo

PS3566.L27 Z665 2008

The Civil War:  The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It

Sears, Stephen W.

E464 .S562 2012

A Companion to the Crying of Lot 49

Grant, J. Kerry

PS3566.Y55 C792 2008

A Concise History of Modern Korea:  from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present

Seth, Michael J.

DS907.18 .S424 2010

Deadly Choices:  How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

Offit, Paul A.

RJ240 .O38 2011

The Guns of August:  The Proud Tower

Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim

D530 .T8 2012

International Business in the 21st Century

Keillor, Bruce David

HF1379 .I5674 2011 V.1

On Greek religion

Parker, Robert

BL790 .P37 2011

Rawls:  An Introduction

Maffettone, Sebastiano

JC251.R32 M34 2010

She-Wolves:  The Women Who Ruled England before Elizabeth

Castor, Helen

DA28.2 .C37 2011

Slavery in the Roman World

Joshel, Sandra R.

HT863 .J67 2010

The Solitary Self:  Darwin and the Selfish Gene

Midgley, Mary

B1647.M473 S65 2010

Unbeatable Résumés:  America's Top Recruiter Reveals what Really Gets You Hired

Beshara, Tony

HF5383 .B4335 2011

eReference Quick Look

Many library users under utilize traditional Reference books, but new eReference options are a great way to access material online that was once only available on library shelves.

The following resources are just a small selection of eReference materials that can be found through the library’s web page by clicking on the “All Article Databases & Indexes” link in the second blue box in the center of the page:

Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference Online contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books plus an expanding range of key titles from the acclaimed Oxford Companions Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

NOTE:  Maximum 1 simultaneous user. Please try later if busy.

Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy

This is the newest eReference resource at the library, and it covers all areas of philosophy in the Middle Ages and part of the Renaissance, ranging from 500 to 1500 CE.


Britannica Original Sources

The site includes original or primary source documents, critical selections and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature, Social Science, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion, Philosophy, and Language.


Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

This resource can be used as a dictionary, thesaurus, and guide for historical usage of words in the English language.  The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words, past and present, from across the English-speaking world. 


Just For Fun:

Do you enjoy trivia?  Oxford Reference Online offers the “Free Fact of the Day,” and this fun service is free to anyone.  Follow this link to sign up for this e-mail service:

http://www.oxfordreference.com/pub/views/fact-of-the-day-subscribe.html

Would you like more information about eReference resources?  Ask a Librarian!