NEWS AND NOTES

Two New (Brief) Faculty/Staff Library Workshops Scheduled
The librarians at Shake Library will sponsor two final workshops before the end of the semester. On Tuesday, April 10, Reference Librarian Richard King will conduct a workshop titled "How to Research a Literary Topic," emphasizing a variety of library resources. On Tuesday, April 17, Public Services Librarian Laura  Hiatt-Smith will present an overview of "Fair Use and the Creative Commons." Both will be in LRC room 129 from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. All workshops are open to any faculty and staff member who wishes to attend.

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National Library Week April 8-14
This year National Library Week is April 8-14. The American Library Association (ALA) sponsors this annual event in order to foster awareness about libraries and their contributions to society and to promote their use.  The honorary chair for this year's event is Brad Meltzer, author of nine books including,"The Book of Fate" and the host of The History Channel's "Decoded" series. So stop on by and see what you'll become @ your library.
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Reading at Poetry On the Green? Check Out Library's Poem Collection!
The Vincennes University English Department's annual Poetry on the Green (now in its 27th year!) is scheduled Thursday, April 12, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Shircliff Humanities Center courtyard.  The open mic format of this highly popular event allows students, faculty and staff to share a favorite poem. Anyone looking for some new, exciting poetry to read can do worse than check out Shake Library's poetry collection. A few new poetry books at Shake Library include:

And Know this Place: Poetry of Indiana  (2011) 811.008A543k
Collins, Billy. Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems (2011) 811.54C712h
Dove, Rita, ed. Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011) 811.508 P398d
Flynn, Nick. The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands: Poems  (2011) 811.6F648c
Friman, Alice. Vinculum: Poems (2011) 811.54 F913v
The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: an Anthology (2011) 861 F948s
Gilbert, Sandra M. Aftermath: Poems (2011) 811.54 G466a
Giovanni, Nikki. The 100 Best African American Poems (*but I cheated) (2010) 811.008 A111g
Hall, Donald. The Back Chamber (2011) 811.54H175b
Kennedy, Caroline, ed. She Walks in Beauty: a Woman's Journey through Poems  (2011)  808.81S539s
Komunyakaa, Yusef. The Chameleon Couch: Poems (2011) 811.54K81c
McClure, Michael.  Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems (2011) 811.54M128s
Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2011) 810.808 N882s
Pastan, Linda. Traveling Light: Poems (2011) 811.54 P291t
Pinsky, Robert. Selected Poems (2011)  811.54P658p
Rich, Adrienne. Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems, 2007-2010 (2011) 811.54R498t
Shockley, Evie. The New Black (2011) 811.6S559n
Taylor, Bruce. No End in Strangeness: New and Selected Poems (2011)  811.54T238n
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (2011) 829.1W924w
Wright, Charles. Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems (2011) 811.54W948by

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EBSCOhost Ebook Paging Improvement Trick
VU Libraries has a good-sized ebook collection, including about 10,000 titles in the EBSCO eBook Collection. These ebooks are read on a web platform and must be paged through rather than downloading the entire text on a Kindle, etc. A tip that appears to dramatically speed up the EBSCOhost ebook paging process is below.
You may need to fix some settings on your computer's Adobe Reader to be able to read the books in a more efficient, improved way. If you can't move from page to page easily, follow these instructions.
Computer Settings
Make sure you have the current Adobe Reader. You can download the latest at http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
Open Adobe Reader. Go to Edit >> Preferences >> and choose Internet. Set the Reader to open inside the browser.
Make sure "Display in Read mode by default" is not checked.
Close Reader and try again.

All VU ebooks are cataloged in the library catalog, WebCat. Other ways to access the EBSCOhost ebooks are to visit the VU Libraries Electronic Book Collections link on the Find Books page or go to the EBSCOhost (Inspire) link on the Find Articles page and select eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).