Book Review: War
Book: War Reviewer: Mr. Palin Rating & Comments: As a journalist embedded among American soldiers in Afghanistan, Junger sees up close dangerous, dirty, and boring frontline conditions. He reports on men he comes to know and on the physical and psychological challenges faced. He weaves research into the story and delivers a complete account of [...]
Book Review: My Reading Life
Book: My Reading Life Reviewer: Mr. Palin Rating & Comments: Conroy reflects on authors and others who have shaped him as a writer. His high school English teacher, him mother, Tolstoy, and Thomas Wolfe played a huge role in his development. The book is an example of great story telling and his discussion of important [...]
New Database: Ancestry.com
May 9, 2011
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The library is happy to offer students and staff access to Ancestry.com, a subscription-based resource of census, marriage, birth, and other worldwide ancestry records. The site also offers access to historical newspapers. A rich resource for investigating personal family histories or for conducting historical research into prominent figures of the past, ancestry.com enables users to [...]
New Database: CIAO
May 6, 2011
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) offers an extensive collection of documents for research in international affairs and economics. Its information is scholarly and includes working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research projects, conference proceedings, and books and professional journal articles. Students in Economics or the Harvard Model Congress class might find this useful. The above [...]
Arrival of an iMac
April 11, 2011
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It’s been called “the ultimate all-in-one” desktop and now the library has one. The library has added a new iMac to its computer collection in order to help students with things like photo and movie editing. With multiple firewire and USB drives, a huge hard drive, DVD-burning capability, and of course iMovie, iPhoto, and Garage Band, [...]
Book Review: Extraordinary, Ordinary People
Book: Extraordinary, Ordinary People Reviewer: Mr. Palin Rating & Comments: Supported by ambitious and immensely dedicated parents from Birmigham, Alabama, Condi Rice capitalized on natural abilities and went on to serve two presidents and become a Stanford professor and provost. She experienced the divided South and learned about overcoming adversity and excelling from a network [...]
Book Review: Griftopia
Book: Griftopia Reviewer: Mr. Palin Rating & Comments: Loaded with sarcasm, colorful language, and point-blank attacks on the likes of Alan Greenspan and the leaders of Goldman Sachs, this book is immensely entertaining and also a pretty informative business history book. The chapters kind of stand individually from one another and the first two are [...]
Database Trial: Biography Reference Center
March 8, 2011
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60 day trial beginning March 7, 2011: EBSCOhost’s Biography Reference Center™ offers a comprehensive collection of more than 460,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases. Click on the above link and use “nhtrial” (no quotes) [...]
An App for the Library
January 30, 2011
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There’s now an app for the library! The Access My Library School Edition app from Gale provides Sunapee students access to the library’s digital reference collection on their iPod Touch. Simply download the app from the App Store, type in the Virtual Reference Library password, and read quality research content on your device. A wide [...]
Book Review: Unwind
Book: Unwind Reviewer: Mr. Palin Rating & Comments: It’s understandable why this book is a 2011 NH Flume Award nominee and it wouldn’t be surprising if it were to win. In a future where delinquent, troubled, and unwanted teens are removed from society and unwound (killed for parts), three very different teens end up joining [...]