Browse the recommendations and descriptions of many books for you to consider reading this summer.
Compiled from favorites of our librarians, staff, and student assistants, you will find here a vast variety of titles and topics.
June, 2012
Library Staff Posts its Annual Summer Reading List
Emerald Management is the new Dr. Frankenstein
It’s alive! IT’S ALIIIIIIIIIVE!!!! Emerald Management sent me an email today that reads,
Emerald Business and Management content is supported with a range of FREE videos and podcasts that bring to life the topics from Emerald’s peer-reviewed journals.
So the whole “bring to life” thing got me thinking about that sweet scene in the original Frankenstein where the good doctor goes all nutso. (As an aside I just want to say how much I enjoy the acting in old movies. So subtle. So nuanced). And just because everything about this movie is HILARIOUS, I give you that same scene in Young Frankenstein.
I may have wandered slightly off-topic, but my point is Emerald Management is a collection of peer-reviewed management and business journals. They’ve now supplemented their collection with free videos and podcasts to animate what’s being written about. So if you like your management articles acted out, you might want to check out this new free resource.
Foreign Language Resources
I spent the weekend with a large group of people from different Scandinavian countries. To a person they all spoke perfect English. We wowed them right back with our awesome foreign language skills (i.e. “I need a taxi to the airport please” in Swedish or “how much does this cost” in stilted Norwegian. We were not an impressive lot – Good thing all the guests were). Which brings me to library resources in foreign languages. Just to highlight a few…
- Artfl-Frantext – not only does it have one of the BEST names, it’s also got nearly 3000 classics of French writing – classics, non-fiction, poetry.
- National Film Board of Canada - You can search for films in French or English and nearly half the films are in French.
- Oxford Language Dictionaries - translate from English to French or French to English. Or sign up for the word of the day. Today’s word is perron which means flight of steps. And cuz Oxford’s middle name is Fun, there are quizzes, games and puzzles.
- Oxford Language Dictionaries - translate from English to Spanish or Spanish to English. . Today’s word is matadero which means slaughterhouse. Oh, and check this out – here’s how they chose to use it in a sentence: “los soldados sabían que iban al matadero = the soldiers knew that they were going to their deaths” Wow. Dark much?
- Fuente Academica has full-text articles from journals in Spanish. It’s multidisciplinary, so lots of different topics to search. Why not give it a search and read an article in Spanish just to keep your skills sharp?
Sadly we don’t have any Swedish language e-resources at this library. I’ll find those at my public library and practice my Swedish so that next year I’ll have something more interesting to say than “the hen is brown” and “the girl wears a red dress.” Ahhh, you gotta love phrasebooks.
