Brave New World -- Banned Books Poster

Displayed in Mugar Library during 2017 Banned Books Wee

Design issues in the production of hyper‐books and visual‐books

This paper describes an ongoing research project in the area of electronic books. After a brief overview of the state of the art in this field, two new forms of electronic book are presented: hyper‐books and visual‐books. A flexible environment allows them to be produced in a semi‐automatic way starting from different sources: electronic texts (as input for hyper‐books) and paper books (as input for visual‐books). The translation process is driven by the philosophy of preserving the book metaphor in order to guarantee that electronic information is presented in a familiar way. Another important feature of our research is that hyper‐books and visual‐books are conceived not as isolated objects but as entities within an electronic library, which inherits most of the features of a paper‐based library but introduces a number of new properties resulting from its non‐physical nature

A new model for procuring e-books

This paper draws on a recent ground-breaking tender for e-books for higher education libraries in the UK. The strategy for the tender was informed by standard procurement practice and by the experience of acquiring other e-resources, particularly journals under the so-called big deal. Both are examined as background to the discussion of e-books in general and the tender in particular

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Danel Griffin, Egan Library Super Staff; JSTOR - Online Journal Archive; Testing and Education Resource Center; netLibrary Reference Collection; Oxford University Press Electronic Books; Ebrary adds 7,000+ Titles; New books at Egan Library - the kind you can touch and feel!; REMINDER: New helpful library resource

Review of Islam and New Kinship: Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality. (Book Review) Review of When God Comes to Town: Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts Editors: Rik Pinxten and Lisa Dikomitis (Book Review)

Reviews of: Islam and New Kinship: Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality series vol. 16, New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books. 262 pages, bibliog., index ISBN 978-1-84545-432-6 Hb £50.00 When God Comes to Town: Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts Editors: Rik Pinxten and Lisa Dikomitis Culture and Politics, Politics and Culture, volume 4 New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2009. 978-1-84545-554-

Allison Singley, Director of Parent Relations

In our new Next Page column, Allison Singley, Director of Parent Relations, shares with us the three books she is currently reading and why it might take her a while to finish them, her two desert island books (one of which inspired her doctoral dissertation), how she maintains a habit of reading poetry daily, and why she doesn’t write in books anymore — or feel the need to finish one

Menorah Review (No. 81, Summer/Fall, 2014)

Books in Brief: New and Notable -- candelabra gold -- Education: Yeshivah style -- Moreshet: From the Sources -- Mysteries of the Books of Job: From Elihu to Elie Wiesel -- Two Nations Are In Your Womb (Gen 25:23) -- When Rhetoric Dominates The Message -- Zacho