Library Blogs

Here is our list of most popular games during the month of February. The Xbox 360 and Xbox One capitalize almost the entire list, with Smash making an appearance on the Top 10 list for the first time in quite awhile. The game series has dominated Fridays at the CVGA more and more this semester, with students even bringing in their own game disks and controllers in order to get as many simultaneous games of Smash going at the same time as possible.

One thread that runs through Southern cookbooks is the figure of the African American in the kitchen.

Set in Iceland in the early 1800s, Burial Rites tells the tale of a murderess sentenced to death.

Mark your calendars for a free screening of FOOD CHAIN$: The Revolution in America's Fields documentary.

March 3, 2015 | 4pm to 6pm | Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery

Search is the cornerstone of the library website, and the primary goal of our online presence: to help users find resources and information so that they can do their work.

This Wednesday's watermark feature: bull's head motifs in watermarked papers from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection

Feeling nostalgic for print-forms gone by? Or eagerly seeking the next production medium for your postmodern creativity? Either way, come join the Harlequin Creature typing bee in the gallery of Hatcher Graduate Library on Wednesday, February 18th from 11:30am-4:30pm.

The Book of Madness and Cures is a beautifully-written novel about a female doctor's journey through 16th century Europe and northern Africa.

Historic American recipes for chocolate baked goods are much less intense than modern ones.19th and early 20th century American recipes for chocolate cakes and cookies, such as this month's recipe from Emma Francis Voris' ca.1893 New Columbian White House Cookery are quite mild.

Portable calculators are older than we think. For our History of Mathematics Collection, we have recently purchased an example of a small manual calculator, whereby anyone could quickly perform each of the four basic mathematical operations. It was designed by the Frenchman Louis-J. Troncet in 1889.