Library News

Batter up!

Posted on September 27th, 2014

The American pastime, now enjoying worldwide popularity, is the theme of this display in the 3000 S corridor of Booth Library. Pull out the peanuts and Cracker Jack, pop open a cold one, and settle in for a good read on the history of America’s most popular sport.

“21”: The Story of Roberto Clemente: a Graphic Novel
Wilfred Santiago
741.5973 C5915sa (Ballenger Teachers Center)

Baseball and the Bottom Line in World War II: Gunning for Profits on the Home Front
Jeff Obermeyer
GV863 .A1 O25 2013

The Baseball Book
GV863 .A1 B3766 2011x

Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran
Dirk Hayhurst
GV865 .H37 A3 2010

Chasing Baseball: Our Obsession with its History, Number, People, and Places
Dorothy Seymour Mills
GV863 .A1 M54 2010

Farewell to the Last Golden Era: the Yankees, the Pirates and the 1960 Baseball Season
Rubil Morales
GV863 .A1 M626 2011

Baseball Without Borders: the International Pastime
George G. Melch, Ed.
GV867 .B36 2006

Joe DiMaggio: the Long Vigil
Jerome Charyn
GV865 .D5 C53 2011

Satchel Paige
Lesa Cline-Ransome
796.357 P1529cl

Ted Williams: a Baseball Life
Michael Seidel
GV865 .W5 S44 2003

There Goes Ted Williams: the Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived
Matt Tavares
796.357 W6758 ta

Ty and the Babe: Baseball’s Fiercest Rivals: a Surprising Friendship and the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship
Tom Stanton
GV865 .A1 S725 2007

We Are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball
Kadir Nelson
King 2009a

When the Game Changed: an Oral History of Baseball’s True Golden Age, 1969-1979
George Castle
GV863 .A1 C376 2011

You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
Jonah Winter
796.357 K8492w

The Mad, Mod World of 1960s Design

Posted on September 25th, 2014

If you like vintage art and fashion, you’ll this book display in the Marvin Foyer.

From Andy Warhol to the Kennedys, these books really

Pop!: Design, Culture, Fashion, 1956 – 1976
NK1390 .R39 2012x

The entire decade was known for being revolutionary, but this was especially true of 1963.

1963, the Year of the Revolution: How Youth Changed the World with Music, Art, and
Fashion
CB427 .A16 2013x

And the art and fashion scenes were prime examples. Commercial artist Andy Warhol made history when he took his art in a new direction and began painting multiples of common objects like soup cans.

Andy Warhol: the Early Sixties:
Paintings and Drawings, 1961-1964
N6537 .W28 A4 2010x

Eccentric objects — like the pair of legs below — became a whole new art form.

Eccentric Objects:
Rethinking sculpture
in 1960s America
NB212 .A67 2012

Everyday objects, too, were often a sight to behold. Now they make a great collection . . .

Miller’s collecting the 1960s
NK1125 .M34785 1999x

. . . as do the ordinary, everyday fashions worn back then.

Everyday Fashions
of the Sixties:
as Pictured
in Sears Catalogs
GT615 .E917 1999

The design revolution was nowhere more evident than in the world of fashion, where it seemed as though every piece of clothing was a work of art.

Great Fashion Designs of the Sixties: Paper Dolls in Full Color: 32 Haute Couture Costumes by Courrèges, Balmain, Saint-Laurent and Others
TT175 .T536 1991x

This is not to say that everyone wore “mod” clothing. Our First Family set a more classic tone, and First Lady Jackie Kennedy’s tastefully iconic style was emulated by millions of American women.

John F. Kennedy
and His Family:
Paper Dolls in Full Color
E843 .T54 1990x

But, of course, rock stars danced to the beat of a different drummer, dressing in styles that were unique until the public began to emulate them.

Rock ‘n’ Pop Stars
of the Sixties: Paper Dolls
ML3534 .T54 2001x

For more 1960s fashion and art resources, see below:

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Novels of a Changing World: Fiction about the ’60s

Posted on September 22nd, 2014

Novels of a Changing World

Readers can experience the spirit of the colorful, volatile, and transformational 1960s by reading novels set during this decade. Topics include the civil rights movement; the Vietnam draft and protests; second-wave feminism; the counterculture of drugs and rock ‘n’ roll; and the glitzy world of art, fashion, and film.

Some of the works in this exhibit were written during the ’60s, while others are historical novels that look back on and reimagine the era. All are available for checkout from Booth Library. The exhibit was curated by reference librarian Sarah Johnson.

The Air Between Us
Deborah Johnson
Read & Relax PS3610.O3347 A67 2009x
The difficulties in bridging the racial divide in ’60s Revere, Mississippi.

An Angry-Ass Black Woman
Karen E. Quinones Miller
Read & Relax PS3563.I41335 Z46 2012
Autobiographical fiction; the author’s experience growing up poor in ’60s and ’70s Harlem.

Comeback Love
Peter Golden
Read & Relax PS3607.O4525 C66 2012
Two former lovers who came of age in the ’60s rekindle their relationship.

A Dual Inheritance
Joanna Hershon
Read & Relax PS3558.E788 D82 2014x
Literary saga spanning decades which follows two men, former friends, who first met at Harvard in 1963.

Four Spirits
Sena Jeter Naslund
Read & Relax PS3564.A827 F68 2003
The Civil Rights Movement in ’60s Birmingham, Alabama, as seen from many characters’ viewpoints, both black and white.

Freshwater Road
Denise Nicholas
Read & Relax PS3614.I337 F74 2008x
A Michigan university student travels to Mississippi to help register voters during the Freedom Summer of 1964.

The Gallery of Vanished Husbands
Natasha Solomons
Read & Relax PR6119.O455 G35 2013
A saga of the sexual revolution amid the 1960s art world.

I Hotel
Karen Tei Yamashita
Read & Relax PS3575.A44 I19 2010
A multi-viewpoint novel of the civil rights struggle in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the ’60s.

Last Night at the Blue Angel
Rebecca Rotert
PS3618.O85557 L37 2014
A mother-daughter tale set amid the jazz scene of 1960s Chicago.

Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Walter Mosley
Best Sellers PS3563.O88456 L44 2013
In his 12th outing in Mosley’s crime series, private eye Easy Rawlins does some investigating along the Sunset Strip in ’60s LA.

Loss of Innocence
Richard North Patterson
Read & Relax PS3566.A8242 L67 2013
A young woman from a wealthy family on Martha’s Vineyard comes of age and begins questioning her family’s values during the troubled summer of 1968.

The Love Children
Marilyn French
Read & Relax PS3556.R42 L68 2009
In this classic novel, a young woman gets drawn into the hippie scene in 1968 Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society
Amy Hill Hearth
Read & Relax PS3608.E274 M57 2012
A young Bostonian woman moves to Naples, Florida, in 1962 and becomes a radio host in the racially segregated Southern town.

More Than You Know
Penny Vincenzi
Read & Relax PR6072.I525 D43 2013x
In this glitzy epic saga, a privileged young woman falls in love with a working-class boy during the Swinging Sixties, and troubles arise when their relationship crumbles.

Natchez Burning
Greg Iles
Best Sellers PS3559.L47 N38 2014
Dual-period crime fiction; Penn Cage, mayor of Natchez, Mississippi, confronts his beloved father’s possible involvement in the murder of an African-American nurse back in the ’60s.

Our Man in the Dark
Rashad Harrison
Best Sellers PS3608.A7837 O97 2011
A noir thriller about the Civil Rights movement, fears of communism, mobsters, and the KKK in the story of a man working as an accountant for Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Pink Suit
Nicole Mary Kelby
PS3561.E382 P56 2014x
About the seamstress who crafted Jackie Kennedy’s iconic pink Chanel suit, which became a symbol of pain and endurance following JFK’s assassination.

Set the Night on Fire
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Read & Relax PS3608.E46 S48 2010
After her life is threatened, a woman struggles to uncover her father’s violent past in late ’60s Chicago, with its civil rights struggles and anti-war protests.

Sixty-Six
Barry Levinson
Best Sellers PS3562.E9213 S59 2003
The political and social changes sweeping across ’60s America finally reach young people living in the quiet city of Baltimore, Maryland.

Sway
Zachary Lazar
Best Sellers PS3562.A969 S93 2009
A dark novel weaving together the big names of rock and roll, the Manson murders, underground filmmaking, and the drug culture of late ’60s America.

The Time of our Singing
Richard Powers
Read & Relax PS3566.O92 T55 2004b
The artistic pursuits and personal journeys of three musically talented children in a mixed-race family during the troubled ’60s.

Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann
The top-selling book of 1966 follows three women over a 20-year period, from the Forties through the early Sixties, covering their glitzy social lives, their messy relationships, their recreational drug habits, and their involvement in the film industry.

Virgin Soul
Judy Juanita
Best Sellers PS3610.U17 V57 2013
A young woman gets involved with the Black Panther movement in 1960s San Francisco.

The Wednesday Sisters
Meg Waite Clayton
Read & Relax PS3603.L45 W43 2009x
The story of five very different women in the Bay Area in the late ’60s who form a strong friendship that lasts decades.

The books in this exhibit, part of the Revolutionary Decade: Reflections on the 1960s program series, can be found on display in Booth Library’s third floor south hallway during fall 2014. Please stop by and check them out!

1960s fiction exhibit

A History of Plate Tectonic Science on display at Booth Library

Posted on September 19th, 2014

As part of the ongoing 1960s exhibit and programming in Booth this fall, Geology Professor Diane Burns has mounted a display table in the 3000 corridor in Booth Library entitled: “The Sixties and the Birth of Plate Tectonics” The poster and display explain how Geological Studies published in the 1960s unified centuries-old observations about the earth’s surface into a theory of plate tectonics. Burns writes in the poster:

“Wondering about the Earth and how it was formed and operated has intrigued people at least as far back as 300 BC, with observations noted about minerals, rocks and metals recognized at the time by folks such as Theophrastus (Greece) and Pliny the Elder (Rome).

Slowly over the next milennia, geological studies were proffered from disparate areas such as India (Abu al-Rayhan al-Biruni), China (ShenKuo) and Iran (IbnSida) detailing the processes of earthquakes, erosion, mountain formation and the like.

Study seemed to falter from ~1000 AD to the mid 1600s, when European scholars began publishing their observations on fossils, stratigraphy and some seminal laws that govern the Earth and its processes.

image of display table While people had been pondering the overarching physical mechanisms that shape the Earth for this entire time, it was not until the 1960s that a series of studies led to the Theory of Plate Tectonics. This theory, which states that the Earth’s surface is covered with tectonic plates that
are restlessly moving, creating and destroying rock material in the process, unified the scientific community’s thoughts as to how the Earth works. From this point forward, Geology was a modern science!”

The Reference collection has a number of valuable tools for researching Plate tectonics and Earth science, among them The Encyclopedia of Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics (Reference room, QE601 .E53 1987), and The Encyclopedia of Geology (Reference Room QE5 .E5155x 2005) .

The electronic Sage Knowledge E-Reference collection and Springer e-books: Earth and Environmental Science also provide general geography information and ebooks on earth science.

Earth Science journal articles can be found in the comprehensive Earth Sciences Database GEOREF .

Professor Burns intends for the exhibit to educate but also entice students to take ESC1300 or ESC1310. Available at the table is a brochure stating: “Plate tectonics, dinosaurs, earthquakes, volcanoes, gold, diamonds and oil…all of it happening or found on Earth – and you can easily find out more about them! You HAVE to take a Gen Ed Science with lab class – why not explore the cool stuff and fulfill that requirement at the same time? Try ESC 1300 (Introduction to Earth Science) or ESC 1320 (Geology of National Parks) in the spring semester and find out more about your Earth!” Professor Diane Burns is available at 1039 Physical Sciences Building or dmburns@eiu.edu

image of table

1960s fashion, music and dance featured at Extravaganza

Posted on September 18th, 2014

The Eastern Illinois University campus and Coles County community members are invited to take a step back in time and experience the fashion and music of the 1960s during Extravaganza of 1960s Fashion, Music and Dance! The free event will be held at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

“We want this to be a fun night for all generations, whether you lived through the ‘60s yourself, or your parents or grandparents did,” said Allen Lanham, dean of library services at Booth Library. “We’ll have demonstrations featuring dances such as the ‘mashed potato’ and the ‘twist,’ fashion representing everything from Jackie O. to flower children – and all of it will be set to the iconic tunes of the 1960s.”

Attendees are invited to participate by dressing up as their favorite 1960s personalities – whether that be Jimi Hendrix, JFK, the Beatles or the Brady Bunch. A costume show is planned, and prizes will be awarded. All ages are invited to participate.

Those who would like to participate in the costume contest must sign up in advance by emailing the entrant’s name and costume idea to library@eiu.edu or call 581-6061. Both individuals and groups are encouraged to participate.

Members of Couture Models, an EIU registered student organization, will provide a special fashion and dance presentation. WEIU Radio will provide the music for the evening, and the EIU departments of theatre arts and kinesiology and sports studies will help coordinate the activities.

This program is part of Booth Library’s fall exhibit and program series, “Revolutionary Decade: Reflections on the 1960s.” For a complete schedule of events, visit the program website at www.library.eiu.edu/exhibits/1960s/. All events are free and open to the public.

Capture the moment: Ansel Adams and the art of photography

Posted on September 18th, 2014

“It is not an exaggeration to state that he pulls back a curtain to allow us a view of the divine.” —Robyn G. Peterson, curator of art at Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, California; reflecting on the photographic work of Ansel Adams, examples of which are featured below.

Born Feb. 2, 1902, near San Francisco, Ansel Adams developed a love for nature early on and spent his 60-year career producing images that would reveal nature’s beauty to others. His philosophy and the guiding principles behind his work are detailed in his memoir, Ansel Adams, an Autobiography, published just after his death in 1984 at age 82. Another book that celebrates Adams’ work, Ansel Adams at 100, was published in 2002. These books and others about photography and the significant contribution of Ansel Adams to that art are highlighted in a book display in the library’s 3000 S corridor. The display, which also includes instructional books on digital photography, is being offered in support of Tarble Arts Center’s “Ansel Adams Masterworks” exhibit (Aug. 16 – Oct. 19, 2014).

Here’s what you’ll find on the book display:

Ansel Adams, an Autobiography
By Ansel Adams
TR140 .A3 A33 1985

Ansel Adams at 100
By John Szarkowski
TR647 .A236 2001

Author Photo: Portraits, 1983 – 2002
By Marion Ettlinger
TR681 .A85 E88 2003

The Portfolios of Ansel Adams
By Ansel Adams
TR654 .A34 1981x

Digital Landscape & Nature Photography for Dummies
By Doug Sahlin
TR721 .S23x 2011

The Photographer’s Mind: Creative Thinking for Better Digital Photos
By Michael Freeman
TR183 .F754 2011x

Digital Landscape Photography: in the Footsteps of Ansel Adams and the Great Masters
By Michael Frye
TR660 .F79 2010x

Digital Macro and Close-up Photography for Dummies
By Tom Clark
TR684 .C42x 2011

Digital Photography Composition for Dummies
By Tom Clark
TR179 .C54 2011x

Creative Landscapes: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques
By Harold Davis
TR660 .D37x 2011

How to Read a Photograph: Lessons from Master Photographers
By Jeffrey Ian
TR183 .J44 2008

Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century
By Uta Grosenick and Thomas Seelig, eds.
TR655 .P48813 2007

Pirkle Jones: California Photographs
By Pirkle Jones
TR820.5 .J66 2001

The New York Times Magazine Photographs
By Kathy Ryan, ed.
TR820.5 .N49 2011x

Listen to the Trees
By John Sexton
TR726 .T7 S48 1994

Visions of the Big Sky: Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West
By Dan L. Flores
N8214.5 .U6 F58 2010

Macro Photography for Gardeners and Nature Lovers: the Essential Guide to Digital Techniques
By Alan L. Detrick
TR684 .D48 2008

Illinois: Seasons of Light
By Robert Shaw
TR721 .S525 1997x

Close to Home: the Landscapes, Wildlife and Hidden Beauty of Central Illinois
By Chris Young
TR721 .Y68 2000x

FSA: the American Vision
By Gilles Mora
TR820.5 .B736 2006

Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West
By May Castleberry, ed.
F590.7 .C27 1996

Photographing Children: Photo Workshop
By Ginny Felch
TR681 .C5 F45 2011x

Posing Beauty: African American Images, from the 1890s to the Present
By Deborah Willis
TR680 .W53 2009

Celebrating Women
By Paola Gianturco
TR681 .W6 G53 2004
Photographing Your Family: and All the Kids and Friends and Animals Who Wander Through Too
By Joel Sartore
TR681 .F28 S38 2008

She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World
By Kristen Gresh
TR646.17 G74 2013

Women
By Annie Leibovitz
TR681 .W6 L34 1999

Make Your Memorial Day Memorable

Posted on September 17th, 2014

Memorial day is past, but we couldn’t let this post gather e-dust until next spring

In tribute to heroes past and present, fallen and serving, we offer this
selection of war movies and documentaries — located on a
display table on Booth Library’s 4000 level.

♦ Texas Revolution

The Alamo (2004)
PN1997 .A45742x .DVD

♦ Civil War

Gone with the Wind (2004)
PN1997 .G67x .DVD

♦ World War I

All Quiet on the Western Front (1999)
PN1997 .A626x .DVD

Flyboys (2006)
PN1997 .F6593x .DVD

Paths of Glory (2010)
PN1997 .P374x 2010 .DVD

♦ World War II

NM1 The Big Red One (2005)
PN1997 .B53852x .DVD

The Bridge on the River Kwai (2000)
PN1997 .B844x .DVD

The Dirty Dozen (2000)
PN1997 .D5695x .DVD

Flags of Our Fathers (2007)
PN1997 .F597x .DVD

Fly Girls (2006)
D810.W7 A44 2006x .DVD

Heroes of Iwo Jima (2007)
767.99.I9 H47 2007x .DVD

Kelly’s Heroes (2000)
PN1997 .K466x .DVD

The Longest Day (1999)
PN1997 .L868x .DVD

Patton (2000)
PN1997 .P376x .DVD

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Garden of Delights

Posted on September 15th, 2014

Can we be nostalgic for last month? This display of gardening books was in the library most of the summer. Since we just started “Reference News” we couldn’t help but post some of our just-past seasonal offerings.

Lush. Beautiful. Delicious. Green. Whether edible or strictly ornamental, gardens are well worth the work they require. But even the most dedicated gardener needs to take a break sometime, so put down that hoe and wander on over to Booth Library. The gardening books on display in the 3000 S corridor have been selected with you in mind.

50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants
Tracy DiSabato-Aust
SB404.9 .D57 2008

A Child’s Garden: 60 Ideas to Make Any Garden Come Alive for Children
Molly Dannenmaier
SB457 .D35 2008

All About Roses
James K. McNair
SB411 .M34

American Eden: from Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are
Wade Graham
SB451.3 .G718 2011

Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden
Paul Bonine
SB454.3 .C64 B66 2009

The Edible Balcony: Growing Fresh Produce in Small Spaces
Alex Mitchell
SB419.5 .M58 2012

The Explorer’s Garden: Rare and Unusual Perennials
Daniel J. Hinkley
SB434 .H56 2009

The Explorer’s Garden: Shrubs and Vines from the Four Corners of the World
Daniel J. Hinkley
SB434 .H56 2009

From Yard to Garden: the Domestication of America’s Home Grounds
Christopher Grampp
SB451.3 .G73 2008

The Gardener’s Essential Companion: Proven Advice and Lively Information to Help You Garden Smarter, Not Harder
Dora Galitzki
SB453 .G228 2000

Gardening with Perennials Month by Month
Joseph Hudak
SB434 .H8 2004x

Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle’s Urban Community Gardens
Jeffrey Hou
SB457.3 .H63 2009

Orchids to Know and Grow
Thomas J. Sheehan
SB409 .S528 2007

Organic Gardening for Dummies
Ann Whitman
SB453.5 .W49 2001

Small Family Gardens
Caroline Tilston
SB472.45 .T55 2007

Small Green Roofs: Low-Tech Options for Greener Living
Nigel Dunnett
SB419.5 .S63 2011

Vegetable Gardening for Dummies
Charlie Nardozzi
SB321 .N24 2009x

The Water Gardener’s Bible
Ben Helm
SB423 .H43 2008x

Booth Library adds 686 new titles in August

Posted on September 12th, 2014

During August, Booth Library acquired and cataloged 686 new items. The list can be viewed here. The list is arranged by location: Ballenger Teachers’ Center, Books, Electronic Resources, Illinois and Federal Documents, Maps, Media, Reference Collection, Special Collections and University Archives. The titles are listed by call number within each location. Please contact Karen Whisler, head of Collection Development, at 581-7551 or klwhisler@eiu.edu if you have questions.

The Life and Works of Gabriel García Márquez

Posted on September 11th, 2014

Gabriel García Márquez:
March 6, 1927 – April 17, 2014

As a young boy growing up in Aracataca, Colombia, Gabriel García Márquez probably had little idea that he would one day be an author writing stories based on his home town, and still less that upon his death his country’s president would proclaim him “the greatest Colombian who ever lived.” Best known for the autobiographical novel Love in the Time of Cholera that was released as a motion picture in 2007, “Gabo” was also awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. The author’s works earned him both critical acclaim and commercial success, especially as they popularized “magic realism”, a literary style that uses magical elements and events in ordinary, realistic situations.

In celebration of the life of Gabriel García Márquez, the following resources from the library’s collection were on display during the spring and summer of 2014 in the 3000 S corridor of Booth Library. Unless otherwise noted, these are the works of García Márquez. Visit the library to check out the books, or follow the links below to the catalog record or the electronic book.