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For those struggling with Writers’ Block, Writers’ Cramp, and Writer’s Malaise: The Elements of Style, by Strunk and White Not merely a guide to punctuation for the bleary-eyed late night writer, but also a literate and clear reminder of the elements of composition. A short classic originally written by Strunk in 1918 and recast by [...]
A series of afternoon talks with collectors hosted by The Friends of the Library Norman Tomlinson initiated the Conversations on Collecting series on October 12, 2011 with a talk about his adventures in collecting Byron and Whitman. James Fraser, an authority on international ephemera created during times of political upheaval, visited the Library on December [...]
By Kathleen Juliano, Head of Interlibrary Loan In February 2012, the Interlibrary Loan office introduced a new Interlibrary Loan system, ILLiad, to the Drew community. The office had been using ILLiad internally for lending books to other libraries, since the summer of 2011. ILLiad is a system used by many libraries throughout the country to [...]
By Rebecca Rego Barry, Editor of Fine Books and Collections magazine Earlier this week I had the pleasure of ‘going home again’ so to speak. Drew University Library in Madison, New Jersey, has been holding a series of conversations on collecting. Drew is where I did my graduate work in book history, and where I [...]
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations When Oscar Wilde remarked wistfully, “I wish I’d said that,” James Whistler replied, “You will, Oscar, you will.” Try quotation books to see What Oscar Said: PN6080 .O95 or Online: http://www.drew.edu/library/er/oxford-dictionary-of-quotations Oscar Wilde Encyclopedia Summarizing the content and reception of most of Wilde’s works, from poetry to newspaper articles, this volume [...]
Three students won $100 Amazon Gift Cards after completing the Library’s 2012 Student Survey and entering the raffle. Congratulations to: Noelle Bernard Elena McKeown Komal Chandra Thanks to all 187 students who entered. We’re tabulating the results now and will post a summary in time for the Fall semester!
By Elizabeth Patterson, Ph.D., Government Documents Librarian Two reference interactions in Fall 2011 articulated for me the intimate relationship that exists between libraries, librarians and researchers, and the usefulness of the Drew Library to scholarship. Khemani Gibson, a CLA student, came to me needing a primary source for his African-American history paper. He was interested [...]
Jerome McGann, an important critic of Romanticism and Byron studies, and the editor of Byron: The Complete Poetical Works (Clarendon Press, The Oxford English Texts series, 1980-1993), has donated his Byron papers to the Byron Society Collection at Drew University. The materials in Professor McGann’s collection are primarily of three general types. They include his [...]
- By Dean Andrew Scrimgeour As I write this column, the much-anticipated Kean Reading Room & Gallery in the Rose Library is nearing completion. Like a fashion model about to make her entrance on the runway pausing to put on her necklace and earrings, the grand space awaits a few final touches—redupholstered chairs for the [...]
Inspired by the 2012 Leadership conference… Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations… Look under “Leadership” here to see what quotations the Library of Congress can supply on the subject: Reference PN6081 .R435 or http://ezproxy.drew.edu/login?url=http://www.credoreference.com/vol/84 New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Somehow one suspects that this reference has somewhat sanitized Harry Truman’s definition of leadership: [...]