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Leisure reading

on Thursday, April 2, 2009

Want a break from your studies? Want to read something for FUN instead of for class? Check out Ely's Popular Fiction collection (including everything from graphic novels to sci-fi) and our Paperback Book Exchange. You can take any of the books from the Paperback Book Exchange without checking them out. Come to the library and learn more about it!

March is Global Women's History Month

on Friday, March 27, 2009


This month's book display shows materials that discuss topics in global women's history. The display was made to compliment the campus-wide Month Celebrating Women and contains photos of notable women in history.



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April is National Poetry Month

on Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Celebrate National Poetry Month by reading a few timeless works by your favorite authors. We've compiled some staff favorites to help you pick something special:

Tulips and Chimneys by e.e. cummings

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac

Collected Works by Allen Ginsburg

The Waste Land and other poems by T.S. Eliot

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

Selections, 1949 by Matthew Arnold

Les lais de Marie de France