Thursday, February 12, 2015

Website downtime on Friday the 13th!


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On Friday, February 13 from about 7pm-8:30pm the library website and its research guides will be down for maintenance. Although you'll see the image above you will still be able to access the following library resources using the links provided here. Be sure to bookmark this post to ensure access while our website is down.
Here's an alphabetical list of our article databases and online resources:
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Dana Johnson and Piper Kerman at the University of Redlands!



Elsewhere, California.  Dana Johnson.

 


Author Dana Johnson, recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, speaks at the University of Redlands Creative Writing Department Visiting Writers Series on Thursday, February 12 in Hall of Letters 100 at 7:30pm.

 

More California fiction @Armacost:


Ask the Dust: A Novel. John Fante.

Bad Habitats: The Party Skunks of the South Bay. Alisa Slaughter.

Devil in a Blue Dress. Walter Mosley.

The Eyes of the World: A Novel. Harold Bell Wright.

Fearful Symmetry. Greg Bills.

Inherent Vice. Thomas Pynchon.

Living in Ether: A Novel. Patricia Geary.

My Name Is Aram. William Saroyan.

The Plum Plum Pickers: A Novel. Raymond Barrio.

Ramona: A Story. Helen Hunt Jackson.

The Republic of East L.A.: Stories. Luis J. Rodriguez.




Orange Is the New Black. Piper Kerman.

 



Author Piper Kerman speaks at the University of Redlands on Thursday, February 19 at 7:00pmin the Memorial Chapel.


 

More books about women prisoners @Armacost:


Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment. Jill A. McCorkel.

Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio. Juanita Díaz-Cotto.

A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration. Martin G. Urbina.

Criminalizing Women: Gender and (In)justice in Neo-Liberal Times. Gillian Balfour and Elizabeth Comack.

Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Maisha Winn.

Grey Is the Color of Hope. Irina Ratushinskaya.

Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison. Paula C. Johnson.

Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons. Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman.

Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States. Rickie Solinger.

Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett. Jennifer Gonnerman.

Marking Time in the Golden State: Women's Imprisonment in California. Candace Kruttschnitt and Rosemary Gartner.

Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America. Jeanne Flavin.
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Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Black History Month & The First Amendment


February is Black History Month, a period of time each year that we more vociferously celebrate the accomplishments of prominent figures and significant events in African American history (and sometimes the present). This year the NAACP celebrates African American women past and present.


Given events over the past year (and more) it seemed worth considering the intersection of Black History and First Amendment Rights.

Free Speech and Freedom of the Press

 Ida B. Wells was a journalist, newspaper editor, anti-lynching activist, suffragist, and women's rights advocate.  A muckraker and investigative journalist, Wells used her Memphis paper, The Free Press, to expose the fraudulent 'reasons' white supremacists used to rationalize the lynching of black men.  She moved to Chicago, and continued publishing editorials on racial injustices, when her newspaper office was destroyed in retaliation.  Learn more about Ida B. Wells:



In 1960 a full-page advertisement ran in The New York Times seeking to raise funds to support Martin Luther King, Jr. defend against a perjury case brought against him.  The advertisement also described a "wave of terror" of police actions against peaceful demonstrators in Montgomery, AL.  L.B. Sullivan sued The New York Times for libel, claiming, amongst other things, the advertisement exaggerated and included inaccuracies. The case eventually went to the Supreme Court, its ruling stating that "Free and open debate about the conduct of public officials, the Court reasoned, was more important than occasional, honest factual errors that might hurt or damage officials’ reputations."  Learn more about The New York Times v. Sullivan by looking up the case in Lexis Nexis and with these books:



 Freedom to Assemble
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The freedom to assemble afforded by the First Amendment has been central to civil rights struggles of the past and present. Here are just a few of the books available through Armacost Library related to the protest, marches, sit-ins that fall under the freedom of assembly:







The Black Revolution on Campus;

Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi: Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965;

For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights;

Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising;

Geography of Rage: Remembering the Los Angeles Riots of 1992...




If you haven't seen the movie yet, go see Selma this week (just a few more days at the Krikorian, Redlands).
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Claudia Rankine to Visit Redlands


Poet and Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College, Claudia Rankine, will speak at the University of Redlands on Thursday, January 22nd, at 7:30 p.m. in the Casa Loma Room. This free event is co-sponsored by the departments of Creative Writing, Race & Ethnic Studies, English, and Campus Diversity & Inclusion.

Rankine will read from her collection of poetry, Citizen: An American Lyric, which was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry. Her poems address the effects of racism in the media and modern life.

Citizen follows the 2004 publication of Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Both books are available for checkout in the Library.


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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Routledge Handbooks Online Trial


Armacost Library just started a trial to Routledge Handbooks Online! Trial access is on-campus only and will be active until March 12, 2015: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/  

Each handbook is peer-reviewed, and each chapter includes a detailed abstract to facilitate effective searching and access of content. The handbooks cover a wide range of the social sciences and humanities, including Asian Studies, Business, Education, Environment, History, Media Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, and Sociology.



We invite you to explore over 300 volumes and 15,000 chapters. Your feedback is valuable to us, so please give your Librarian your thoughts after making use of this resource.

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Thursday, January 08, 2015

Happy New Year and Welcome Back!



I hope all of you have had a relaxing and enjoyable break and are ready for all the opportunities that Redlands has to offer. We realize that the semester will quickly get busy, therefore we want to make sure you consider this opportunity before it's too late.

The Armacost Library Undergraduate Research Award (ALURA) recognizes the challenges that students face when conducting research in today’s complex information landscape. In addition to finding information, one must have developed the skills needed to evaluate information and select that which meets the specific requirements of the research project. Librarians are partners in this process and although we are aware of student projects, rarely do we see the final product. ALURA gives us an opportunity to do just that.  

 This Award applauds the student who is passionate about a question, has experienced the thrill of searching for evidence to prove a point, has felt the need to find answers that lead to more questions, and has been thoughtful about the process during this great adventure. 

We are now calling for submissions for the 2015 award. The deadline is February 20th. More information at library.redlands.edu/alura

You can still apply for the award if your research product is in process. Be sure to use this checklist as you prepare the submission:


  • Award Application Form
  • Research Reflection Essay
  • The Research Product
  • Bibliography or other appropriate listing of sources consulted
  • Letter of Support from Faculty Advisor/Course Professor

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