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Extended Hours for Finals
To help you prepare for Final Exams, the Library will be open extended hours beginning Tuesday April 30th through Monday May 6th.
Please refer to the Library Hours page for specific times.
IMPORTANT:
Remember that anyone can use the parking lot in front of the Library after 4:00 PM (M-F), and any time on the weekend.
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Try Our New Catalog!
Greetings CLB Library Patrons!
Our new Worldcat Local catalog is live for use! The new catalog allows for you to search for books, journals, and even articles in one convenient location.
The catalog is still in the testing phase and not all of its capabilities are currently active. Our classic catalog is still available for use in the event that there are issues with the new system.
If you have any comments, concerns, or questions, please contact the Systems Librarian .
Thank you!
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Library Hours Changed for Winter Storm Iago
Pending the arrival of a winter storm Iago, the CLB Library will be closing at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday January the 17th, 2013.
The CLB Library will be re-opening at 10:00 A.M. on Friday January the 18th, 2013.
If you have any questions about our hours or would like to verify that we are open please call 704-637-4448.
Be sure to follow the instructions of all campus safety announcements and exercise caution during this time.
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Family Weekend 2012 : Continental Breakfast
The Corriher-Linn-Black Library hosted a continental breakfast on the final day of the 2012 Family Weekend event. The breakfast was held in the Wentz Reading Room and was well attended by students, their families, and faculty. Donna Jordan, author of Surround Your College Child with Prayer and mother of a Catawba Alumnus, attended the event. Jordan spoke with attendees, passed out copies of her book, and signed copies upon request. The breakfast concluded the Family Weekend event, leaving students and their families refreshed from their meal and fellowship.
Photo by Tonia Black-Gold.
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New Databases!
The library has subscribed to LexisNexis and also has trial access to the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Check them out!
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2011 Summer Reading Program – Library Resources
Check out the supplementary material we’ve gathered for Zeitoun by David Eggers
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2011 Catawba College Summer Reading Program – Library Resources for Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
About the Catawba College Summer Reading Program
2011 Summer Reading Program Selection – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
About the Author & the Book
Dave Eggers by Scott D. Yarbrough. Cyclopedia of World Authors, 4th rev. ed. January 2003. (Retrieved from Literary Reference Center, a library database).
Zeitoun by David Peck. Magill’s Literary Annual 2010. June 2010. (Retrieved from Literary Reference Center, a library database).
Reviews of Zeitoun
“After the Deluge” by Timothy Egan. New York Times Book Review. August 16, 2009. (Retrieved from Academic Search Premier, a library database).
“…50 years from now, when people want to know what happened to this once-great city during a shameful episode of our history, they will still be talking about a family named Zeitoun.”
“After the Deluge” by Harry Shearer. New Statesman. March 8, 2010. (Retrieved from Literary Reference Center, a library database).
“Had it been written in 1999 as a dystopian fantasy of a 21st-century America in physical and moral tatters, Zeitoun would have been dismissed as laughable or implausible. But read now, after all we’ve lived through and all we have learned about the US in the past decade, it belongs in a category that becomes increasingly crowded as the years pass: ‘Amazing But Not Surprising.’”
“Zeitoun: Nightmare in New Orleans” by Deirdre Donahue. USA Today. September 22, 2009. (Retrieved from MasterFILE Premier, a library database).
“Zeitoun is an unusual book. It’s not a big-screen picture of New Orleans in crisis. It’s a portrait of one man – a patriotic and deeply religious immigrant – caught in a nightmare created by a natural catastrophe, exacerbated by government incompetence.”
Selected Resources
“The Amazing True Story of Zeitoun” by Ed Pilkington. The Guardian. March 11, 2010.
“An Interview with Dave Eggers about Zeitoun” by Anis Shivani. Colorado Review. Summer2010. (Retrieved from Literary Reference Center, a library database).
“Introduction to Hurricane Katrina: At Issue” by Diane Andrews Henningfeld. Hurricane Katrina. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. (Retrieved from Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context, a library database).
Additional resources relating to Hurricane Katrina, 2005 are available through the Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context database.
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Try our new Study Guides (beta)!
We are pleased to offer study guides to assist in subject- and discipline-specific research. This is a work in progress, so we only have a handful of disciplines represented thus far, but we will be adding content on an ongoing basis.
Try them out! And if you have any suggestions or requests, we welcome your feedback!
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Pioneer runs video piece on SGA DVD Collection
The Pioneer is running a very nice video piece about our SGA DVD Collection on their web site.
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