Alkek Library News

Library acquires JSTOR Arts & Sciences VIII collection

The library has expanded the JSTOR collection to include Arts & Sciences VIII which features periodicals in history, language & literature, art & art history, and education. Included in this set will be a group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals digitized as part of a special project undertaken with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. With a minimum of 140 titles by its completion in 2011, this collection will also include journals in philosophy, classical studies, and music.  Click here for a complete title list and description.

JSTOR provides access to archived issues of leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  Access always includes volume 1, issue 1 when available as well as all previous and related titles.  The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available from JSTOR.

Actress & Storyteller Brings Katherine Anne Porter To Life

THE WITTLIFF COLLECTIONS and Texas State University-San Marcos present:

Katherine Anne Porter: A Driving Desire
A performance by PENNYLYN WHITE

Saturday, November 14 at 7:00 pm
Admission is FREE.

Katherine Anne Porter once said, “I never started out with anything in this world but a kind of passion, a driving desire.” Porter’s drive, along with her flawless pen and penetrating insights, made her a major voice in twentieth-century American literature. In a tribute to Porter’s life, work, and legacy, actress Pennylyn White brings to life the woman behind the pen in a probing performance using extracts from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author’s body of fiction, essays, and poetry, as well as her personal letters.
 
White will present Katherine Anne Porter, A Driving Desire on Saturday, November 14, at 7:00 p.m. at the Wittliff Collections on the seventh floor of Texas State’s Alkek Library. Co-sponsored by the Department of English, with special thanks to the Jane Hope Hastings Philanthropic Trust, this event is free and open to the public.

Since Porter’s death, her reputation as a “Texas” writer has grown even though she lived most of her life outside the state and felt unappreciated by it. Critic A.C. Greene, writing in The Fifty Best Books on Texas, calls Pale Horse, Pale Rider “the best Texas fiction ever written.” The Wittliff Collections hold two small but significant literary archives of Katherine Anne Porter; a three-page letter to her nephew Paul is currently on display at the Wittliff as part of the exhibition, The Lightning Field: Mapping the Creative Process. A biography of the author and the archival inventories are online: http://thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/writers/porter.html. Texas State’s Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center in Kyle was the author’s childhood home from 1892-1901. Find out more about the Porter house at http://www.english.txstate.edu/kap.

An actress, writer, and storyteller, Pennylyn White has developed several other one-woman shows, including “Love, Laughter and L’Amor” based on the life of Edith Wharton, now reconfigured as a video performance, “All Souls: The Haunted World of Edith Wharton”. She has performed in many plays, including” Story Theatre” and “Metamorphoses” on Broadway, and her own play, “In Bocca Alla Lupa,” premiered in New York in 2008. A graduate of Northwestern University, White has taught courses in Movement, Storytelling, and Integrating Creativity at the University of Rio Grande’s summer graduate program for teachers for the last five years.
 
THE WITTLIFF COLLECTIONS
Alkek Library, Seventh Floor  |  Texas State University-San Marcos  |  512.245.2313
Directions and parking at: http://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu
Admission is free and open to the public.

Recall of first printing of 2009 APA Manual 6th edition

If you have a copy of the 2009 APA Manual, 6th edition, first printing and would like to return it, you must call the number listed in the email from APA below:

 

 

Dear customers: Thank you for your email. We regret the errors that are present in the sixth edition of the Publication Manual and the inconvenience this has caused you. We are working on ways to make it right. We have produced a detailed corrections summary that supplies the error list in a user-friendly presentation. This document notes all errors in the manual and puts them in context for greater understanding. A printed version of the supplement that has been formatted to accompany the book will also be available by November 2 through the APA Service Center. Please call 1-800-374-2721 for more information. Many people have found that the corrections supplement meets their needs; if you find, however, that it doesn’t meet yours, we will send you a replacement copy of the second printing of the manual at no cost to you. (The second printing includes corrections to all errors.) We are making this replacement process available to individuals and institutions who have purchased the manual. In order to receive a replacement manual, you must return your current copy of the sixth edition to APA no later than December 15, 2009. We would like to make this transaction as cost neutral to you as possible, so efforts are being made to provide you with prepaid postage you can use to return the book to us. We expect this process will be available the first week in November. If you are interested in a replacement copy, please contact the APA Service Center at your convenience for further information. Service Center staff can be reached at 1-800-374-2721 from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (EST) Monday through Friday. Email correspondence can be directed to order@apa.org.Thank you again for taking the time to write to us. It is our desire to meet your needs.

 

 

 

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New Database: Imaging Consult

Imaging Consult is a new resource available via Elsevier that contains high quality conventional radiography, MRI, and ultrasound images along with procedures and reference material for imaging specialties.

Subspecialties included in Database:

• Brain and Spine Imaging
• Breast Imaging
• Cardiac Imaging Chest Imaging
• Gastrointestinal Imaging
• Head and Neck Imaging
• Interventional Imaging Musculoskeletal Imaging
• Obstetric and Gynecologic Imaging
• Pediatric Imaging

Other features include:

• Searching by modality or anatomic region
• Grouping images by diagnosis, modality, anatomic region, gender or age
• Enlarging image for quick review
• Downloadable images

Imaging Consult includes rapid & in-depth information with links to full-text articles to read more on the subject, and also links to PubMed and MD Consult for supporting evidence. The database also includes a Normal Variant Gallery which includes the relative normal variant for each diagnostic topic.

Take the Guided Tour of Imaging Consult

If you browse the database by topic, you can see which entries have a Quick Facts or Procedures entry.

Tim O'Brien Reading at Alkek Library on Tuesday, November 3

Author Tim O'Brien will give a reading and book signing on the 7th floor of the the Alkek Library on Tuesday, November 3 at 3:30 p.m. 

Co-sponsored by the Therese Kayser Lindsey Series and Texas State Department of English, the event is free and open to the public.

Tim O'Brien is the author of Going After Cacciato, winner of the 1979 National Book Award in fiction, and The Things They Carried, which was named by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 1990, received the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award in fiction, and was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

In the Lake of the Woods was named by Time magazine as the best novel of 1994. The book also received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was selected as one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times. His other books are If I Die in a Combat Zone, Northern Lights and The Nuclear Age.

His two most recent books, Tomcat in Love and July, July, were national bestsellers. This summer, his essay, "Telling Tales," on the craft of fiction appeared in The Atlantic fiction issue.

O'Brien's short stories have appeared in Esquire, Harper's, Atlantic, Playboy, Granta, Gentleman's Quarterly, The New Yorker and in several editions of The O. In 1987 he received the National Magazine Award for his story "The Things They Carried," which was also selected for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike.