LMU Library News

Scanner now available!

Great news - the library now has a scanner available for use! Since we opened the William H. Hannon Library in 2009, our records show over 250 people have come to the Information Desk asking to use a scanner. We’ve also gotten your feedback on Facebook and in library surveys about scanner features.  We’ve purchased the model that we think will best match what you’ve been asking for.  Scanning will be free! Your scans can be saved to a flashdrive, uploaded to Lionshare or emailed.

 

 

 

It is located at the Information Desk.  Instructions for its use can be found next to the workstation.  It is a flatbed scanner, but also has a feeder attachment to scan multiple documents.  This particular type of scanner isn't designed for heavy use with books or to do high-resolution scanning, but we like it because it is easy to use no matter what your tech level.

Please ask us if you have any questions about using the new scanner!

Technical specifications

Flatbed: 1200 dpi

Automatic document feeder: 600 dpi

Scanning area - Flatbed: 8.5” x 11.7”

Automatic document feeder: 8.5” x 14”

Color: Yes

Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Yes

 

 

Pub Night with Carroll Kearley and friends

"DEITY-ALPHABETS, Carroll Kearley's luminous first book of poems, gives testimony to Keats's knowledge that humanity's certainty resides in 'the holiness of the Heart's affections.' Plain-spoken yet naturally resonant, Kearley's poems of witness 'unravel threads of tortured talk' inherent in the lives of the homeless. He reminds us that language, our common bond, offers the vivid grammar of the spirit, the 'fractured syntax' of seeing ourselves in others, and that 'each bearer of a name/ has an irreplaceable impress.' The poet, 'his voice, a second violin' brings the beauty of these 'common flowers' to our attention, and we are so very grateful for it"--Elena Karina Byrne  (from Amazon.com)

Please join the Hannon Library and the Bellarmine Forum as we welcome Dr. Carroll Kearley, emeritus faculty from the Department of Philosophy, as our guest for October's Faculty Pub Night.
 
For the past thirty years, Professor Kearley has been going almost every Wednesday to Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica. He talks to the homeless on the street and has established bonds with many of these people. He has written about them in a book of poems entitled Deity Alphabets, our featured publication for the evening. 

The program will alternate quotes from a talk entitled, “The Way of the Cross -- Jesus Suffers in the Poor” given by Fr. Donald D. Merrifield, S.J., 11th president of Loyola Marymount University in 1976, and poems written by Professor Kearley. Father Tom Rausch, from Theological Studies, and Professor Katherine Free from Theater Arts will also participate in the reading.  

The event is free to all, with snacks and refreshments provided. We hope to see you there!

Wednesday October 5
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Von der Ahe Family Suite (Library Level 3)

Writing Workshops in the Library

 

All of the following workshops meet in WHH 117.

 

Mon.   9/26      5pm       Spit It Out:  Clarity in Writing Style   
Tues.  9/27      7pm       What's Your Point?:  Writing a Thesis   
Wed.   9/28      5pm       What's Your Point?:  Writing a Thesis
 
Mon.   10/3      5pm       Don't Blow It:  Preparing Midterm / Final Portfolios
Tues.  10/4      5pm       Write It Right:  Punctuation and Grammar
Wed.   10/5      6pm       Don't Blow It:  Preparing Midterm / Final Portfolios

 
Mon.   10/17     5pm       Integrating Sources and Citation:  MLA
Tues.  10/18     5pm       Write It Right:  Punctuation and Grammar
Wed.   10/19     5pm      Write Like A Philosopher: Demystifying your Philosophy Paper
 
Tues.  10/25     5pm       Write It Right:  Punctuation and Grammar 
Tues.  10/25     6pm       Integrating Sources and Citation:  MLA
 
Wed.   10/26     5pm       Integrating Sources and Citation:  MLA
Wed.   10/26     6pm       What's Your Point?:  Writing a Thesis
 
Tues.  11/1      6pm       Integrating Sources and Citation:  APA
 
Mon.   11/14     5pm       Integrating Sources and Citation:  MLA 
Tues.  11/15     5pm       Spit It Out:  Clarity in Writing Style
Tues.  11/15     7pm       Write It Right:  Punctuation and Grammar
 
Wed.   11/30     6pm       Don't Blow It:  Preparing Midterm / Final Portfolios 

Click here for Workshop Flyer

 

Sponsored by:

 The Academic Resource Center

 

 

(Image source: JKim1 on Flickr)

2011 The Book Festival

The Academic Resource Center, the Freshman English Program, and the William H. Hannon Library invite you to join us in celebrating the Common First Year Book, and the uncommon discoveries in reading!

The second annual Book Festival kicks off this month with a series of panels and performances all centered around Heroic Living: Discover Your Purpose and Change the World by Chris Lowney. 

To find a copy of the first year book, check out our library catalog or LINK+. For more information about the first year book program and a complete list of this year's events, check out the ARC website or The Book LibGuide.

 

2011 Book Festival Events

Living Your Purpose Across the Curriculum
Del Rey North Residence Hall, 1st floor Tues., Sep. 27 5:30 p.m.
What are YOU going to do with your major? This presentation and conversation with inspirational faculty aims to help students make connections about how their academic discipline can lend itself to living a life of purpose that can change the world.

Heroes of the Arts: Uplifting Human Spirit
St. Robert’s Auditorium Wed., Sept. 28, 5:00 p.m.
Come see a creative arts showcase featuring the arts and their heroic role in society as a means of expressing human drama, thoughts and ideas through powerful, creative, educational and entertaining mediums. After the artist presentations there will be a live music and dance performance, followed by Q & A. Featuring: Dr. Ron Marasco, Award Winning Actor and LMU Professor of Theatre Arts, Lauren Froderman, LMU Student, So You think You Can Dance, Winner of Season 7, and Kent Jenkins, LMU Student, Rimba Tubes Drummer featured on America’s Got Talent and Winner of the LMU Talent Show.

Outdoor Movie Night: The Social Network
Library Amphimeadow Sun., Oct. 2, 6:30 p.m.
You bring the blanket, we’ll provide the snacks and entertainment. Continuing the theme of business ethics and a purposeful life, The Social Network shows what happens when one man's success comes at the expense of his personal relationships.

ExtraOrdinary, Everyday Heroes
Ahmanson Auditorium, UHall 1000, Mon., Oct. 3, 5:30 p.m.
Come hear inspirational success stories from people whose passion fueled their purpose. They have overcome obstacles by their heroic efforts making their otherwise ordinary life, quite extraordinary. Featuring: Martha de la Torre, LMU Alum, CEO, El Clasificado and Franky Carrillo, Jr., LMU Student, wrongfully incarcerated.

Chris Lowney addresses the First Year Class – “Heroic Living: Discover Your Purpose and Change the World”
Gersten Pavilion Tues., Oct. 4, 12:15 p.m.
Author Chris Lowney, a onetime Jesuit seminarian who later guided corporations such as J.P. Morgan & Co, will speak about the leadership principles that have guided the Jesuits for 450 years: self-awareness, ingenuity, love, and heroism.

The Pen is Mightier than the Sword: Heroic Writing
The Hill, Malone 306 Thurs., Oct. 6, 4:30pm
So you want to be a writer? Come learn more about the face of journalism in the arts today and how becoming a writing professional can be a heroic career choice. This conversation with Dr. Anawalt will also explore such topics as: Where to go for grad school in specialized journalism? Where & how to publish? Why & how do we write about the arts?

Jesuit Spirituality and High Finance: Can They Co-exist in the 21st Century?
William Hannon Library Von der Ahe Suite Tues., Oct. 18, 12:15 p.m.
Many Americans today have deep concerns about the state of the economy and its relationship to the trust we place in businesses and financial institutions. This session will explore the ethical and spiritual challenges set out in Heroic Living. Featuring Paul S. Viviano, CEO, Alliance Healthcare Technologies & LMU Board of Trustees; Randy Roche, S.J., Center for Ignatian Spirituality and Dr. Tom White, Center for Business Ethics, Moderated by Joe LaBrie, S.J., Special Assistant to the President.

 

We look forward to seeing you at the events!

Reading 1911: librarians explore the Centennial

What were we reading in 1911?

The William H. Hannon Library celebrates the LMU Centennial through books (we are after all librarians!).

What were people reading during this time when William H. Taft was our president?  When the US population was 93,863,000, there were 46 stars in our flag, the cost of a first-class stamp was only $0.02 and the U.S. was crossed by plane for the first time –and it only took 50 days! 

Each month one of our librarians will look at a notable book published during 1911, and give you a glimpse of what people were reading while Loyola Marymount University was just getting started. 

Our first contribution comes from Glenn Johnson-Grau, collection development librarian, who shares his perspective on this novel from a literary giant, Joseph Conrad.

 

 

 

Under Western Eyes 

Terrorism. Ideological extremism. Police surveillance. Political and social currents in a far off land that are alien and impenetrable to observers in the West. Joseph Conrad’s 1911 novel Under Western Eyes depicts the ripples of a violent act through society and individual lives. In the years after its publication it was seen as prescient concerning the start of World War I and the Russian Revolution; its continued relevance as an examination of the fallout from a fanatical act has been much noted in the post-9/11 era.

The novel came just past the midpoint in Conrad’s literary career, written after many of the works that now support his reputation as one of the great novelists in English and a precursor to literary modernism, but before he achieved commercial success. The son of Polish nationalists, Conrad fled his homeland for France to avoid conscription in the Russian army (Poland being ruled by the Russian Empire at the time). He joined first the French and then the British merchant navy; these travels took him to the locales depicted in his most famous works: South America in Nostromo, Malaysia in Lord Jim, and the Congo in Heart of Darkness. He retired as a ship’s captain in his late thirties for health reasons and to pursue a career as a writer; amazingly, English was his third language, after Polish and French.

Under Western Eyes is a political story but like its progenitor Crime and Punishment, it primarily focuses on the moral and psychological ramifications of a violent act. The story follows Razumov, a self-centered student who finds an acquaintance named Haldin in his apartment where Haldin confesses that he has just assassinated a government minister. Rasumov, inconvenienced by Haldin’s confession and by his political ardor, betrays Haldin and slowly becomes an agent for the Tsarist regime. Rasumov is sent as a secret agent to Geneva to infiltrate the revolutionary Russian expatriate community, who unknowingly embrace him as a hero. Rasumov’s guilt from his undeserved celebrity and the affection shown to him by Haldin’s sister Natalie send Rasumov’s life unraveling.

One of the most interesting facets of the novel is a framing device used by Conrad, where the narrator is an English teacher in Geneva recounting Rasumov’s story. This allows Conrad to tell the story of radical turmoil in the East from the perspective of an observer from the West, echoing Conrad’s own dual role as both a Pole and an English novelist incorporating topical events for an audience unaware of the perspective of the actors. In the years since 9/11, critics have noted the way that Conrad explores the psychology of extremism and the reactions that result from radicalism. As a twenty-first century reader, in addition to my enjoyment of a hundred year old psychologically complex political novel, considered one of Conrad’s greatest works, I was struck by Conrad’s point of the difficulty, perhaps the impossibility, for an outsider to truly understand the thinking and the cultural milieu behind far-away events.

— Glenn Johnson-Grau

For more views of life from the perspective of 1911 as seen through Hannon Library resources, please visit this LibGuide.

Photograph of 1911 first editions courtesy of Archives & Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library 

Photo: Melanie Hubbard

 

Library Workshops - FALL 2011

These workshops are mainly for faculty, staff and student-workers (although all are welcome). The courtesy of an RSVP is requested as we have limited space in our library classrooms. If demand exceeds space, we will schedule additional dates. Note that the average time for these workshops is approximately one hour, but the librarian hosting the workshop will be available for another 30 minutes for those who wish to practice what they just learned and ask questions.

Read on for more details, and click here to RSVP.

New! Tips for Research Assistants & Teaching Assistants: This workshop is all about footnote chasing.  Do your RAs or TAs know how to read a citation?  Do they know the difference between a book article and journal article or a dissertation?  This workshop will include a quick review of the library catalog, LINK+, and the Journal List.  Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan procedures will also be covered.

                                 Thursday October 7:   12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Convo hour (WHH 118)

                                 Tuesday October 19:  10 – 11 a.m.  (WHH 118)

 

Finding Articles: Magazines, Journals, and More: In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to use the library's online databases to conduct research and find full text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles. 

Tuesday October 12:  1 - 2:30 p.m. (WHH 118)

Library Orientation and Tour: learn about the library benefits you have as an LMU employee, including checking out books and DVDs, getting research help, and more. This session will conclude with a library tour. (Note: registration for this workshop is limited to LMU faculty and staff only.)

Wednesday November 10:  10 - 11:30 a.mm  (WHH 118)  

If any of these pique your curiosity, RSVP today!

Have any suggestions for future workshops or feedback on workshops that you have attended? Let us know in the comments below.

Drop-In Tutoring for Fall 2011

Drop-in Tutoring for accounting, economics, and writing is available in the William H. Hannon Library. 

No appointment needed.

  

ACCT 2120:  Mondays & Wednesdays, 8pm-10pm in WHH 117

ECON 110:  Mondays, 8pm-10pm in WHH 324

ECON 120:  Wednesdays, 8pm-10pm in WHH 324

Writing:  Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8pm-10pm in WHH 117

 

 

To download a flyer for this event, click here.

Sponsored by the Academic Resource Center.

 

Pub Night: Eric Strauss, President's Professor of Biology

Hannon Library is very honored to launch the Centennial Year series of Pub Night with Prof. Eric Strauss, President's Professor of Biology, Seaver College of Science & Engineering. Prof. Strauss is an award-winning teacher, who founded the environmental studies department at Boston College, as well as the Science for the Urban Ecology Institute.

 Prof. Strauss will discuss his work in the field of urban ecology, and his role as editor of CATE (Cities and the Environment) an online journal that is being published via the exciting new electronic scholarship repository at LMU.

 

 

 

Prof. Strauss's areas of research include biological and human social dynamics of urban ecosystems, behavioral ecology of animals in urbanizing habitats, and public engagement in the doing and teaching of science.

 Wednesday, September 7, at 5:30 p.m. Light refreshments served. Free to the public. For details about this and other Pub Night: the Centennial Year events, please see our Pub Night Calendar.

For more details about all events at the William H. Hannon Library, please see our complete events calendar at http://library.lmu.edu/events