Photo courtesy of Dennis Jarvis on Flickr
Summer is here! The water is cool, the sun is shining, and the Library is open.
Throughout the St. Mary’s summer session the Library hours are:
Monday – Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays: Closed
So if you want to get a jump start on your SMP, work on a summer research project, or just need a break from the heat, stop in and say hello! We’ll be happy to see you.
Extended Library, Media Center, and Digital Media Lab hours begin Tuesday, April 26.
Through May 9, Library classrooms 306, 307, and 321 will be available for student use during Library hours. You can also book one of the 2nd floor study rooms!
Need a laptop/phone charger, ethernet cord, and/or an extension cord? Ask at the first floor Circulation (check out) desk.
And of course, don’t forget to wear layers!
Best of luck!
| SPRING 2016 EXAM HOURS |
LIBRARY and MEDIA CENTER |
DIGITAL MEDIA LAB (LI 317) |
| Tuesday, April 26 – Thursday, April 28 | 8:00 am – 2:00 am | 9:00 am – 10:00 pm |
| Friday, April 29 | 8:00 am – 9:00 pm | 9:00 am – 6:00 pm |
| Saturday, April 30 | 9:00 am – 9:00 pm | Closed |
| Sunday, May 1 | 11:00 am – 1:00 am | Closed |
| Monday, May 2 – Tuesday, May 3 | 8:00 am – 2:00 am | 9:00 am – 10:00 pm |
| Wednesday, May 4 – Thursday, May 5 | 8:00 am – 2:00 am | 9:00 am – midnight |
| Friday, May 6 | 8:00 am – midnight | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Saturday, May 7 | 9:00 am – 9:00 pm | Closed |
| Sunday, May 8 | 11:00 am – 2:00 am | Closed |
| Monday, May 9 | 8:00 am – midnight | 9:00 am – 6:00 pm |
| Tuesday, May 10 – Friday, May 13 | 8:00 am– 5:00 pm | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm |
Full Library and Media Center exam hours.
Looking for more study space or extra time in the media lab in the next few weeks? We’ve got you covered!
Starting Monday, April 25, through Monday, May 9 Library classrooms 306, 307, and 321 will be available for student use during Library hours.
On Wednesday, May 4, and Thursday, May 5, the digital media lab on the 3rd floor will remain open until midnight for all your last minute production needs.
For more information and to see statements from other campus departments and groups:
Support & Solidarity for SMCM Students: Information and Resources
http://libguides.smcm.edu/support-and-solidarity
We are part of a community that values: intellectual, creative, and scholarly exploration; the power of a diverse community; and relationships built on mutual respect, integrity, and trust. We also live in the real world, and we believe that by engaging in ongoing dialogue, our community can shape the changing world. We can try to make this world a better place.
As a library, we have a responsibility to be a space welcome to all, where the free access to information and the free expression of ideas foster and encourage open discourse in our community. As members of the St. Mary’s community, we recognize the important difference between expression of a dissenting point-of-view and expression meant to belittle, dehumanize, and harm others.
We in the library, archives, and media center condemn the recent events at the Natty Boh hunt and all previous incidents of bigotry, bias, harassment, and hate speech that have occurred on campus and through various social media outlets. These actions are antithetical to what we want our college and our community to be. We stand in solidarity with our students who are targets of hateful speech and actions.
Veronica Arellano Douglas
Curtis Barclift
Cheryl Colson
Justin Foreman
Raven Glidden
Conrad Helms
Bonnie Kangas
Alan Lutton
Pamela Mann
Alex McGough
Carol Morris
Kenneth O’Connell
Celia Rabinowitz
Kent Randell
Brenda Rodgers
Linda Russell
Katherine Ryner
Rob Sloan
Joe Storey
Amanda VerMeulen
Alan Lutton, Library Office Administrator, received the LGBTQ Advocacy Award at the 2016 Lavender Graduation on April 8.
The award “recognizes contributions to or advocacy on behalf of gender and sexual minorities at St. Mary’s College of Maryland” by “students, faculty, and staff who have enhanced campus life, advocated or implemented campus policies that have improved campus climate, and/or increased visibility and awareness for all underrepresented gender and sexual identities.”
Previous recipients include Rachel Honig, Staff Therapist and Advocate (2015), and Celia Rabinowitz, former Director of the Library (2014).
Congratulations Alan!
image: A. VerMeulen [CC BY-SA 4.0]
Priya’s Shakti is about a mortal woman and a goddess who fight gender-based sexual violence in India and around the world.
The college recently purchased panels of the comic which have been indefinitely installed on the second floor of the Library along the long wall with the window seat across from the last row of Stacks shelves.
image: Magnetic Fridge Poetry by Steve Johnson [cropped from original] / https://flic.kr/p/86i9j2
Need help getting started? Check out (literally) this selection of books about writing poetry available in the SMCM Library collection!
Want more? Try searching poetry AND (creative writing OR authorship) OR poetics using the search for words in… subject dropdown option on the search page in the St. Mary’s Catalog.
How poems think by Reginald Gibbons. Ebook
Poem-making: ways to begin writing poetry by Myra Cohn Livingston. Call number: LB 1576 .L578 1991
Today you are my favorite poet: writing poems with teenagers by Geof Hewitt. Call number: PN 1101 .H46 1998
Helping students learn to write poetry: an idea book for poets of all ages by Joyce C. Bumgardner. Call number: LB 1576 .B889 1997
Next word, better word: the craft of writing poetry by Stephen Dobyns. Call number: PN 1059 .A9 .D63 2011
The poetry home repair manual: practical advice for beginning poets by Ted Kooser. Call number: PN 1059 .A9 .K66 2005
Twentieth-century American poetics: poets on the art of poetry edited by Dana Gioia, David Mason, and Meg Schoerke with D.C. Stone. Call number: PS 323 .5 .T87 2004
Thirteen ways of looking for a poem: a guide to writing poetry by Wendy Bishop. Call number: PN 1059 .A9 .B58 2000
Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries by Yusef Komunyakaa; edited by Radiclani Clytus. Call number: PS 3561 .O455 .Z463 2000
Rules for the dance: a handbook for writing and reading metrical verse by Mary Oliver. Call number: PE 1505 .O37 1998
Trying to say it: outlooks and insights on how poems happen by Philip Booth. Call number: PS 3503 .O532 .Z475 1996
Poemcrazy: freeing your life with words by Susan G. Wooldridge. Call number: PN 1059 .A9 .W66 1996
A poetry handbook by Mary Oliver. Call number: PE .1505 .O35 1994
Writing poems by Peter Sansom. Call number: PN 1059 .A9 .S36 1994
Getting the knack: 20 poetry writing exercises by Stephen Dunning and William Stafford. Call number: PN 1059 .A9 .D86 1992
Poem-making: ways to begin writing poetry by Myra Cohn Livingston. Call number: LB 1576 .L578 1991
Writing light verse and prose humor by Richard Armour. Call number: PN 1042 .A7 1971
The sounds of poetry: a brief guide by Robert Pinsky. Call number: PN 4151 .P55 1998
Today we’re launching a new series “Beyond JSTOR” where we’ll periodically highlight different databases available through the SMCM Library. Find out both the content as well as a few targeted tips and tricks through screenshot tutorials and expand your searching horizons.
Note: SMCM Library databases are found by: 1. going to the library homepage (dev-library-smcm.pantheonsite.io/); 2. clicking the “Databases” icon; and searching by name or browsing by A-Z letter.
Accessible online through the Literature Criticism Online database, the Poetry Criticism series encompasses over 100 volumes, each volume featuring 3-6 poets and/or featured works from all eras and locations around the world.
Each volume has a standard format including:
The online version available through Literature Criticism Online, has powerful search, browse, and entry table of contents features highlighted below. Use the linked text to jump to the relevant screenshot sections.
1. Limit your search to Poetry Criticism Online sources, by selecting it from the “by Product/Services” dropdown, under “More Options” in the search screen.
2. Forget to select it before starting your search? You can always limit search results to Poetry Criticism Online sources but selecting it under the “Publication Title” filter in the left column.
1. Browse the volumes of Poetry Criticism by following “What’s Inside” (on any page), and selecting “Literature Criticism Online”…
2. …then expand the list under “Poetry Criticism” to see all available volumes.
3. Browse volume by table of contents, search within a single volume, or search within all volumes of Poetry Criticism!
Entry table of contents feature
1. Easily view the available content on a poet by selecting “Entry Table of Contents” in the right hand column.
2. Jump to a specific section or critical work using the linked titles.
Limit your search to Poetry Criticism Online sources, by selecting it from the “by Product/Services” dropdown, under “More Options” in the search screen.
Forget to select it before starting your search? You can always limit search results to Poetry Criticism Online sources but selecting it under the “Publication Title” filter in the left column.
Browse the volumes of Poetry Criticism by following “What’s Inside” (on any page), and selecting “Literature Criticism Online”…
…then expand the list under “Poetry Criticism” to see all available volumes.
Browse volume by table of contents, search within a single volume, or search within all volumes of Poetry Criticism!
Easily view the available content on a poet by selecting “Entry Table of Contents” in the right hand column.
Jump to a specific section or critical work using the linked titles.
Celebrate National Poetry Month’s Poem in Your Pocket Day (on April 21) AND Earth Day (on April 22) with a nature or environmental themed poem.
Need a suggestion? Check out (literally) this selection of nature/environmental poetry and criticism available in the SMCM Library collection!
Want more? Try searching poetry AND (nature OR ecology) using the search for words in… subject dropdown option on the search page in the St. Mary’s Catalog.
Sustainable poetry: four American ecopoets by Leonard M. Scigaj. Call number: PS 310 .N3 .S38 1999
Can poetry save the earth?: a field guide to nature poems by John Felstiner. Call number: PS 310 .N3 .F45 2009
Mountain home: the wilderness poetry of ancient China selected and translated by David Hinton. Call number: PL 2658 .E3 .M65 2005
Greening the lyre: environmental poetics and ethics by David W. Gilcrest. Call number: PS 310 .N3 .G55 2002
Black nature: four centuries of African American nature poetry edited by Camille T. Dungy. Call number: PS 591 .N4 .B49 2009
Urban nature: poems about wildlife in the city edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Call number: PS 595 .N22 .U63 2000
Wild song: poems of the natural world edited by John Daniel; illustrations by Deborah Randolph Wildman. Call number: PS 595 .N22 .W55 1998
Poems for a small planet: contemporary American nature poetry edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini. Call number: PS 595 .N22 .P63 1993
Pterodactyl Rose: poems of ecology by William Heyen. Call number: PS 3558 .E85 .P74 1991
Rivers to the sea by Sara Teasdale. Ebook
A chime of windbells: a year of Japanese haiku in English verse. Translations with an essay by Harold Stewart. Call number: PR 6037 .T4645 .C5
The haiku anthology: haiku and senryu in English edited by Cor van den Heuvel. Call number: PS 593 .H3 .H34 1999
SMCM students! Complete the library survey for a chance to win a $30 gift certificate to Bollywood Masala. Check you email for the survey link; it’s open until March 20th.
