FDU Library News

Politics on the PublicMind continues its series

with an

“Election Autopsy” by New Jersey’s State Party Chairs:

Assemblyman and NJ State Democratic Party Chair, Joe Cryan (D)

Assemblyman and NJ State Republican Party Chair, Jay Webber (R)

Join us

Friday, November 13^th

9:30 – 11 a.m.

in the College at Florham Library’s Orangerie

 A continental breakfast will be served.

Reserve your seat now with Colleen Di Gregorio at colleend@fdu.edu,

or call 973.443.8530

Free, but donations gratefully accepted

Co-sponsored by:

There are 24 eReader devices available at the College at Florham Library and Weiner Library. These are the Core ebook titles available on them:

In addition to the Core eBook collection, we also have the ebook edition of Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn, and the following titles are available on the 12 eReader devices at Weiner Library:

There are many websites where you may find free ebooks in a format that is compatible with the Kindle or the Sony eReader:

Project Gutenberg — nearly 30,000 free ebooks.

Planet eBook — home of free, classic literature.

Munsey’s Mobile Bookmark List

The Amazon Kindle Store and the Sony eBook  Store both have thousands of free public domain books, plus special offers where you may find current fiction and non-fiction books available for $0.00.

In addition to the Core eBook collection, the following titles are available on the 12 eReader devices at the College at Florham Library:

Also in this collection is Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick.

President Obama has declared October 2009 National Information Literacy Month.  As his proclamation declares and implies Information Literacy is central to our academic concerns here at FDU.  By implication, Information Literacy is a year round endeavor.  As President Obama says in the proclamation:

Every day, we are inundated with vast amounts of information. A 24-hour news cycle and thousands of global television and radio networks, coupled with an immense array of online resources, have challenged our long-held perceptions of information management. Rather than merely possessing data, we must also learn the skills necessary to acquire, collate, and evaluate information for any situation.  . . . National Information Literacy Awareness Month highlights the need for all Americans to be adept in the skills necessary to effectively navigate the Information Age.

Dean of Becton College Geoff Weinman particularly emphasized this passage:

Though we may know how to find the information we need, we must also know how to evaluate it. Over the past decade, we have seen a crisis of authenticity emerge.

As educators and students engaged not only in finding information but generating knowledge, evaluation and authenticity are critical to what we do.  They are also crucial for our students’ success both in their academic endeavors and their future careers.  Information Literacy is critical to all our lives, inundated as we are by “unprecedented access to the diverse and independent sources of information, as well as institutions such as libraries and universities, that can help separate truth from fiction and signal from noise.”

To access the full proclamation:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Presidential-Proclamation-National-Information-Literacy-Awareness-Month/

Check out some of the many Information Literacy Resources available to you at FDU.

 Sheriff Kim Guadagno, Republican Candidate for Lt. Governor of NJ, will share her ideas on “A Brighter Future for All of New Jersey”.  Come, listen, and ask her questions.

     Monday, October 26^th from 12:00-1:30pm

 in the College at Florham Library’s Orangérie

       A Light lunch will be served.

To reserve your seat, contact Colleen Di Gregorio at  colleend@fdu.edu  

Sponsored by:                                                                                                                                

FDU College at Florham Library and FDU PublicMind Poll.

Ebrary will be unavailable tomorrow, Tuesday, October 20th, from 9:00PM to 11:00PM EST.

The Library, College at Florham, will hold a reception and display of books in the Orangérie on Wednesday 21 October at 2:00 p.m. 

 The Library, College at Florham, is the proud recipient of a newly-donated core collection of special editions of 19^th- and 20^th-century British Women Writers, a gift of Allan Kushen & Family, which will be known as the “Kushen Family Collection in memory of Betty Kushen, PhD.” 

 Mrs. Kushen was a faculty member of the English Department on this campus in the 1970s.  Her department chair was the late professor emeritus Walter Savage.

 You are invited to join with faculty, students and staff on October 21^st at 2:00 p.m., to view a representative selection of books drawn from the Kushen Family Collection in Memory of Betty Kushen, PhD, and to meet Allan Kushen and members of his family and to acknowledge their fine gift to the library.

 The Kushen Collection also includes Benjamin Franklin-related works and Betty Kushen’s unpublished doctoral dissertation (NYU) on B. Franklin’s biographers’ attitudes toward him.