Category Archives: READ Posters

READ! – Joshua Wallace Recommends…

Dearest Readers,

Welcome to our third installment of READ! Posters. Today we feature one of our very own, Joshua Wallace, Librarian and History Adjunct-Faculty Member. This multi-tasking master can be found at the Reference Desk, instructing Library Information classes, and teaching History! With such an eclectic set of skills, he’s bound to have some interesting reads to recommend. Check them out below!

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His recommendations from our library:

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

The Next 100 Years – George Friedman

Falling Leaves – Adeline Yen Mah (available on ebook!)

The Tunnels of Cu Chi – Tom Mangold

Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places – Le Ly Hayslip

Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados – Chad Richardson

Power over Peoples – Daniel Headrick

When China Rules the World – Martin Jacques

Stop by and check some out when you get a chance!

 Are you curious about any of these books? Maybe you would like to see what other people have to say about them before you trek to the library to check them out? Check out our Shelfari bookshelf (on the right sidebar of the blog) and click on the cover of each book to find reader reviews and more!

Let us know what you think of these recommendations! We’d love to hear from you, so feel free to leave us a comment at the bottom of the post.

Until next time, trusty followers, have a great end of semester!

READ! – Patricia Ballinger Recommends…

Welcome to the second installment of our faculty READ posters! Today features a popular art professor, Patricia Ballinger, and her recommendations from our STC Libraries. Stop on by and check them out when you have an opportunity. Summer is coming up fast and soon we’ll have lots of time to read new books, right?

Enjoy!

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Her Recommendations from our Library:

The Story of Painting – Sister Wendy Beckett

The Story of Art – Gombrich

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

Born In Trilogy – Nora Roberts

  • Born in Fire
  • Born in Ice
  • Born in Shame

Abstractions – Georgia O’Keeffe

Calder: Gravity & Grace – Gimenez & Romer

Remedios Varo – Janet Kaplan

Stop by and check some out when you get a chance!

 While we’re busy giving out these great recommendations, we’d like to draw your attention to our new sidebar feature. Starting this week we will use a virtual bookshelf to display our latest recommendations and/or monthly displays! While this shelf is still in beta (we will be changing the width and how many books display soon) feel free to test it out! Clicking on the covers of the featured books will link you to a site where you can find descriptions and reviews from other readers before you come to the library to check them out for yourself!

For those of you reading these posts on a feed reader, have a look at our blog’s homesite to see it.

Have a great Easter Break, fair readers, and we’ll see you again next week!

READ! – Dr. Nelson Recommends…

Have you ever wondered what inspired our great professors to be who they are today? Or maybe you’re just sitting around with nothing to do?

Our newest line of READ posters will be published soon, but until they are we’ll give you a taste every week of our favorite instructors’ book recommendations. Check them out!

This week… We welcome STC philosophy instructor Dr. Christopher Nelson! Find out his favorite books below the poster!

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His recommendations from our library:

Tao Te Ching – Lau Tzu

Selected Writings – Meister Eckhart

The Complete Stories – Franz Kafka

Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard

Falling Up – Shel Silverstein

Collected Dialogues – Plato

The Sickness unto Death – Soren Kierkegaard

The Varieties of Religious Experience – William James

Stop by and check some out when you get a chance!