Phyllis Vogel's 40 Years at DeSales

Congratulations to Phyllis Vogel on the anniversary of her 40th year of working at DeSales! She has served as the Trexler Library Technical Services Librarian, handling interlibrary loan, cataloging, acquisitions and keeping the library budget under control. Thank you Phyllis of all those years of great work. We hope you remain here for many more years.

National Library Week

This week is National Library Week April 12-18, 2009. Stop in the library to see our book display in honor of this event.

Update on Food for Fines Program

Thanks to all the students who contributed to our Food for Fines Program. The student group, Advocates for Awareness, ran the program for us, and they were able to donate six boxes of food to Victory House in Bethlehem.

cookbooks still available

There are still a few cookbooks available for purchase @ $6.00. They make great graduation presents.

Literature Titles on Order

The following titles were well reviewed in the "New York Times Book Review" and are on now order.

"The Letters of Samuel Beckett: vol. 1, 1929-1940." Edited by Martha Dow Fehesenfeld. Cambridge University Press.

"Dear Husband." by Joyce Carol Oates. Ecco/Harper Colling Publishers. This is a collection of the author's short stories.

"The Glister." by John Burnside. A novel set in Scotland's postindustrial toxic wasteland.

New DVD's in the Trexler Library

Here is a listing of all new DVD's added to our collection for March 2009:

Ancient Greece - DF78 .A53 2002 DVD

Before Night Falls - PQ7390.A72 Z464132 1993 DVD

Checklist -: A measure of evil - RC55 .C494 2006 DVD

GOL & Gincu - PN1995.9.F67 G565 2005 DVD

Great American Music: Broadway Musicals: Parts 1-2 ML2054 .M477 2006 DVD

Harry Langdon: the forgotten clown - PN1995.9.C55 H367 1997 DVD

Ice Storm - PN1995.9.F67 M8282 2005 DVD

Mad of Bad? Psychologically assessing Criminal competence - HV607 .M33 2002 DVD

Meyerhold, Theatre and the Russian Avant-Garde - PN2189 .M575 2004 DVD

Monday Morning Glory - Pn1995.9.F67 M8282 2005 DVD

MU - 1997.2 .M82 2005 DVD

Night onf Earth - PN1997.N5448 2007 DVD

Paul: contenting for the faith BS2505 .P38 2004 DVD

Paul, Missionary to the Gentiles - BS6251 .P274 1986 DVD

Il Posto - PN1997 .P678 2003 DVD

Ratcatcher - PN1995.9.C4 R38 2002 DVD

Sweet Movie - PN1995.9.S45 S9448 2007 DVD

White Dog - PN1997.W45 2008 DVD

World at War - D743.23 .W67 2004 DVD Vols.1 -11

New Books on Science

Interested in Science? The following are new titles added to Trexler in the last month:

"Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them." by Clifford A. Pickover
Q175.32.R25 P53 2008

"Plasma Chemistry." by Alexander Fridman.
QD581.F75 2008

"An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century." by Jack E. Davis
QH31.D645 D38 2009

"Genomes and What to Make of Them." by Barry Barnes and John Dupre.
QH447.B38 2008

"Climate Code Red: the Case for Emergency Action." by David Spratt and Philip Sutton.
QC981.8 G56 S66 2008

"Math and Art:an Introduction to Visual Mathematics." by Sasho Kalajdievski in collabotration with R. Padmanabhan.
QA445.K32 2008

New Books on Government and Politics

Here is a sampling of some new books on government and politics.

"And Justice for All: the United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America." by Mary Frances Berry
JC599.U5 B45 2009

"A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the making of American Freedom." by Jedediah Purdy
JC599.U5 P87 2009

"The Case for Big Government." by jeff Madrick
JK421.M328 2009

"The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate Over Immigration." by Robin Dale Jacobson.
JV6920,J33 2008

Recent Business Acquisitions

Here are a few of the books on business that we added to the collection in the last month:
"Lords of Finance: the Bankers Who Broke the World." by Liaquat Ahamed
HG172.A43 2009

"Inside the Fed: Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke." by Stephen H. Axilrod.
HG501.A95 2009

"Top 10 Legal Issues Facing Entrepreneurs in Pennsylvania." by Brad M. Russo, Esq.
HD2346.T62 2008

"Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and our Health." by Richard L. Revesz
HD3616.U47 R486 2008

"Government Spending" edited by Mitchell Young
HJ7537.G68 2009

Brown Bag on Friday April 17 Dr. Colosi's BI242 Field Trip To Hawaii

Join us in Trexler library on Friday, April 17 at noon for "Twelve Days in Paradise: Dr. Colosi's BI 242 Field Biology in Hawaii." Dr. Colosi and his students will provide pictures and discussion about their winter break research in Hawaii.