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The 10th issue of the library newsletter (fall, 2012) Inside this Issue: Front Page --Director's statement by Hedi BenAicha --Our Name in Lights! Our Staff (p.2) --Welcome Kieran Ayton, Assistant Professor/Emerging Technologies Librarian by Ellen Morais In their Own Words (p. 3) --Anthony Loffredio, Student Intern, URI GSLIS --Ashlee Fuller, RIC Senior, Communications Major Technology (p. 4-5) --iPads @ Your Library by Kieran Ayton --The E-Column: Streaming Media by Judith Stokes --Increasing Affordability with Digital Textbooks by Brendan Ryan --What's New With E-Books? by Carla Weiss Library Collections (p. 6-7) --The Sky is the Limit: Implementing the SkyRiver cataloging module in Adams Library by Kresten Jespersen --New Digital Initiatives: The Baxter Collection by Kresten Jespersen --In the Archives: Mary Weber, Mary Davey and Women at RIC by Marlene Lopes Library Events and Exhibits (p. 8-9) --What's Happening @ Adams... 'We're Celebrating Diversity All Month Long!</li> 'Margaret Burroughs Collection</li> 'Svetlana N. Sidorkina Art Exhhibit at Adams Library</li> 'Library Lecture Series: Emily Danforth on The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Debra Thomson</li> 'Library Lecture Series: Andres Ramirez on MetroLingualism: A (Not So) New Vision for 21st Century World Class Education by Carla Weiss</li> </ul> Book Reviews (p. 10-11) --Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty (by John M. Barry) Reviewd by Tony Carlino --The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (by Michelle Alexander) Reviewed by Judith Stokes --HHhH (by Laurent Binet, trans. by Sam Taylor) Reviewed by Robert Foreman Back Page (12) --Recycling Program Expanded by Debra Thomson --Friends of Adams Library Annual Membership Drive by Debra Thomson
This is the tenth issue of 'From the Steps of Adams Library.'
This is the tenth issue of 'From the Steps of Adams Library.'