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.'