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Let’s Get To Work

September 3, 2016 by Ben Lamb Leave a Comment

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The Saunders Family Library welcomes new and returning faculty and students to the 2016-2017 school year. As the song says, “We’ve only just begun,” but it’s never too early to start thinking about how to put your library to work for you.

We have an incredible collection of print, film, and digital resources, and are here to help connect you with what you seek.

To explore resources currently available join the Saunders Family Library Schoology Group:

https://collegiaterva.schoology.com/group/342283919

And if there’s something you need that we don’t have you can request it.

Faculty: Drop a line or just drop by to request titles that might benefit your students, enrich their research, and improve their projects. We also encourage you to request titles of personal or professional interest to you and the faculty community.

Students: Stop by to request titles related to course work and/or independent study, to enhance an honors project, to fill gaps in our collection, or simply (and shockingly) for pleasure reading in your down time.

Recently purchased titles requested by Collegiate faculty and students include:

  • Joe Sacco’s striking “illustrated panorama” The Great War for Vlastik Svab.
  • The doorstop (read: large, heavy) history Chinese Ceramics: From the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty and the gorgeous children’s book Wabi Sabi for Mary Arzt.
  • How to Make Books for Shayna Cooke’s.
  • For Ling Fung-Wu, a selection of texts on the history of the Chicano Movement and a collection of Spanish language films.
  • Books on the history of women’s education in the South for the Julia A. William’s Study & Archives Center.
  • By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design for a student honors project.
  • Various fiction titles for student’s free reading assignments.

Call, e-mail, or just stop by and let us know how we can put the Saunders Family Library to work for you this school year.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: books, Collaboration, ebooks, English, History, slider

An explanation of Ebook apps

September 27, 2013 by Saunders Library 1 Comment

There are a handful of apps that may help make your Axis 360 ebook experience a pleasant one.  You may use the all.  You may only use one.  Maybe print is your jam, and you won’t use any.  That’s ok.

Here is a list of the apps that work with Axis 360 and what each app offers you:

Blio

  • Blio works on Windows OS, iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), Android OS tablets/phones, and Kindle Fire/Fire HD.
  • Blio is great for viewing artwork, maps, and illustrations.  Let’s hear it for high resolution!
  • Blio has text to speech capabilities.
  • Right now you can’t return a book early in Blio, but that feature is coming.

 

Adobe Digital Editions

  • Adobe Digital Editions works with OS X, Kobo eReaders, Sony eReaders, Nook, and Nook Color devices.
  • There is no text to speech capability.
  • You can return books early with Adobe Digital Editions.

* You will need to set up a free Adobe Digital Editions account.

 

axisReader (for iPhone / for Droid)

  • axisReader is for mobile devices only.
  • There is no text to speech capability.
  • You can return books early with axisReader.

*  You’ll need axisReader to read an ePub file.  You can link your Adobe Digital Editions account to your axisReader account.

 

Acoustik (for iPhone / for Droid)

  • Acoustik plays downloadable audiobooks (which we don’t have at the moment, but that may change).
  • Acoustik is for mobile devices only.
  • You can return audio books early with Acoustik.

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