A Few More Weeks of Summer Reading!

There are only a few more weeks of summer left before the Fall 2016 semester starts! Why not bring your summer to a close with an awesome book from the Schwob Memorial Library McNaughton collection? It's filled with great leisure reading books that will help you get your mind in gear before the Fall semester starts. There are a plethora of fun reads that will satisfy any reader! You could choose to follow Eileen Tumulty's chase for the American Dream in Matthew Thomas' We Are Not Ourselves. You could explore race and its contemporary resonances through Ta-Nehisi Coates' personal narrative Between the World and Me. Or, explore the lives of music legends like James Brown, Travis Barker, and Beyonce! Not exactly what you're interested in? No worries! The McNaughton collection has a wide range of topics and genres to choose from. Surely there is something waiting for you on the shelf! The world is literally at your finger tips, one page at a time. Come by the Schwob Memorial Library and check it all out!

Happy Summer Reading!

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CSU's National Library Week Bookmark Available

Students, faculty and staff members, and patrons are encouraged to pick up their copy of this year’s National Library Bookmark Contest Winner. The design, by Alyssa Hudson, features the quote, “Read— Expand the garden of your mind with CSU Libraries.”

Hudson’s design as well as two other entries were displayed during the week of National Library Week at CSU and exhibition and voting. The winning design features warm colors and is covered with flowers throughout the bookmark.

Be sure to pick up your copy of the winning design while supply lasts. “Mark” your place with your summer reading with this awesome piece of art and creative bookmark. 

For more information about similar events of National Library Week, feel free to browse American Library Association. For more information about CSU’s National Library Week or future events like the bookmark contest, be sure to visit the Official CSU Libraries Page.

                                 

Tips on How to Compile The Best Summer Reading List

While enjoying the warm months of summer, students and patrons are advised to continue their pace of studies and start with their summer reading. Whether it’s a graphic novel, works as long as Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings or a magazine article, be sure to review suggestions on how to compile the perfect summer reading list or simply how to become a better reader.

Reading is one of the most prolific kills to have. Reading improves your writing and comprehension skills, increases one’s ability to focus and concentrate as well as improves one’s chances of excelling academically and professionally. 

Reading lists give readers something to look forward to and help readers to set academic objectives and goals. Summer reading lists continues one’s pace of studies, outside the academic fiscal year; expands one’s vocabulary, and helps readers to understand other cultures and languages, not of his or her own.  

Suggestions for Finding the Best Reads

1. When in search of a good novel or book, search for similar subjects, topics, or genre that is associated with the topic you are looking for or have in mind. 
   
2. Use databases such as GALILEO, Lib Guides and Gil-Find to narrow and filter your search results to find the best sellers, popular picks, or to help compile your summer lists. 
   
3. Browse literary journals, magazines, and reviews for contemporary and current reads that are popular or recommended. 
   
4. For readers interested in movies that began as novels, search Movie indexes like, IMBM  for popular and well respected productions. 
5. Plays, poetry chapbooks and collections, graphic novels and magazines are not excused from summer reading lists. Include works like these to add color to your selections.   
6. Readers that are attracted to specific genres or certain authors are advised to follow up on their favorites by requesting favorite authors at your local or school’s library. 
   
7. Find a cozy and comfortable place to read. A comfortable environment to go to may help a reader's passion to read. Find your own nook or private place to read. 
   
   
   

CSU Libraries encourages and advises all students and patrons to compile their summer reading list with the above suggestions. For more information, be sure to visit CSU Libraries Page.

Beat the Heat with Summer Reading

Students and patrons are advised to accommodate the summer heat in the Schwob Memorial Library to continue scholarship and the pace of their studies. Be sure to review suggestions for keeping cool during the hot months of summer and the last weeks of the spring semester. 

Studying for finals, planning summer vacations, or cramming all the information you are accountable for before a final can be overwhelming especially with the pollen-infused, heavy summer heat blaring throughout the CSU campus and libraries.

CSU libraries encourages patrons and students to “Beat the heat” with a few suggestions that may jump start his or her summer and summer reading lists. Be sure to also browse Galileo, Gil-Find and other CSU library databases, and CSU libraries to compile your summer reading lists, to beat the heat!

Top tips for beating the heat

1. Stay hydrated and drink lots of water and non-carbonated drinks 

2. Dress in appropriate fabrics and garments to keep cool

3. Wear the appropriate grade of sun protection for your skin

4. Stay cool with a good book or magazine inside or near the Chattahoochee River

5. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables to increase energy 

For more information, be sure to visit the Schwob Memorial Library for a various reading selections to read and stay cool! For more information or help with summer reading, contact a CSU Subject Librarians for help. 

Summer Relaxation, Sponsored by SAC, in Schwob Memorial Library

Take a break from finals and get a taste of summer relaxation with Ready, Set, and Relax hosted by Student Activities Council Thursday, April 23, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Grab a great novel or magazine and relax in the library.

Join the SAC on the first floor of the Simon Schwob Memorial Library and come socialize or read in massage chairs, enjoy an oxygen bar and many, other interesting fun elements as well.

The event is free and open to all CSU students. Students and patrons of the library are encouraged and invited to relax and have a good time!

For more information, please contact CSU Student Activities Council.

Friends of Libraries Book Sale

Spring into summer with a good book! Be sure to check out the Friends of Libraries Book Sale April 21st through 22nd, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., in the Simon Schwob Library. 

CSU libraries encourages all patrons, faculty and staff members, and students to browse or purchase their favorite works. The book sale will take place from in the forum area on the first floor of the Simon Schwob Library. 

For more information about Friends of Libraries, the book sale or CSU Libraries, feel free to browse CSU official pages and websites.

Drawing Contest, Scavenger Hunt, and Online Trivia Winners Revealed

Congratulations to CSU's winners of National Library Week events, so far! Cheers to winners of the Online Trivia, Trevor Comeau and Abolanle Abikoye. The first to answer all five correctly, on Friday, will receive a gift certificate for the Friends of Libraries Book Sale along with a tote bag, notepad, and pens.

Congratulations to this year’s winner of the scavenger hunt, Erika Shea. Scavenger Hunt winners received $25 Amazon gift card after Language out Loud celebration, on April 15.

In under a hundred creative words, patrons were asked to describe ways they creatively use a library.Kevin Simmons as awarded for winning the Drawing Contest, that took place on Monday. Prizes are awarded every day of Library Week, here at CSU. 

CSU libraries congratulates all its winners and thanks all that participated throughout the week. A special thank you is extended to all patrons and students during the National Library week for helping to make the week such a success.

Patrons and students are encouraged and greatly advised to participate and become involved with the remaining event of National Library Week, at CSU libraries. For more information about similar events to National Library Week, feel free to browse American Library Association or CSU National Library Week Itinerary.

Languages out Loud: Classics in Their Own Words

Join CSU libraries and celebrate numerous languages at this year's Languages out Loud: Classics in Their Own Words. This celebration will be held on April 15, from 12:30pm - 1:30pm in the Forum Area of the Simon Schwob Library.

This is one of the many events CSU libraries will host for 2015 National Library Week.  After the presentation, winners of the Drawing and Scavenger Hunt will be announced. Winners will receive a $25 Amazon gift card. Patrons and Students are advised to attend the language celebration.

For more information, please browse this CSU’s National Library Week Itinerary and CSU Official Libraries page.

Friends of Libraries Book Sale at CSU Libraries

Not only can check out many books and novels in a library, but you can also purchase some of your favorite novels and works at the Friends of Libraries Book Sale April 17, 21 & 22, with the CSU libraries. CSU libraries encourages all patrons, faculty and staff members, and students to participant.

CSU Libraries encourages the passion to read and literacy after National Library Week with the book sale. April 17, a book sale on the RiverPark Campus will take place form 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in front of Saunders Center for Music Studies. A rain date is scheduled on April 24.

On the main campus, the book sale will take place April 21-22 from 10 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The book sale will take place from in the forum area on the first floor of the Simon Schwob Library.

For more information about Friends of Libraries, the book sale or CSU Libraries, feel free to browse CSU official pages and websites. 

CSU Libraries Sponsors Bookmark and Online Trivia Contest for Library Week

Throughout April 12^th - 17^th, the CSU libraries will celebrate National Library Week, a week where communities around America celebrate the contributions of their library. CSU Libraries invites all CSU students and patrons to visit the library and explore their services and resources.

On Thursday, April 16, between 10:00am - 4:00pm the Schwob Library will exhibit submitted contest bookmarks, for viewing and judging. Bookmark submissions must be a 2" x 6" bookmark
design and sent to jones_michelle@columbusstate.edu by 3:30pm on April 14^th. The winner will have 100 copies of his/her bookmark made as well as receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card.

  Link: Bookmark Submission Guidelines .

For the Online Trivia, prizes will be awarded every day of the week. Online Trivia and Bookmark Contest winners will be announced, online, on our Facebook page, Twitter account, and website. To enter the 2015 bookmark contest, please see the link below.
Online Trivia Quiz

$25 Amazon gift cards and other prizes will be awarded for a Drawing, a Scavenger Hunt, a Bookmark Contest, and Online Trivia. For more information about other events, hosted by CSU libraries, browse this year’s Library Week Itinerary .

National Library Week at CSU Libraries

"Unlimited possibilities @ your library."

"Unlimited possibilities @ your library". It's the theme for this year's National Library Week, a week where communities around America celebrate the contributions of their library. From April 12th - 18th CSU Libraries invites all CSU students to visit the library and explore their services and resources. $25 Amazon gift cards and other prizes will be awarded for a Drawing, a Scavenger Hunt, a Bookmark Contest, and Online Trivia. 

Monday 

•Kickoff 12:30pm - 1:30pm - Listen to guest speaker Barbara Moushon of The Literacy Alliance. Cake and sandwiches will be served. 

Drawing 1:30pm - 9:00pm - In under a hundred words write down creative ways you've used your library. The winner will be drawn from a pile and announced on Wednesday.

Online Trivia Quiz

Tuesday 

•Scavenger Hunt 10:00am - 4:00pm - Walk through the different service areas of the library and answer questions about them. Those who answer every question correctly will be put in a drawing. The winner will be announced on Wednesday.

First Trivia Quiz Question 
Second Trivia Quiz Question
Third Trivia Quiz Question

Wednesday 

•Languages out Loud: Classics in Their Own Words 12:30pm - 1:30pm - After the presentation winners of the Drawing and Scavenger Hunt will be announced. Winners will receive a $25 Amazon gift card.

Thursday  

•Bookmark Contest 10:00am - 4:00pm - Submit a 2" x 6" bookmark design to jones_michelle@columbusstate.edu by 3:30pm on April 14th and have your bookmark displayed at the library where CSU faculty, staff, and students will vote for their favorite design. The winner will have 100 copies of his/her bookmark made as well as receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card.

Bookmark Submission Guidelines 

Friday  

•Online Trivia and Bookmark Contest Winners Announced Online on our Facebook page, Twitter account, and website. 

All Week 

•Online Trivia - Prizes awarded every day of the week. The first to answer all five correctly on Friday will receive a Gift Certificate for the book sale, a tote bag, notepad, and pens.

*All CSU employees will be ineligible for prizes. However, they are encouraged to visit the Kickoff and Languages out Loud presentations. 

CSU Libraries’ Suggested Novels and Dramas to Read

In 2013, Republican and Idaho State Senate Education Committee Chairman, John Goedde, introduced legislation for all high school students in the state to read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, in order to graduate. This requirement, and novel, greatly encourages and is referenced by many Tea Party members, before the legislation and now. This signifies how literature is still a significant, administrative influence and inspiration outside a library or college campus.

The Simon Schwob Memorial Library encourages the reading habits of its patrons and students; however, not all books closed are meant to stay that way. On any campus, a collegiate environment inspires many to become more serious about his or her studies. Regardless of students’ major, of study, or a patrons’ intent to conduct their research, there is simply a list of novels and dramas that many are presumed to, and should be, familiar with.

Each year the New York Best-Sellers list features familiar and new authors and writers. The British and Western canon is becoming larger with new, contemporary contributions; however, certain literary works are not as appreciated or read by millennials and bibliophiles, as they should. Here are CSU Libraries’ suggested novel and dramas lists.
**Lists are not in any order of significance.

Novels

 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Night, Day, and Dawn by Elie Weisel

Middlemarch by T.S. Eliot

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand            
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Wuthering Heights by Elizabeth Brontë

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell

The Color of Water by James McBride

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

A Good Man is hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora N. Hurston

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce          
Candide by Voltaire
Curious Wine by Katherine Forrest

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angeluo

                                                                       

Dramas

The Histories, Tragedies, and Comedies of William Shakespeare

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind

The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe

She Stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith

The Way of the World by Congreve

Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring

Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht

The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World by Suzan-Lori Parks

A Streetcar Names Desire by Tennessee Williams

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill

After reading a few pieces of literature, one is not considered a literati; yet, it is advised that readers maintain their passion to read. As the semester comes to an end, CSU libraries encourages many, particularly bibliophiles, to review the list of canonical literature. For more information about reading selections, browse CSU libraries official page and CSU Gil-Find Catalog to locate items. 

5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Schwob Library

The CSU Libraries encourage scholastic integrity and studious work ethic both on campus and off-campus while students are away on spring break. For many students and patrons of the Simon Schwob Memorial library, it may become harder to him or her to find activities or things to do in the library. Here are a few suggestions that may interest all readers and visitors of the Schwob library.

5. Become a Film Buff
The main campus library, the Schwob Memorial Library, offers a wide variety of films, productions and television shows available to check out to use in the library. While many are away on spring break, the CSU libraries’ film collection might interest many, compared to reading a novel or article. CSU libraries also manage Films on Demand that consists of 7,000 video titles and includes the new collection of United Newsreels, an additional 260 titles to the film collection.

4. Get Ahead on Summer Reading

The summer season is often filled with sunscreen, planned vacations, and a “good read.” There are many databases, such as Galileo, Gil-Find, and others to help avid readers compile a summer reading list. Book clubs, English majors, and other avid readers are encouraged to use the services and databases to compose a summer reading list too cool for the summer heat ahead. For more information about finding aids and the library’s databases, be sure to see CSU libraries official website.

3.  Catch up on Current Events

It is often hard for students and educators to catch up on social and current events. While most of the campus will be away, reading the local, state and national major newspapers is always encouraged in the library. Not only are newspapers available but so are other publications, i.e., academic journals, government documents, and magazines.

2. Finish Assignments and Study

One of the most snubbed feature of the library is the consist quietness that many, if not most, students appreciate on the first floor of the Schwob library. With a large portion of CSU students away, the Schwob library is one of the best places on campus to study, meet up with classmates to commune, and study together.

1. Explore

Many people come in and out the library with set objectives. Instead of planning out a trip to the library, browse the three, different floors of the Schwob library. Near the Information Commons Area, various art pieces adorn the perimeter of the computer area; yet, there are numerous historical resources to read within the CSU Archives, located on the third floor. The CSU Archives serves as a repository documenting the history of Columbus State University, the city of Columbus, as well as, and the broader Chattahoochee Valley area. Whether you wish to inquire about the Columbus and Chattahoochee Valley area history or wish to observe eclectic art work— The Schwob Memorial has it.

For more information about other events, services, and activities to do within the Schwob library, visit the official website or social media pages of the library. 

ePress to Increase Research and Scholarship at CSU

There are many amenities and services within the Columbus State Libraries that help not only CSU students and faculty members but scholars everywhere. The CSU ePress, an Open Access digital archive, is an online service that preserves and collects various materials such as dissertations and theses, conference presentations, journal articles, student publications and poems.

Many scholars and students are presumed to use the CSU ePress because all works uploaded in the digital archive are accessible through Google Scholar and Google. Yet, one of the most significant and snubbed feature of the ePress is that all information provided is largely free.

This feature, and benefit, allows students to better conduct their research without the worry and burden of coming out of pocket. With the Open Access feature, scholars and students do not have to worry about certain copyright and licensing restrictions, as many scholars may have dealt with in the past.

The CSU ePress also offers search filter options and citations to better position patrons and scholars routing and conducting their research online. Many patrons of the Schwob Memorial Library are more than likely to conduct their research physically in a library; however, with the CSU ePress, finding a professor’s graduate dissertation or last winter’s issues of The Arden can be conducted from a home kitchen or in a dorm room.

The arrangement of resources available and benefit of the CSU ePress is far too accommodating for scholars and CSU students to not use. With the expansion of the CSU ePress, more and more works from faculty and staff members and students are becoming accessible; the CSU ePress helps students and scholars to conduct their research with ease, consistently.

The growing archive includes many student creative works and professional works from CSU faculty and staff that have and are presumed to improve visibility of scholarship and the rate of citations. Be sure to visit the CSU ePress and the CSU Libraries.

National Library Week at CSU Libraries

"Unlimited possibilities @ your library". It's the theme for this year's National Library Week, a week where communities around America celebrate the contributions of their library. From April 12th - 18th CSU Libraries invites all CSU students to visit the library and explore their services and resources. $25 Amazon gift cards and other prizes will be awarded for a Drawing, a Scavenger Hunt, a Bookmark Contest, and Online Trivia. 

Monday 

•Kickoff 12:30pm - 1:30pm - Listen to guest speaker Barbara Moushon of The Literacy Alliance. Cake and sandwiches will be served. 

Drawing 1:30pm - 9:00pm - In under a hundred words write down creative ways you've used your library. The winner will be drawn from a pile and announced on Wednesday.

Online Trivia Quiz

Tuesday 

•Scavenger Hunt 10:00am - 4:00pm - Walk through the different service areas of the library and answer questions about them. Those who answer every question correctly will be put in a drawing. The winner will be announced on Wednesday.

First Trivia Quiz Question
Second Trivia Quiz Question
Third Trivia Quiz Question 

Wednesday 

•Languages out Loud: Classics in Their Own Words 12:30pm - 1:30pm - After the presentation winners of the Drawing and Scavenger Hunt will be announced. Winners will receive a $25 Amazon gift card.

Thursday  

•Bookmark Contest 10:00am - 4:00pm - Submit a 2" x 6" bookmark design to jones_michelle@columbusstate.edu by 3:30pm on April 14th and have your bookmark displayed at the library where CSU faculty, staff, and students will vote for their favorite design. The winner will have 100 copies of his/her bookmark made as well as receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card.

Bookmark Submission Guidelines 

Friday  

•Online Trivia and Bookmark Contest Winners Announced Online on our Facebook page, Twitter account, and website. 

All Week 

•Online Trivia - Prizes awarded every day of the week. The first to answer all five correctly on Friday will receive a Gift Certificate for the book sale, a tote bag, notepad, and pens.

*All CSU employees will be ineligible for prizes. However, they are encouraged to visit the Kickoff and Languages out Loud presentations.