Library Faculty Summer Reading Lists
21 May 2013 by Julie Biando Edwards
Check out what some of the library faculty are planning on reading this summer. What’s on your summer reading list?
Kim Granath, Public Health Librarian
The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler
Two Graves, byDouglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Deadlocked, by Charlaine Harris
Dead Ever After, by Charlaine Harris
City of Dark Magic, by Magnus Flyte
Quiet Game, by Greg Iles
Turning Angel, by Greg Iles
The Devil’s Punchbowl, by Greg Iles
Inferno: A Novel, by Dan Brown
Unleashed, by David Rosenfelt
Silken Prey, by John Sandford
The Doll, by Taylor Stevens
Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland, by Ace Atkins
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Conflict of Interest, by Adam Mitzner
A Case of Redemption, by Adam Mitzner
The Lost, by Chaire McGowan
The Stockholm Octavo, by Karen Englemann
Julie Biando Edwards, Ethnic Studies Librarian
Big Brother, by Lionel Shriver
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, by John Vaillant
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, by Amy Irvine
The Way of Chuang Tzu, by Thomas Merton
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, by Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton in Alaska, by Thomas Merton
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
Looking for Alaska, by John Green
Audra Loyal, Adjunct Librarian
Missoula Mercantile: the store that ran an empire, by Minie Smith
Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis, by Kim Todd.
Signal and the noise: why so many predictions–fail but some don’t, by Nate Silver.
History of Reading, by Alberto Manguel.
Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone, by George Black
Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan, by William Hjortsberg
Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection, by Susan Stewart
Samantha Hines, Head Missoula College Library
To Sell is Human, by Daniel Pink
Teaching Naked, by Jose Bowen
Understanding Media, by Marshall McLuhan
The End of Leadership, by Barbara Kellerman
Who Owns the Future, by Jaron Lanier
Megan Stark, Undergraduate Services Librarian
The Wild Garden, by William Robinson
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
Cooked, by Michael Pollan
The Roundhouse, by Louise Erdrich
The Odyssey, by Gareth Hinds (graphic novel)
Sue Samson, Humanities Librarian
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain
The Beginner’s Goodbye, by Anne Tyler
Wilderness, by Lance Weller
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis
Life Among Giants, by Bill Roorbach
Little Wolves, by Thomas Maltman
Arcadia, by Lauren Groff
The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
The Accursed, by Joyce Carol Oates
The House Girl, by Tara Conklin
Motherlunge, by Kirstin Scott
Cloudland, by Joseph Olshan
Library Catalog upgrade
19 May 2013 by john.greer
The library catalog is currently being upgraded. The planned outage for the catalog is until 1PM on May 20th.
Missoula College as seen by a student
9 May 2013 by Samantha Hines
Greetings from your friendly Missoula College librarian (why yes, we do have a library over here!). One of Missoula College’s students has made a great video about some of the challenges and opportunities about learning on this campus, and briefly features the library. We’ve luckily just been approved funding for a new building, so hopefully in a few years this will be a nostalgic look back!
Faculty Profile – Teresa Sobieszczyk, Sociology
9 May 2013 by Julie Biando Edwards
Name and department?
Teresa Sobieszczyk, Sociology
How do you use the library to support your research and teaching?
In the past, my graduate research methods class and undergraduate freshman seminar have had trainings on how to conduct a successful literature review focused on sociological indexes. This year, while I am a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam, I have been using the Chicago style guide from the Mansfield Library website. I also have been accessing interlibrary loan articles or chapters as well as journal articles from UM’s Mansfield Library remotely, for use in Vietnam. Here in Vietnam, where even the largest university in the region cannot afford any journals on-line, students and faculty have real difficulty linking their own research ideas with the broader literature. This problem is compounded by the dearth of articles and books in Vietnamese, which my students could read or access, and a lack of indexes or search engines for Vietnamese language journals. One professor here said he completed his dissertation without ever doing a literature review in a library, using only materials he got in person from a colleague or professor. The situation here makes me really, really appreciate Mansfield Library.
What do you think is the most important service the library offers?
On-line access to journal articles, closely tied with interlibrary loan!
What are you reading right now?
I just finished a strange book by A.S. Byatt called The Children’s Book, which seemed to be partly a history of British intellectuals (feminist, anarchists, pastoralists) around the turn of the 20th century, and partly a work of fiction. I realized how little I know about British and world history from that period. I have also been reading Peter Hessler’s books about China: Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present, and River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. I like that Hessler was a Peace Corps volunteer (as I was), and I appreciate his insights into socialist countries that are turning economically towards capitalism.
Faculty Profile – Clary Loisel, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
29 April 2013 by Julie Biando Edwards
Name and Department?
Clary Loisel, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
How do you use the library to support your research and teaching?
I constantly use the library. I’m always searching for new books and movies to use in my classroom, so I spend a great deal of time researching the UM catalog. Because books are so expensive for students, I also try to put an electronic version of all course readings on ERES, which is extremely helpful. Moreover, I use Interlibrary loan quite a bit to order obscure books I sometimes need for my own research and scholarship. For example, the library is able to get articles and copies of newspapers from the 1960′s or 70′s from Mexico. I’m always amazed at how quickly and accurately interlibrary loan functions.
What are you reading right now?
I am currently reading a Brazilian novel called A hora da estrela (Hour of the Star) by Clarice Lispector.
Faculty Profile – Tobin Miller Shearer, History/African-American Studies
16 April 2013 by Julie Biando Edwards
Name and department:
Tobin Miller Shearer
History/African-American Studies
How do you use the library to support your research and teaching?
I regularly bring Julie Edwards in to my upper-division classes to do a presentation on research methods and resources. She also develops wonderful library guides with links to a host of research resources for each class that I teach. In my own research, I am a frequent user of interlibrary loan, call on librarians to help locate the occasional source, and consult with staff at Mansfield to help hone and direct my research techniques.
What do you think is the most important service the library offers?
Other than the absolute bedrock service of giving students access to books and journals, I think the library does an excellent job of helping our students learn how to discover and make use of the wealth of information available through printed and electronic resources. As expert researchers, catalogers, and interpreters of knowledge, librarians rock.
What are you reading right now?
Yesterday I finished: Joshua Rothman’s Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson. It’s a fascinating narrative history of slavery in the southwest that opens up new insight into the Jacksonian era and the peculiar institution.
I also enjoy reading science fiction. Just this weekend I finished Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One: A Novel, which is a highly creative exploration of virtual reality and corporate greed.
Missoula’s Historic Underground on Exhibit
9 April 2013 by Donna McCrea
In celebration of Archaeology Month (April) and Historic Preservation Month (May), the Mansfield Library’s latest exhibit shares the results of research and fieldwork conducted by students in the Fall 2012 Archaeological Survey course (ANTY 466). “What Lies Beneath: Missoula’s Historic Underground Project” features maps, images and artifacts documenting downtown Missoula’s historic underground landscape. This exhibit will be on the 4th floor of the Library through May.
Celebrate April: National Poetry Month!
7 April 2013 by Sue Samson
Join us for the Poetry for Lunch Reading and the launch of the Oval, an undergraduate creative arts journal, on Tuesday, April 16 at noon in the library lobby.
Browse, read, and check out the award winning poetry books on display in the lobby of the library.
New Exhibition: Where the Buffalo Roam
28 March 2013 by Donna McCrea
A new exhibition on the main floor of the Mansfield Library, Where the Buffalo Roam: The Story of the Buffalo in Montana, features buffalo-themed books and materials from the Library’s Frank Bird Linderman Memorial Collection. Linderman’s arrival in the West coincided with the peak period of destruction of the buffalo. Over the years, Linderman developed relationships with several Native American tribes and began writing about them. His writing captured their despondency with the near extermination of their main food source and a significant part of their cultures. Linderman was given a variety of gifts from the members of the Cree, Crow, and Blackfeet tribes which illustrated the importance of the buffalo and its versatility among the indigenous cultures of Montana. Among the items currently on exhibit are books by Linderman and a beautiful buffalo skin medicine bag, a gift from the Bloods.
For additional information about the Frank Bird Linderman Memorial Collection contact Archives & Special Collections (406) 243-2053 or library.archives@umontana.edu.
Faculty Profile – Anya Jabour, History and Women’s & Gender Studies
25 March 2013 by Julie Biando Edwards
Name and department:
Anya Jabour, History and Women’s & Gender Studies
How do you use the library to support your research and teaching?
I visit the library at least once a week in person, and just about every day remotely, for my own research. For research, I make very extensive use of Interlibrary Loan, both to get books and articles from other libraries and to borrow sets of microfilm (which I also read in the library). I also visit remotely to consult various databases. Currently I am using a trial database called “Struggle for Women’s Rights” that has the organizational records of both the League of Women Voters and the National Woman’s Party for my research on feminist activist Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866-1948). I also use the Government Documents area a good deal because Breckinridge was a consultant for the U.S. Children’s Bureau, and she also testified before Congress on various matters.
I also make extensive use of the library for my writing classes. Currently I am on my second iteration of “Writing Women’s Lives,” an Upper-Division Writing class. My class uses a LibGuide maintained by Julie Edwards that has lots of useful links as well as class documents on it. We also have workshops on library research: Catalog and database research with Julie Edwards; Government Documents research with Susanne Caro; and Archives & Special Collections research with Donna McCrea. In addition, all of the required reading is either posted on the LibGuide, or is available via databases such as Project Muse and J-STOR.
What do you think is the most important service the library offers?
I have a hard time deciding on just one service! Let’s call it a three-way tie between ILL, databases, and reference assistance.
What are you reading right now?
Right now I am reading a big stack of books from ILL on the history of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. I’m also reading congressional hearings on the first round of the Equal Rights Amendment (in the 1920s).
