Andrew Young donates DVD collection to the library

Reinhardt University was honored January 7th with an appearance by former Atlanta mayor and Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young. You can read more about Ambassador Young's visit here.

Before he left, Ambassador Young presented the university with a collection of his Emmy-winning series of documentaries Andrew Young Presents. The titles are "Tanzania: Stories of Life," "Rwansa Rising," "what's Wrong with Nigeria?," "Howe We Got Over," "Leaving Selma" and "Stars Fell On Alabama," "Change in the Wind," "In the Footsteps of Gandhi," "Willie B.: The Greatest Ape," "Continent of Opportunity," and "Walking with Guns." These DVDs are now in the library and available for checkout. This donation promises to be engaging and enlightening for our faculty and our students for years to come, and we are very grateful to Ambassador Young. Come check them out! I know I will.

Black History Month display honors military

Greetings all!

In honor of Black History Month, please come by the Hill Freeman Library and check out our special themed display: "American Heroes." This display contains books spotlighting the contributions of African Americans in our nation's armed forces, from both sides of the Civil War to the Tuskegee Airmen of WWII up to the present conflicts. Most of these are from our Triplett Military History Collection, which is one of the finest in the region. Come check it out and honor our heroes.

ATTENTION EDUCATION STUDENTS (and teachers, and parents, and babysitters, and "inner children)"

I am excited to tell you about one of our newer databases. Education majors, you will find this resource to be priceless! Picture Book Database brings you bibliographic information about thousands of picture books and illustrated books. This is tailor-made for your curriculum. You can search books based on age level, author, illustrator, artistic media, artistic style, character education, literacy ties (from audience participation to interlocking narratives,predictable patterns to phonemic awareness to rhythm and rhyme and wordplay), literary devices, origin, subjects and themes. You can even search specifically for picture books which have been made into movies. Soon they plan to incorporate Lexile and Accelerated Reading measures.

You can tell the people who designed this database were committed to education, too. Not only is it very user-friendly, it also offers clear instructions on how to search and get the best use out of the database, including a full list of subject terms.

If you want one of the books reviewed on the database and we don't have it in our library, you can always contact Stephanie, our Interlibrary Loan Specialist, and see if she can get it for you. You can email Stephanie at sfo@reinhardt.edu. (Remember to allow time for the book to ship from another library).

You can access Picture Book Database from our library home page. It will be on the right-hand side of the site under "What's New."

I'd love to hear what you all think of this resource! I hope you are as excited about it as I am.