Enjoy a New Playaway Audiobook!

New at the library are 22 Playaway titles, including all three titles of The Hunger Games Trilogy: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay.  Playaways are portable audio books, smaller than most iPods.  They also plug into most car dashboards that have an audio jack. You can check out a wire from the Ritz Library if you would like to listen to one in your car.

If you need a good laugh, why not pick up Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen Degeneres or The Onion Book of Known Knowledge?  Enjoy classical works? There's Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham. Working on a homework assignment? Perhaps, The Greatest Speeches of All Time or The Great Poets: Emily Dickinson would be useful.  Some business titles that may be edifying are:
Primal Leadership by Goleman, Boyatzis & McKee and The 80/20 Principle by Richard Knoch.

Other titles that have just come in are:

Why Men Fake It by Abraham Morgentaler, M.D.
Zombiestan by Mainak Dhar
Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Self-Hypnosis by Edgar Cayce
Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America's Best Workers are More Unhappy than Ever by David Kusnet
Sex Changes by Christine Benvenuto
The Art of Procrastination by John Perry
Trap of Gold and the Trail to Pie Town by Louis L'Amour
The Watch that Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
NPR Driveway Moments : Dog Tales

The Playaway collection has grown so much that it's now been relocated.  It is now located in the stacks directly behind the Reference Desk, 3 stacks back, next to the Graphic Novel collection.  If you have trouble finding them, please ask a librarian for assistance!

Speeches En Regalia

An election year is a banner opportunity for political candidates to show off their oratorical skills. It's also a banner year for instructors to assign papers on speeches. So where's a comprehensive place to go for speeches?

A great source is Vital Speeches of the Day. This publication has collected the best in oratory since 1934. It contains speeches & addresses by important public figures on topics of national & international interest.

Searching is straightforward. To look for all speeches by an individual, search on the person's name, last name first. For example, "Radloff, Toby".

To search this database on campus, click on this link: Vital Speeches of the Day and go to "Search within this Publication". To find out how to search it from home, call 431-8634 or send e-mail to Reference.

Also remember that the Ritz Library owns a number of collections of speeches that you can take out or copy. Here's a list of those books.