University of the Pacific Library News

A team from the Library will be representing University of the Pacific in the Stockton Library and Literacy Foundation’s annual Trivia Bee.  The event will be Friday, March 13 at the Stockton Civic Auditorium.  The teams need cheerleaders, so come and enjoy a buffet dinner, a silent auction, wacky costumes, and a lot of trivia on the theme “Monsters, Mysteries, & Magic”.

The Trivia Bee, now in its 18th year, is the primary fundraising event for the Library & Literacy Foundation. Last year 37 teams and sponsors generated over $60,000 for literacy programs that help people right here in our community.

More information on tickets and entering the Bee is available from the Stockton Public Library.

In celebration of Black History Month, the Library is featuring works by and about members of the African American community, including titles by Wanda Coleman, the “L. A. Blueswoman, a.k.a. “the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles,” (on campus 2/19!), President Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Elizabeth Alexander, Cornel West, bell hooks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Toni Morrison, as well as works on Langston Hughes (referenced during Danny Glover’s presentation on campus!), Ella Baker, Frederick Douglass, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Paul Robeson, and many others!

Browse these titles online from the comfort of your home or office!

These books **can** be checked out  (as display items circulate, new books will be added in throughout the month)

We invite you to stop by and take a look!

Thursday, February 12, 2009 will be the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Come to the University Library and view a book display of Darwin’s contributions to science and modern evolutionary thought! The book display will contain his original works, biographies and commentary about the intersections between science and religion.

The book display will be available February 10-20, so please stop by the University Library to learn more! All displayed books are available for checkout!

The University of the Pacific Library is hosting a traveling exhibit from the Phi Beta Kappa honor society from February 2-March 27, 2009.

The exhibit recounts the fascinating history of Phi Beta Kappa, including the mysterious member handshake. Pacific was granted a Phi Beta Kappa chapter in 2007.

The FRED Staff and Faculty Book Club will meet on Thursday, March 5 at noon in the Library Community Room. All faculty and staff are welcome to participate. We will be discussing Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie.

Mark your calendars!

Stop by the Pacific Reads display in the Library’s main lobby area and find out why Elizabeth Griego, Vice President for Student Life, recommends the book, Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies.

Begun this fall, Pacific Reads is an ongoing exhibit that will regularly highlight a member of the campus community and a book of significance to that person.

Copies of this featured work are available for check out!

The University Library is pleased to announce the availability of electronic delivery of Interlibrary Loan articles to all faculty, staff and students on the Stockton campus. Instead of picking up the requested articles in person at the library, you can now retrieve the articles electronically from your desktop.

To take advantage of this convenient service, you will need to modify your ILLiad user information to indicate that you prefer your articles to be delivered electronically. You will need to change your “Preferred Delivery Method” to “electronic delivery”, and “Preferred Electronic Delivery if Possible” to “yes”. To help us make this implementation as smooth as possible, you will need to use your Pacific e-mail address (i.e. xxxxx@pacific.edu) as your “Preferred Notification Method” in your ILLiad Profile.

For further information or questions, please contact Monica at 209.946.2196 or e-mail ill@pacific.edu.

Through the end of October, the library has access to free trials of dozens of ProQuest databases. Selections include “20th-Century Drama,” “African Writers Series,” “Civil War Collection,” “Historical Newspapers: San Francisco Chronicle,” “Communication Abstracts,” “GenderWatch,” and many more.  Visit our trial page for the link.

The trial ends Wednesday, October 29, so be sure to tell us what you think!

Begun this fall, the “Pacific Reads” book display is an ongoing exhibit that will regularly highlight a member of the campus community and a book of significance to that person.

President Don DeRosa is our first Pacific Reads feature!

Stop by the display, in the Library’s main lobby area, to find out why he recommends Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, to friends and colleagues!

Our first Library book display of the semester celebrates Latino Heritage Month, and features works in English and Spanish by and about Latinos, including books about Colombia (Former Colombian President César Gaviria on-campus 10/6!), as well as works by Junot Díaz, Isabel Allende, Rodolfo Acuña, Julia Alvarez, RigobertaMenchú (this recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize will speak on campus 10/21!), Gabriel García Márquez, Adelaida Del Castillo, David Abalos, Alma Garcia and many others…For a full listing and further info., please see our LibraryThing page.These books **can** be checked out!Stop by and take a look!