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Book Stacks Sale, May 10 & 11!

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

Attention Book Lovers! On Friday, May 10 and Saturday May 11 from 9 am – 3 pm the volunteer-run Book Stacks (used book store in Mary Reed) will have a huge sale. Books of all types are 1/2 price in the store, and the Mary Reed hallway will be full of books that sell for $1 per bag. With Mother’s Day on May 12, and summer vacation approaching, you won’t want to miss this! All proceeds are used to buy new books for the University of Denver Libraries.

The Books Stacks is located on the University of Denver campus in the Mary Reed Building (2199 S. University Blvd) on the first floor.  For more information, please call (303) 871-2665 or (303) 871-3958.

Thank you for supporting the DU Libraries!

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June Book Display: The Multiethnic Experience

Monday, June 11th, 2012

Come check out Penrose Library’s new “Celebrating Books and More” display for the month of June on the multiethnic experience. The display features poetry, novels, sociological studies, political narratives, and more. Items are on display near the entrance to Penrose@Driscoll and all can be checked out.

For those wishing to dig deeper into the subject, we also have a Book Display Research Guide that lists not only the items currently on display, but relevant ebooks, research guides, and tips for searching our catalog on this subject.

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May Book Display: Dance!

Monday, May 7th, 2012

To celebrate National Dance Month, Penrose Library’s “Celebrating Books and More” display for May contains books and DVDs reflecting some of the richness of our collection in this area: from cultural studies, to historical treatments, to the physics of dance, and how-to guides! These items are on display near the entrance of Penrose@Driscoll and are available for check out.

For those wishing to dig deeper into the subject, we also have a Book Display Research Guide that lists not only the items currently on display, but relevant ebooks, research guides, and tips for searching our catalog on this subject.

Carson-Brierly Dance Library

Did you know that Penrose Library houses the Carson-Brierly Dance Library? As part of our Special Collections, the Carson-Brierly Dance Library contains a rich variety of materials related to Dance – from books to posters, musical scores, and oral histories. Learn more about the collection or about becoming a Friend of the Carson-Brierly Dance Library here.

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Video: Book Delivery at High Speed

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Do you wonder how a book gets from your online request to your hands during the Academic Commons at Penrose Library construction project?  Well, now there’s a video of the entire process, at lightning speed. Check it out!

Books are retrieved from the Hampden Center throughout the day in the library’s hybrid Prius and are generally delivered within 2 hours (from 7am-11pm Monday – Sunday).  You will receive an email when your request is ready for pickup at Penrose@Driscoll. Library Hours.

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Organize Your Personal Book Collection

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

As you build a personal library of books and other resources at home, you can take advantage of some websites that will help you keep your personal collection organized.  Just as the University subscribes to RefWorks so you can keep your scholarly articles and other readings organized, there are several free websites that provide the same function for popular reading materials.

LibraryThing – This website “is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.”  LibraryThing is very popular with librarians and other bookish people.

GoodReads – From their about page, they say that “Goodreads is the largest site for readers and book recommendations in the world. We have more than 7,000,000 members who have added more than 240,000,000 books to their shelves. A home for casual readers and bona-fide bookworms alike, Goodreads users recommend books, compare what they are reading, keep track of what they’ve read and would like to read, find their next favorite book, form book clubs and much more.” As you can see, book readers also enjoy using this service.

Shelfari by Amazon is another popular service. They say it “is a community-powered encyclopedia for book lovers.  Create a virtual bookshelf, discover new books, connect with friends and learn more about your favorite books – all for free.” If you are a heavy user of Amazon, you should consider using Shelfari.

If you need any more information, there are plenty of good reviews of these three services from librarians and other readers.

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Display of New Book Covers

Monday, December 12th, 2011

Penrose Library continues to purchase thousands of print books a year to add to our collection.  These books were formerly on display in a new books area near the Bookdrop Cafe in the old Penrose Library building.  Plans are to have a new book browsing area in the Academic Commons at Penrose Library as well.  During the construction phase, however, librarians wanted to give students and faculty a sample of new books to browse and have done so through a display of new book covers on the south wall of Penrose@Driscoll.

Additional new book covers are available for browsing in a box in the Research Center.   Book covers on display and in the browsing box will be updated about once a week.

Note that you can also browse new books online by month purchased and general Library of Congress classification on our New Books page:

We hope these two “virtual” displays will help you discover interesting and useful new books at Penrose, much as our new book browsing area will in the future Academic Commons.

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Create Your Own Keywords For Our Books and DVDs

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

With the Encore Library catalog, you can create your own keyword tags for items in the collection.  This is a handy way for people to create readings lists for themselves or others.  For example, I started tagging our collection of the top 100 grossing films.

This is a great way to virtually group books and other items together.  Want to create a list of the best books on Thai cuisine or a list of the best Shakespeare plays? Go ahead and give it a try.

First, do a search from the homepage where it says “Find Books and More”, and then click “Login” in the upper right hand corner.  Use your DU ID and passcode.

When you view information on a specific item, you can then add keywords to describe your item.  You will see a section at the bottom of the page that says “Community Tags — Add a Tag”.  We recommend that you use unique keyword tags such as top100films or a class name and number like LIS4362, but you can use any words or terms.

It will take about 5-15 minutes for the keywords to get indexed into the system.  Once they get indexed, you can then search on your keywords to display the results.

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Book Displays Celebrate Libraries and Jazz

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

These are the last two book displays for the Penrose Library this year.

We celebrate our collection of jazz materials.  Come check out the books and DVDs which cover Jazz in all of its various forms and styles.  The collection is to the right of the Research Center.

Penrose Library, Moving Forward: A Tribute to Libraries

For the final book display in the old Penrose Library building, we put together a tribute to libraries.  Check out materials on the many facets of academic librarianship; view photos of some of the most beautiful and groundbreaking libraries in the world; and learn some of the basics of library science.  We say farewell to the old building, and welcome the new and exciting changes to come. We are looking forward to a bright future for Penrose Library! This collection is across from the Research Instruction Room.

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Happy Birthday to William Shakespeare

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Penrose is celebrating William Shakespeare’s 447th birthday by showcasing some of our collection relating to the famed poet and playwright.  You can find film adaptations to his comedies and tragedies as well as books relating to his works on display.  These materials can be checked out.  Here is a list of the items (PDF).

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Looking for love?

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Go ahead… type love into the catalog and see what happens.  You’ll find approximately 24,463 items about love, or items that at least contain the word love somewhere in the record.  That’s a lot of love!  Near the top of the results is Dracula in Love, “a haunting and suspenseful story of eternal love and possession” and Where the God of Love Hangs Out, a collection of short stories.  More in the mood for practical advice?  What about When I Fall in Love Again: A New Study on Finding and Keeping the Love of Your Life.  There are philosophical studies like Love, Friendship, and the Self: Intimacy, Identification, and the Social Nature of Persons and historical treatments such as Friendship and Love, Ethics and Politics: Studies in Mediaeval and Early Modern History.  Even books about profiting from love, like Love Writing: How to Make Money Writing Romantic or Erotic Fiction.

If we narrow our search to those items that have love in the subject heading, then we can choose from just over 3,000 sources. But what a selection!  There are subject headings for platonic love, free love, unrequited love…love letters, love poetry, courtly love…first loves, love in motion pictures, love in art, and love songs. What about related subject headings like intimacy (psychology), marriage, sex, gay couples, man woman relationships, seduction in literature, or romance film?  Maybe you’re in the mood for love in a foreign language?  Out of those 3,000 plus items about love, 87 are in French, 47 in Spanish, 42 in German, 26 in Latin, 23 in Italian, 9 in Hebrew, 8 in Chinese and Russian, and 6 in Hindi, but there are also some in Catalan, Danish, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Swahili, Mandingo, Korean, and Welsh, among others.

One of the oldest items about love in the catalog is called This tretyse is of loue, printed by Wynken de Worde in 1493, and available through Early English Books Online (EEBO). It has the subject heading, Love—Early works to 1800, as do 47 other works, such as the 1680 publication, Advice to lovers: or, Certain rules of behaviour shewing them how to demean themselves, so as not to miscarry in the grand affair of love. Wherein also the pretty tricks, odd humours, and fantastick carriage of some paramours, together with several pleasant passages relating to amours, and courtship, are observ’d and describ’d. By W. R. Gent.

Love remains an enduring topic, as popular today as centuries ago. Have fun looking for love in the catalog and Happy Valentine’s Day from Penrose Library.

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