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- Location:
- Independence, KS, 67301
- Phone:
- (620) 332-5468
- Mon - Thurs:
- 7:30 am - 8:00 pm
- Fri:
- 7:30 am - 4:30 pm
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Monday, December 15 at 8:00pm - The Late Shift
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- Coffeeshop news 6:35am Oct 13|3 Comments
- Free magazines! 7:47am Sep 29
- Clearance prices at the library book sale! 8:43am Sep 10
ICC Library We agree with Richard Luce: just because libraries are transitioning from print to online does not mean they will cease to be libraries.
Source: www.insidehighered.com
Technology leaders and librarians consider how the digital age changes the physical space and role of one of higher education's oldest institutions.
ICC Library "Black obsessiveness is what the novel does best," writes novelist Howard Jacobson. "And jealousy is its natural domain."
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
From Sacher-Masoch to Jane Austen, the novelist selects the novels which best anatomise the 'dark, interior stickiness' of a passion peculiarly well-suited to literature
ICC Library "Certificates (with ribbons) will be awarded for quantity and convolution."
Source: schott.blogs.nytimes.com
This weekend, co-vocabularists are invited to stack the shelves of imaginary libraries (holding books, records or movies) according to any taxonomical whimsy they favor. For example: "The Story of O"; "Dial M for Murder"; "A Void"
ICC Library "For people who grew up in China, India or Korea, said Beckstrom, "not only is it an issue of convenience, but it's an issue of what's right, the right to express their names in their own language."
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
For the first time in its history, users will be allowed to create full web and e-mail-addresses using non-Latin characters.
ICC Library "I think it's important for literature that it's always pushing the envelope," wrote Moody, "colliding with other forms, trying to find new envelopes for its message, and generally renewing itself."
Source: www.nytimes.com
Readers can enjoy Electric Literature, a new quarterly literary magazine, any way they like: on paper, Kindle, e-book, iPhone and, starting next month, as an audiobook.
ICC Library Continuing our international theme for the day...
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
One of the world's largest collections of Japanese manga comics is to be showcased in a new library created in a bid to promote academic study of the subject.
ICC Library What do you think, students? Is this a good idea?
Source: www.nytimes.com
The government detailed plans for a project called “My Free Newspaper,” under which 18- to 24-year-olds will be offered a free, yearlong subscription to a newspaper of their choice.
ICC Library Novels with footnotes!
Source: www.libraryjournal.com
Footnotes don't merely add detail and annotate facts in thick volumes of nonfiction. Authors from Junot Díaz to David Foster Wallace pepper their texts with footnotes to add historical context, make fictional places seem real, or just insert a little something innovative to a story. ...
ICC Library One of the strangest marriages of literature and commerce that we've seen in a long time. But watch the spot; it's actually quite beautiful.
Source: www.slate.com
The Spot: A neon sign that says "America" is half-submerged in floodwater. A scratchy voice recording plays in the background—a man reciting a poem. In a series of intercut, black-and-white scenes, we see fireworks, children playing in run-down neighborhoo
ICC Library Uncoupling e-books from proprietary devices and software? A bold move.
Source: www.pcworld.com
Google's e-book store will allow e-books purchased through Google Editions to be read on any browser-enabled devices.
ICC Library "My first thought was to go over there and tell him, boy, you don't have to steal a book, you can check them out. They're free."
Source: www.npr.org
In 1950s Arkansas, Olly Neal didn't care much for school. Then he wandered into the library and stumbled onto a book by author Frank Yerby. The discovery changed the life of a boy who was, in Neal's memory, "a rather troubled high school senior."
ICC Library The Poet Laureate of the United States was, until recently, a community college writing instructor. How cool is that?
Source: www.insidehighered.com
Kay Ryan, the U.S. Poet Laureate, kicks off a year of efforts to bring her art -- and her spotlight -- to her favorite sector of higher education.
ICC Library What do you think, students? Does this article accurately describe how you like to communicate?
Source: online.wsj.com
Email is being supplanted by other kinds of communications. Here's why—and what it means for the ways we communicate.
ICC Library Tsk, tsk, APA. Poor form.
Source: www.insidehighered.com
American Psychological Association concedes its new manual has plenty of mistakes, but won't pay to provide error-free copies to faculty and students.
Back in August, it was with pride and excitement that the ICC Library announced the opening of the library coffeeshop, as a partnership between the college and AneMae’s of Independence. ...
