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Independence, KS, 67301
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(620) 332-5468
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7:30 am - 8:00 pm
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ICC Library Some food for thought while you're waiting for the pies to bake: why don't Americans like reading books in translation?

www.wilsoncenter.org
The Wilson Quarterly is an international review of ideas and information surveying the latest thinking in the humanities.
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Food for thought on the biggest food day of the year: Become a supporter of the Oxford American. A fantastic literary magazine with a unique history. Read more at www.oxfordamerican.org
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ICC Library Have a great break, everyone! See you next week.

www.poetryfoundation.org
Thanksgiving poems for family and friends.
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ICC Library After five ICC faculty and staff members traveled to Harvard earlier this fall, we thought you might be curious to read about the latest developments in Harvard's own library system.

www.thecrimson.com
Dan C. Hazen wandered around Peru, moving from Arequipa to Cuzco to Puno. He talked to locals, examined old newspapers and journals, and dug through a variety of governmental and private archives. It was ...
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NEW YORK — The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.
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ICC Library What a bizarre article. I have never met an academic librarian who sees classroom learning as anything other than central to the mission of the college or university.

www.insidehighered.com
Instead of trying to turn themselves into something they're not -- a center of fundamental learning -- campus libraries should focus on their traditional core mission of supporting education and research, writes Johann Neem.
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ICC Library "A combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness, this unmistakable smell is as much part of the book as its contents."

www.guardian.co.uk
The complex perfume of ageing books has been broken down into its component chemicals by research that could assist conservators
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ICC Library The New Oxford American Dictionary has announced the winner of its annual "word of the year" contest: unfriend. How hip is reference publishing right now?

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Birds are singing, the sun is shining and I am joyful first thing in the morning without caffeine. Why you ask? Because it is Word of the Year time (or WOTY as we refer to it around the office). Every ...
Nick Munson
Nick Munson
Almost too hip, if you ask me.
November 17 at 8:08am
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ICC Library Could you spare us five minutes to take our library coffeeshop survey? http://tr.im/F4FB

November 16 at 7:48am
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ICC Library I wonder about the carbon footprint of shuttling books 250 miles between user and depository.

www.insidehighered.com
Facing faculty uproar, Syracuse library pulls back -- at least for now -- from plans to move thousands of books off campus.
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Zadie, Nigella, Steig and, of course, the boy wizard. The decade has seen publishing phenomenons like no other, but which books, for better or worse, have summed up the noughties?
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ICC Library What do you think, students? If you could design a new ICC Library from the ground up, what would it look like?

www.campustechnology.com
Campus Technology is a higher education technology magazine that provides updated information about advanced networking for the campus enterprise, security solutions for the campus enterprise, enterprise ...
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ICC Library Community colleges may be turning students away in NYC, but here in Independence our doors are still flung wide!

www.nytimes.com
A surge in applicants has forced all but one of the city’s two-year colleges to limit admissions for the first time.
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ICC Library Still deciding on a major? Check out the Daily Beast's breakdown of today's hot jobs and "not" jobs.

www.thedailybeast.com
With unemployment over 10 percent for the first time in 26 years, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to determine the careers with the best—and worst—prospects.
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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.

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.
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ICC Library "Black obsessiveness is what the novel does best," writes novelist Howard Jacobson. "And jealousy is its natural domain."

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