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Library FYI - Theatre Film & Literature: Literature Film and Theatre Info from your Librarian
3:46pm January 8th, 2009Athena Cinema - as of January 9
Athena Cinema Go to the movies, send your friends to the movies,
send your classes to the movies, talk about movies, think about
movies! Doubt Synecdoche, New York Fear(s) of the Dark ….coming
SOON! Let the Right One In, Jan 16 Slumdog Millionaire, Jan 23 The
Wrestler TBA Milk TBA Frost/Nixon TBA
4:56pm January 5th, 2009Refworks Session at Ellis?
Interested? Tim Smith and I would be happy to come to Ellis and do
a RefWorks session, at your convenience. We need to know from you
the best dates and times, and then we can book the room. RefWorks
is a citation management tool that we offer to you as OU
students/faculty/staff. It can be a great help during thesis
time, or anytime you are collecting bibliographic
information. Please sen...
2:45pm January 4th, 2009Alden Library has a Facebook page
Just wanted you to know that you and/or your students (provided you
have a facebook account), can become a Fan of Alden Library. Just
search for Alden Library in Facebook and click. I spoke to a small
sampling of students, and they said they would check it out if we
had a page. Right now we are providing little pieces of info such
as hours and phone numbers, link to Alice, OhioLINK, Cite M...
IM a Librarian
Book Information
Common Reader Years: 2008-2010
Synopsis:
In Cion, Toloki, the professional mourner, has come to live in America. Lured to Athens, Ohio, by an academic at the local university, Toloki makes friends with an angry young man he meets at a Halloween parade and soon falls in love with the young man's sister. Toloki endears himself to a local quilting group and his quilting provides a portal to the past, a story of two escaped slaves seeking freedom in Ohio.
Making their way north from Virginia with nothing but their mother's quilts for a map, the boys hope to find a promised land where blacks can live as free men. Their story alternates with Toloki's, as the two narratives cast a new light on America in the twenty-first century and on an undiscovered legacy of the Underground Railroad.