Odum Library

Penguin USA has posted a trailer about the top ten “essential” literary classics, suggesting you can’t impress women at parties if you don’t know your literature. Before...

Odum Library just purchased JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collection V. This collection includes a wide variety of full-text journal content, including journals in the humanities, fine arts, sciences, and social sciences. You can view the full list of journals, or just log into JSTOR to search for yourself...

It’s time for a super secret renovation tour! The main circulation desk got a nice new laminate top. And built ins for increased efficiency. ...

WCTV recently featured VSU’s MLIS Program, which received scholarship funding for library school students: The Master of Library and Information Science Program at Valdosta State University will receive $680,327 in federal funding. ...

With the holiday breaks looming, we recommend you curl up by your hearth with a lovely beverage and a lovely celebrity tell-all: Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin Bill O’Reilly’s A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity Maureen McCormick’s Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia ...

The second floor is still closed for renovations, but they took down the plywood partitions near the staiwell and we can see how things are progressing.

. . . we can recommend other scary, futuristic stories: In The Adoration of Jenna Fox a 17-year-old recovers after a car crash, but doesn’t quite feel like herself, somehow. In Unwind three teenagers run away after their parents schedule them for “unwinding”– a legal human sacrifice. These ...

Wow! They really mean it.

The GHP Collection has been moved from the third floor to the first floor. It is now located to the right of the Reserves desk, as you enter the North, campus-facing, entrance.

For those of you who have not read Death Note yet but would like to check it out, we do have the first two volumes.

Lynda Barry’s What It Is examines her creative process and shows you new ways to approach your own creative writing. What It Is is based on Barry’s “Writing the Unthinkable” workshop. c2009 Lynda Barry

Are you just getting started with your research? Need a refresher on the basics? Check out Getting Started, a four-minute open captioned video that covers the basics of doing research at Odum Library.

The Periodical Reading Room holds the current unbound journals and is open Sunday 12:00 pm Noon - Friday 9:00 pm, 24-hours a day and Saturday, 9:00 am - 9:00 pm. Newspapers are located to the left along the back wall...