The BSC Library will observe these hours for the Labor Day holiday weekend: 
Regular library hours will resume on Tuesday, September 4, when we open at 7:30 a.m.
Remember, even when we’re closed, the ODIN Library catalog and the library’s databases are available 24/7.
Enjoy the holiday and be safe!
Meet the curator, Linda Whitney, enjoy some refreshments, and learn more about mezzotints and this particular exhibit
Free and open to the public
Twenty-four mezzotint images, created by artists from ten countries, are included in the exhibition. The artists are all members of the International Mezzotint Society (I.M.S.) and participated in the 2011 membership print exchange. Each printmaker created a mezzotint edition of twenty-five prints exchanging their work with the other artists and donating one impression to be exhibited.
To help you in your reading and research for this year’s Campus Read of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, we have created a LibGuide.
The Hunger Games LibGuide includes a variety of information about the book and the author, including the inspiration for the story, its principal characters, information about the world of Panem (including maps), lists of other works by and about Suzanne Collins, information about the movies, web links, selected BSC Library resources, and readalikes. There is also an overview of BSC’s Campus Read and a place where you can tell us if you found the guide to be useful.
BSC librarians have created a variety of LibGuides on a variety of subjects to help you find and use information.
Another source of information as well as a discussion forum is the BSC Campus Read blog. Post your comments and join the conversation!
Check them all out!
Peace Caravan: the Journey of One Woman in Search of Her Religious and Cultural Heritage
Artist Marla Mossman
September 1 – 28, 2012
Gannon Gallery / BSC Library
Artist Reception, Wednesday, September 19, 4-6 p.m.
Artist Statement:
My photography strives to portray the human condition, representing people in their most natural surroundings. The images from photographic trips to northern India in 1996, Turkey in 2004-7, Afghanistan in 2005, the Middle East in 2007-8, and, most recently, China in 2010 illustrate the people and landscapes of the Silk Road. They reflect my style of photography and the type of subjects that convey the essence of the Silk Road as seen in my exhibitions, book and presentations, and on the Peace Caravan website. — Artist Marla Mossman
A small sampling of the images you will see at the BSC Library’s Gannon Gallery …
This “Open Book Fountain” is located in a plaza area near Királyi Pálat and Henszlmann Imre streets in Budapest, Hungary.
The Library will observe these hours from Sunday, August 19 through Monday, September 3: 
Regular academic year hours will resume on Tuesday, September 4.
ODIN catalog and Library Databases available 24/7
August 14, 2012 (Reuters) – “Google Inc has won the right to appeal the granting of class status to thousands of authors suing the search engine company over its ambitious plan to create the world’s largest digital books library …”
We’ve added two new DVDs that may be of particular interest to North Dakotans:
Boom! Behind the BakkenStudents in The University of Montana’s Radio-Television Department produced this documentary about the oil boom in eastern Montana and western North Dakota in the spring of 2012.
“Thousands of workers and billions of dollars in oil money are pouring through towns like Sidney, Montana and Williston, North Dakota. Locals are trying to hang on, but the boom in population is transforming their communities. The students set out to document the effect of more people, more money and more crime on these towns.”–Container.
Visit the website for more info.
A two-disc set about the Mouse River and its floods from 1904-1911.
[Disc 1] “… provides viewers with a wonderful look back on the history of the Mouse River when the river was the center of entertainment in Minot and how the city’s parks grew around the river. It covers the floods of 1904, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1969. It covers the decade of fighting to keep the river inside its banks through the 1970s. (446 photographs).”–Container.
[Disc 2] “…walks the viewer through the 2011 Mouse River flood. It begins with a look at the flood control dams, 1978 River Channel Improvement Project, the fight to save Minot, the devastating flood, the destruction, and the aftermath. The Burlington flood is covered in a special 16-minute segment.”–Container.
Check them out at the BSC Library!
Check out these new additions to our Databases in the General Research and Images categories.
Kahn Academy (General Research)
CAMIO® (Images)
Enjoy a sampling of images from CAMIO® …
Walk, read, and improve your health at once. How? Audiobooks! Download them to your devices from the Library’s EBSCOhost Audiobooks Collection, Beyond Library Walls Digital Collection, and OneClickDigital collections. Find them on our Databases – EBooks and EAudiobooks page.
To read about one listener’s experience with audiobooks, check out this excerpt from an article in The Chronicle Review (July 30, 2012):
Walking to ‘Middlemarch,’ 50 Years Later by Sanford Pinsker, Emeritus Professor of Humanities, Franklin & Marshall College
“Flash forward 50 years and one coronary bypass. Now that I’m an emeritus professor, my days of teaching classes in American literature are over. Curiously enough, George Eliot’s novel has re-entered my life—this time as an audiobook I listened to while doing my five-day-a-week, 40-minute stints on a treadmill. It turns out that treadmill walking is as much an exercise in tolerating boredom as it is, well, exercise.
The deal I made myself was this: I would listen only to books I had first read unaided and unrequired in college and only while exercising. Middlemarch saved the day five days a week. As I trod my way to a healthier me, I followed Dorothea Brooke’s loveless marriage to the dry-as-dust Casaubon and then her subsequent life as a wealthy widow who not-so-secretly loves Will Ladislaw.
I’m not sure I would have discovered audiobooks on my own. While I’m not a card-carrying Luddite, I hardly live on the cutting edge. I’m the guy without a cellphone or an iPad. I am, however, a person who has birthdays, and on my 70th, my adult children presented me with an iPod shuffle and a year’s subscription to an audiobooks service. They can take credit for putting the right tools into my hands; I can take credit for picking the books I did and for listening to them on the treadmill.
My doctor tells me he is amazed at how well my regimen is working; I am even more amazed at how much about life in Middlemarch I remembered. The same beleaguered husband who can’t quite remember to bring home bread and milk (or was it butter and eggs?) can rattle on at length about the Rev. Edward Casaubon’s wildly ambitious (and fatally flawed) project, “The Key to All Mythologies.” That the study is never completed—how could it be?—resonated with me as a student. I suspected my college of housing at least one Casaubon, and encountered even more of these types in graduate school and then in faculty lounges. Apparently blowhards with big schemes came with the territory of book learning gone amuck.
Many people equate audiobooks with a chance to learn about Steve Jobs’s life or to dip into the latest John Grisham novel, but the format also includes the classics I revisit. At the moment, I’m in the early stages of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, with a mere 43 hours of listening time left. I am happy to report that, this time, the off-putting, triple-decker Russian names are going down easier. In fact, I plan to put Tolstoy’s War and Peace in the on-deck circle, followed by Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. What started with Middlemarch has taken on a life of its own.”
Read it! Read it! 