Open Library: Lending Library
Ohrstrom Library is a member of the Open Library: Lending Library program. What is it? A collection currently containing about 200,000 eBooks. Collection contents: A wide amalgamation of out-of-copyright, in-copyright, fiction, non-fiction and children’s stories. Where is it? http://openlibrary.org/borrow Key … Continued
New Reference Book: The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs
The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs compiled by Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mider, and Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, 2012. Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 398 D77D A volume of collected proverbs that originated in English 1900 to the … Continued
December 16, 1902
Bountiful harvest: Mrs. Neales decorated the [Lower School] dining-room very tastefully for Thanksgiving Day. Fir trees were placed in the corners of the room, and the fireplace was filled with different fruits of the harvest.
New Research Guide: Age of Anxiety
New on the Library site is a research guide in support of the Humanities 5, Art in the Age of Anxiety project. A separate tab of sources has been created for those students researching war memorials (as opposed to paintings … Continued
New Research Guide: Encounters
New on the Library site is a research guide in support of the Encounters class Mark Exegesis project. Research guides gather together the most pertinent library resources for a specific project, from the larger (and ever-expanding) universe of Library sources/collections. … Continued