ebrary adds 1,000+ Elsevier eBooks
ebrary, one of the Library’s eBook collections (now containing 80,000+ eBooks) recently added over 1,000 titles from the famed science publishing house Elsevier. These new titles are from Elsevier as well as Elsevier’s imprints. To browse just these new additions … Continued
New Reference Book: The Milton Encyclopedia
The Milton Encyclopedia edited by Thomas N. Corns, Yale University Press, 2012. Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 821 M64zC A single volume designed to “…enhance the experience of reading the works of John Milton” (xi). The volume concentrates on … Continued
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.