HL Interviews Local Author Pamela Duncan

During the month of January, Hunter Library's Leisure Reading Group is highlighting works by local and regional authors. WCU's own Pamela Duncan bravely agreed to be the subject of the Leisure Reading Blog's first interview! Find out what an award-winning writer reads for fun! http://hunterleisure.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/appalachian-authors-pamela-duncan

New Books, & DVDs from November 2009

New Books, & DVDs from November 2009

Here's a sampling of some of the new books, films,
and CDs that have arrived at Hunter Library in November 2009.
Please browse the full list.

Ivan A. Castro,
100 Hispanics you should know
Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007
WCU CMC CHILDREN’S CT1347.C37 2007

Tama M. Carrol,
Guiding reading and writing in the content areas: practical strategies
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., c2001
WCU CMC PRO LB1050.455 T36 2001

How to make digital stories [videorecording]
Produced by VEA; executive producer, Simon Garner
Hamilton, NJ: Films for the Humanities &
Sciences a Films Media Group company, 2009
WCU VIDEO DVD QA.H69

Naked [videorecording]
Fine Line Features; Film Four International with the participation
of British Screen presents a Thin Man production.
Produced by Simon Channing-Williams;
written and directed by Mike Leigh
United States: Criterion Collection, c2005
WCU VIDEO DVD PVH.N35

Richard Slotkin,
No quarter: the Battle of the Crater, 1864
New York: Random House, c2009
WCU NEW BOOKS E476.93.S58 2009

Arthur McDade Editor,
Old Smoky Mountain days: selected writings of
Horace Kephart, Joseph S. Hall and Harvey Broome
Seymour, TN: Panther Press, 1996
WCU NEW BOOKS F443.G7.05 1996

Fire in my bones: raw + rare + otherworldy
African-American gospel, 1944-2007 [sound recording]
New York, NY: Tompkins Square, p2009
WCU AUDIO CD T ZZZZ 155

2010 Faculty Scholarship Celebration Week

2010 Faculty Scholarship Celebration Week
Creativity, ingenuity, collaboration, tradition, a sense of community and a wish to share knowledge is what you will find at the upcoming Faculty Scholarship Celebration Week, to be held February 15-19, 2010.
Preparations are under way for the exhibit which will recognize and celebrate scholarly works by faculty and staff. “Over time, the focus of the faculty works in the exhibit has broadened and expanded, reflecting the faculty’s desire to excel and to share their knowledge with others,” said reference librarian Alessia Zanin-Yost, who coordinates the display. “What better place than the library to celebrate everyone’s achievements.”
The exhibit will feature books and articles, music scores, art works, CDs, Power Point presentations, and other samples of accomplishments over the past year. The exhibit will provide a focal point to engage faculty, staff and students to talk about what it means to be scholarly. “It’s fun to wander over to the library and see what other people are doing,” said James McLachan, professor of philosophy and religion. “I’ve discovered books and articles by people I’ve known and others I’ve never met but who are working on topics that are interesting to me and sometimes even related to my own work. Looking at what my colleagues have done and are doing makes me happy to be working at Western.”
Seeing the accomplishments of the entire faculty brought together for display in one place is an inspiring experience, said David Shapiro, WCU’s Robert Lee Madison Distinguished Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Seeing and talking to colleagues about their scholarly endeavors renews our passion, Shapiro said, and experiencing “the creative intellectual and aesthetic talents of others indeed is a celebration of all that we enjoy in this valley of the lilies and the most positive side of human potential. It gives us pause to wander in awe and to celebrate the remarkable people, our colleagues and friends, with whom we are a community. It is always the right time to celebrate that which unites us.”
Works that will be featured in the displays are those that have been subject to a professional, refereed peer review with expectation of dissemination and cover a broad range of inquiries, investigations, and personal work making original, intellectual, or creative contributions to their discipline. All works that fit this scholarly definition and were produced in 2009 will be accepted. All works need to be submitted using this form. Deadline for submission of works is January 22, 2010. For more information, e-mail Zanin-Yost at azaniny@wcu.edu or call 227-3398.
The Faculty Scholarship Celebration Week is sponsored by the Honors College, Office for Undergraduate Studies, Graduate School and Research, Coulter Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence, and Hunter Library.

New Books, & DVDs from October 2009

Here's a sampling of some of the new books, films, and CDs
that have arrived at Hunter Library in October 2009.
Please browse the full list.


Milton Meltzer,
Witches and witch-hunts: a history of persecution
New York: Scholastic, c1999
WCU CMC CHILDREN’S BF1566 .M33 2000


Elizabeth L. Hammerman,
Formative assessment strategies for
enhanced learning in science, K-8
Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press, c2009
WCU CMC PRO LB1585 .H274 2009


Casablanca [videorecording]
Hal B. Wallis production; directed by Michael Curtiz
Burbank, Calif.: Warner Home Video, c2003
WCU VIDEO DVD PVH.C371


No country for old men [Motion picture-videorecording]
Written for the screen and directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Burbank, Calif.: Miramax Home Entertainment
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
WCU VIDEO DVD PVH.N57


Barry Mazor,
Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: how America's original
roots music hero changed the pop sounds of a century
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
WCU NEW BOOKS ML420.R753 M39 2009


Hocine Bougdah,
Environment, technology and sustainability
London; New York: Taylor & Francis, 2010
WCU NEW BOOKS NA2542.36 .B68 2010


America's millennium tribute to
Adolphe Sax. Vol. XIII [sound recording]
Tucson, Ariz.: Arizona University Recordings, p2007
WCU AUDIO CD D SAXO 023

Friends Weekend in Atlanta to feature art and symphony!

The eighth annual Friends Weekend in Atlanta will take place January 30-31, 2010. The weekend includes:

. Special High Museum exhibit, Saturday, January 30, “Leonardo da Vinci, Hand of the Genius,” featuring approximately fifty works, including twenty which will be on view for the first time in the United States. Tickets are for 2:00 p.m. admission.

· Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Saturday, January 30, at 8:00 p.m. Robert Spano
conducts Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Also on the program are Vaughn Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and the soundtrack score for Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth by acclaimed contemporary composer Osvaldo Golijov.

· Lodging for one night at the Residence Inn Atlanta Downtown, 134 Peachtree Street N.W., located across from the High Museum and Symphony Hall. Arrive Saturday, January 30, depart Sunday, January 31. Free breakfast and parking included. (Participants who prefer to do so may arrange their own lodging.)

Participants will provide their own transportation to Atlanta. Directions to the hotel and information about restaurants within walking distance will be included with tickets.

Total cost is per person, double occupancy, and includes tickets, audio guide, hotel with breakfast and parking, all taxes, and a $25 per person tax-deductible contribution to the Friends of Hunter Library. Contribution is waived for full-time college students. Youths ages 6 to 17 must be accompanied by adult.

Adults under 65: $127
Adults 65 and over: $125
Full-Time College Students: $100
Youths (ages 6-17): $96

October 21 is the last day to register for the Friends Weekend in Atlanta. If you are not on the Friends Weekend in Atlanta mailing list and wish to receive more information and a registration form, please call Dora Melton at 227-3406. Bill Kirwan is coordinator of the weekend.