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Come decompress and study in our newly decorated stairwell nooks on the first and second floors of McCain Library. We hope these cozy window havens give you the quiet (and rest…) you need to focus and succeed!
Hey Scotties!
Don’t run; this isn’t another Halloween themed post! This, instead, is a list of 17 films (summaries included) you can borrow from McCain Library that were released in the U.S. during the month of October.
Did you know that McCain Library lends DVDs? And we don’t just mean boring educational items like “A History of Britain: the Complete Collection” (call number DA16 .H57 2008 if this, in fact, is your cup of tea). We have a variety of genres and releases, both recent and old, familiar and strange, that’ll entertain you while also encouraging you to “think deeply”.
Stop by the library to pick up one of these DVDs (and a projector or portable DVD player!). If you feel compelled, submit a review of the DVD here and we might feature it on our blog!
The List:
Our Apologies…We are Transitioning to a New Authentication Method.
We are improving our list of databases and journal-finding tool to make signing into the databases easier if you’re off-campus or on a personal laptop/device . We hope to have it fully ready soon! Listed below are some troubleshooting tips if you get an error message when trying to access a database or an article.
This video will show you how to complete the steps above:
This video will show you how to complete the steps above:
If you are in a database and find an article that has the FullText Finder button instead of a link to a pdf or html copy it means we do have access to this resource but you will need to do the following:
This video will show you how to complete the steps above:
This video will show you how to complete the steps above:
We have a list of URLs to other databases like American Chemical Society.
While we are in this transition, our master list provides the most current url for each database. This link is only available available to faculty, staff, and enrolled students. Sorry for the mess!
November saw the celebration of World Vegan Month, a month long awareness program dedicated to a vegan lifestyle (refraining from the use or consumption of all animal products).
In conjunction with World Vegan Month, library student workers JD Tanaro ’19 and Connie Tran ’21 created a display on the first floor of McCain dedicated to vegan and animal welfare books and DVDs in our collection.
Additionally, the library will have “I cannot believe it’s vegan” snacks at noon each day (Tuesday through Friday) and a chance to win a gift certificate to a local vegan restaurant opportunity with the display.
Friday, Dec 7 Open late: 8 AM – 2 AM
Saturday, Dec 8 Open late: 11 AM – 2 AM
Sunday, Dec 9 Open: 1 PM – 2AM
Next weekend (Dec 14-16) will also have additional, but different, hours and services.
Good luck wrapping up this semester!
We’ve finally arrived to the end of November, so help us end our NaNoWriMo meetups with a bang! The final, culminating meetup will be in Group Study 132 on the first floor of McCain Library from 6-7pm, and we will be raffling gift cards!
Thank you for joining us to write!
Welcome Back Scotties!
Many of you submitted many hilarious Mad Libs, and there were too many funny ones to only post a few online. To fix the dilemma, we’ve posted them in the ground floor display by the elevator in McCain Library!
We will switch them out weekly, so check back every week for a good laugh as you prepare for finals :).
Mon., 11/19 OPEN 8:00 am – 2:00 am*
Tues., 11/20 OPEN 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Wed., 11/21 OPEN 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Thurs., 11/22 CLOSED (College Holiday)**
Fri., 11/23 CLOSED (College Holiday)**
Sat., 11/24 CLOSED (College Holiday)**
Sun., 11/25 OPEN 1:00 pm – 2:00 am*
If you’re traveling, remember our online, no-password-needed, keyword searchable LibGuides (http://libguides.agnesscott.edu/) – subject-oriented research starters for help at a distance, 24/7.
*Visitors allowed in the building until 10:30pm.
To better facilitate connections between student interests and McCain’s collections, we are providing our student workers, via the library’s blog and social media accounts, with a platform to explore and share areas they would like to highlight. The following entry is the first installment of the year in a series by Rachel, a second year student at Agnes Scott.
TW: Includes content pertaining to sexual assault
This semester, I will continue to view third wave feminism through my blog series, just in a different way. I hope to take an in-depth, academic view at the problems surrounding the recent outflow of sexual abuse allegations against some very influential men. The hope is that through research and interviews with current Agnes Scott faculty, I can shed light onto the issues that we are seeing in our world today. Using human rights, women’s studies and historical perspectives I will engage with professors in a conversation on what the “Me Too” movement means from their academic lenses.
From the #metoo movement to “I believe survivors,” the United States has been seeing an outflow of survivors coming forward with their sexual assault stories. What does society’s reaction tell us about the world we live in today? How does this affect our past, present, and future? What about many who are not assaulted by men of importance? Women of color, children, sex workers, transgender people, and even men.
In order to get an academic perspective I will conduct and transcribe interviews with a few of our lovely faculty members. The hope is to open a conversation between faculty and students in order to get information about the current goings on in the world and not only their opinion but their insight as experts in their fields. I hope to talk with Dr. Tajali on the human rights aspects of this movement as well as the rights of those who don’t get a moment in the spotlight. With the Women’s Studies department, the plan is to touch on the immense amounts of privilege we are seeing in the media as well as just what this movement of empowerment means for women. Finally, I will take a historical perspective I also intend to tie the conversation back to helpful resources that the library has. I hope that these blog posts will be informational to those who read them and entertaining as well!
For the first installment of my blog this semester, I interviewed Agnes Scott’s Dr. Tajali on what human rights implications may be present in the Me Too movement. To start, I asked Dr. Tajali what she thinks the the immense amounts of media attention means for everyday people who are not getting the same attention as the elites and celebrities we are seeing in the news. She responded by saying that the situation is complicated.
“The reason I’m saying it’s more complicated is yes we provide them the platform but then there are so many different loopholes that you know like for instance what’s happening right now, more than likely we will have Kavanaugh confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice. But nonetheless some would say ‘See how disheartening this is that we provide this platform to a victim who comes forward years later to speak about it still it doesn’t do anything.’”
Dr. Tajali continued on to say that she, as a scholar and someone who studies activism and social movements, sees this as a good step forward because people cannot expect change to happen overnight. The platform that is being provided for women is very helpful because it is spreading awareness even though there is not any major change that has happened yet. But still, the awareness allows all women not just elites the chance to come forward. Dr. Tajali is confident that within a few generations we will see some more change surrounding this issue. We also discussed the issue of privilege when it came to these people coming out with their stories. Privilege is another part of what makes this movement so complicated. When privilege is class, sexual orientation, and racially based it plays a big role in the gradual steps of the change we are seeing. The fact that this all started with celebrities who according to Dr. Tajali are the “Creme-de-la-creme who started to voice and of course if you’re in such a major position and you’re still complaining about being a victim of sexual assault, then what about others?”
Finally, for anyone who wants to do more research on this Dr. Tajali recommends Intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw and anything the library may have to offer on social movements, specifically women’s rights movements.
Library Resources:
Women’s Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives
By: Julia Peters and Andrea Wolper
Location: Stack 2: Call #: K644 .Z9 W665 1995
The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States 1848-1970
By: Albert Krichmar, Barbara Case, and Barbara Silver
Location: Stack 3 Call #: Z7964 .U49 K75
Women’s Rights: The Struggle for Equality in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
By: Nancy E. McGlen and Karen O’Connor
Location: Stack 1 Call #: HQ1426 .M395 1983
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture-And What We Can Do About It
By: Kate Harding
Location: Browsing Call#: HV6556.H37 2015
My Life on the Road
By: Gloria Steinem
Location: Browsing Call#: HQ1413.S675A3 2015
This Will be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
By: Morgan Jenkins
Location: Browsing and Stack 3 Call#s: PS3610.E693A6 2018
Testosterone Rex
By: Cordelia Fine
Location: Browsing Call#: BF692.F525 2017
No is Not Enough
By: Naomi Klein
Location: Browsing Call #: JC328.3 .K555 2017
If you navigate to the “About” page on the National November Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo) website, you will find this brief, but meaningful statement:
“National Novel Writing Month is also a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (formerly known as the Office of Letters and Light) that believes your story matters.”
Perhaps the most personal part of this introduction is the implication that your story matters rather than just a story.
NaNoWriMo encourages participants to write about anything they wish, but the emphasis here is on the voice telling the narrative. Your voice.
100 people could tell the same story over and over again. But…could anyone tell it quite like you, with your inflection, your memories, your understanding, or your personage?
This is why your story truly matters. Your personal voice and idiosyncrasies affect the timbre and texture of narratives, putting a one of kind fingerprint on otherwise recycled stories.
With this in mind, consider the collection of books set up next to the NaNoWriMo Display on the first floor of McCain Library. Each one was either:
If you would like to participate in our weekly NaNoWriMo meetups, click here for more information.
To go to the NaNoWriMo website, click here.
Happy Writing & Narrating ✒.
In observance of Veterans Day, student assistant Annel Chavez has created an exhibit focusing on veterans of the Korean and Persian Gulf Wars. Stop by the elevator case on the main floor of the library to take at look at this informative display.
