Books for Sale
Posted by admin on Apr 26, 2006
The Library is offering the following art books for sale. They are being withdrawn from the collection. Contact information is at the end of the list.
Women in the Fine Arts, From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement, c1977 – $3.00
The Essentials of Aesthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and Architecture by George Lansing Raymond, c1906 – $5.00
The Sense of Beauty, Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory with a foreword by Philip Blair Rice, c1955 – $0.50
The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response by David Freedberg,
c1989 – $4.50
The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, c1992 – $3.00
Modern Culture and the Arts edited by James B. Hall and Barry Ulanov, c1967 – $3.00
Proportion and Harmony of Line and Color in Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture; an Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by Lansing Raymond – $4.50
Design in America: the Cranbrook vision, 1925-1950 by Robert Judson Clark, c1984 – $4.50
Bauhaus by Frank Whitford, c1984 – $0.50
Good old Modern; an intimate portrait of the Museum of Modern Art, by Russell Lynes,
c1973 – $4.50
Catalogue of a loan exhibition. Texts by Saneatsu Mushakoji, Ryuzaburo Umehara and Kazumasa Nakagawa, c1957 – $ 10.00
The art galleries of Britain and Ireland: a guide to their collections by Joan Abse, c1976 – $3.00
The Picture Gallery in the Kunsthistorischen Museum Vienna by Gunther Heinz [Translated from German by James Brockway, c1970 – $4.00
Art treasures of the Louvre by Rene Huyghe, c1960 – $0.50
Masters of world painting in the Soviet Union, Compiled by E. Marchenko, c1971 – $4.50
State Armoury in the Moscow Kremlin, c1969 – $4.50
Soviet art – $4.50
Fragments of some Hermitage paintings, 15th-16th centuries; Italy, Spain, France, Germany, The Netherlands by N. Nikuli, – $4.50
A guidebook to the Prado Museum including a commentary and general historical information by Bernardino De Pantorba, c1962 – $4.50
If interested in these special offers, please contact Marlisa Beatty by phone at 302.477.2112 or by email at mmbeatty@mail.widener.edu
Please pick up and pay for the books within a week after your call in room 264.
“Librarians Win as U.S. Relents on Secrecy Law”
Posted by admin on Apr 13, 2006
Due to recent changes in the U.S.A. Patriot Act, a librarian who was
ordered to turn over library records by a National Security Letter
(NSL) may soon be identified. Under the previous version of the Act,
recipients of NSLs were prohibited from identifying themselves. The
American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of a Connecticut library
served with an NSL last September. Federal prosecutors have decided to
drop an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit in New York, to overturn an order allowing the library and
librarian to be identified. Read more here. [External link to nytimes.com, may require free registration to access story.]
Hint for Regular Readers of NYTimes.com
Posted by admin on Apr 12, 2006
The New York Times online edition has started designating some of their
stories as “Times Select” pieces. These articles are not accessible
unless you have a paid subscription to this service. However, one of
the databases the law library subscribes to, ProQuest, contains these
articles. All current law school students, staff and faculty have
access to the ProQuest database. It is even accessible from off campus
with your Widener ID card.
Follow this link http://www.law.widener.edu/Law-Library/new/research/legal_databases.shtml
to view the Law Library databases. Follow the link to ProQuest and
after you have entered the database, choose the “Publications” tab at
the top. Next search for “New York Times” and choose the “Late Edition”
from the list. You can now browsed the issues by date or search for
keywords to pull up the article you are looking for.