Guantanamo Bay Teach-In
Posted by admin on Sep 29, 2006
The Delaware campus will be participating in the Guantanamo Bay Teach-In being organized by Seton Hall Law School. This full day seminar will be webcast to participating institutions on Thursday, October 5th.
Hear lawyers, doctors and others describe the issues surrounding the detention of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay. The webcast will be shown in Polishook Hall Room 201 from 10am to 7pm. Visit
www.guantanamoteachin.com for more information including a list of speakers and topics to be covered. Thank you to Professors Daly and Ritter for setting this up.
Library Book Club Tries Something Different
Posted by admin on Sep 25, 2006
At the next meeting of the Brown Bag Book Club, we are going to try a
book circle. This is where each person briefly discusses a book
they have recently read and which they would like to share with the
group. If we have time, we might go around a second time.
The book titles and brief descriptions will be compiled into a list and
be sent to the participants.
The next meeting of the Brown Bag Book Club will be Tuesday, October
24th at noon. Please note: We will be meeting in the
Faculty dining room in the Barristers’ Club. So come with your lunch
and a title or two that you would like to share.
Same Day U.S. Supreme Court Transcripts Available this Term!
Posted by admin on Sep 15, 2006
For the first time, the United States Supreme Court will make
transcripts of oral arguments available the same day as the case is
heard by the court. The transcripts will be posted on the Supreme Court website. Previously, it would take almost two weeks for these transcripts to appear.
According to Jill Duffy, Supreme Court of the United States Research
Librarian, “In the past, oral arguments had been transcribed off-site
from audio recordings. The Court’s current contract reporting service,
Alderson Reporting Company, will now utilize the services of a court
reporter in the Courtroom and high-speed technology to transcribe the
oral arguments more quickly.
Transcripts can be located by clicking on the “Oral Arguments” prompt
on the home page of the Court’s Web site and selecting “Argument
Transcripts.”
Transcripts will be listed by case name and the date of oral argument.
Transcripts are permanently archived beginning with the 2000 Term on
the Court’s Web site. Transcripts prior to the 2000 Term are maintained
in the Court’s Library.”
Books for Sale
Posted by admin on Sep 5, 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 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
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
Looking at Art: A Vistor’s Guide to Museum Collections by Adelheid M. Gealt, c1983 – $.50
Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. An Exhibition Organized by the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, c1956 – $.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.