Author Archives: Allison Schafer

Library on the Go LibGuide

“Library on the Go” (LOTG) is the Bellevue University Library’s once-quarterly event where we bring BU Library materials across campus for students and staff that otherwise might not have a chance to get into the library to take a look at some of the great items we have for check-out. It has recently been revamped to also include snacks and the chance to win a prize, as well as adding a brand-new LibGuide for it.

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Interlibrary Loan Requests Entered the Express Lane

 

For those unfamiliar with it, interlibrary loan (ILL) is the process through which books & journal articles not owned by your library are requested from another. Unfortunately, due to budget and spacing constraints any one library can only manage to buy access to or physical copies of a finite amount of materials, but thanks to participating in interlibrary loan we can have access to the combined collections of millions of libraries worldwide!

 

 

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Black Lives Matter LibGuide

 

If you are wanting to learn more and/or find resources to help support the Black Lives Matter Movement, the Bellevue University Library’s “Black Lives Matter” LibGuide is an excellent place to start! This LibGuide has a great selection of books, e-books, websites, and even videos available, starting with information on general issues such as white privilege, police brutality, the justice system, and race relations.

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The Legend of Decimus Croome: A Halloween Carol PS3616.U739 L444 2017

Anyone familiar with Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale, A Christmas Carol, will certainly recognize the extreme similarity of Kevin Purdy’s shamelessly fun modern version, his ‘Halloween carol,’ The Legend of Decimus Croome. The story is essentially the same, but in this version Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly boss who loathes the holidays (and pretty much everything else), is replaced with one Decimus Croome, owner of the local hardware store who has hated Halloween (and all things fun) since the death of his wife years before. The formerly fun young man is now an old miser who lives only to mistreat his poor hardworking employee, Mr. Bobbich, hand out vegetables to any soul unfortunate enough to attempt to trick or treat at his house, and generally grumble and glare and scare the Dickens out of the whole town.

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