"Wii" Want You @ the Library!

Studying driving you crazy? Stressed out? Want to have some fun and get some free food?

If you answered yes to any of those questions (and even if you didn’t):
Wii want you at the Manderino Library (again!)

Tuesday, April 29 10:30am – 4:00pm
Wednesday, April 30 11:00am – 6:00pm
Thursday, May 1 10:30am – 5:00pm

Room 208 (2nd floor)

The Manderino Library is going to have open gaming and free food for you the week before finals! Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to stop by, have a snack (pizza!), and play a little Nintendo Wii, PS3, or XBOX 360.

We’re offering food at 11:30 each day AND 4:30 on Wednesday night.

Wii games include:
· Guitar Hero III
· Dance Dance Revolution
· Smash Bros. Brawl
XBOX games include:
· Halo 3

PS3 games include:
· Call of Duty 4

We don’t have a lot of games or controllers; feel free to bring your own! Hope to see you there!

Contact Professor Ryan Sittler (sittler@cup.edu) for more information.
IM: rlsittler

Co-sponsored by the Department of Library Services and the Department of Networking

RSS Feeds

Louis L. Manderino Library New Books -- RSS Feeds

Louis L. Manderino Library provides the following RSS feeds for our users so they can easily obtain information about new books added to our collections. RSS feeds for specific Library of Congress subject classifications and specific Library Collections are listed below.

What is an RSS feed?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a way to publicize updates from web pages by pushing the new information to a user via an RSS feed. You can learn a lot more about RSS from this Wikipedia article on RSS To use RSS feeds, you first need an RSS feed reader. Following are brief directions for using Microsoft Outlook 2007 as your feed reader. RefWorks, the Library's bibliographic management program, also offers a feed reader feature.

How can I put an RSS feed into Outlook?
· First, click on the Mail icon on the lower left hand side to make sure you bring up the
"Mail Folders" on the left side of Outlook.
· Then, navigate down to RSS Feeds.
· Right click on RSS Feeds and select "Add a New RSS Feed..."
· It will bring up this window:



· Type or paste into this box the feed URL you want (see below). For example, I want all new books from Computer Science beginning with the Library of Congress classification letters, QA. So I type in this URL: http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?QA and click "Add".
· Repeat to add more feeds.

Then, to see what new books the Library has, click on the RSS Feeds folder in your Outlook mailbox and select the New Books subfolder. A list of new books by title (with links into our catalog, PILOT) will appear in your mailbox.

This is the standard format for an Louis L. Manderino Library New Books RSS feed URL:

· http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?X (where 'X' represents the Library of Congress Classification letter(s) or a specific Library Collection)

Following is a list of New Books RSS feed URLs by Library of Congress Classification letters. To view subclasses, click on the link for the letter. For example, click on the letter 'Q' for Science to obtain the classification letters for Chemistry: 'QD'.

· A -- GENERAL WORKS - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?A

· B -- PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY. RELIGION - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?B

· C -- AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?C

· D -- WORLD HISTORY AND HISTORY OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, ETC. - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?D

· E -- HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?E

· F -- HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?F

· G -- GEOGRAPHY. ANTHROPOLOGY. RECREATION - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?G

· H -- SOCIAL SCIENCES - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?H

· J -- POLITICAL SCIENCE - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?J

· K -- LAW - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?K

· L -- EDUCATION - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?L

· M -- MUSIC AND BOOKS ON MUSIC - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?M

· N -- FINE ARTS - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?N

· P -- LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?P

· Q -- SCIENCE - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?Q

· R -- MEDICINE - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?R

· S -- AGRICULTURE - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?S

· T -- TECHNOLOGY - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?T

· U -- MILITARY SCIENCE - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?U

· V -- NAVAL SCIENCE - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?V

· Z -- BIBLIOGRAPHY. LIBRARY SCIENCE. INFORMATION RESOURCES (GENERAL) - http://library.bloomu.edu/cgi-bin/cupdbnewrss.cgi?Z

Manderino Library Book Club--April 2008 Selection

"Jumping backward and forward in time, le Carre reveals the history of a friendship in the context of a lifetime of commitment gone sour: student radicalism in Berlin during the '60s; active spying for the West during the waning years of the cold war; and, finally, a parting of the ways, with Sasha continuing to search for the revolution of his dreams while Teddy finds a separate peace. But Iraq and a reunion with his friend reignite Teddy's fervor, paving the way for the inevitable tragedy. Yes, le Carre uses Teddy as a mouthpiece for some strong political opinions (the U.S. is described as a ‘hyperpower that thinks it can treat the rest of the world as its allotment’), but the novel never becomes the author's soapbox. The human story remains paramount, even if the chilling message is that human stories don't stand much of a chance in the world as we find it.” Ott, Bill. Booklist, 12/1/2003, p. 626.

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Fellow Readers:

The next meeting of the Manderino Library Book Club will be on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. We will meet in library classroom #208.

Dr. Michael Hummel, a Cal U Justice Studies professor, will lead our discussion on John le Carre’s Absolute Friends.

As always, give me a call if you have any questions.

Marsha L. Nolf
Public Services Coordinator/Associate Professor
Louis L. Manderino Library
California University of Pennsylvania
250 University Avenue
California, PA 15419
724.938.4048
nolf@cup.edu