New Materials for December

Looking for that last resource to complete your research paper? Or want to take a break from studying and enjoy a movie? Check out the New Materials display for this month! You can read the science fiction novel Ready Player One before it hits theaters or read a short story or poem about your current place of residence in Orange County: A Literary Field Guide. With a variety of materials from each library section, you’re sure to find something that catches your interest.

DVD’s featured this month:

Books featured this month:

• Practice for life: making decisions in college
• Inside graduate admissions: merit, diversity, and faculty gatekeeping
• It won’t be easy: an exceedingly honest (and slightly unprofessional) love letter to teaching
• The aisles have eyes: how retailers track your shopping, strip your privacy, and define your power
• Water
• The impact of social media in modern romantic relationships
• Playable bodies: dance games and intimate media
• Martial arts cinema and Hong Kong modernity: aesthetic, representation, circulation
• Ice cream
• Paparazzi: media practices and celebrity culture
• Ready player one
• Orange County: a literary field guide
• Shakespeare saved my life: ten years in solitary with the bard
• Contemporary film music: investigating cinema narratives and composition
• The music and sound of experimental film
• Elmer Bernstein’s The magnificent seven: a film score guide
• The art and science of the church screen in medieval Europe: making, meaning, preserving

The new materials display is located behind the reference desk and everything is available for check-out.