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R E A D A L L
A B O U T :
The Big Read
Halloween Party
Wrap-Up
Resources for
Music
Google Scholar
Links
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Patrons
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Librarians
will be competing to build the
strongest, most beautiful bridges,
which will be judged at a big
showdown at Ada Public Library.
Movie versions of The Bridge of San
Luis Rey, and the author’s more
famous work, Our Town, will be
screened at the public library and at
Estep.
We’ll be busy here at Linscheid too,
with a series of lectures from faculty,
the Oklahoma Department of
Transportation, and visiting lecturers
from across the country. There will
even be an interactive exhibit displayed
on the library’s second floor, relating
to a collection of cards about Spanish
theater. These cards will be donated
to the library during this event.
Events will start on Jan. 20 with a one-
act play on the library’s second floor
A project will be launched this
spring which will bring together
the whole community—from Ada
and the surrounding area to
ECU—around one book.
This program, called the Big Read,
is a program that promotes one
book throughout a community,
with a series of tied-in events. This
is funded by a grant from the
NEH, which was won by Errol
King, Spanish professor. Featuring
love, death, burning books, and
hysterical monks, the book chosen
for Ada’s version of this program
is The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
Events will take place in the
community and the Ada Public
Library, as well as Linscheid
Library. Across the area, students
in middle schools and high schools
and the opening of the theater
exhibit. They will continue until
March 10, where we’ll close with a
lecture on Peruvian culture in the
library atrium.
The Big Read is a program of the
National Endowment for the Arts
in partnership with Arts Midwest.
For more information on the
events of the Big Read, contact
Errol King, grant lead, at
580.559.5445 or [email protected].
Big Plans for Big Read
enjoyed pumpkin bowling with enough
non-stop enthusiasm that they wore
our volunteers out. The book graveyard
inspired a lot of guesses, but only Sarah
Peters came the closest to getting all
the books right and won 5 free coffees.
Special thanks to Zeta Tau Alpha volun-
teers who helped organize the festivi-
ties, Linscheid Library Academic Friends
(LLAF) for providing the supplies and
food, and for the campus community
for turning out in force!
To see more photos of the event, head
to the Flickr album of photos, or visit
the Outreach events page.
Our Spooktacular
attracted over 80
people—a record
for our Halloween
parties!
The coffin was a
hit, with multiple
selfies and family
photos taken with-
in it. Coloring also seemed to attract
all visitors, especially college students.
We almost ran out of things to color!
Luckily, a quick-thinking staff member
found some open-source coloring
pages and saved the day with multiple
copies. The younger visitors also
Above: Coloring attracts
people of all ages
Left: A skeletal sampling
of our coffin photos
Below: young patrons “set
up” pumpkin bowling pins
Halloween: A Retrospective
P A G E 2
Get down
with your well
-informed self
by using
library
resources.
Public domain photo by Florida
Memory.
Google Scholar
Resources for Music Whether you’re a music
major, or taking music
classes, or can just occa-
sionally play a tune on an
instrument, we have re-
sources to inform you.
For a quick lookup of the
difference between pianos
and piccolos, try looking
in our Reference section.
You can’t check these
works out, but they’re
useful to find a fact or get
a general overview. Here
you can find encyclopedi-
as on punk music, dictionaries of
musicians, histories of music in the
west, and biographies of popular
musicians.
Maybe you want something you
can enjoy at home. If that’s the
case, there are a couple options for
you. First, you might head to the
MT is where works on instruction
and study of music reside. Find
works on setting up a music pro-
gram, how to conduct musicians,
and guides to songwriting here.
If you want to experience your
music instead of reading it, the
Music Listening Library and the
online database Naxos are the
places for you. We have vinyl
records and CDs available at the
library for listening, with turnta-
bles and CD players for instant
usage. If you like to stay digital,
use Naxos to listen to classical
music.
For research, try Oxford Music
Online. It’s a set of online music
encyclopedias, complete with
sound clips and images.
For more information, visit us in-
person or browse the music re-
search guide online.
cited what with ease, and even
read all the full-text articles
your heart desires.
It’s pretty easy—just log into
your Google account (or set
one up) from Google Scholar,
go to Library Links, and select
East Central University. Then
when you search, it’ll show you
which articles you find that you
You can finally do what so many
have dreamed of: using Google
to finish assignments.
Well, at least you can with
Google Scholar, which now will
link accurately to our catalog and
databases. You can search all of
our resources—along with those
of the whole wide internet—in
one place, and also check who’s
can read for free by
using your library login.
For more infor-
mation about this
cool new way to
search, ask us in-
person or call
580.559.5371.
L I B R A R Y N E W S
They came back just to see if
I was finding what I needed.
This was very appreciated.
Use your
thinking cap with
Google Scholar
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Evaluate our reference for yourself—stop by the
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fourth floor and look through the M
section. Every call number starting
with M has to do with music. If
you’re not finding enough there, you
might want to head to the Music
Listening Library on the main floor,
which contains both works on music
and recorded music.
You might want to start with the
lone letter M, which means that they
are works of music. If the call num-
ber is lower than M1500, this means
instrumental music, with works like
anthologies of music, various sym-
phonies, and collections of works
from various composers. After
M1500, you can find vocal music, in
every format from opera to musical
theater to barbershop quartet. If
you’re looking for more works about
music instead of the music itself, head
to ML. This contains librettos, histo-
ries of music, music and its effect on
culture, and singing Neanderthals.
Patrick Baumann, Media Services
Librarian
Cartography/Geography
Education
Environmental Health Science
Family & Consumer Sciences
Kinesiology
Sociology
Nick Demetriades, Technical Services
Librarian
Chemistry
Computer Science
History
Mathematics
Music
Physics
Did you know that all departments have a
librarian assigned to them? Liaison
librarians can help faculty and students find
information best suited to their area of
study. Find your librarian below, or go to
our student page for more.
Dana Belcher, Assistant Director &
Collection Services Librarian
Accounting
Business Administration
English & Languages
Human Resources
Nursing
Katie Sleyko, Public Services Librarian
Art
Biology
Communication
Political Science & Legal Studies
Psychology
Contact your liaison librarian for one-on-
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faculty, talk to your liaison librarian about
classes and materials you’d like. The
librarians are your guide to the best
resources, so make sure that you use them!
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