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The Legendary Olympic Coach Edward S. Temple Receives Congressional Honor Award

Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN) will present Coach  Edward S. Temple with a Congressional Honor Award at the Main Campus Library today.  Stay tuned for  more information tomorrow.
 
TSU Librarian Publishes Article
Mrs. Xuemei Ge, Metadata Librarian, will have her article, Information Seeking Behavior in the Digital Age:  a Multi-Disciplinary Study of Academic Researchers, published in the College and Research Libraries Journal.
 
TSU Librarian Reappointed to CHOICE Editorial Board
Ms. Glenda Alvin, Assistant Director of Collection Management, has been reappointed to CHOICE Editorial Board for another two years.
 
TSU Dean of Libraries & Media Centers serving on SACS Committee
Dr. Yildiz B. Binkley, Dean of Libraries & Media Centers, is invited to serve on the SACS On-Site team for Texas A & M Corpus Christi Campus in March, 2010.
 
TSU Assistant Director of Public Services Scans TSU Undergraduate Catalogs
Dr. Murle Kenerson has scanned TSU undergraduate catalogs from 1981-1983 through 2007-2009. They are available on the Library's web site.
 
TSU Library Web Master at Work
Mr. Phil Yan in close cooperation with Dr. Yildiz Binkley and input from library staff has recreated the library's web site.
 
How Can Your Library Help You? - Let Us Count the Ways
 
Your library can help you with
  • your assignments
  • your search to find new resources
  • improve your research skills
  • developing your academic skills
  • create new knowledge
  • prepare presentations
  • scanning pictures and documents
  • access millions of books via inter-library loan
  • reading the best seller
  • writing a research paper

Pictures of the Great Wall
 
 

Photographs courtesy of Mr. Ahmet Gundogdu.
 
DID YOU KNOW?
 
The first black woman who made a record was Mamie Smith. She recorded “ You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down” and “This Thing Called Love” on February 14, 1920. Ms. Smith was born in May 26, 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio and died in  September 16, 1946 in New York City.  She was an actress, dancer, pianist and a singer.  Ms. Smith’s success lead to the beginning of an era known as Classic Female Blues.  She starred in films such as Jail House Blues  (1929), Paradise in Harlem (1939), Mystery in Swing (1940), Sunday Sinners (1940), Stolen paradise (1941), Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941), and Because I Love You (1943). If you would like to read, hear and see more about Mamie Smith, please check the following resources:
 

At your library- 
Online databases including  JSTOR, Project Muse, Biography Resource Center, Academic Search Premier, Oxford Music Online, Humanities Full-Text, International Index to Music Periodicals, and RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.

Books including Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History ( E185 .E54 2006), Encyclopedia of the Blues(ML102 .B6 1997) and  Notable Black American Women (E185.96 .N68 1996).
Sound Recordings @
www.redhotjazz.com/Mamie.html
Clips from her movies @
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mamie+smith&search_type