NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY; 2010-6

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NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY; 2010-619 October 2010
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“Where books are burnt, in the end people are also burnt.”
~ Heinrich Heine

FILMS ON DEMAND

This issue’s featured resource is FILMS ON DEMAND. Ramsey Library is very pleased to invite you to take full advantage of this online, streamed access to thousands of academic films and film clips in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science and Mathematics, and Health and Medicine. Films Media Group is the leading source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content through its four brands: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware. Our licensing allows viewing by individuals, streaming into classrooms, and bookmarking by instructors. It can also be streamed for student use through your MOODLE course structure (see John Myers for details).
This is an exciting new product which takes full advantage of emerging instructional technologies. We hope you and your students enjoy it!

LIBRARY ADDS GRAND NEW PAINTING
On your next visit to Ramsey Library be sure to check out our new painting in the wall of the University Writing Center. Donate by UNC Asheville parent Robert Lock, “Wild Acres” was produced by the studio of Asa Cassidy and Joseph Ness as a real estate speculation painting for Thomas Dixon, Jr., a native North Carolinian and author of multiple romanticized Ku Klux Klan novels. Dixon bought “Wild Acres” to be the home of the Mount Mitchell Association of Arts and Sciences, an “intellectual colony” he founded for writers and artists.

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