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SUMMER IS HERE! Don't forget you can download POPULAR READING e-books and audio books free from the library.  You can browse the selection of over 400 electronic books from the Emory Libraries site (http://overdrive.emory.edu)

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find individual titles via our library search tool, discoverE.

Titles like Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi, and Wonder ...

We are using the OverDrive distribution platform through which users of our library can download titles to Mac, Windows, or a variety of mobile devices (Kindle, ipad, iphone, MP3 player, etc.) In addition, many audio titles can be burned to CD.

You will need…

• A valid Emory NetID
• Internet access
• A computer or device that meets the system requirements for the type(s) of digital materials you wish to check out
• Free software for the computer or device on which you wish to use the materials available at this site

The site offers extensive HELP screens with screen by screen shots of how to install titles on all types of devices.  Some people have reported difficulties, so please check-out the help videos, like how to install the Overdrive mobile app to your iphone and get content.

Step 1 - Download and install free software

To download Adobe eBooks, you need Adobe® Digital Editions 

To download OverDrive titles, you need OverDrive Media Console™. 

OverDrive Media Console is available for…

    Android v1.5 (or newer)

    BlackBerry v4.5 (or newer)

    iPhone® OS v3.1.3 (or newer)

     Mac OS® v10.4.9 (or newer)

    Windows® 98 SE (or newer)

    Windows Mobile® 5 and 6

Step 2 - Activate the software.  After you have installed the software that you downloaded, you need to take steps to activate the software before downloading digital materials.

Step 3 - Check out, download, and enjoy!   You can check out up to 2 titles at a time for 2 weeks each.  Your Cart will hold up to 4 titles at a time, but if no action occurs they will be automatically removed from your Cart after 30 minutes so that other users can have the chance to check them out.

Finally, you can place holds on 4 check-out titles at one time.  An email will alert you when a HOLD becomes available, and you will have 3 days to check out it out after the notification is sent.

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Learn about the completed DiSC project of Dr. Deepika Bahri, Postcolonial Studies @ Emory. 

It is with great pleasure that I announce the existence of the new home for Professor Deepika Bahri’s Postcolonia Studies @ Emory Website.  Over the past year, many members of the DiSC team, graduate students, library staff and Professor Bahri worked together to create a more sustainable site for Bahri’s multi decade archive of important people and issues in postcolonial studies.

Dr. Bahri’s website predates Wikipedia and anticipated the types of information web users would be looking for in relation to postcolonial studies. The site has been reorganized to provide easy navigation to postcolonial Authors & Artists, Critics & Theorists, and Terms & Issues. On each page you can learn about a person or issue through the lens of one of her students. The student generated content of the site represents an early digital pedagogy project, as each page was a course assignment for a student in one of her classes. From 1991 to the present, the website has amassed some 160+ pages of postcolonial studies material. Some Wikipedia pages even site the website as a source. With over 20,000 hits a day, Professor Bahri’s original website is an important resource for many on postcolonial studies.

2011-2012 graduate fellow Franky Abbott initiated an audit of the site where each page of the website was copy edited and evaluated. As project manager, I worked with graduate students, to link relevant content to each other through the creation of a tagging system that allows you to see certain content nodes throughout the site. Tim Bryson and Sandra Still provided important theoretical support for the construction of the tags.

The majority of the work involved cleaning up the content of the website. Undergraduate DiSC student employee Victoria Tao, was initially tasked with doing simple editing of each page, checking for spelling errors and inherited word merging that was the result of the script used to pull the content from the existing website. Tao’s expertise in html was later utilized as we modified the wordpress theme to best suit Dr. Bahri’s needs. Once this was completed, graduate students with specialization in postcolonial studies edited the pieces for content errors, correcting places, names and facts in each article.

Spines of the three volumes of Théâtre by Maurice Maeterlinck

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A remarkable and unique work from MARBL's Paul Bernard Seydel Memorial Collection of works relating to Belgium is Théâtre, a collection of plays by the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck. The three volume set was published in Brussels in 1901-1902 in an edition of 110 copies. While it's an attractive publication there was nothing particularly special about it when it was first issued. What's notable about MARBL's copy is what was done subsequent to its publication.

The book was completely transformed inside and out. All three volumes were taken apart and almost every page was hand-illustrated with decorate borders, small and full page pictures reflecting events in the text. The illustrations are apparently all by an A. Holzbeeck who signed his or her name at the beginning of the first volume. Sadly nothing is known about this artist. Once the pages had been illustrated they were beautifully bound by the Belgian bookbinder Jacques Weckesser in full morocco with gilt and colored decorations.

We have no history for this work before it came to MARBL so the early history of the work has been lost. We would love to know why this special set of books was so lavishly created. Perhaps it was commissioned as a gift or perhaps it was created to be sold for profit. Sadly, we will probably never know.

Interior Decorated Pages of Théâtre

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The library now has a subscription to over 5000 e-books from Safari Books Online, which is a recognized leader in providing technology how-to books. We opted for the most current package aka the Basic Tech Library package, so the titles and editions change regularly in the collection. Each book we subscribe to is listed in DiscoverE or you can browse the complete package online. (Note Safari has over 20,000 books online, so if you browse online you may run across titles we don’t own such as older titles or one of their subject-specific packages).

Database Title: Safari  Books Online: Basic Tech Library  http://pid.emory.edu/dzfb2
 
Dates of Coverage: most recent 2 years; current file only
 
Emory’s subscription to Safari Books Online covers technology-related books about programming languages, IT management, digital media, desktop applications, project management, and more. Publishers include O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press, Cisco Press, New Riders, Microsoft Press, Wrox, Adobe Press. The "Category Map" http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/categories is help you browse all the titles available to Emory