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Join us for "Making Art From Natural Materials" with Elena Osterwalder. This free artist talk will be presented in person and live online! Learn more and RSVP: https://connect.cscc.edu/event/9505966

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Some of the world's most beloved and influential authors were born in August! Click their names to find their work in our collection or via OhioLINK.

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819), fiction writer and poet. Notable works: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative).

James Baldwin (August 2, 1924), writer and activist. Notable works: Go Tell It on the Mountain, "Sonny's Blues," Notes of a Native Son.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792), poet, novelist, playwright, and husband of Mary Shelley. Notable works: "Ozymandias," "A Defense of Poetry," The Cenci.

Guy de Maupassant (August 5, 1850), author of the Naturalist school. Notable works: "The Necklace," "The Horla," Pierre and Jean.

Wendell Berry (August 5, 1934), farmer, environmental activist, writer, and winner of the National Humanities Medal. Notable works: The Unsettling of America, Citizenship Papers, "The Vacation."

Walter Dean Myers (August 12, 1937), author of children's and young adult literature. Notable works: Hoops, Monster, Fallen Angels.

William Maxwell (August 16, 1908), writer and long-time fiction editor at The New Yorker. Notable works: So Long, See You Tomorrow, The Heavenly Tenants.

Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920), influential author of innumerable science-fiction short stories and novels, many adapted into other media. Notable works: Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, "The Veldt."

Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893), poet, fiction writer, and satirist; member of the Algonquin Round Table. Notable works: Enough Rope, Death and Taxes, Laments for the Living.

Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899), author and translator. Notable works: The Aleph and Other Stories, The Book of Imaginary Beings, "The Library of Babel."

Theodore Dreiser (August 27, 1871), journalist and author of Naturalist fiction. Notable works: Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy.

Mary Shelley (August 30, 1797), novelist and early author of science fiction. Notable works: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mathilda.

Current Columbus State students and employees can check out items with their photo ID, or view ebooks using their Columbus State login and password. For help with research or finding items, contact our Reference department.

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We've recently acquired dozens of STEM titles, with an emphasis on study guides and computer programming. Here's a sample of our latest additions!

Mathematics

Testimonios: Stories of Latinx and Hispanic Mathematicians

Mathematics for ESL Learners

Painless Pre-Algebra

The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra

Painless Geometry

Trigonometry: A Complete Introduction

Must Know High School Trigonometry

Trigonometry: With Calculator-Based Solutions

Painless Calculus

Painless Statistics

General Science

Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words

Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World

Physics: An Illustrated Guide for All Ages

El Libro de la Fisica

Biology: An Illustrated Guide for All Ages

Painless Biology

Chemistry: An Illustrated Guide for All Ages

Painless Earth Science

Computer Science

The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work

Introducing Microsoft Access Using Macro Programming Techniques: An Introduction to Desktop Database Development by Example

AutoCAD for Dummies

Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World

Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook

Practical Linux DevOps: Building a Linux Lab for Modern Software Development

Java 17 for Absolute Beginners: Learn the Fundamentals of Java Programming

You can use the "What's New" section of our catalog to browse all of our latest items! Current Columbus State students and employees can check out items using a photo ID.

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July simply overflowed with author birthdays! Do yourself a favor and add their works to your Summer reading.

James M. Cain (July 1, 1892), influential author of hardboiled fiction. Notable works: Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Wisława Szymborska (July 2, 1923), poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Notable works: Non-Required Reading, Monologue of a Dog Ensnared in History, Rhymes for Big Kids.

Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883). Notable works: The Metamorphosis, The Trial.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804), fiction writer. Notable works: The Scarlet Letter, House of the Seven Gables, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Tanglewood Tales.

Margaret Walker (July 7, 1915), author and part of the Chicago Black Renaissance movement. Notable works: For My People, Jubilee.

Alice Munro (July 10, 1931), Nobel Prize-winning short story author. Notable works: The Love of a Good Woman, Runaway.

E. B. White (July 11, 1899), semicolon-loather and author of children's fiction, essays, and The Manual of Style.

Jhumpa Lahiri (July 11, 1967), award-winning fiction writer and essayist. Notable works: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake.

Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904), poet and politician. Notable works: Canto General, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

Wole Soyinka (July 13, 1934), the first Black person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Your humble correspondent highly recommends Aké: The Years of Childhood!

Cormac McCarthy (July 20, 1933), award-winning author. Notable works: The Road, Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men.

Alexandre Dumas (July 24, 1902), author of The Count of Monte Cristo, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, and dozens of other novels, plays, articles, and even a gastronomical dictionary.

Chang-rae Lee (July 29, 1965), author and educator. Notable works: A Gesture Life, Such a Full Sea.

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July is Disability Pride month, and that means it's time for a bigger, better, updated Disability Pride reading list!

A Disability History of the United States, by Kim E. Nielsen

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judith Heumann

About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times, Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, editors

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and how to Be an Ally, by Emily Ladau

Disability as Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence, by Erin E. Andrews. Companion case study volume here.

Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, by Eli Clare

The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability, by Elizabeth Barnes

Nothing about Us without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, by James I. Charlton

The Problem Body: Projecting Disability in Film, Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić, editors

Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies, Nick Watson and Simo Vehmas, editors

My Wonderful Life as a Vegetable, Lars Feldballe producer/director

The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation, by Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames

Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives, G. Thomas Couser and Susannah B. Mintz, editors

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism, Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Yahya El-Lahib and Andrew K. Dube, editors

Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong, editor

From the Periphery: Real-Life Stories of Disability, by Pia Justesen

Young, Disabled and LGBT+: Voices, Identities and Intersections, Alex Toft and Anita Franklin, editors

Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies, Jacob Johanssen and Diana Garrisi, editors

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media, Bree Hadley and Donna McDonald, editors

Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability, Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, Nick Pollard, editors

Use our catalog to search for more titles on this topic!

Current Columbus State Students and employees can check out books using a photo ID. Ebooks and other electronic materials can be used both on and off campus; off-campus use requires logging in with your Columbus State username and password.

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Happy Stonewall Day! As Pride Month winds to a close, it's good to remember that the joys and struggles of the LGBTQ+ community don't stop at the end of June. Here's some Columbus State Library resources to help you continue to learn and explore.

Fiction and Essays

Sister Outsider

Rubyfruit Jungle

Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology

The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel

Light from Uncommon Stars

Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy

Wrath Goddess Sing: A Novel

Nonfiction

Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach

Young, Disabled and LGBT+: Voices, Identities and Intersections

LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know about Sexual and Gender Diversity

Nonbinary Gender Identities: History, Culture, Resources

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate

Histories of the Transgender Child

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities

Need research help or have a question about Library services? Current Columbus State students and employees can contact us via chat on our website, as well as by phone or email.

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Some amazing authors have birthdays in June! Follow the links below to find their works in our collection and in the OhioLINK catalog.

Thomas Hardy (June 2, 1840), English novelist and poet. Notable works: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure.

Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926), core member of the Beat movement. Notable works: “Howl,” “Kaddish,” “America.”

Gwendolyn Brooks (June 7, 1917), Pulitzer Prize-winner and Poet Laureate. Notable works: A Street in Bronzeville, In the Mecca, Riot.

Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928), beloved and many-times-honored author and illustrator. Notable works: Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There.

William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865), celebrated poet, dramatist, and occultist who once kicked Aleister Crowley down a flight of stairs. Notable works: “An Irish Airman foresees his Death,” “The Second Coming,” “Easter, 1916.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811), abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and other works.

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871), author, professor, and civil rights activist. Notable works: "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing,” God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.

Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898), author of All Quiet on the Western Front and other works.

Octavia Butler (June 22, 1947), winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the MacArthur “Genius Grant.” Notable works: the Parable series, Kindred, the Patternist series.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (June 29, 1900), author and pilot. Notable works: Wind, Sand, and Stars, The Little Prince, Night Flight.

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National Poetry Month is a big deal at the Columbus State Library! In addition to live events, you can find displays full of classic and modern poetry at both of our locations. Our recent poetry acquisitions include collections by Amanda Gorman, Barbara Kingsolver, and Saeed Jones, among others. Here’s a small sample:

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song

Alive at the End of the World: Poems, by Saeed Jones

Floaters: Poems, by Martín Espada

Dear Ms. Schubert: Poems, by Ewa Lipska

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

Be Holding: A Poem, by Ross Gay

Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry

Search our catalog for more!

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To accompany our Space! displays at the Delaware Learning Center and the downtown campus Library, here’s a selection of ebooks about astronomy and space exploration!

Stargazing and Amateur Astronomy

Stargazing for Dummies

Stargazing under Suburban Skies: A Star-Hopper's Guide

Stargazing Basics: Getting Started in Recreational Astronomy

A Stargazing Program for Beginners: A Pocket Field Guide

From Casual Stargazer to Amateur Astronomer: How to Advance to the Next Level

Astronomy Basics

A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy

An Introduction to Radio Astronomy

Fundamental Astronomy

Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology: An Introduction

History, Art, and Literature

Astronomy in the Ancient World: Early and Modern Views on Celestial Events

The Lost Constellations: A History of Obsolete, Extinct, or Forgotten Star Lore

Decoding Astronomy in Art and Architecture

Investigating Art, History, and Literature with Astronomy: Determining Time, Place, and Other Hidden Details Linked to the Stars 

Chronicling the Golden age of Astronomy: A History of Visual Observing from Harriot to Moore

A History of Optical Telescopes in Astronomy

The Birth of Modern Astronomy

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A Winter Pinecone Wood Engraving Wednesday

This winter, I received two hand-printed holiday cards with original wood-engraved pinecones from a couple of engraving friends of UWM Special Collections: Wisconsin artist Tony Drehfal and Kentucky printer Joanne Price. The top pinecone is by Drehfal, and in his card he writes:

I created this pine cone “study” engraving for the special WEN [Wood Engravers Network] calendar, and it was printing so easily on my finally restored Albion Press, that I kept on printing winter cards, which I have not made for years. The image is closely based on a inked sketch by a U.S. Forest Service field worker – C. L. Taylor, in 1907. The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Carnegie Mellon University) has a bunch of these drawings in their collection. I loved this one and worked to see if I could translate it into a wood engraving. I learned much –

Price’s pinecone, entitled “Pinecone Breeze,” is one of nine wood-engraved illustrations by Price for When Children Ruled the World: A Christmas Story written by Sena Jeter Naslund and published by Larkspur Press in 2021 (which we did a post on back in March 2022). 

It is always exciting to get original wood engravings in the mail!

View more work by Joanne Price.

View more posts with wood engravings!

– MAX, Head, Special Collections

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Happy Transgender Awareness Week! We have a large collection of LGBTQ+-related books in our collection—here’s a few of our most recent titles.

Reading lists from the Columbus State Library can jump-start your research by suggesting useful databases, search terms, and items from our collection. Our databases and collection items are available exclusively to current Columbus State students and employees; authentication is required for access.

Relevant Guides: LGBTQ+ Studies, Gender Research

Collection Items:

Redoing Gender: How Nonbinary Gender Contributes toward Social Change, Helana Darwin [ebook]

Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice, Merrick Daniel Pilling [ebook]

Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America, Miriam J. Abelson [ebook]

Histories of the Transgender Child, Julian Gill-Peterson [print]

The History of Trans Representation in American Television and Film Genres, Traci B. Abbott [ebook]

Beyond Binaries: Trans Identities in Contemporary Culture, Mike Perez, John C. Lamothe, Rachel Friedman eds. [ebook] 

Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives, Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini, eds. [print]

What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He & She, Dennis Baron [print]

Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights, Melissa R. Michelson and Brian F. Harrison [ebook]

Trans-Affirmative Parenting: Raising Kids across the Gender Spectrum, Elizabeth Rahilly [ebook]

Transgender in the Workplace: The Complete Guide to the New Authenticity for Employers and Gender-Diverse Professionals, Vanessa Sheridan [ebook]

TERF Wars: Feminism and the Fight for Transgender Futures, Ben Vincent, Sonja Erikainen, and Ruth Pearce eds. [print]

Not sure where to start? Our Research Process guide breaks the process up into bite-size tasks.

Need research help or have a question about Library services? Current Columbus State students and employees can contact us via chat on our website, as well as by phone or email.

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Burma Chronicles recounts artist Guy Delisle's life in Myanmar in the mid-2000s. This critically-acclaimed graphic novel is recommended by Sherlann L. in our Periodicals department!

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We’re celebrating Banned Books Week with events, displays, and giveaways! Here’s some photos from Monday’s table in the Columbus Courtyard. Thirty-nine students stopped by and left with gift bags, Library swag, and...books? That’s right, we did mobile checkout of banned books right there on the spot! It was great chatting with our students and hearing their perspectives.

If you missed Monday’s event, you can still get some gift bags at our Delaware Learning Center, and of course all current Columbus State students can participate in our virtual scavenger hunt. Students who complete the scavenger hunt will be entered into a drawing for one of three Bookstore gift cards!

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Our Banned Books Week event starts Monday! Swing by our table in the courtyard Monday for gift bags & info about our Banned Books Week scavenger hunt. The Delaware Learning Center will handing out gift bags too! Visit our Banned Books research guide to learn more.

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Next week is Banned Books Week! Stop by the Library and the Delaware Learning Center to check out banned books and pick up free bookmarks and buttons, and visit the Banned Books research guide at https://library.cscc.edu/bannedbooks/home for info about this year's event.

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Here’s some highlights from our latest items!

The Big Con: Great Hoaxes, Frauds, Grifts, and Swindles in American History, Nate Hendley

Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America, Monika Siebert

An Illustrated Business History of the United States, Richard Vague

Up to Heaven and down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town, Colin Jerolmack

Salt Houses, Hala Alyan

The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen

Leaving the Wild: The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows, and Horses, Gavin Ehringer

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, Judith Heumann

Visit our catalog to see our entire list of new items!

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The disability rights movement in America coalesced in the 1960s, but for many of us, the concepts of disability rights and disability pride are still off the radar. The movement’s concerns are hardly niche; they involve bodily autonomy, dignity, justice, and the right to participate in society. This brief guide provides Library and internet resources to help familiarize you with disability pride and the disability rights movement. You can also review our previous Disability Pride Month guide here.

Resource guides from the Columbus State Library can jump-start your research by suggesting useful databases, search terms, and items from our collection. Our databases and collection items are available exclusively to current Columbus State students and employees; authentication is required for access.

Web Resources:

Anti-Defamation League: A Brief History of the Disability Rights Movement

Disability Rights Ohio: Self-Advocacy Resource Center

Stanford University, Office of Accessible Education: National Disability Organizations and Resources.

Collection Items:

These titles are only a small selection of our books on this topic. Search the Library catalog to find more!

Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking, Julia Bascom (ed.)

Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, Roy Richard Grinker

The Deaf Mute Howls, Albert Ballin

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong (ed.)

The Oxford Handbook of Disability History, Michael Rembis et al. (eds.)

Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II, Susan Burch

Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights, Lennard Davis

We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation, Eric Garcia

The Deaf History Reader, John Vickrey Van Cleve (ed.)

Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform, David Pettinicchio

What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement, Fred Pelka

Not sure where to start? Our Research Process guide breaks the process up into bite-size tasks.

Need research help or have a question about Library services? Current Columbus State students and employees can contact us via chat on our website, as well as by phone or email.