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Book sale - Fall quarter 2005

  • What: ALA Student Chapter Fall Book Sale
  • When: Tuesday & Wednesday October 11-12
    12:45-1:15 pm (during our open meeting)
  • Where: IS Commons, GSE&IS Building

The ALA is collecting donations for the upcoming book sale. Please donate your good-condition used books (textbooks and non-textbooks) at the MIT Lab Front Desk before Tuesday, October 11, 2005.

Questions? Email ALA Student Chapter Treasurers Rebecca Cohen or Jonathan Fiencke.

Below is a partial list of the textbooks being used this fall:

IS 455 & IS 280 John Richardson:

  • Joe Morehead, Introduction to United States Government Sources, 6th ed. Libraries Unlimited, 1999.
  • Peter Hernon, John A. Shuler, and Robert E. Dugan, U.S. Government on the Web: Getting the Information You Need. 3rd ed. Libraries Unlimited, 2003

IS 234, Michael Cart:

  • FROM COVER TO COVER by Kathleen T. Horning (HarperCollins 1997).

IS 209 & IS 289, Phil Agre:

  • Johns, The Nature of the Book

IS19 & IS 289-2, Blanchette:

  • M. T. Clanchy (1992). From memory to written record, England 1066-1307. 2nd ed. Blackwell.
  • Shoshana Felman (2002). The juridical unconscious: Trials and traumas in the Twentieth century. Harvard University Press.
  • Adrian Johns (1998). The nature of the book. University of Chicago Press.
  • Jacques Derrida (1977). Limited Inc. Northwestern University Press.
  • David Phillips (1997). Exhibiting authenticity. Manchester University Press.
  • Ian Hacking (1990). The Taming of chance. Cambridge University Press.
  • Paul Ricoeur (2004). Memory, history, forgetting. University of Chicago.

IS430, Cindy Mediavilla:

  • Johnson, Peggy. Fundamentals of Collection Development & Management. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004.
  • Skokie Public Library. Collection Development and Resource Access Plan for the Skokie Public Library. Skokie, IL: 1998.