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Celebrate the Birthday of Dr. Seuss

02/28/2018
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Blog post written by Library Social Media Student Assistant, Taylor Matto: [caption id="attachment_9349" align="alignleft" width="300"] Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss[/caption] This Friday, March 2, 2018, the DiMenna-Nyselius Library will hold an event in honor of the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Fairfield University students will celebrate the life and birthday of one of the greatest American authors, Dr. Seuss, by making a craft inspired by the trees from the beloved book, The Lorax, and enjoy mini-birthday cakes.
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MARCH Trilogy: Graphic Memoir on the Civil Rights Movement

02/15/2018
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Have you read the March trilogy? Schools have been adding the books to curriculum since the first book was published in 2013. Congressman John Lewis (GA-5), one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, shares his remarkable story with new generations via the medium of the graphic novel. The award-winning, #1 bestselling graphic novel trilogy recounting John Lewis's life in the Civil Rights movement, is co-written with Andrew Aydin and drawn by Nate Powell.

The books provide a poignant first-hand account of John Lewis

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The Magical Power of Dictionaries

02/12/2018
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[caption id="attachment_9322" align="alignleft" width="300"] Webster Dictionary advertisement - Project Gutenberg from WikiMedia[/caption] Alberto Mangue, director of National Library of Argentina, writes in his essay The Magical Power of Dictionaries published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "In the days of my youth, for those of us who liked to read, the dictionary was a magical object of mysterious powers." He also writes about how libraries are like dictionaries. He notes, "Aby Warburg, the great reader, defined for us all what he called a library
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Debuting a Research Guide for New FUAM Exhibit

02/02/2018
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[caption id="attachment_9299" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Italian, 1639-1709), Painted Model for the Apse Fresco of the Ges
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Chicago Manual of Style

02/01/2018
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Chicago Manual of Style is now in its 17th edition. We have updated our citation guides, check them out here - https://librarybestbets.fairfield.edu/citationguides
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