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Beyond Brown Paper Being Upgraded

Update #2: Beyond Brown Paper is back! Thank you for your patience.
Update #1: The upgrade is taking a little longer than expected. Please bear with us.

The Beyond Brown Paper photo archive is offline for a while so we can build it bigger, with more pipes.
We’ll have it back online as soon as we can. […]

Citation made easy with new EndNote software

Lamson Library and Learning Commons has purchased a PSU license for Endnote. Instead of spending hours typing bibliographies, or using index cards to organize their references, many researchers now do it the easy way—by using EndNote! Read more.
This software is available to all students, faculty, and staff on a CD to load on your […]

Winterim at Lamson mid-January


Give a little bit! Toiletries Drive at Lamson Nov 12-16

As the holiday season approaches, everyone is welcomed to participate in the Annual Toiletries Drive sponsored by Campus Ministry at Plymouth State. All donations will benefit the Pemi Bridge House located in Plymouth.
Helpful donations include unused shampoo, conditioner, toothbrushes, toothpaste, hair brushes, lotion, soap, dental floss, etc. Full sized and travel sized items […]

Supposition and Self-Censorship

In our final Banned Books Week 2007 installment, we look at two works that were removed from shelves this year, stark reminders of the challenges of freedom.

Last February, public and school librarians noticed that the very first hint of spring was missing from their magazine shelves: Sports Illustrated’s Annual Swimsuit Edition.
In a […]

Holocaust Denied?

In recognition of Banned Books Week 2007, Lamson Library is featuring a series of books that challenge our beliefs and test our commitment to free speech.

David Irving has been called the most controversial historian in the 20th Century. While his books Hitler’s War and The War Path: Hitler’s Germany 1933-1939 demonstrated an extraordinary amount […]

Who Owns The Network?

In recognition of Banned Books Week 2007, Lamson Library is featuring a series of books that challenge our beliefs and test our commitment to free speech.

Wikinomics authors Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams tell stories of how the the internet’s unprecedented collaboration opportunities are changing the rules of economics. IBM, in one example, estimates […]

Blowing in the Wind…but in which direction?

In recognition of Banned Books Week 2007, Lamson Library is featuring a series of books that challenge our beliefs and test our commitment to free speech.

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Reviews of this book sing its praises. The Washington Post called it the best novel to come out of the south; […]

Hot or Not? The Global Warming Debate

In recognition of Banned Books Week 2007, Lamson Library is featuring a series of books that challenge our beliefs and test our commitment to free speech.

An Inconvenient Truth: the Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore. In the former Vice President’s second book on global warming, […]

Political Finger Pointing

In recognition of Banned Books Week 2007, Lamson Library is featuring a series of books that challenge our beliefs and test our commitment to free speech.

Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Ann Coulter. In her 2003 book, the Conservative commentator writes, “Liberals have a preternatural gift for […]

Banned Books Week 2007: a fresh approach to the right, the left and in-between

Each September, the American Library Association and several other organizations celebrate Banned Books Week. In addition, we provide you with a list of the Top Challenged Books for the year. Take a look at the list; there are both old and new favorites.
But for Banned Books Week 2007, we want to […]

New York Times and Wall Street Journal Now Online!

The Library and Lamson Learning Commons is pleased to announce the complete online collection of two national newspapers: The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Dates included for both newspapers are 1981-present.
These publications may be searched by clicking on Databases found on the left hand side of this screen under Find.
Researchers […]

Celebrate Constitution Day 2007

Each year on September 17th, all educational institutions in the United States pause to celebrate the oldest, active Constitution in the world today. English professor, Scott Coykendall, coordinator of PSU campus events this year, has focused on the First Amendment and the five freedoms it guarantees:

Congress shall make no law respecting an […]

New Database: Literature Criticism Online