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FAKE NEWS DISPLAY AT MCKEE LIBRARY
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McKee Library is featuring a special display of resources for dealing with fake news.
With the rise of fake news across the internet, McKee Library has put together resources for students and faculty to help identify and avoid fake news. Not sure how to identify fake news? The following tips and resources might help: • Use fact-checking resources like FactCheck, Snopes, and Politifact. • Pay attention to the web address of all news articles. • Watch for capitalization and grammar errors. • Research the author of the work and the organization. • Conduct a reverse image search on Google. • Open a new tab for each piece of information • Be aware of bias. The Fake News display will be available on the library’s main floor April 1 through 30, 2018.
CELEBRATE ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH McKee Library has partnered with SAU’s Student Association to create a dynamic display of books and films in honor of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Similar to the display created for Black History Month, McKee Library has partnered with Student Association to create a display of
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items celebrating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders throughout the month of April. All are encouraged to check out a book or DVD from McKee Library’s display, located on the library’s main floor. This display includes a vareity of works by prominent Asian American and Pacific Islander authors and poets, as well as films, documentaries, and children’s books. Additional recommendations are available on the Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month reading list.
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MUST READ BOOKS
Street of Eternal Happiness Written by Rob Schmitz DS796.S253 A26 2016 Dreamers arrive in modern Shanghai each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity. Follow the author as he immerses himself in his neighborhood, forging deep relationships with ordinary people who see in the city’s sleek skyline a brighter future, and a chance to rewrite their destinies.
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Based on the book by the same title, Hidden Figures takes place in the middle of the space What We’re Loving Now race between Russia and the United States, when struggles of race The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story and gender equality and professional of Homecoming distinctions in the Written by Henri J. Nouwen workplace abounded. Recommended by Carol Harrison This movie explores BX2350.2 .N667 1994 those issues when NASA hires a brilliant A chance encounter group of Africanwith the painting The American women, Return of the Prodigal by Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Rembrandt leads Henri Vaughan, to work on a team of mathematicians who Nouwen on a spiritual will provide the calculations for the launch and readventure. Through entry of John Glenn’s spacecraft. The movie shows this inspiration, he the discrimination these three women endure by probes the themes of homecoming, affirmation fellow NASA colleagues. They bravely tackle these obstacles, becoming heroes for overcoming barriers and reconciliation. The and changing hearts, opening the door for future challenge to love as the generations. father and be loved as the son is the ultimate revelation.
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Excel Essentials III 12 pm
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From Vault Mark Twain’s 1891 Memory-Builder game is part of the Duane and Eunice Bietz Collection at McKee Library.
About the Work On August 18, 1885, Samuel Clemens patented a “game apparatus” with the United States Patent Office, which would become Mark Twain’s Memory Builder. Clemens fantasized about making millions from his game, but test marketing in 1891 failed to yield any public interest. One critic later described the complicated game board as looking “like a cross between an income tax form and a table of logarithms.”
Art in the Library
More Information The Duane and Eunice Bietz Collection houses books and materials by and about Mark Twain. Included in the collection are several rare first editions, signed copies, periodicals, memorabilia, and authentic letters written by Mark Twain. The collection was donated to McKee Library by Duane and Eunice Bietz in 2009. For more information, please contact Deyse Bravo-Rivera at dbravo@southern.edu.
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Art as Pain Therapy Paintings by the Complimentary Interventions class Professor Dana Krause Main floor Available until May 7
Heidi E. Olson Paintings A collection of paintings by Heidi E. Olson Second Floor Available until May 7
Along the Promenade Photographs by Diane Proffitt Second Floor Available until May 7
Call for Artists If you are an artist or know of someone who is interested in exhibiting their work, please email Katie McGrath at kmcgrath@southern.edu. We accept most mediums and themes as long as the works follow university guidelines. Students are encouraged to exhibit their works, so please share this information widely.