New Music Scores - March 2010

The following vocal scores are now available at the Tarver Library Media Center:

The Songs of Irving Berlin: Broadway Songs, M1507 .B46 B76 1991

John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, realized by Benjamin Britten, M1503 .B8608 B4 1949

Frank Loesser: Guys & Dolls, M1503 .L817 G92 1981x

Frederick Loewe: My Fair Lady, M659 .L64 M9 2006

Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter, A Treasury of Cole Porter, M1507 .P86 M92 1980 v.1-2

All Sondheim, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, M1507 .S696 M92 v.1-2

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Phantom of the Opera

Kurt Weil: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogonny, M1503 .W42 A6 2006

There will be many more scores arriving soon. Please watch for updates to this blog.

Workshop of the month: Lexis Nexis Academic

Tarver Library is offering four different opportunities to participate in the last round of Workshops of the month. This time, it is on Lexis Nexis Academic and will take place March 22-25 in the library classroom.

For more information, please visit http://tarver.mercer.edu/about/DBofmonth.html

New Compact Discs - March 2010

Appalachia: Music From Home, Compact Disc 5834
Susan Boyle: I Dreamed A Dream, Compact Disc 5838
Guys & Dolls (Original Cast), Compact Disc 5835
Guys & Dolls (New Broadway Cast), Compact Disc 5843
Bernard Herrmann: North By Northwest (Soundtrack), Compact Disc 5840
Bernard Herrmann: North By Northwest (Complete), Compact Disc 5837
Edgar Meyer: Quintet/Ned Rorem: String Quartet No. 4, Compact Disc 5839
Capitol Sings Cole Porter, Compact Disc 5842
Night and Day: The Cole Porter Songbook, Compact Disc 5845
The Very Best of Cole Porter, Compact Disc 5836
Some Of My Best Friends Are...The Sax Players, Compact Disc 5841
Sonatas & Images: 20th Century Compositions for Violin and Piano, Compact Disc 5844

Please share this list with anyone you think would be interested. Also, please continue to share any suggestions with the Media Center Supervisor, Richard Marcum. The funds for recordings have been spent for 09-10, but collection development is an ongoing project, and wish lists are continually compiled so that we are prepared when funds are available.

Richard Marcum
Media Center Supervisor
Mercer University Tarver Library
478.301.2967
marcum_rg@mercer.edu

New DVDs - March 2010

FEATURE FILMS:
Angels & Demons (3 disc version), PN1997.9 DRA MYS .D38 2009
Clint Eastwood: American Icon Collection, PN1997.9 DIR EST .C55 2009
(Play Misty For Me, The Eiger Sanction, Coogan's Bluff, & The Beguiled)
Davey Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier, PN1997.9 WST AA .D38 1955
Davey Crockett and the River Pirates, PN1997.9 WST AA .D38 1955
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, PN1997.9 AA FAN .H377 2009
Heartbeat, PN1997.9 STAR VAR .H43 1946
The Omen (2006 version), PN1997.9 SUS HOR .O44 2006
The Omen (1976 version), PN1997.9 SUS HOR .O44 1976
Damien: Omen II PN1997.9 SUS HOR .O44 1978
Omen III: The Final Conflict, PN1997.9 SUS HOR .O44 1981
Rosemary's Baby, PN1997.9 SUS HOR .R67 1968
Swann In Love, PN1997.9 DRA ROM .A46 1984
Young Lincoln, PN1997.9 CC 320 .Y66 1939

DOCUMENTARIES:
An American Opera:The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever, HV4766 .N49 T66 2009
Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People, F217 .A65 A67 2009
Directed by John Ford, PN1998.3 .F65 D57 2009
No Impact Man, GE198 .N4 N6 2009
Jefferson Davis: An American President, E467.1 .D26 J44 2008
2 Million Minutes: The 21st Century Solution, LB 1607 .T96 2009
2 Million Minutes in China, LB1607 .T954 2008
2 Million Minutes in India, LB1607 .A132 2008

EXERCISE DVDS:
AM PM Yoga for Beginners, RA781.7 .A476 2007
Billy Blanks Tae Bo: Fat Blasting Cardio, RA781.15 .B53 2005
Billy Blanks Tae Bo: Fat Blaster, RA781.15 .B55 2005
Billy Blanks: Billy's Bootcamp, RA781 .B55 2004
Yoga for Beginners, RA781.7 Y64 2008

MUSIC DVDS:
The Music Instinct, ML3820 .M874 2009
Daniel Barenboim: New Year's Concert 2009, M1000 .B37 N48 2009
Evelyn Glennie A Luxembourg, M1038 .E94 2005
Jules Massenet: Manon, PN1997.9 OPR COM .M36 2001
Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, PN1997.9 OPR ROM .M45 1984

Please share this list with anyone you think would be interested. Also, please continue to share any suggestions with the Media Center Supervisor, Richard Marcum. Most of the collection development funds have been spent for 09-10, but collection development is an ongoing project, and wish lists are continually compiled so that we are prepared when funds are available.

Richard Marcum
Media Center Supervisor
Mercer University Tarver Library
478.301.2967
marcum_rg@mercer.edu

Featured Government Website in March

Women's History Month - site hosted by Library of Congress

March is Women’s History Month. The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of women whose commitment to nature and the planet have proved invaluable to society. This website of the Women's History Month is brought to you by all these government agencies.

About Women’s History Month

"Before the 1970’s, the topic of women’s history was largely missing from general public consciousness. To address this situation, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women initiated a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978 and chose the week of March 8 to coincide with International Women’s Day.

The celebration was met with positive response, and schools began to host their own Women’s History Week programs. The next year, leaders from the California group shared their project at a Women’s History Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Other participants not only became determined to begin their own local Women’s History Week projects but also agreed to support an effort to have Congress declare a national Women’s History Week.

In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) cosponsored the first Joint Congressional Resolution proclaiming a “Women’s History Week.”

In 1987, the National Women’s History Project petitioned Congress to expand the celebration to the entire month of March. Since then, the National Women’s History Month Resolution has been approved every year with bipartisan support in both the House and Senate."

Information from the National Women’s History Projec

Hot Document in March

Economic Report of the President 2010

"The Economic Report of the President is issued by the Executive Office of the President and the Council of Economic Advisers. It includes:

• Current and foreseeable trends and annual numerical goals concerning topics such as employment, production, real income and Federal budget outlays.
• Employment objectives for significant groups of the labor force.
• Annual numeric goals.
• A program for carrying out program objectives.
  

The Economic Report of the President is transmitted to Congress no later than ten days after the submission of the Budget of the United States Government. Supplementary reports can be issued to the Congress which contain additional and/or revised recommendations.

Included in the Economic Report of the President is the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers. Each year, the Council of Economic Advisers submits this report on its activities during the previous calendar year in accordance with the requirements of the Congress as set forth in section 10(d) of the Employment Act of 1946 as amended by the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978.

The Economic Report of the President has been published since 1950 and is available on GPO Access from 1995 forward. A searchable database of the Economic Report of the President is available from 1996 forward. Documents are available in ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), with many of the tables also available for separate viewing and downloading as spreadsheets in xls and comma delimited formats."

(Source: GPO Access)

ScienceDirect Outage

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 8.5 hours during the period from 10:30PM EST on Saturday 13, March to 08:00AM EDT Sunday 14, March.