Notable News from the Library
New APA citation manual coming soon! The 7th edition will bring exciting changes such as:
- Single-space after periods!*
- No running headers!
- Accessibility guidelines!
- Bias-free language guidelines!
And much more!
We know you're as excited as we are.
Noted literary critic Harold Bloom has died. The Durham Tech Libraries have over 350 titles in which he was a contributor, author, or editor.
According to his NPR obituary,
Bloom had a photographic memory, and claimed he could recite all of Shakespeare, all of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and copious swaths of British Romantic poetry. He was widely respected in mid-20th-century literary circles,but over the years, he fell out of fashion, in large part for his outspoken disdain for fellow scholars who he deemed "resentniks" —Deconstructionists, feminists and multiculturalists, whose cultural politics,he felt, minimized the genius of the writers he lionized.
Jenny Lawson, also known as The Bloggess and the author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy [available at the Main Campus Library], who is best known for her humorous takes on struggling with mental illnesses and love of weird taxidermy, is opening a bookshop in San Antonio called Nowhere Bookshop:
“Featuring new books, author events, unique gifts, and a coffee, wine and beer bar Nowhere Bookshop aims to be a space for folks to gather to share their passion for the written word."
* I’m telling you right now that you will pry my double-space after a period from my cold, dead, typing-class trained** fingers.