New item: The Race Beat

The race beat: The press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a nation
by Gene Roberts
Is this available for checkout? Use CardCat to find out. Then, look for call number PN4888.R3 R63 2006 in Bracken Library.

Contents: An American dilemma : an astonishing ignorance -- "A fighting press" -- Southern editors in a time of ferment -- Ashmore views the South -- The Brown decisions harden the South -- Into Mississippi -- The Till trial -- Where massive and passive resistance meet -- Alabama -- Toward Little Rock -- LIttle Rock showdown -- New eyes on the old South -- Backfire in Virginia -- From sit-ins to SNCC -- Alabama versus the Times, freedom riders versus the South -- Albany -- Ole Miss -- Wallace and King -- Defiance at close range -- The killing season -- Freedom summer -- Selma -- Beyond.

New item: Convergence Journalism

Convergence journalism: Writing and reporting across the news media
by Janet Kolodzy
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Look for call number PN4784.O62 K66 2006.

Contents: Why convergence? : it's the consumer, stupid -- Consorting with the enemy -- Common values, common goals -- Approaching the story -- Broadcast basics : write simply, think visually -- Print basics : value plus -- Online basics : tying it all together -- Participatory journalism : convergence plus -- News for kids : the next generation.

New item: Creating powerful radio

Creating powerful radio: Getting, keeping, and growing audiences
by Valerie Geller
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Look for call number PN1991.5 .G45 2007.

Contents: Creating powerful radio -- Finding and developing talent -- Generators and reactors -- Performance and formatics -- Morning shows -- From rock to talk -- Talk shows -- Integrating news and talk-- Interviews -- Show prep -- Producers -- Call screening -- High-ego talent -- News -- Traffic and weather together -- Newswriting -- News anchoring -- Multi-version news -- Integrating radio and TV news -- Public service announcements -- Avoiding burnout -- Airchecking -- Promotion -- Sales and commercials -- Lifestage demographics -- Research -- Final notes.

New item: Casino Royale (DVD)

Casino Royale

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Ask for DVD #3088 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.

New item: Two Days in October (DVD)

Two Days in October

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Ask for DVD #3066 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Examines the critical events that took place in the fall of 1967, from the ambush of an American battalion by the Viet Cong that led to skepticism of whether the Vietnamese conflict was winnable, to the first violent anti-war demonstration on a campus in Wisconsin.

New item: Little Children (DVD)

Little Children

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Ask for DVD #3020 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: DVD release of the 2006 motion picture (ca. 137 min.). A young women, Sarah, who's in a loveless marriage, connects with Brad, a househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker while the whole neighborhood has to deal with Ronnie who is just out of prison for indecent exposure.

New item: Fast Food Nation (DVD)

Fast Food Nation

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Ask for DVD #3011 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Mickey's is the most popular fast-food chain in America, and The Big One is the top-selling burger that put them on the map. When the higher-ups at Mickey's corporate offices learn that the frozen meat patties used to make the wildly popular burger have a high fecal content, they send marketing executive Don Henderson on an urgent mission to ensure quality control and find out precisely how their product became compromised. The further Henderson works his way through the bustling feedlots and toward the ubiquitous restaurant sites that have become a staple of modern culture, the more he begins to realize just how dangerous convenience can become when it leads to blissfully ignorant complacency.

New item: Dude, Where's My Job? (DVD)

Dude, Where's My Job?

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Ask for DVD #3002 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Consists of a six-lesson program intended to instruct high school students in the steps necessary to get a job. Covers prospecting for jobs, determining whether a potential job is a good fit, getting a foot in the door, writing a resume, preparing for a job interview, and selling oneself and answering tough questions in an interview situation.

New item: Blood Diamond (DVD)

Blood Diamond

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Ask for DVD #2991 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Ripped from his family farm and forced to toil away in the sweltering South African diamond fields, Solomon Vandy discovers an extraordinary rough stone of immeasurable value. Danny Archer is a hired gun who specializes in the sale of so-called "blood diamonds" that are used to finance rebellions and terrorist organizations, and is currently serving time for smuggling. As a bloody civil war rages in Sierra Leone and Archer learns that Vandy has safely hidden the diamond in a place where no one would ever suspect, the pair enlist the aid of disillusioned American journalist Maddy Bowen in recovering the treasure that has the power to save Vandy's family and provide the desperate Archer with a much-needed chance for redemption.

New item: Marie Antoinette (DVD)

Marie Antoinette

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Ask for DVD #2915 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: DVD release of the 2006 motion picture (ca. 123 min.). Tells the story of Marie Antoinette. Born to Austrian nobility, Marie is only 14 years old when she is pledged to marry Louis XVI, the 15 year old king of France in an alliance that is to ensure peace between Austria and France. Literally stripped of her former life, she is wed to the king who is indifferent and either unwilling or unable to consummate their marriage. More than a bit out of step of the new life that has been thrust upon her, Marie gives herself over to the many pleasures of Versailles while the beginnings of the French Revolution stir.

New item: Radio Modernism

Radio modernism : literature, ethics, and the BBC, 1922-1938
by Todd Avery
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Look for call number PN1991.3.G7 A94 2006.

Contents: Introduction : modernism in the air -- Arnold over Britain? : John Reith and broadcasting morality -- Common talkers : the Bloomsbury Group and the aestheticist ethics of broadcasting -- A natural selection : H.G. Wells and a Huxleyan ethics of communications -- Talks toward a definition of morality : T.S. Eliot and the consecration of broadcasting.

New item: Pursuit of Happyness (DVD)

The Pursuit of Happyness

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Ask for DVD #2884 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Widescreen ed., DVD (ca. 117 min.). Inspired by a true story, tells the story of a single father, Chris Gardner, who in 1980s San Francisco turns his life around from living on the streets to owning his own brokerage firm. After his wife, who works double shifts to support the family, leaves Chris for taking an unpaid internship at Dean Whitter, Chris is left to care for himself and for his child. In an unstable economic climate, Chris overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles to turn his entire life around.

New item: The Best of Everything (DVD)

The Best of Everything

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Ask for DVD #2839 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: DVD release of the 1959 motion picture. (121 min.) Caroline Bender is a recent graduate of a prestigious women's college who wants to make her mark in the publishing industry. She gets a job in the secretarial pool of Fabian Publishing, hoping to rise through the ranks and become an editor, and soon takes an apartment with three of her co-workers. Caroline quickly realizes that she has a catbird seat to witness the romantic entanglements and office politics of Fabian's many female employees.