| Looking for a no-cost novel to read: check out the library’s Fiction Book Exchange If you are yearning to relax with a good book, try the library’s new Fiction Book Exchange conveniently located next to the Mud Box, the library’s coffee shop on the lower level. As the signs posted on the exchange shelves say, “The rules are simple. Take a book. Leave a book.” On any given day, several hundred books are available. They range from classics to mysteries to westerns to science fiction to romance. The Exchange has become a popular service; students seem to enjoy having these low-maintenance books available for travel and breaks from course readings. Replacements in the form of exchanges arrive as readily as the books disappear. Staff and faculty are welcome to participate in the Fiction Book Exchange, which is accessible whenever the library building is open. Leadership for the implementation of the Exchange was provided by Nick Banovetz, from the library’s Student Relations Team, and Kyle Taylor, president of the Student Government Association. Banovetz (banovetz@american.edu) can be contacted about larger donations to the Exchange—fiction only. For information about locating fiction books among the thousands available in the library’s circulating collections, contact a reference librarian at research@american.edu or call 885-3238. How to get published and cited in leading journals The University Library invites faculty and graduate students to a conversation with publishing professionals, academic administrators, and librarians about how to get published and cited in leading journals within a discipline. The acting dean of academic affairs, Haig Mardirosian, will be joined by other panelists, including the vice-president of customer marketing for academic and government accounts for Elsevier; the executive editor of the Journal of Democracy published by Johns Hopkins University Press; and members of the library faculty. Discussion topics will include tips on how to approach manuscript submissions and advice on how to write an abstract that makes the scholarship more accessible to other researchers, and therefore, more frequently cited. The conversation will take place in American University Library, room 306, on Wednesday, Apr. 19, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. RSVP’s may be directed to librarian Anne Osterman at aosterma@american.edu or 885-3840. |
