Scholarship Applications Due Friday

Don't forget.  Applications for the AiS Library Literacy Scholarship are due this Friday, February 26.  You can pick up an application in the library or download one here.

Links!

On the AiS Library website we have lists of extremely cool and useful sites. I just added a two that will be helpful to anyone looking for online books:
Bartleby.com : Online books, including reference, classics, fiction and more.
Perseus Digital Library : Ebook collection that covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.

My favorite area to browse is the Design Links Page. It's jam-packed with awesome sites. Here are just a few:
CG Textures : Free textures.
Graphic Exchange : A blog of neat-o artwork, collected by a graphic designer.
Public Health Image Library : Multimedia from the Center for Disease Control.
VectorVault : Vector artwork and more.

Check out our Links page for lots more, and let us know if there's something we're missing!

Nothing like Noir

Check out SIFF's annual Film Noir Festival -NOIR CITY- the theme is LUST AND LARCENY. Just a few blocks away at Seattle Center's McCaw Hall, here's a chance to see dark, brooding, sexy classics such as The Postman Always Rings Twice (still pictured) or more obscure thrillers on the big screen. Series Runs February 19th through 25th. Oh and...lots of double features!

AiS Book Club

This quarter marks the inauguration of the AiS Book Club.  Each quarter interested students, faculty, and staff will read a certain book and meet to discuss it over snacks.  The AiS Book Club’s first meeting will be on Thursday, March 4 from 4:30-5:30 in room 515 in the North Campus. 

This quarter students have chosen to read Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.  There are copies of the book available for purchase in the Supply Store.  The library also has a copy (call # FICTION PL856.U673 U4813 2005). 

I have almost finished reading Kafka on the Shore myself and I must say it is a great choice.  It is a wonderful and often weird novel that practically demands to be discussed.