PROFESSOR TO SPEAK ON CONRAD AND AFRICA: Keith Carabine, Professor of English at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, and one of the world's foremost authorities on the work of novelist Joseph Conrad, will present a lecture entitled "Joseph Conrad: The Life and the Works," on Wednesday, May 2, at 4:30 p.m. in the Sophie Kerr Room of Washington College's Miller Library. Dr. Carabine's talk will place Conrad's masterpiece, the novella "Heart of Darkness" against the background of the explorations of Africa that Conrad followed as a young man, the romantic images that this inspired, as well as the eventual disillusionment to which it eventually led. In the course of his lecture, he will draw upon Conrad's autobiographies, maps of Africa and a Congo itinerary.President of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), Dr. Carabine has edited Conrad's "Nostromo" for Oxford World's Classics, served as editor of the multi-volume Joseph Conrad: Critical Assessments series and published a critical study of the manuscript of Conrad's "Under Western Eyes." Along with publishing numerous articles on Conrad, Hawthorne, Hemingway and Dickens, he recently edited Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" for Wordsworth Classics and is currently editing "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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LIBRARY DEMONSTRATES COLUMBIA GAZETEER OF THE WORLD: The library staff has arranged for a short demonstration of the Columbia Gazetteer of the World, an on-line dictionary of over 165,000 place names worldwide. If you need brief information on a particular town or locale ( e.g. location, population, commerce, or historical highlights) give it a try from the Connect to another DATABASE page of the on-line catalog (http://library.washcoll.edu). The demonstration runs through May 1.
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NEW ONLINE COURSE RESERVES: First interlibrary loan; now reserves. The library's reserve collection is going electronic. The staff has installed ERes from Docutek as its newest service improvement. Many course reserve readings are already available to students on-line twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week. The service will be fully operational by the fall semester. With ERes periodical articles, short sections from books, images, spreadsheets, web site URLs, and the like can all be used by way of the web from anywhere students happen to be and whenever they need them, even when the library is closed. The readings considered most important for each course are always available.
To reach ERes click on the "Electronic Course Reserves" link in the web catalog (http://library.washcoll.edu) or on the library's web site (http://libraryweb.washcoll.edu). You may also go direct to the on-line reserve collection at http://libraryres.washcoll.edu. The "Electronic Reserves and Course Materials" link will lead you to the index by department or instructor. From there you select the course by number and then the item needed. It is quite simple to use once you try it.
The initial year of ERes is being supported by the Friends of Miller Library as a direct service to the student body.
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