OCTOBER 29, 2012
2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
At the beginning of October the winners of the 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize were announced. The Fiction Winner is Andrew Krivak for his novel The Sojourn and the Nonfiction Winner is Adam Hochschild for his book To End All Wars. Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin and Day of Honey by Annia Ciezadlo were named runners-up. These writers, plus the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award winner, Tim O'Brien, will be honored in a ceremony November 11th.
Samples of all the finalists' works are available at MediaBistro.
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OCTOBER 13, 2011
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Last month the winners of the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize were announced. The winner in the fiction category is The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee and the nonfiction winner is In The Place Of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance by Wilbert Rideau. The prize runner-ups are Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengiste and The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson for fiction and nonfiction respectively.
Inspired by the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States. The Prize celebrates the power of literature to promote peace, nonviolent conflict resolution, and global understanding.
Previously it was announced that Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna, Small Wonder) will receive the first-ever Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, formerly known as the Lifetime Achievement Award and renamed this year in honor of the late U.S. diplomat who was instrumental in negotiating the Dayton Peace Accords.
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JULY 5, 2011
New Online Resources @ Wright Library
New resources have been added to Wright Library's online offerings. Areas covered are genealogy, literary criticism, and early childhood learning. Ancestry Library Edition can only be used in the library and is available on our public computers. All other resources are available all day every day from any Internet-connected computer. The only other thing you need is your library card number.
Ancestry Library Edition - This resource, powered by the popular Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. The U.S. collections include federal and U.S. censuses; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records. Other collections include Canadian collections, U.K. collections, other international collections, military collections, and multimedia collections. This resource can only be accessed from within the library from our public computers.
Biography in Context - Built on a foundation of more than 600,000 biographies drawn from numerous authoritative sources, this resource brings users faceto-face with their subjects via text, video, audio clips and images of yesterday and today’s most-studied figures.
Literary Criticism Online - This database provides digital access to multiple popular literary criticism series, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography (Main, Documentary, and Yearbook series), Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism. This resource is excellent for students and researchers.
Novels and Short Stories for Students - Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of works from various cultures and time periods. Short Stories for Students contains concise synopses of the story's plot, characters and themes, along with a brief author biography, a discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance and excerpted criticism geared specifically towards the high school student. (From the Gale Virtual Reference Library)
World Book Early World of Learning - Three interactive learning environments for preschoolers and children in early grades are included in this resource. "Trek's Travels" offers narrated stories, interactive games, and original videos that teach early childhood themes, including numbers, shapes, colors, opposites, and more. "Welcome to Reading" develops and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, and comprehension skills. "Know It" offers a richly visual first encyclopedia.
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Categories: Featured Resource,
Genealogy,
Literature
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NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Read Books Online - For Free!
Digital books are becoming more and more popular. Many are available Wright Library's Digital Collection at the Ohio eBook Project, and because they are from the library, they're free. Although a terrific collection, it is also a limited one for now and often the book you want to read or listen to is not available. Where else can you go for free books? The Internet is full of them!
Other sources of free books online make works of public domain and/or open license available. Check out Online Libraries - 25 Places to Read Free Books Online, one of which is the Internet Public Library's list of resources of Online Texts. Check out these other sources many of which have a variety of literary forms, have both text and audio versions, and in some cases, allow you to download the book.
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Categories: Reading,
Literature
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APRIL 16, 2009
National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month. This event is sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, which (as you might expect) is a great source for poetry and poetry information online and includes a page focusing on Ohio. Infoplease has also put together a National Poetry Month page, as well as a collection of poetry sites. Another site with a list of poetry links is Poetry.net.
Some of our favorite poetry sites are Bartleby.com, where you can search for full-text verse, Poetry 180 from the Library of Congress, and the Poetry Foundation, which publishes Poetry Magazine.
Additionally, you can use the Library resources American and English Full-text Literature Collections and LitFinder to find full-text poems. You'll be asked for your library card number or zip code to access these.
Because one of a Library's goals is to give access to all sides of an issue, we'll end this post with an essay by the poet, Charles Bernstein, Against National Poetry Month As Such.
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