Archive for June, 2010

Setting up Shakespeare
Setting up the stage for the two plays this summer in Kingsmen Park

Grab a picnic basket and bring a blanket to Kinsgmen Park this summer for two plays put on by the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company. Before you go, immerse yourself in literary criticisms about the two plays, The Comedy of Errors and The Winter’s Tale, in The Cambridge Collections: Shakespeare Survey, available to students, staff, and faculty at CLU.

Don’t forget to check out the library’s entire collection of BBC produced Shakespeare plays, as well as more popular movies, such as Franco Zeffirelli version of Romeo and Juliet and the Baz Luhrmann version with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Find out more about the plays by visiting the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company’s website.

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Pop singer Lady Gaga probably wouldn’t draw as much attention even with her outlandish skits if she went by her real name: Stefani Germanotta. (Did you know she got her stage name from the song “Radio Ga-Ga” by Queen)? There are lots of interesting facts about this celebrity. For instance, she attended NYU but dropped out. And her dad was an Internet entrepreneur. Among the shadier sides of her life included her cocaine habit. You can Google gaga (how about that alliteration)? and probably piece together these details from various Web sources. But how authoritative are these Web sites? A better option is to click on the library’s Biography Resource Center, key in Lady Gaga and you’ll instantly find biographies and recent articles from major publications including the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, People Weekly, Variety and other reputable sources. Go ahead and see for yourself. The next time you need to find reliable information on people, turn to the Biography Resource Center. Now back to Lady Gaga. It seems like everyone wants to emulate this rising star—even librarians. Check out this spoof on one of Lady Gaga’s hit songs performed by academic librarians and faculty at the University of Washington: Librarians Do Gaga.

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Pride and Prejudice moviePrincess Bride
Pride and Prejudice, Princess Bride, Lord of the Rings, and West Side Story… what do these have in common? They all have been made into movies. Many people think that the movie can never be as good as the book. What do you think? Read the book, watch the movie, and then weigh in (on these books/movies and more):
–what version (book or film) do you like better?
–what makes the book or the film better?


Other books made into movies available at the library:

-Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
-All of William Shakespeare’s plays
-Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer
-Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
-West Side Story by Arthur Laurents
-Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
-Marley and Me by John Grogan
-Beloved by Toni Morrison
-Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
-The King and I by Rogers and Hammerstein
-Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
-Into the Woods by Hudson Talbott
-Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
-The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
-Antigone by Jean Anouilh
-Gone with the Wing by Margaret Mitchell

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