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What's NewTCU Texas Book AwardBy Barbara Standlee, Administrative Assistant
For 15 years Egan has been an enterprise reporter for The New York Times with articles featured in the Sunday weekly review and travel sections. In 2001 he shared in a Pulitzer Prize for a pioneering series exploring race in contemporary America. His other books include a Northwest classic, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest, and Lasso the Wind: Away To the West, winner of the 1999 Governor’s Writing Award for Washington State and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His well-received novel The Winemaker’s Daughter reflects not only his growing up in the Northwest but also a year spent in Italy with his wife and children. Mr. Egan also is a featured radio essayist for the BBC. Mr. Egan and his family make their home in the Seattle area.
Library Staff Award
Those who nominated Lori said that in addition to managing technical details of maintaining the hardware and software in the IC lab, she is a gracious “host” to the many stressed-out students who need help with printing, mastering the quirks of Microsoft Word, using Library research databases, and all the other tasks that students in the modern university use computers to do.
Library Staff Award Nominations
Historical Statistics of the United States
Historical Statistics of the United States presents the numerical history of the United States. This definitive reference work contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present.
100 Tall Texans Special Collections has recently loaned the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum select items from the Amon G. Carter Papers for use in their current exhibit, 100 Tall Texans. For more information about the exhibit, please go to: http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/.
Library Website Redesign
The major change to the site is that the navigation is now ordered by function. Research tools are the first items in the menu, while services the library offers are the second item, and so on. The most frequently used links in each category for students and for faculty are displayed in the center of the page. Simplified terminology and short annotations make it easier for users to find the links they need. Also, pages that used to take three or more clicks to find have been brought up so that every page on the site can be accessed in one or two clicks from the home page. If you encounter any broken links, please use this form to let us know which page you were trying to access, and the page from which you were accessing it.
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11 April 2007 -- Timothy Egan, winner of the 4th biennial TCU Texas Book Award for The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, will speak and accept his $5,000 award at a Friends of the TCU Library banquet on April 17 at the Kelly Center on the TCU campus. For more information, please call 817-257-6109. The TCU Texas Book Award is jointly sponsored by the Friends of the TCU Library and TCU Press.
This year’s Staff Award, the tenth, sponsored by the TCU Friends of the Library was awarded to Lori Russell. Lori is a Computer Technical Specialist with the Library who manages the Information Commons computer lab.
The TCU Library now has online access to Historical Statistics of the United States. From the library homepage, choose