The Mountaineer Reading Room

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Here’s a little video describing WorldCat’s nice citation tool.  You’ll need to set up a free account with them, but it’s worth the effort.  Visit the RHS Library Citations page for more help.

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I became cool in the summer of 1984. At least, that’s what I thought. I had an excellent 1981 Chevy Citation to drive around, a pair of vans and an enviable mullet (historical note: the word “mullet” did not exist for another 15 years or so–at the time the haircut was known as [...]

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At last, the recognition he really deserves.
Jorge Luis Borges is a difficult writer to classify, which, of course, makes him all the more interesting. How best to describe him? Perhaps as an “Anglo-Argentine classicist-inspired fantasy writer with magical realist and science fiction tendencies.” Now Noam Cohen adds cyberpunk and Web 2.0 [...]

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According to a recent article in the New York Times , a new report released by the National Endowment for the Arts finds that students who read for fun nearly every day performed better on tests than those who reported reading never or hardly at all. Check out the summary of [...]

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Check out this week’s cover story in Newsweek Magazine. Can the Amazon Kindle–and other devices like it–replace the printed book? Are people ready to upgrade from a familiar 500-year-old technology that has served civilization well?
I’m looking forward to trying it out.

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Things are busy getting the new Rainier School District Web sites up and running, and until I get that under control I’m afraid I won’t be posting too much here.
In the meantime, check out the new RHS Library site, and please notify me of any spelling errors!

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