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1. One who provides lodging; an entertainer, a host; 2. One sent on before to purvey lodgings for an army, a royal train, etc.; 3. One that goes before and announces the approach of some one;

We now have online access to the Oxford English Dictionary. Easily look-up words for their definitions, pronunciations, and origins. We hope that this resource is a harbinger of more e-reference sources to come!

If you are a faculty member who always wanted a simple way to anonymously and instantly poll your students’ knowledge in the classroom, the CPS - also known as the “clickers” may be for you.

Once the instructor plugs USB receiver into his or her computer, the individual handsets - 24 in all - allow the students to plug in responses to multiple choice questions projected onto the Smartboard. The results are displayed as percentages for selections of A, B, C, or D.

Instant feedback.

West Library is administering the devices, which travel easily in a bag with a shoulder strap. IT’s Julie Lopez provides training. 

As of October 2006, the American Nurses Association has discontinued its affiliation with the American Journal of Nursing.

The ANA has started its own new monthly magazine, American Nurse Today, and designated it as its “official journal.” Copies of this title are available on reserve from the circulation desk, beginning with volume one, issue one (October 2006).

The new publication’s website is http://www.americannursetoday.com

The Brendlinger Library will also continue to carry American Journal of Nursing; however, please note that AJN is no longer the ANA’s “official” journal.

“It is scarcely necessary for us to make an apology to our readers for failing to issue our paper during the past week. Part of the time the Rebels had possession of the town, and of course it was then impossible to do anything in the office. We hope, however, to be able to do better in the future, and we feel certain that our subscribers will see at once that our apparent neglect of them was unavoidable.” (Gettysburg Republican Compiler, July 13, 1863, p.2)

The Penn State library has scans of original Civil War era Pennsylvania newspapers (including the Reading Eagle and the Philadelphia Press) available on its library website.

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/digital/newspapers/civilwar/

The pages are farily easy to navigate, the image quality is remarkable, and prints are much clearer than those from microfilm. The content (as you can see from the above blurb) speaks for itself.