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What sort of study spaces are available in the library?
The majority of the tables and desks throughout LSU Library are treated as open seating for anyone to use. These spaces are available on all floors of the library. Certain areas are designated for quiet study; these include sections of the second and third floors and the entirety of the fourth. Regardless of where you are, please be respectful of other patrons studying nearby. There are several bookable group study rooms and individual study booths located on the third and fourth floors. Walk-up use of these spaces is encouraged, but reservations always take priority. Faculty and graduate students may also request a key for their own private study carrel at the checkout desk in room 241. Nearly all study booths on the second floor are currently open for anyone to use. LSU Libraries | Bookable Spaces
LSU Libraries | Graduate Study Booths
LSU Libraries | Faculty Carrels
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Related: Are there computers I can use in the library? Answered by: Access Services Staff
Does the library accept book donations?
LSU Library sometimes accepts book donations. To donate scholarly books, please contact your subject specialist. For non-scholarly books, the LSU Library has a free book exchange in room 241. To donate to the book exchange, please contact Mitch Fontenot at mfonten@lsu.edu. (mailto:mfonten@lsu.edu) The Friends of the LSU Libraries accept donations for their annual book bazaar and the book barn. Proceeds from the bazaar help fund special purchases for the libraries collections. Please contact the Friends at 225-578-5925. Thanks for considering donating to us! LSU Libraries | Subject Specialists
Friends of the LSU Libraries Answered by: Access Services Staff
Can patrons not affiliated with LSU access the campus Wi-Fi network?
Unfortunately, the library cannot give out guest passes to LSU Wi-Fi. Access to any LSU Wi-Fi network, including LSU Guest, can only be granted by LSU ITS. ITS requires a faculty or staff member to request "sponsored" access in advance. This means that visiting scholars, etc. can work with LSU faculty or staff to become a "sponsored guest," but walk-in visitors to LSU Library will usually not be able to gain Wi-Fi access. Guest Accounts: LSU Overview
Service Desk | LSU Information Technology Services Answered by: Access Services Staff
Where do you keep back issues of The Reveille?
Print copies of The Reveille are kept in Hill Memorial Library as part of the University Archives. Issues from 18971913 and 19591975 are available online to everyone through the Louisiana Digital Library. Issues from 2009 forward are available online through the publisher. LSU Library Catalog: The Reveille
Louisiana Digital Library | The Daily Reveille (1897–1913 and 1959–1975)
issuu | The Daily Reveille (2009–present) Answered by: Access Services Staff
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American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Datapages/Archive
ON-CAMPUS ACCESS ONLYThis archive includes all of the AAPG Bulletin issues from 1917 to the present and most AAPG special publications and books. Additional collections available include: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS) Transactions 1951-2001, Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM) 1931-2001, Journal of Petroleum Geology (U.K.) 1978-1998, Field Papers of the New Orleans and East Texas Geological Society, and several new collections are currently in progress. These include publications by the Pacific Section of AAPG and the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG) publications.
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Catch and Release : The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab
The unexpected and fascinating interspecies relationship between humans and horseshoe crabs.Horseshoe crabs are considered both a prehistoric and indicator species. They have not changed in tens of millions of years and provide useful data to scientists who monitor the health of the environment. From the pharmaceutical industry to paleontologists to the fishing industry, the horseshoe crab has made vast, but largely unknown, contributions to human life and our shared ecosystem. Catch and Release examines how these intersections steer the trajectory of both species'lives, and futures. Based on interviews with conservationists, field biologists, ecologists, and paleontologists over three years of fieldwork on urban beaches, noted ethnographer Lisa Jean Moore shows how humans literally harvest the life out of the horseshoe crabs. We use them as markers for understanding geologic time, collect them for agricultural fertilizer, and eat them as delicacies, capture them as bait, then rescue them for conservation, and categorize them as endangered. The book details the biomedical bleeding of crabs; how they are caught, drained of 40% of their blood, and then released back into their habitat. The model of catch and release is essential. Horseshoe crabs cannot be bred in captivity and can only survive in their own ecosystems. Moore shows how horseshoe crabs are used as an exploitable resource, and are now considered a “vulnerable” species.An investigation of how humans approach animals that are essential for their survival, Catch and Release questions whether humans should have divine, moral, or ethical claims to any living being in their path.
Contagionism Catches On
This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the late eighteenth century, the British medical profession was divided between traditionalists, who attributed acute diseases to the interaction of internal imbalances with external factors such as weather, and reformers, who blamed contagious pathogens. The reformers, who were often “outsiders,” English Nonconformists or men born outside England, emerged from three coincidental transformations: transformation in medical ideas, in the nature and content of medical education, and in the sort of men who became physicians. Adopting contagionism led them to see acute diseases as separate entities, spurring a process that reoriented medical research, changed communities, established new medical institutions, and continues to the present day.
The Catch : How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery and Plunder the Oceans
In November 2008, near Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean, a Korean ship came upon a Taiwanese fishing boat. The Tai Ching 21 was eerily silent. The lifeboat and three rafts were missing, and so were all 29 Taiwanese officers and Chinese, Indonesian, and Filipino crew who had been aboard. A quest to discover the identities of the lost men led New Zealand journalist Michael Field into a dark world of foreign-flagged vessels fishing in the ocean as far south as Antarctica. In The Catch he reveals what he discovered: horrifying examples of modern slavery in which men from poor countries are trapped on filthy, unsafe ships, treated brutally by captains and officers, and receive little or no pay. The fishing companies Field lays bare are ruthless. Their irresponsible and often illegal fishing practices are stripping the world's seas and threatening the food supply of people everywhere, propelling us towards one of the environmental tragedies of our times. These stories play out on the waters of New Zealand and the Pacific, but the same practices are happening all over the world. Can we ignore the fates both of these men and the catch they fish for?
Catch the Fire : Soaking Prayer and Charismatic Renewal
A recent phenomenon of charismatic renewal took place in Toronto in the mid-1990s. Commonly known as the'Toronto Blessing'and operated by the former Vineyard Church leaders John and Carol Arnott, the renewal was defined by reports of uncontrollable laughter, weeping, speaking in tongues, animal noises, and falling on the floor during worship. Sympathetic Christians embraced these practices while others who believed that this form of worship boarded on spectacle rejected them. By the end of the 1990s most people thought that the renewal was over. Yet, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the authors—a sociologist and a theologian—heard rumors that the Toronto church, now known as'Catch the Fire,'was still holding mass meetings with upwards of 2,000 people in attendance. They also learned of an emerging practice of'soaking prayer,'an adaption of Pentecostal-charismatic prayer that, participants and leaders claim, facilitates and expands the reception of divine love in order to give it away in acts of forgiveness, reconciliation, compassion, and benevolence. Soaking, the authors reveal, is a metaphor for practices like resting in the Spirit, prayer for spiritual gifts, healing, prophecy, impartation, and supports overall charismatic spirituality. Attending'Catch the Fire'conferences, churches, and house meetings in the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, Wilkinson and Althouse observed first-hand how people soak, what it means to soak, and why soaking is considered an important practice among charismatics.
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