Miller Library News

Unfortunately, access to some of our databases has been affected by the Pennsylvania state budget situation. More specifically, access to Professional Development Collection, Novelist, & the History Reference Center has been suspended until further notice.

Some access may be restored at a later date. In the meantime, the Library is exploring other options.

Here are the TOP FIFTEEN BOOKS checked out during the Fall 2008 semester.

1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon


2. The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher – Harry Wong


3. Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal – Mark Fainaru-Wada


4. Don’t Eat This Book – Morgan Spurlock


5. Illegal Drugs: A Complete Guide to Their History, Chemistry, Use & Abuse – Paul Gahlinger


6. Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic – John de Graaf


7. The Watchman – Alan Moore


8. Three Men of Boston – John Galvin


9. The Life & Death of Planet Earth - Peter Ward


10. Color Harmony Logos – Christopher Simmons 


11. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand


12. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty – A. N. Roquelaure


13. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult


14. Abduction - Robin Cook


15. How Hilda Hushed Her Hiccups – Tini Sisters 

Here are the TOP TEN DVDs requested from January to March of 2008.

1. Back to the Future



2. Saw III


3. Lost


4. The Pursuit of Happyness


5. Planet Earth


6. Rent


7. Dexter


8. The Wire


9. Letters from Iwo Jima


10. Flushed Away

Here are the TOP TEN MOVIES checked out during the Fall 2007 semester:

1. The Pursuit of Happyness
   


2. The DaVinci Code
   


3. Nip/Tuck: The Complete First Season
   


4. Roots
   


5. Donnie Darko
   


6. Knocked Up
   


7. Rent
   


8. Pan’s Labyrinth
   


9. Gangs of New York
   


10. Night at the Museum
    

Here are the the TOP FIFTEEN BOOKS checked out during the Fall 2007 semester.

1. 75 E-Learning Activities – Ryan Watkins
   


2. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
   


3. Baking & Pastry: Mastering the Art & Craft – CIA
   


4. Moodle:E-Learning Resources
   


5. One False Move – Harlan Coben
   


6. Who Moved My Cheese? – Spencer Johnson
   


7. Color Harmony Logos
   


8. Forever Odd – Dean Koontz
   


9. The Life & Death of Planet Earth
    


10. The Ape in the Corner Office
    


11. Coming on Home Soon – Jacqueline Woodson
    


12. Another Roadside Attraction – Tim Robbins
    


13. The Adventure of Louey and Frank – Carolyn White
    


14. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science – Atul Gawanda
    


15. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

The Miller Library will be extending its hours leading up to Finals. Click here to check the Library’s Hours page for the details.

Congratulations to Tamara Frey, a Senior majoring in Child & Society, for correctly answering our Turkey Trivia questions. 

Congratulations to Matt Thompson, a Junior majoring in Math Education, for correctly identifying Washington Irving in the Library’s Halloween Whodunnit Contest.

Stop by and enter the Library’s Whodunnit contest. Solve the mystery and maybe you will win yourself some Halloween candy and some haunted books! the drawing is October 31st.  

Here are the the TOP TWENTY BOOKS checked out during the Spring 2007 semester.

1. The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time, by Jason Socrates Bardi


2. The First Days of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher, by Harry Wong


3. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, by Art Spiegelman


4. Warriors of Disinformation, by Alvin Snyder


5. The Causes of Rape, by Martin Lalumiere


6. Defining Rape, by Linda Borque


7. Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists and Other Sex Offenders, by Anna salter


8. Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson


9. The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams Bianco


10. The Cider House Rules, by John Irving


11. Land of the Living, by Nikki French


12. Chimp and Zee, by Catherine Anholt


13. I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato, by Lauren Child


14. Swimmy, by Leo Lionni


15. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak


16. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald


17. Resistance, by Barry Lopez


18. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire


19. All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated, by Nell Bernstein


20. The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama