First, lots of new books have hit the shelves. Some of the intriging titles:Cartoon modern : style and design in fifties animation / Amidi, Amid. New NC 1766 .U5 A47 2006 Designer showcase : interior design at its best / Cardona, Melissa. New NK 2195 .D43 C37 2006 Adobe Flash CS3 Professional : classroom in a book / New TR 897.7 .A35 2007Happy kitty bunny pony : a saccharine mouthful of super cute / New NE 962 .A5 C43 2005Anatomy for fantasy artists : an illustrator’s guide to creating action figures Fabry, Glenn. New NC 760 .F224 2005 The plagiarism plague : a resource guide and CD-ROM tutorial for educators New PN 167 .P527 2004 Principles of flat pattern design / MacDonald, Nora M., New TT 520 .M185 2002Hillman Curtis on creating short films for the Web. Curtis, Hillman. New PN 1995.9 .P7 C87 2006 Fish on a first-name basis : how fish is caught, bought, cleaned, cooked, and ea DeBorde, Rob. New TX 747 .D38 2006 The making of a name : the inside story of the brands we buy / Rivkin, Steve, New HD 69 .B7 R58 2004 It looks like a great lecture series at Collin College coming up. I would especially like to see the talk from Dr. Diane Ackerman, “Creative Intelligence or What a Poem Knows” on Nov. 6th.This week we had tours from the College Orientation class. Students act like they are being tortured to have to come to the library but for some of them, it is an eye opening experience and they end up checking out books and movies. That makes us happy!Have a safe and restful Labor Day weekend. The library will be closed Sunday and Monday. (Source: AIDallas Library)

You can use the Visual Thesaurus off campus if you have the log-in and password. How do you get the log-in and password? Go to the main desk in the library and show your current AI student ID and we will give you the log-in & password sheet for all of our databases.Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus, developed by Thinkmap, Inc., is a dictionary and thesaurus that provides intuitive schematic semantic and conceptual linkages between words. It contains over 145,000 English words and 115,000 meanings. Features include auditory pronunciation, a spell checker, and the ability to initiate Internet searches of individual words. (Source: AIDallas Library)

The Omnimusic service is working again. Thanks for your patience while we recovered from the S drive crash. (Source: AIDallas Library)

I see that the next issue of Print (which we get in our library) has a story about a new kid’s TV show on Nickelodeon. Yo Gabba Gabba! The name caught my eye because I do love the Ramones. Then I read that Mark Mothersbaugh is behind it and it will include music from bands like the Shins. And it’s inspired by Paul Rand. It is supposed to be the first live-action kid’s show since Pee-wee’s Playhouse that’s as entertaining for adults as it is for children. I’m in. (Source: AIDallas Library)