http://www.randomhouse.com

Visit the NY Times Books & Literature section for  a conversation with John Irving.

The author discusses his next book, “Last Night in Twisted River,” and his writing life with Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review.

“J. M. Coetzee drew one step closer to becoming the first author to win the Man Booker Prize for fiction three times as the short list of nominees for that British literary award was announced on Tuesday. Mr. Coetzee’s novel “Summertime,” about a writer working on a biography of a deceased author named John Coetzee, is one of six books to make the final cut for the prize, its organizers said in a news release. The real Mr. Coetzee won the prize for his novels “Life & Times of Michael K” in 1983 and “Disgrace” in 1999.  The winner of the prize, which comes with about $82,000, will be announced on Oct. 6.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/books/09arts-JMCOETZEEAND_BRF.html?_r=1

To retrieve copies of  Coetzee’s novels from the UB Libraries, look up the author in the BISON Catalog.

Greetings Faculty & Students,

As your library liaison, please remember that I am available for individual research appointments and in-class library instruction. Please contact me at ltaddeo@buffalo.edu or 645-2814 ext. 238 to make an appointment or request a library workshop. Faculty, please feel free to add my name to your syllabus as a library contact for your students. Also, I welcome your recommendations for book purchases. You can let me know about your requests by phone, e-mail or campus mail. Don’t forget to refer to my Resources by Subject Guide – English & American Literature for additional help.

I am pleased to announce that the Libraries recently purchased Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). ECCO redefines how researchers access a century of the most influential works ever printed. It is the single most ambitious digitization project ever undertaken. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of law, history, literature, religion, fine arts, science and more.

Features:

- 26 million pages of text from more than 136,000 titles (155,000 volumes)

- Full-text search capabilities

- Well-known and lesser-known authors

- Canonical titles of the period as well as contemporary works that analyze and debate those titles

ECCO complements the acquisition of Early English Books Online (EEBO), which contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North

America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. You can access ECCO & EEBO from the Database by Title page.