Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz died today at age 94. The first Nobel laureate to write in Arabic, Mahfouz wowed the literary community with his description of Cairo life in his 33 novels, 13 anthologies and numerous plays and screenplays.

You can be honest, we know you don’t enjoy using microforms for research. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the addition of Early American Imprints online.

Series I: Evans (1639-1800) and Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker offer an extensive collection of books, broadsides, pamphlets and images from the 17th and 18th century life. The imprints are invaluable research aids on almost any facet of early American life, including agriculture, foreign relations, literature, and witchcraft. The two series include more than 36,000 full-text works and 2,400,000 images.

As always, if you would like help using the Early American Imprints, feel free to ask a reference librarian.

The New York Times reports that a group of committed volunteers is reading the classics aloud and making them available for free download as audiobooks:

“LibriVox is the largest of several emerging collectives that offer free or inexpensive audiobooks of works whose copyrights have expired, from Plato to The Wind in the Willows… ‘The principles of the project are to be totally noncommercial, totally ad free, totally volunteer and totally public domain,’ [LibriVox’s founder, Hugh McGuire] said. Readers can volunteer at the Web site, librivox.org.”

The UW Libraries recently acquired some fabulously entertaining Bollywood musicals. Stop at the AV desk in the basement of Coe to check one out today!

Oscar-nominated Lagaan tells the story of 19th century farmers in North India rising up against British oppression through cricket. Roger Ebert calls it “the most ambitious, expensive and successful Bollywood film ever made”.

Devdas is a classic Bollywood production, full of music and romance on an epic scale. The BBC reports that Devdas has “one of the best looking casts to be seen on screen.”

You are viewing the new redesign for the libraries web site. Hopefully you will be able to find what you are looking for but use the “ask a librarian” quick link above if you need assistance.

We are working hard to fix all the problems associated with a new rollout but if after a few days you still notice a problem please let us know at: lib-tech@uwyo.edu.