NEW TITLES available this week in the library (an update, as promised!)

A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, by Manuel De Landa. De Landa lectures this Thursday, 2/8, at the Phyllis Wattis Theater.

Several Rem Koolhaas titles, including Delirious New York, S,M,L,XL, the Harvard Design School's Project on the City, and the latest from the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Content. Check at the circulation desk for these; they're reserved for in-library use this month (Koolhaas lectures at SFAI Wednesday, 2/28.)

AND MORE : Body Type, a compendium of typographical tattoos, and Graffiti Women, a compendium of women graffiti artists; Hatred of Capitalism, an anthology of essays, fictions and rants from the Semiotext(e) archives (contributors include Kathy Acker, Bob Flanagan, William Burroughs, Chris Marker, John Cage, George Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Cookie Mueller, Paul Virilio, and many more); two titles, Metapolitics and Polemics, by political philosopher Alain Badiou; Fun Home : a Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel; What is the What, the new novel by Dave Eggers. Check for these and other new titles on the display racks by the circulation desk.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, and welcome to Spring Semester 2007!

The library now has wireless access everywhere. Come in and work where it's warm!

Lots of new titles in DVDs and books. Some of the highlights:

The World of George Kuchar -- 5 dvd set
Three Howard Fried early works
Two DVDs of early Peter Greenaway

and in the book department,

China : the photographs of Edward Burtynsky
Making Comics, by Scott McCloud
Beyond the Visible : the art of Odilon Redon
What do Pictures Want? by WJT Mitchell

...and many, many more still being processed: new Edward Tufte, new Alison Bechdel, Bill Berkson and Bernadette Mayer, Ernst Haeckel, Bruce Conner, Eva Hesse, Paul McCarthy, Graffiti Women, Hatred of Capitalism, Baudrillard's Utopie writings, several new urban studies titles, a book about bicycles....Check back here for updates as we get these new books on the shelves!

We're upgrading our library catalog, and it has a new URL. In case you have us bookmarked on your computer (and we hope you do) the new URL is:

http://libraryworld.com/cgi-bin/opac.pl?command=signin&libraryname=sfai%20library&guest=allow

It shouldn't present any new problems, but there may still be a few glitches to work out -- as always, please come to us with any questions!!