Exciting New Acquisitions for 2010

The following list of delicious summer selections is brought to you by Hart House Library's very own Socialite Librarian, Katya Pereyaslavska.

1. Oonagh O'Hagan: I Lick my Cheese
2. Keri Smith: The Guerilla Art Kit
3. David Foster Wallace: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
4. Keri Smith: How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Art (Life) Museum
5. Faythe Levin & Cortney Heimerl: Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft and Design
6. C.D. Payne: Youth in Revolt
7. Wearing Propaganda: 1931-1945, Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States
8. Mario Bataille: ABC 3D
9. Adria Vasil: Ecoholic Home
10. Chuck Klosterman: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Now with a new Middle)
11. Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein: Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...Understanding Philosophy through Jokes
12. Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 21st Century
13. Steve Knopper: Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
14. Ben Luzatto: The Theory of Everything, Abridged
(Iceland: Ugly Duckling Press, 2010 -- Limited 1st edition [500] artist book)
15. Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
16. Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Limited Edition -- Illustrated by Ralph Steadman)
17. Steven Henry Madoff: Art School: Propositions for the 21st Century
18. Christina Kiaer: Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism
19. Ed. Alex Steffen: World Changing: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
20. Conn Igulden & Hal Iggulden: The Dangerous Book for Boys
Andrea J. Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz: The Daring Book for Girls

BeerBBQBands + Books?

Coming up on Thursday July 29th at 7pm is the 3rd Annual Craft Beer Festival. Why not reward yourself after a few good reads by joining fellow beer drinkers in the Hart House Quad?

Your $35 ticket ($25 for students) includes 8 beer samples, some BBQ bites and free tunes provided by CIUT 89.5 DJs. Simply visit www.uofttix.ca or call 416-978-8849

All craft brews are Canadian and include some of the finest ales, lagers and pilsners.

Here is a list of participating breweries to excite your thirst! ...

Beau's All-Natural Brewing Company · Big Rock Brewery · Creemore Springs Brewery · F & M Brewery · Flying Monkeys Brewery · Great Lakes Brewery · Hockley Valley Brewing Company · Mill Street Brewery · Steam Whistle Brewery · Wellington Brewery and Quebec's very own Brasserie Dieu Du Ciel! · Les Trois Mousquetaires and Microbrasserie Charlevoix

Or visit the event page for more info: http://www.harthouse.utoronto.ca/beta/html/events/craft.php

National Geographic Documentary

Notice: The Hart House Library will be closed this Sunday, July 18 2010, for a very exciting purpose.

The National Geographic Channel's Explorer Series has chosen Hart House Library as part of the film locale for a documentary based upon John Geiger's book The Third Man Factor! Interestingly, the Explorer Series is the longest-running documentary series in cable television history.

Explorer is taking a close-up look at the extraordinary phenomenon highlighted in the book, investigating the science behind reported experiences from people at the very edge of death (often adventurers or explorers) who experience a presence beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. This film is truly about the science behind this phenomenon -- including top neuroscience being done in the US, Canada and Switzerland. Bestselling author John Geiger is a Senior Fellow at Massey College and his interview in the documentary will be set against the backdrop of our very own library.

Much to our excitement, National Geographic will also be dedicating a "Special Thanks" to Hart House at the end of the Third Man Factor documentary. It will be broadcast in Spring 2011 on the National Geographic Channel, which reaches 320 million households in 34 languages in 166 countries.

Stay tuned to the blog as Hart House Library will likely host a special screening of this programme in the Spring.

Supporting Independent Toronto Bookstores

Hart House Library is an avid supporter of the independent bookstores around town. The majority of new acquisitions are purchased from local downtown stores such as BMV, Sonic Boom or This Ain't the Rosedale Library. Much to the disappointment of many Torontonians, particularly the bibliophiles, This Ain't the Rosedale Library will be unable to continue serving its patrons due to a $20,000 debt. With the reported drop in book sales by BookNet Canada, other stores may follow suit if they do not become fierce competitors to online giants such as Amazon.com and Amazon.ca. John Scythes, owner of the bookstore Glad Day in Kensington Market, points out that patrons walk into his store to browse, but inevitably make their purchases online from retailers such as Amazon.

For more accounts of how the book selling industry is changing in our city, check out Vit Wagner's article for the Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/831630--tough-times-but-some-bookstores-have-a-different-story

Yes, Amazon does offer a myriad of discounted books, but Hart House Library will continue to support the independent stores around town whenever possible.