Deaf Choir with Full Orchestra and Chorus

Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfLpzCWQa3M

Happy Veterans Day

November 11 is Veterans Day. The Halle Library celebrates Veterans. Thank you for your service!

HathiTrust Digital Library

Search the HathiTrust Digital Library to find full-text public domain books and other works. It also includes information about works that are still in copyright.See https://www.hathitrust.org/home

EMU Viewbook

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Enabling Acts

New study from Weizmann Institute of Science, rehovot, Israel

In a small study , researchers were able to determine which children had been diagnosed with autism 81 percent of the time based on how quickly the children responded to certain odors.See the study at http://www.weizmann-usa.org/media/2015/07/02/reaction-to-smells-may-help-diagnose-autism-study-suggests

New Book

Neurotribes : the legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity by Steve Silberman is a new book to the Halle Library collection..

Trial Databases

Two databases have been added to the Trial Databases page: http://www.emich.edu/library/about/trialdbases.php Black Drama, Second Edition Available Until: November 29, 2015 Black Drama, Second Edition contains approximately 1,462 plays by 233 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Some 600 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. ...Black Drama, Second Edition uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of both the bibliographic and the full-text elements within the database. Black Thought and Culture Available Until: November 29, 2015 Black Thought and Culture contains 1,303 sources with 1,210 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other fugitive material. Black Thought and Culture uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of both the bibliographic and the full-text elements within the database.

Sesame Street introduces new character

Read the story at http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sesame-street-introduces-first-character-with-autism/