Too tired to read?

Sometimes you just don't have the time to sit and read. Maybe you are just too tired. But, you can always load audio books onto your MP3 or iPod and listen while you are doing other things or just lying around on the couch.

Check out some new titles from our free downloadable audio books. All you need is your student or faculty/staff ID and you can begin downloading from home. You can also burn to CD for convenient listening in your car.

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Modular Origami

Everyone loves origami. But, have you ever seen modular origami? The University of Maine Presque Isle will be hosting a display and free workshops given by Eva Szillery.

Click here to learn more and see some amazing examples of modular origami.

Read more from the press release from University of Maine Presque Isle:

http://www.umpi.edu/files/home/pdf/modular-origami.pdf


EVA SZILLERY obtained her Ph.D. in Mathematics in Hungary
at the prestigious Eotvos Lorand University. She started folding
modular origami as an application for the teaching of mathematics.
Szillery is the Director of the Maine Junior Engineering
Technical Society [MJETS] and the State Director of the American
Mathematics Competitions. She is also the founder of the
Maine Origami Society. In 2005, Szillery received the University
of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation Educator Recognition
Award for Programming Excellence for her work with the
MJETS and the Maine Mathematics, Science and Engineering
Talent Search programs.

What is Modular Origami?
Modular origami involves several identically folded paper units
(or modules) assembled into a finished model. Modular origami
is really geometric modular origami, often polyhedral geometric
origami. As you can see from the examples on display, the external
appearance of this origami is artistic, often floral. It’s hard to
believe that any geometry is involved in the construction. However,
most models are based on the Platonic or Archimedean
solids, others on fractals or Hyperbolic paraboloids. In fact, there
is an easy way to fold an approximation to a (partial) hyperbolic
paraboloid out of paper.

Urban Legends

We have a stack of new urban legends books on display in the library.
Come on by and take a look. Definitely something fun to read when you're on break.

In Search of Maine Urban Legends / Emeric Spooner
Book of Urban Legend / Rodney Dale
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid / Jan Harold Brunvand
The Choking Doberman / Jan H. Brunvand
Urban Legends / A.S. Mott
The Vanishing Hitchhiker / J. H. Brunvand
Encyclopedia of Urban Legends / Jan Harold Brunvand
The Big Book of Urban Legends / Jan Harold Brunvand