Stressed out by finals? Need a study break? Perhaps you could use some canine therapy from our friendly and cuddly puppy pals! Join us on the library plaza on Tuesday, May 31st. Dogs and their people will be standing by from 2:00 to 3:00 pm.
Take a look at the photos from last year’s event. Look at all of those smiling faces…
Just in time for the end of the term, Gretchen Revie, Julie Haurykiewicz, and Maggie Waz will present the Academic Citation Workshop. In one short hour, they will review some common citation styles, provide helpful tips for embedding and formatting quotes, and point you to resources that will help you finish your paper efficiently.
Join them this Sunday, May 22nd, in library room 401 at 4:00 pm. It might just make the difference between a good night’s sleep and a stressful scouring of reference manuals for an obscure citation rule.
Harken back to those poetic days of yore — last week! For National Poetry Month, April 2011, the Library asked visitors to post their favorite poems. As you might expect, we got a wonderful collection: Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, Wisconsin Poet Laureate Bruce Dethlefsen, C.P. Cavafy, pirate haiku, and more… Visit the library’s Flickr site to view the posted poems. Enjoy!
The Estelle Ray Reid Scholarship in Library Science is meant to assist a student, past or present, planning to pursue the graduate study of Library Science. To apply, or for more information, please see the Estelle Ray Reid page. The deadline for applications is Friday, April 1, 2011.
You know that we strive to provide you with the best resources available for all of your research needs, but did you know that there’s more to the Mudd library?
Today, we begin a new series called “What’s in the Mudd”. Stop in the library and take a look at our display of interesting and unusual resources. Better yet, take one to the circulation desk and check it out.
Our display includes:
All this month, we will continue to delight and surprise you with some of the Mudd library’s hidden gems.
Color printing is now available from library login computers to the print release station next to the copier. The print release PC next to the copier allows LU students to login with their username and password, insert coins or bills into the vend unit to the right of the print release PC (within 1 minute), highlight and print their jobs, and retrieve their color prints from the copier. The jobs stay in the queue for 15 minutes as they do for the other printers. The printer is available as LIB_1ST_COLOR on curtis (not the default) for students to choose if they wish to print in color. The costs are the same, currently, as color copies: $.50 for 8 X 11 and $1.00 for 11 X 17.
Did last week’s spring-like days motivate you to get outside and get active? Even though the ground is once again covered with snow, the Mudd Library can help you maintain your exercise and healthy living motivations. We have a growing collection of exercise videos available to check out. Some of our newest titles include, Yoga for Beginners, Step-by-Step Strength Training, and Perfect Hips: Belly Dance Workout. The Mudd Library staff can tell you that Wii Sports Resort can be a great workout, as well as a lot of fun to play. If you don’t have your own Nintendo Wii console, the library has one available for loan. 
If you’re interested in researching wellness, our reference librarians have put together a Wellness Resources library guide. This guide includes information about wellness related electronic databases and websites, as well as tips for finding wellness related books in our catalog.
Of course, the library is not the only place on campus for those interested in wellness. WelLU, Lawrence University’s committee on wellness, has been actively encouraging wellness on campus. Take a look at their web page, or visit the newly remodeled Buchanan Kiewit Wellness Center. The student organization, LU Wellness Committee, focuses on wellness related issues of particular interest to students, such as sexual health/body image and stress management.
The Trout Museum of Art, 111 W. College Avenue, is hosting Jazz at the Trout, Thursday, February 17 at 7:30 p.m., featuring LU’s own Matt Turner, cello and Bill Carrothers, piano. The Mudd has many CDs of these artists, including all of the Bill Carrothers recordings mentioned in this Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 8th and 9th editions, and 4 CDs featuring them in collaboration:
Tickets:
FREE for members; $10 non-members; $5 students
920-733-4089 or info@troutmuseum.org
Mary Jane Jacob
Independent curator and executive director of exhibitions, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“The Collective Creative Process”
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
11:10am
Curator, author, educator, Mary Jane Jacob is known for her work on the national and international art scene. Exploring art outside the museum context, she has spent the past 20 years as an independent curator organizing groundbreaking programs that have tested the boundaries of public space and relationship of contemporary art to audience. Among her most influential programs was “Culture in Action,” a two-year-long project in Chicago that partnered artists with community members to explore the changing nature of public art, its relationship to social issues and an expanded role of audience from spectator to participant.
During the 1980s, as chief curator of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Jacob staged some of the first U.S. retrospectives and one-person shows of American and European artists, as well as organized some of the key surveys of art of the period.
Resources by and about Mary Jane Jacob
Some of you may have noticed that we enjoy hosting gaming events here at the Mudd Library. While we know video games can be a lot of fun, we also know that they provide a wide range of research topics. For all your video game research (and non-research) needs, the Mudd Library has recently added a Nintendo Wii and a growing collection of video games to our collection. The Nintendo Wii and games are available for loan for Lawrence University students, faculty, and staff. Of course, we also have some excellent books on the topic.
The following are a few neat examples of video games integrated into art, culture studies, and even science:
Long March: Restart: MoMA exhibit by Feng Mengbo. This exhibit depicts “the massive military retreat of The Chinese Communist Party’s Red Army, under the command of Mao Zedong and others, that began in 1934” through the media of a video game (see MoMA PS1 Blog). The viewer interacts with the exhibit by playing the game, displayed on a 80’x20’ screen, with a wireless controller.
Computerspiel Museum: Not just an exhibit, but a whole museum dedicated to “digital interactive entertainment culture”. Their newest permanent exhibition, Computer Games: Evolution of a Medium contains more than 300 interactive exhibits depicting the “cultural history of computer and video games.”
Foldit: Like puzzle games? Then why not “fold puzzles for science”? This game was designed by the Departments of Computer Science & Engineering and Biochemistry at the University of Washington, with the purpose of attempting “to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of humans’ puzzle-solving intuitions and having people play competitively to fold the best proteins” (see The Science Behind Foldit). The game designers can use the knowledge unlocked by players to research cures for diseases such as HIV / AIDS, Cancer, and Alzheimer’s.
