Would you like to add some art to your evening? Stop by the Mudd Gallery Saturday, March 26 (tonight) for the opening reception for Recent Work by Annie Raccuglia. Reception will last from 5:30 to 7:30.
This exhibit will be displayed in the Mudd Gallery from Saturday, March 26 through Tuesday, April 5, 2011.
March Madness is upon us in every way possible! Here in the library we have several basketball resources available in our collection. Books including Play Their Hearts Out, a look at youth basketball in America, or Perfection Point, a collection of what humans might actually be capable of in many sports, are available and waiting to be checked out. DVDs such as Hoop Dreams and the classic Hoosiers, are just a couple available in the Media Center. Don’t forget that we also have popular magazines and newspapers on the first floor.
Take a look at Student Health 101, an electronic magazine brought to you by Lawrence University Counseling Services. This monthly interactive publication features articles, video interviews with Lawrence students, a monthly contest to win $1,000, and more.
In this month’s issue, read about secrets to writing papers, tips for boosting self esteem, advice on sexual relationships, and how to improve grades by getting more sleep.
What do these two topics have in common? The LU Digital Image Collections!
The Bartered Bride images from the Theatre Department production were recently added to the LU Theatre Depatrment Productions collection. You can look at the images from Bartered Bride and many other productions by selecting a title from the drop down menu or you can just browse the collection to see the wonderful work of our students, facutly and staff.
We also added a new book to our Selections from Special Collections. Ancient Peruvian Art: Sculpture first published in 1937 is made available with the permission of the National Museum of Peru. This book has some wonderful images of Peruvian sculpture that you can browse from your own computer.
Zora Neale Hurston is one of the great writers to come out of the Harlem Renaissance. She wrote novels, short stories and traveled extensively in the Southern United States and Haiti collecting oral histories and folk tales. She once said, “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.” She saw talent all around her community and believed her heritage was worthy of preservation. Please check out our collection of Zora Neale Hurston’s work. May we suggest starting with Mules and Men and Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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.
Today is the eightieth anniversary of the designation of The Star-Spangled Banner as the United States national anthem. Read 46 Stat. 1508, codified at 36 U.S.C. § 301, “Conduct during playing” while listening to what we think is the definitive VOCAL rendering of the tune from SCTV. Then, of course, there’s also Jimi Hendrix.
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.
By the light of the silvery moon, lyric by Ed. Madden ; music by Gus Edwards. New York : G. Edwards, c1909. From the New York Public Library Digital Library Collection, Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923
We admit it. We’re not Harvard. But we keep our noses pressed up to the Harvard window like little kids in a library candy store, gazing longingly. And when they come up with something this cool we jump on it like a great horny toad on a passel of harvester ants.
Here’s a link to their Online Resources for Music Scholars from which you can search 78 (as of today) databases for digital scores. Pretty much anything in the public domain you can imagine is there, free to legally view, print and download:
There are also some audio, video and image files. Jump on it!
