At the 60th annual National Book Awards last night:
The National Book Award for Fiction went to Colum McCann for his novel, Let the Great World Spin
Keith Waldrop won the Poetry award for his book, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
T.J. Stiles won the award for Nonfiction with The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Good reading for a long break. More good reading on the library’s Good Reading page.
This is an important day in Lawrence’s history, this is the 160th anniversary of the first day of classes at Lawrence! On November 12, 1849, the first day of class at Lawrence took place in the Academy building, a site now occupied by the downtown Appleton Y.M.C.A. The student body included males and females, as did the faculty. While Lawrence has had a long history, the Academy building has not. It was destroyed by fire in January 1857, while the Lawrence community was in the Main Hall chapel for Sunday services. This day marks yet another important anniversary for Lawrence.
The magical change from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time occurs on Sunday, November 1st at 2:00 a.m. local time. Turn your clocks BACK one hour.
Remember: it’s FALL back and SPRING forward.
And don’t forget to search LUCIA for clocks. You’ll find excellent stuff like the prize-winning The Invention of Hugo Cabret and It’s About Time: Understanding Einstein’s Relativity. You could spend your extra hour reading. Or eating Halloween candy. Or sleeping. Whatever.
It’s official: The Seeley G. Mudd Library’s routine in the Wisconsin Library Association’s Book Cart Drill Team competition is the second best in the state! While we will not be going on to Washington D.C. to compete in the nationals, we are pleased as punch to have beaten last year’s winners.
In keeping with the “Reclaim the Magic” theme of the WLA conference, a full third of the Mudd’s staff participated in an extraordinary and physics-defying spectacle of prestidigitation. Amanda Beck, Cindy Patterson, Kate Moody, Antoinette Powell, Colette Lunday Brautigam and Kim Comerford (also known as ACK ACK) donned magician’s garb and wowed the packed house.
Observe the Amazing Muddinis (and their competition) in action on our local newscast.
A reminder that the annual Haunted Lawrence tour is this Sunday, October 25, starting at 7pm. We’ll meet at Memorial Hall (formerly Memorial Union) and go through buildings and tunnels as Lawrence archivist Julia Stringfellow and Security officer Dell Cook share stories about ghosts and other creepy events that have occurred at Lawrence throughout its history.
For questions regarding this tour, visit the Archives on Level B of the library or e-mail archives@lawrence.edu .
Open Access Week, October 19-23, is an “opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of open access issues and express support for free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research.” See http://www.openaccessweek.org/ for more information about this event.
For a good introduction to open access issues, watch this Open Access 101 video from SPARC or (for a longer, technical description of OA), read the Bethesda Statement on on Open Access Publishing.
Lawrence is supporting open access in a couple of ways:
The annual Haunted Lawrence tour will take place Sunday, October 25, starting at 7pm. We’ll meet at Memorial Hall (formerly Memorial Union) and go through buildings and tunnels as Lawrence archivist Julia Stringfellow and Security officer Dell Cook share stories about ghosts and other creepy events that have occurred at Lawrence throughout its history.
For questions regarding this tour, visit the Archives on Level B of the library or e-mail archives@lawrence.edu .
Thomas Steitz, Lawrence College class of 1962, shares the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
This tour of Riverside Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Appleton, will take place on Sunday, October 4, starting at 3pm. Riverside is located at 714 N. Owaissa Street, about a half mile away from campus, and we’ll meet at the front entrance. This is a walking tour so wear comfortable shoes.
For directions to Riverside and questions about what to expect during the tour, visit the Archives on Level B of the library, call 832-6753, or e-mail archives@lawrence.edu.
