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August 23 Mudd Library Coffeehouse: Movement and Mindfulness in the Mudd

You’ve heard about mindfulness and the scientifically-proven benefits that practitioners enjoy, including increased productivity, improved concentration and mental clarity, heightened compassion and self-awareness, better sleep, and deeper relaxation. Join us to learn some simple mindfulness techniques and gentle yoga stretches you can do at your desk. The practice is simple. Showing up is the challenge!

Join us on Wednesday, August 23 at 10 a.m. on the first floor of the Mudd Library for our final coffeehouse of the summer! As always, refreshments will be provided.

July 26 Mudd Library Coffeehouse: Streaming Media Sources

Join us on July 26 for the second Mudd Library coffeehouse session of the summer and learn about some great streaming media resources!

Can you step into the same river twice? You can with streaming media. The library provides access to a number of sources for streaming audio and video; come learn about resources from our subscribed databases like Academic Video Online and from Lux, the digital home for the scholarly and creative works of Lawrence University.

Mudd Library coffeehouses begin at 10 a.m. and last no longer than an hour. We’ll meet on the first floor of the library. All staff and faculty are welcome!

These are just a few of the great streaming resources brought to you by the Mudd Library.

You’re Invited to the Seeley G. Mudd Library Summer Coffeehouse Series!

Engage with your library! Enjoy coffee and treats while you learn about resources, Lawrence, and other topics to enhance your personal and professional development. All staff and faculty are welcome. We’ll meet on the first floor of the Mudd Library; sessions begin promptly 10 a.m. and last no longer than an hour.

July 12: Summer Reading

Books are our friends! Introduce yours and prepare to meet new ones at this ever-popular and fun Summer Reading Coffeehouse.

July 26: Streaming Media Sources

Can you step into the same river twice? You can with streaming media. The library provides access to a number of sources for streaming audio and video; come learn about resources from our subscribed databases like Academic Video Online and from Lux, the digital home for the scholarly and creative works of Lawrence University.

August 9: Lawrence and World War I

The United States entered the first World War, which had started in Europe almost three years earlier, in April 1917. The war had profound and lasting effects at Lawrence. Enrollment plummeted as students enlisted; anti-German sentiment took hold; students were quarantined with Spanish influenza; and the college contracted with the government to host a unit of the Student Army Training Corps. Join Archivist Erin Dix for a discussion of this often-overlooked period of our history, featuring documents from the LU Archives.

August 23: Movement and Mindfulness in the Mudd

You’ve heard about mindfulness and the scientifically-proven benefits that practitioners enjoy, including increased productivity, improved concentration and mental clarity, heightened compassion and self-awareness, better sleep, and deeper relaxation. Join us to learn some simple mindfulness techniques and gentle yoga stretches you can do at your desk. The practice is simple. Showing up is the challenge!

4th Women & Identities in Gaming Symposium

The 4th Women and Identities in Gaming Symposium will take place on Saturday, April 15th in the Warch Campus Center Cinema.

This year, we’re excited to welcome Josh Sawyer, Lawrence alumnus and Director at Obsidian Entertainment (makers of Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity, and more). At 1:00 p.m., Sawyer will present,”Better is Not Enough,” followed by a Q&A. In his presentation, Sawyer will discuss allyship in game development and community, as well as working in the games industry.

At 2:30, a panel featuring guest game design and programming students from Columbia College in Chicago along with Lawrence’s Professor Dan Proctor and current Lawrence students, will discuss various aspects of gender and identity in games and the gaming community.

Join and share the event page on Facebook!

For information about the Women and Identities in Gaming Symposium and previous years’ events, see the page in Lux.

WIGS was planned by a dedicated group of Lawrence Gaming Club students and the club’s faculty advisor/ LU librarian.

We fact-checked Internet news and you’ll never believe what happened next!!!

Join your friendly Lawrence University librarians for a brief session on critically interpreting news on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 1:30 p.m., on the first floor of the library. We’ll go over some tips used by fact-checkers to give you the tools to be able to determine what’s reliable and what’s not. Cookies will be provided, because research shows that cookies consumed while learning something new have a zero-calorie effect.

Now available at Mudd Library: Higher education resource guide

Interested in keeping up with the business of higher education? Of course you are! That’s why your friends in the Mudd Library have compiled a handy research guide to help you keep up with the latest news and research affecting higher education. The guide contains a link to premium access to the Chronicle of Higher Education and other useful resources that can help you with your work at Lawrence.

Higher Education: The Business of Lawrence

Questions? Ask your friendly reference librarians! We’re here for the whole Lawrence community!

Dec. 5 Mudd Library Coffeehouse: Keeping up with new research

Stop on over to the Information Technology Center on the second floor of Mudd Library on Monday, Dec. 5 from 10 to 10:30 a.m. for Mudd Library Coffeehouse: Keeping up with new research.

Information about new books and articles is easy to get using the alert features available in the library’s databases.  Come learn about how you can follow publications of interest using CHOICE, Web of Science (including Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index) and more.  Refreshments to follow!

 

Haunted Lawrence event

Join us in the Milwaukee-Downer Room of the Seeley G. Mudd Library on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 8–9 p.m., for tales of “Haunted Lawrence.” Attendees will hear true stories of ghostly happenings on campus (past and present), have the opportunity to share their own stories and view some spooky materials from the LU Archives. There might even be treats!

UPDATE: Due to space limitations, we have to cap this event at 30 attendees. To register, please submit this online form. Please know that spots are going quickly! If you have questions, please contact Erin Dix at erin.k.dix@lawrence.edu.

Honors roundtable set for Sept. 22

The Fall Term honors roundtable will take place Thursday, Sept. 22 at 5 p.m. in room 401 of Mudd Library.

At this meeting, Honors Committee Chair and Associate Professor Antoinette Powell will go over the guidelines for completing an honors project. Reference librarian Gretchen Revie will discuss how the library can be of assistance in the honors process, while Andrew McSorley, interlibrary loan coordinator, will talk about interlibrary loan. Students will be asked to say a few words about their potential topics. All students currently working on honors projects or who hope to complete honors projects are strongly encouraged to attend.

For information on honors, please consult the Committee on Honors website.

An additional roundtable will take place at the beginning of the Winter and Spring Terms. Please consult the summary of deadlines on the honors website for the dates.