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The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University will hold a book sale from October 22-24, 2009 in Alden Library’s 4th floor lounge.
The hours are:
“When you support the Friends, you are supporting all of Ohio University-every discipline, every student, every faculty-by helping to build and maintain a great library.”
We’ve been running a survey on our home page, ‘What books do you like to read’. This is the latest update with some other suggestions thrown in.
From the Librarians Index to the Internet, a nice list of summer reading lists. Many more summer reading lists are in Rebecca’s Pocket.
The Spring 2009 issue of Gatherings, Ohio University Libraries’ semi-annual publication highlighting the services, collections and our Library community, is now available online.
To view the latest issue please click here.
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The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University will hold a book sale from May 7-9, 2009 in Alden Library’s 4th floor lounge.
The hours are:
“When you support the Friends, you are supporting all of Ohio University-every discipline, every student, every faculty-by helping to build and maintain a great library.”
The Friends of the Libraries at Ohio University will hold a book sale on February 12-14, 2009 in Alden Library’s 4th floor lounge area.
The hours are: Thursday, 7-9 p.m.; Friday, 10-6 p.m.; and Saturday, 10-4 p.m.
“When you support the Friends, you are supporting all of Ohio University every discipline, every student, every faculty-by helping to build and maintain a great library.”
As part of the Friends of the Libraries Annual meeting, Gladys Bailin, Distinguished Professor, Emerita of Dance and former Nikolais modern dancer, will be speaking on the Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Collection titled: Dance: Revisited and Revealed. The manuscript collection housed in the Robert E. & Jean R. Mahn Center at Alden Library documents the careers of these two Modern Dance legends.
Please join us for the presentation on Friday, May 30, 2008 from 3-4 p.m., in Room 319, Alden Library for a lively talk on the liveliest art. Light refreshments will be served.
Gladys Bailin was the director of the Ohio University School of Dance from 1983-95. A member of the faculty since 1972, she came to Athens, Ohio from New York City where she was active in the dance field as a performer, choreographer and teacher.Gladys was an original member of the Nikolais Dance Theater and the Murray Louis Dance Company, and later a member of the Don Redlich Dance Company. She toured nationally and internationally from 1955-70.
She received four Choreography Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two choreography commissions from the Ohio Arts Council and has been honored by the University and Distinguished Professor Awards from Ohio University. She is also the recipient of the Ohio Dance Arts Award for the advancement of the art form.
She remains active in the dance field as a teacher, choreographer, program reviewer /evaluator and an avid advocate of dance training.
The Friends of the Libraries at Ohio University will hold a book sale on Oct. 18-20, 2007 located in Alden Library’s 4th floor lounge.
The hours are: Thursday, 7-9 p.m.; Friday, 10-6 p.m.; and Saturday, 10-4 p.m.
“When you support the Friends, you are supporting all of Ohio University every discipline, every student, every faculty-by helping to build and maintain a great library.”
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University and the Office of the Provost are sponsoring the 17th annual reception for Ohio University Authors, Editors & Performers on Monday, May 21 beginning at 3:30 p.m. The program will be held in the Baker Center Multipurpose Room (Baker 240).
“This is an annual event the Friends hold to recognize publicly and collectively the scholarly output of the faculty and staff,” states Greg Kremer, president of the Friends. “This year for the first time we are recognizing not only books and major performances but also journal articles and book chapters. By expanding our scope we will honor in a more complete way the research and creative activity of the faculty and staff.”
Kremer adds that President Roderick McDavis and Provost Kathy Krendl will make brief remarks during the ceremony. Copies of more than 40 books, numerous articles, and other items such as CDs will be on display at the reception.
“The Friends have provided an excellent opportunity to acknowledge the significant contributions our faculty and staff bring to the University’s academic environment and the community,” stated Martin Tuck, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, “as well as providing an opportunity for future collaborations as faculty and staff become more informed about what others are doing on campus.”
The event is supported by a donation from the Ohio University Credit Union. The program is open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University, established in 1979, provides support for the Libraries, their collections and their operation.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University will hold their annual Readathon on Tuesday-Wednesday, May 8-9, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. The event will take place in the fourth floor lounge of Alden Library.
During the Readathon people read from a wide variety of favorite materials—essays, short stories, poems, children’s stories and more—in 15-minute time blocks. Readers represent most of the colleges plus student groups and administrative units from across campus as well as a variety of community groups. Readers will include President Roderick McDavis, Mrs. Deborah McDavis, and Provost Kathy Krendl. Click here for a complete schedule (PDF)
“The Readathon focuses on reading and its importance in the academic community,” says event coordinator Prof. Beth VanDerveer. “A secondary purpose is to raise funds for the endowed Friends of the Libraries Scholarship program for student library assistants.”
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University held the first Readathon in 1998. The group was established in 1979 to provide support for strengthening the Libraries, their collections and services.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University will begin their Spring Book Sale on Thursday, May 10 with a pre-sale from 7-9 p.m. “During the pre-sale most books will be priced at $2 each for people who like the very best selection,” explains George Bain, Executive Secretary for the Friends.
Sale hours on Friday, May 11 will be 10 am-6 pm and from 10 am-4 pm on Saturday, May 12. Most books will be priced at $1 each on Friday and Saturday. Prices will be reduced to a bargain rate of $3 per plastic bag after 1 pm on Saturday.
The sale is open to the public and will be held on the fourth floor of Alden Library near the Circulation desk.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University were established in 1979 to provide support for strengthening the Libraries, their collections and services.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University will hold their Annual Meeting on Tuesday, May 15. The meeting will begin at 3:10 p.m. in the Friends of the Library Room (Alden 319).
The meeting will include the election of new Friends board members, and the announcement of awards, of new recipients of the Friends Scholarship, and of the group’s annual gift to the Libraries.
Following the conclusion of the business meeting English Professor Loreen Giese will deliver a presentation on “Consenting Adults: Marriage Behavior in Shakespeare’s London.” Refreshments will also be served. The meeting is open to the public.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University and the Office of the Provost will be sponsoring the 17th annual reception for Ohio University Authors, Editors & Performers on Monday, May 21.
The Friends and the Provost’s Office are expanding the criteria for recognition this year to include not only books and significant exhibitions and performances but also journal articles and book chapters published in 2006. Eligible works are:
• Books
• Journal articles
• Book chapters
• recorded works on compact disk or other electronic format
• major exhibits or exhibition catalogs
• programs from major theatrical, musical or dance performances
The Friends and the Provost’s Office are asking faculty and staff from all campuses as well as emeriti who fit these criteria to enter publication data into a web-based datafile at http://teach.citl.ohiou.edu/pubs/. The site is now open and will remain open until noon on Monday, April 16.
In addition to a broadened scope this year, the event, formerly known as the Faculty & Staff Authors & Performers reception, has the new moniker, Authors, Editors & Performers reception. The event is held to recognize publicly and collectively the combined output of research and creative activity for 2006.
The program will be held in the Class of 1951 Lounge on the 4th floor of Alden Library. Copies of most of the publications and other items such as CDs will be on display as part of the program. The program will be open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University are sponsoring a panel discussion on “The Friends of Women?” The program will take place on Tuesday, February 27 beginning at 4:00 p.m. in the Friends of the Library Room (Alden 319).
The panelists are Ann Brown, Director, Office of Nationally Competitive Awards, Honors Tutorial College; Phyllis Bernt, Chair of the Faculty Senate; Kathleen Bonte, Women in Philanthropy Initiative and advisor for Chi Omega sorority; and Judith Grant, Director of the Women’s Studies Program. Friends of the Libraries program chair Catherine Brown will moderate the panel.
“During the University’s Year of the Woman,” says Brown, chair of the Friends’ Program Committee. “we are interested in discussing the ways women are influencing or can influence the institution. I’m confident this can be a lively program.”
Through Brown’s program Ohio University students won several prestigious research awards including one each George Mitchell, Barry Goldwater and Morris Udall awards in 2006. Bernt also serves as Professor in the McClure School of Information and Telecommunication Systems, Scripps College of Communication. Bonte is Senior Director of Donor Relations and Gift Administration in the Development Office. Grant has a joint appointment as director of Women’s Studies and Professor of Political Science.
The Friends of the Libraries were established in 1979 to provide support for library collections and operations.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University will begin their Winter Book Sale on Thursday, February 1 with a pre-sale from 7-9 p.m. “During the pre-sale most books will be priced at $2 each for people who like the very best selection,” explains George Bain, Executive Secretary for the Friends.
Sale hours on Friday, February 2 will be 10 am-6 pm and from 10 am-4 pm on Saturday, February 3. Most books will be priced at $1 each on Friday and Saturday. Prices will be reduced to a bargain rate of $3 per plastic bag after 1 pm on Saturday.
“In addition to the many books,” states book sale chair Rich Moffitt, “the Friends will also offer used picture frames at a bargain rate too.”
The sale is open to the public and will be held on the fourth floor of Alden Library near the Circulation desk.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University were established in 1979 to provide support for strengthening the Libraries, their collections and services.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University are sponsoring a panel program on “Plagiarism and the Library.” The program will take place on Tuesday, October 24 beginning at 4:00 p.m. in the fourth floor lounge area of Alden Library.
The panelists are Margaret Appel, Professor of Psychology, David Carr, Associate Professor of Recreation and Sports Sciences, Kent Mulliner, retired Coordinator for Collection Development in the Libraries, Megan Rose, graduate student in Education, and Susan Sarnoff, Associate Professor and Chair of Social Work.
“Plagiarism is an age-old problem that frequently involves libraries,” says Catherine Brown, chair of the Friends’ Program Committee. “We are pleased the panelists are willing to provide perspectives on the issue.”
Appel is a member of the University Curriculum Council and a past president of the Faculty Senate. Sarnoff is co-chair of the Academic Honesty Committee established in August. Carr is the Coordinator of the Physical Education and Coaching Education Division in the School of Recreation and Sports Sciences, College of Health & Human Services. Rhodes’s duties include familiarizing education students with plagiarism issues and policies. Mulliner has a long-standing interest in library collections and their uses.
The Friends of the Libraries, established in 1979 to provide support for library collections and operations, is now more than a quarter century old.
Ohio University will offer two programs for “Archives Week in Ohio” during the week beginning October 8. With this year’s theme “African Americans in Ohio,” there will be a panel featuring two Ohio University faculty members on Monday, October 9, and a lecture by Dr. John E. Fleming, Vice President of Museums at the Cincinnati Museum Center, on Wednesday, October 11.
Panelists for the October 9th program will be Visiting Professor Philip Malory Jones, Artist in Residence in the Aesthetic Technologies Lab, College of Fine Arts at Ohio University, and Professor Mark Leff of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. The program will take place in the Multipurpose Room of the Lindley Cultural Center (Room 052) from 3:00 – 4:30 PM. The panelists will discuss the broad theme of “Finding and Saving the African American Record.”
Professor Jones is also Resident Artist at the Center for African American Archival Preservation and Creative Director for Alchemy Media and Marketing, Inc. (www.alchemy-media.com), both in Atlanta, GA.
Professor Leff is doing research for a documentary on Milton Holland, an Athens County resident who received the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War and then had a long career in business and civic affairs in Washington, DC in the decades after the conflict. Leff previously produced a documentary, The Sky Has Fallen (2005), on the closing of Ohio University in 1970.
John Fleming will talk on “Documenting the African American Experience: A Personal Journey” on October 11th. Fleming serves on the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board members of which are appointed by the Governor. He worked previously as director of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati and the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, OH. He is the author of the recently published A Summer Remembered: A Memoir (2005) and will sign copies following his talk. Fleming’s lecture will take place in Walter Hall Room 145 beginning at 7:30 PM.
The programs are sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University, the Ohio University President’s Office for Diversity, and the Ohio University Libraries’ Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections. Both events are free and open to the public.
Archives Week in Ohio in sponsored by the Society of Ohio Archivists, a statewide association established in 1968. This year’s theme “African Americans in Ohio” ties in with the sesquicentennial of Wilberforce University. Archives Week is a program to increase the general public’s awareness of archival materials and archival centers. For more information, visit www.ohioarchivists.org/aweek.htm.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University presented five awards and announced three scholarship recipients at the organization’s Annual Meeting on May 31, 2006.
Awards for individual support were presented to Prof. Phillip Bebb, Judy Daso, Prof. Gifford Doxsee, Prof. Janis Holm, and Richard Purdy. Bebb and Purdy were recognized for work on the Friends Scholarships selection committee. Daso was recognized for service on the same committee and at book sales. Doxsee has been a long-time book sale volunteer. Holm served the English department as its representative to the Libraries.
Three student assistants in Alden Library received Friends Scholarships for the upcoming school year. The recipients, announced at the meeting, are Nicole Baum, Breanne Smith, and Rudi Sukandar. Baum, a senior Art Education major from Millfield, OH, works in Instructional Media Services. Smith is a sophomore majoring in Journalism who works in the Center for International Collections and hails from Lucasville, OH. Sukandar, a graduate student in the Scripps College of Communication who also works in the Center for International Collections is from Indonesia.
In other business the Friends of the Libraries elected Greg Kremer as President, Catherine Brown as Vice President, and Mary Kaye Jordan, Richard Moffit, and Beth Vanderveer as directors. Art Marinelli stepped down as president, and Olivea Oldham and Jorg Waltje completed terms as directors. The Friends also announced a gift of approximately $9,500 for the purchase of a large world globe for the Learning Commons, a new skeleton for the Health Sciences Library, and a tabloid-size public scanning unit as the group’s annual gift to the Libraries.
Following the business meeting, History Prof. Steven Miner gave a presentation, “The Three Faces of War,” on the war in the Soviet Union during World War II.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University was formed in 1979 with the purpose of strengthening the Libraries, enhancing their collections, and promoting their usefulness. The group has raised more than $300,000 for operations, gifts, and scholarships in support of the Ohio University Libraries since its establishment.
The Friends of the Libraries will hold their annual Readathon event next
week, on Tuesday-Wednesday, May 9-10. This year the Readathon will take
place in Alden Library, in the 4th floor lounge area. Among the the readers are President Roderick McDavis, Deborah McDavis, and Provost Kathy Krendl; their times are 11 a.m, 2:30 p.m., and 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, respectively. A full schedule, in PDF format, is available here.
The purpose of the Readathon is two-fold: (1) to celebrate the importance
of reading in our society and the place of the library in the academic
culture, and (2) to support readers with cash donations which funds all go
to the Friends Scholarship fund for student assistants.
Finally, if you see kites and a puppet of Ben Franklin around the lounge
next week, be aware that this year marks the 350th anniversary of
Franklin’s birth. This outstanding American citizen, among many other
things, founded the first subscription (circulating) library in our country
in Philadelphia.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University will begin their Spring Book Sale on Thursday, May 4 with a pre-sale from 7-9 p.m. During the pre-sale most books are priced at $2 each, double the usual price.
Sale hours on Friday, May 5 will be 10 am-6 pm, and from 10 am-4 pm on Saturday, May 6. Most books are priced at $1 each on Friday and Saturday, with a select group priced higher. Prices will be reduced to a bargain rate of $3 per plastic bag after 1 pm on Saturday.
The sale is open to the public and will be held on the fourth floor of Alden Library near the Circulation desk.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University, now more than a quarter century old, were established in 1979 to provide support for strengthening the Libraries, their collections and services.
For more information, contact: George W. Bain, Executive Secretary, Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University, 504 Alden Library.
Phone: (740) 593-2713; Fax: (740)593-2708; Email: bain@ohio.edu.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University are sponsoring the 16th annual reception for Ohio University Faculty & Staff Authors & Performers on Wednesday, April 5 beginning at 3:30 p.m. The program will be held in the Class of 1951 Lounge on the 4th floor of Alden Library.
“This is an annual event the Friends hold to recognize publicly and collectively the combined output of books and major performances of the faculty and staff,” states George Bain, Executive Secretary of the Friends. “At this year’s reception we will honor approximately 45 individuals.”
Provost Kathy Krendl will make brief remarks and present certificates to the honorees. Copies of many of the books and other items such as CDs will be on display, along with an exhibit of similar publications over the past century.
The event, held during National Library Week, is supported by a donation from the Ohio University Credit Union. The program is open to the public. Refreshments and flute music will be provided.
The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University have provided support for the Libraries since 1979.
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