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The Ohio University Libraries and Tri-County Mental Health and Counseling Services, Inc. (TCMH&CS) are collaborating on an exhibit of artwork by consumers of mental health and substance abuse services. The “Art of Recovery” will be exhibited on the fourth floor of Alden Library from October 5 – 31.

The exhibit complements a public reception for artists and poets held at Tri-County Mental Health and Counseling Services, Inc., 90 Hospital Drive, Athens, Ohio, on October 14 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. The Art of Recovery and Poetry Chapbook (vol. II) will be available for purchase at the reception.

“Many of our consumers have tremendous artistic gifts,” says Loretta Lewis-Wells, Quality Improvement Director and exhibit coordinator for TCMH&CS. “We are pleased to offer this exhibit outside our facility. Art, poetry, and writing are excellent avenues for people to communicate with one another and share their innermost thoughts and feelings, which may not be expressed in spoken words.”

“The items in the exhibit will include painting, photography, fiber art, and mixed media,” she adds, “and many will be for sale.”

“This is an excellent opportunity for Alden Library to reach out and partner with part of the Athens community,” states Patricia Smith-Hunt, head of the Libraries’ Preservation Department and a member of the 317 Board (Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services) serving Athens, Hocking, and Vinton Counties. “More importantly, the Art of Recovery exhibit will give library staff and users an opportunity to see the talents of community members who, coincidentally, are experiencing mental health challenges and as such are too often either forgotten or marginalized.”

On October 14 between 10:00 am and 11:45 am prior to the reception, Tri-County Mental Health and Counseling Services, Inc., will have a shuttle van available to transport artists and guests between Alden Library and TCMH&CS. Alden Library is situated on the south side of Ohio University’s College Green.

Post Script (8 October): Peoples’ Choice Awards Voting Announced
You are invited to cast your ballot for the Peoples’ Choice Awards for The Art of Recovery exhibit. Balloting will conclude at noon on Monday, October 25, with the winners to be announced shortly after.

On October 1, 2004, the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) began offering free, full-text, non-journal ERIC resources.
These materials include more than 107,000 full-text documents which were previously available through fee-based services only.

OhioLINK’s linking software, OLinks, has been updated to link to these documents. OLinks provides direct access to the full-text
ERIC document from the citation in the ERIC database. OhioLINK users can find links to these ERIC documents, or any other full text,
by clicking on the “Find a Copy” link, or the OLinks icon from the search results screen of the ERIC database.

The full-text is only available for ERIC documents with dates of 1993 or later. New ERIC documents produced from now on will be only
in electronic format. ERIC documents produced prior to 1993 are still available only in microfiche and are housed in the Microforms Department in Alden Library.