Ohio University Libraries News and Events

University Libraries and Friends of the Libraries are excited to once again take part in the Annual Student Research and Creative Activity Expo by providing three awards to Expo participants.

Sponsored by Friends of the Libraries, an award of $100 each will be given to one undergraduate and one graduate project. In addition, a $50 Librarian’s Choice Award will be selected the day of the Expo.

Not just filled with books and computers, the library has many friendly librarians ready to help with your latest paper or project, and to aid you with our numerous services. Winning applicants will demonstrate their exceptional use of our library resources, services, and facilities for their research projects and creative endeavors.

To be considered for a library sponsored award, Expo participants need to complete an online application (http://www.library.ohiou.edu/info/awards.html) no later than May 1, 2008.

Winners will be selected by library staff committee members Araba Dawson-Andoh, Joyce Douglas, Michael Farmer, Sherri Saines and Dawn Walter-Gagliano.

We are pleased to announce the availability of an online index to The Post, Ohio University’s campus newspaper, that covers the time period from Fall 1985 through Spring 1995. You may find this index listed in Infotree as Post Index (online). The direct link is www2.library.ohiou.edu/post2/.

The library also has a printed index to The Post covering the years 1939 through 1950, and 1961 through 1985. These volumes are available in Alden’s reference stacks on the 2nd floor (call number LD4191.O82 G7x Index). More information about our holdings and indexing to The Post is available among our Newspaper Timelines.

As part of the Alden Library Diversity Committee’s Culture Corner Series entitled Portraits of Appalachian Women, author Sharon Hatfield will be giving a talk entitled, “Marry in Haste; Repent in Leisure: Edith Maxwell and the National Woman’s Party”. The presentation will be held on April 16^th at 3:00pm on the third floor of Alden Library in the Friends of the Libraries room.

Sharon Hatfield is the author of Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell (University of Illinois Press, 2005) and co-editor of An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature (Ohio University Press, 2005). She grew up in the Cumberland Mountains of Lee County, Virginia. After college she became a newspaper reporter in Wise County, Virginia, covering the justice system in the same courtroom Edith Maxwell was tried for murder.

Hatfield holds a master’s degree in Journalism from Ohio University and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. She lives in Athens, Ohio, with her husband Jack Wright, and teaches writing at Hocking College.

Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.

The Culture Corner display this quarter includes a group of photographs taken of women in this area during the last century. The photographs are all part of the Manuscript Collection located in the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections which is on the fifth floor of Alden Library. Included in the Culture Corner exhibit are photographs from the Lloyd Moore Collection, the Buhla Collection, and the Dairy Barn Collection, as well as publications from the Fine Arts collection on the third floor. The exhibit contains artifacts from the Athens County Historical Society and Museum as well as the College of Fine Arts, School of Theater’s costume shop. So stop by the Culture Corner on the fourth floor and take a trip back in time, or check us out online to see lists of titles and materials relevant to this quarter’s theme of Portraits of Appalachian Women.