Ohio University Libraries News and Events

Beginning on July 1, students will pay a flat three cents per sheet for printing black and white 8.5” X 11” pages in the Library, Baker Center and the CSC computer labs. All printing fees will be charged to the student’s bursar’s account. This change in fees was approved by the University Student Fees Committee and the Board of Trustees.

In the Library, two printing options that will be enabled by this change in fees are duplex printing which will cost five cents per sheet and black and white 11” X 17” printing which will cost 6 cents per sheet.

In addition, students doing color printing in the Library will now be able to charge that printing to their bursar’s account (instead of buying a vendacard to pay for color printing). Color printing will remain twenty-five cents per sheet for 8.5” X 11” and fifty cents per sheet for 11” X 17”.

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 May 8-10, 2008 located in Alden Library’s 4th floor lounge. The hours are:

Thursday, 7-9 pm (Presale for members only)

Friday, 10-6 pm

Saturday, 10-4 pm

“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 Alden Library Diversity Committee’s Culture Corner Series entitled Portraits of Appalachian Women, author Nancy Bain will be giving a talk entitled, “Women in Mining Communities: Information from Archival and Documentary Sources”. The presentation will be held on May 14^th at 2:00pm on the third floor of Alden Library in the Friends of the Libraries Room.

Dr. Nancy Bain is a professor emeritus in Geography. Originally from Minnesota, she completed her graduate work at the University of Minnesota. At OU she has served as department chair, University Ombuds, and was the first director of Women’s Studies. Her research interests include impact analysis, land change, and coal.

Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.