Naked Came The Librarian: Chapter Six

“I’m not a stalker; I’m just trying to help.  I’m not a stalker; I’m just trying to help.”

 

Naked Came the Librarian: Chapter Six

by Anne Earel, Reference Librarian and Liaison to Social Sciences 

Click below to continue reading the sixth chapter of the library’s serial e-novel, Naked Came the Librarian.

nakedlibrarian_six.pdf

Adinkra!

There is something about this word that appeals to me–sounds like a “hurrah” with zing. What it actually means, however, is “farewell,” and it refers to a hand-dyed, stamped, and woven cloth made in Ntonso, Ghana, that is traditionally worn to funerals. The name “adinkra”comes from a legendary king who wore luxurious patterned fabrics.

 A year ago in the library, students, staff, and faculty stamped an adinkra cloth, led by Professor Rowen Schussheim-Anderson who learned the traditional adinkra-making techniques in Ghana Term 2006. In celebration of Black History Month, the Library recently added this large Adinkra cloth to its collection of artwork. You can find the permanent installation on the north side of 4th floor. 

10th and Finals Week Hours

The library will be open extended hours during 10th and Finals week:

10th Week*

Sat, Feb. 16:  10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Sun, Feb. 17:  10:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Mon, Feb. 18 – Thurs, Feb. 21:   7:30 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Fri, Feb. 22:   7:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Sat, Feb. 23:  10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Finals Week*

Sun, Feb. 24:  10:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Mon, Feb. 25 – Wed, Feb. 27:  7:30 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Thurs, Feb. 28:  7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Fri, Feb. 29:  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

The library will be open reduced hours during spring break and Easter recess:

Spring break*

Sat, Mar. 1 – Sun, Mar. 2:  CLOSED
Mon, Mar. 3 – Fri, Mar. 7:  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sat, Mar. 8 – Sun, Mar. 9:  CLOSED

Easter recess*

Thurs, Mar. 20:  7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Fri, Mar. 21 – Sun, Mar. 23:  CLOSED
Mon, Mar. 24:  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Regular hours resume Tuesday, Mar. 25.

*Hours are subject to change. As an academic institution we reserve the right to change closing dates and/or times.

Library patrons who wish to return materials when we are closed can do so by depositing items in the book return bins located beside our 2nd floor and 4th floor entrances.

For more information, call the Circulation Desk, at 309-794-7310.

Book Studies Lecture by Dr. Catherine Goebel

Thursday, February 14th, Tredway Library (2nd floor, south end)

3:45-5:00 p.m.

How will we be remembered?  Can our actions today affect our enduring legacies?  American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) refused to let the press label him “the misunderstood genius of his generation.” Taking his legacy into his own hands, he responded to reviews, critiqued his critics, and hired a press-clipping agency while compiling multiple scrapbooks–his first attempts at bookmaking–in preparation for his infamous, reputation-establishing publication, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (a first edition of which is held in Tredway Library’s Special Collections). 

Please join Whistler specialist Dr. Catherine Goebel for a discussion of  The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, the primary texts that influenced the work, and Whistler’s best-known painting, Whistler’s Mother.  Dr. Goebel’s ongoing research will include an exploration of Whistler’s hand-annotated scrapbooks–to be loaned by the University of Glasgow–and will also provide Augustana students with an opportunity to gain first-hand experience in original archival research.

Refreshments and conversation will begin at 3:45.  Hope to see you there!!!

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This is the fifth presentation in the year-long “Book Studies” lecture series, part of “From Parchment to Pixels: The Year of the Book.”
(Next in the series: Friday, March 28th  -  Dr. Jon Hurty, Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities)

Black History Month display

Stop by the puzzle table on 2nd floor of the library to see the new Black History Month display. The display features several library books such as:

• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
• Sisters in Science: Conversations with Black Women Scientists on Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science
• Dinner at Aunt  Connie’s House (children’s book)
• Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston
• Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955
• and many more!

These books are available for check-out.

Book Discussion

Bergendoff Hall, Room 126. 

Thursday, Feb. 28, 7:00 p.m.

In preparation for novelist Elizabeth McCracken’s reading on March 13 in the series Lit Wits: Writers Read at Augustana,  Augustana’s Katie Hanson will lead a discussion of McCracken’s wild and endearing novel Niagara Falls All Over Again. Read the book, talk about it with fellow enthusiasts, then hear the author herself read aloud on March 13!

 Spanning a lifetime, the novel follows the lives and career of vaudeville team Rocky Carter and Mose Sharp as they take the country by storm on the stage, then in Hollywood. As their careers dwindle, the two have a falling out, but the impact each has on the other’s life is enduring. Tender and funny, this is a wonderful story.

Discussion is free and open to the public.