You Can Take It With You: Augustana Mementos and Souvenirs

As the celebration of the college’s sesquicentennial approaches, we thought it would be fun to mark the 150 years of Augustana’s existence by collecting Augie mementos and sourvenirs from alums and staff. We display the usual suspects: mugs, steins, pennants, shirts and pens, but we did turn up a few unusual things: a Wedgewood-type cameo of Old Main, a stained-glass Viking, a hand-knitted Viking hat (thanks, Jamie Nelson), and a football blanket from 1894! We also found a button that commemorated the library’s move from Denkmann to Tredway in 1990. It says “Pass the Word” which highlights the human  chain across campus along which the books moved from one body to the next. Phew!

Don’t forget to stop down in Special Collections where their display “True Blue and Gold: Memorabilia from Special Collections” includes cool and classy stuff, such as two watch fobs from 1929, a dance card from 1927 and an Augie belt buckle from 1915.

Take home a book over Thanksgiving break!

We have some wonderful new books in the McNaughton collection — just in time for you to check out and take home to read over the Thanksgiving break!

Breathless by Dean Koontz

Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton

True Blue by David Baldacci

The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw

Jaclyn the Ripper by Karl Alexander

What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

Twisted Tree by Kent Meyers

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog by Lisa Scottoline

But Not For Long by Michelle Wildgen

Peter & Max by Bill Willingham

A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris

Love and Summer by William Trevor

Thanksgiving Week Hours

The Thomas Tredway library will be open for the following hours during Thanksgiving Week:

Monday & Tuesday, Nov. 23rd & 24th: Open 7:30 am – Midnight (Regular Hours)

Wednesday, November 25th: Open 7:30 am – 5 pm (Brew closes at 4 pm)

Thursday – Saturday, Nov. 26th – 28th: Library is closed for the Thanksgiving holiday

Sunday, Nov. 29th: Open 6 pm – Midnight (Brew open 5 – 10 pm)

Regular hours resume on Monday, Nov. 30th.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Silent Influences: Photographs by Hunt Harris

Silent Influences: Photographs by Hunt Harris, Fourth floor coffee shop in the Thomas Tredway Library

Monday, November 23, 4 p.m., Tredway Library

Hunt Harris will speak about his digital photographs and the infrared results. 

Moline native Hunt Harris acknowledges that family and career responsibilities took precedent over his childhood passion for photography, but decades later, with the advent of digital cameras and an empty nest, his interest in photography was rekindled. Especially intrigued to capture the essence of a scene, he has found that the image captured with a lens does not fully express what he visualized, so he enhances his shots on the computer with Photoshop. This exhibition includes some of his early use of a digital camera specifically converted to take black and white infrared pictures.  He notes, “After conversion this camera ‘sees’ a longer wavelength spectrum of light turning green leaves to white.  The result is a stunning contrast between architecture, water, blue sky and foliage not recorded by conventional digital or film cameras.” With a master’s degree in business from Stanford University, he is president and owner of Isabel Bloom L.L.C., and has headed many volunteer programs in the Quad Cities. The exhibition title is derived from a quotation from Dr. Conrad Bergendoff: “Who can estimate the silent influence a beautiful campus can make on the hundreds of young people who daily walk over it? This, too, is part of an education.”

More McNaughtons

Today we received two new books for the Leisure Collection:

I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
Under the Dome by Stephen King

Check them out today!

Squash Cheese Casserole

We seem to be eating everything orange this month. I brought this dish to the library potluck this week. Give it a try.

Squash-Cheese Casserole
(from Mollie Katzen’s Moosewood Cookbook, 1977)

 2 medium-large butternut or acorn squash
1 heaping cup chopped onion
2-3 cloves crushed (I chopped it) garlic
1 heaping cup mixed green and red peppers, chopped
3 T. butter or olive oil for sauté (I used oil)
2 beaten eggs
1 tsp. salt
Black and red pepper to taste (I used black only)
1 cup buttermilk or yogurt (each one is  good)
½ crumbled feta cheese

 Cut the squash down the middle, lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds, and place it face-down on an oiled tray. Bake it at 375 about 35 minutes, or until soft. Cool until handle-able; scoop out and mash.

Sauté the onion and garlic, lightly-salted, in butter or oil. When the onion is translucent add the chopped peppers. Sauté until peppers are just under-done.

Beat eggs with buttermilk or yogurt. Crumble in the feat cheese. Combine everything and mix well. Add salt, black and red pepper or hot sauce to taste.

Spread into buttered casserole or baking pan. Top with sunflower seeds or nuts if desired. Bake at 375 covered, 25 minutes, uncovered, 10 minutes. Bon appétit!