They aren’t the kind of masks that you’d normally associate with Halloween, but they are bright, colorful, and worth seeing! Children from Longfellow Elementary, a school neighboring the Augustana campus, created the beautiful assortment of African masks now on display on second floor of the library.
And while you’re here, be sure to check out the ominous candy box and friendly ghost located near Circulation!
October is Illinois Archives Month, celebrated as part of American Archives Month. Each October, archival institutions set aside some time to celebrate the vast array of historical materials they hold and to invite the public to become more aware of their local archives. The Illinois State Archives produces a poster that is distributed free to the nearly 400 archival repositories in the state, including college and university, library, corporate, and non-profit archives. Augustana College’s Special Collections is proud to have a photo from our collection featured in the poster again this year. Our contributed photo is of a steamboat on the Mississippi River at Rock Island, taken in 1941 by John Henry Hauberg.
Visit our web site (http://www.augustana.edu/library/SpecialCollections/home.html) to learn more about our archival collections, or stop in and see for yourself, Monday-Friday, 1-5 pm.
Profoundly deaf since age 4, Josh Swiller, a graduate of Yale University, served in Zambia in the Peace Corps for two years in the mid-1990s where he encountered both acceptance as a deaf man and resistance as an outsider trying to improve living conditions. He wrote a book about his experience there: The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa. In 2005, Josh received a cochlear implant so that his hearing is now 100%. Since his experience in Africa, Josh has undertaken a variety of jobs: forest ranger in the California Redwoods, sheepskin slipper craftsman and salesman, Zen monk, raw food chef, and hospice social worker. He currently works at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., is developing a nonprofit foundation that serves the deaf in developing countries, and is writing a novel. We are excited to have Josh Swiller on campus Tuesday afternoon and Thursday morning when he will deliver the convocation address. He will also be visiting St. Ambrose University, giving an address for the public Wednesday evening in the Rogalski Center at 7:00 p.m.
Students in Religion 207: The Bible in America, with Dr. Sara Moslener, will have bibles on display in the library on Friday, October 2. This class focuses on bibles as cultural artifacts; participants have been researching all term to learn about the printing, marketing, historical context and intended audience of bibles of their choosing, which range from old family bibles to recently published ones. Come visit the exhibit on Tredway Library’s 2nd floor to see what your classmates and students have discovered about their bibles!
Some poems have perfect posture, as if hanging by
filaments from the sky.
Those poems walk like dancers,
noiselessly.
Poet, novelist, and prose writer James Galvin will be the next guest in The River Readings at Augustana, on Thursday, October 1 at 7:00 p.m. in Wallenberg Hall. A member of the faculty at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, Galvin is the author of seven volumes of poetry, most recently As Is; a novel, Fencing the Sky; and a prose work The Meadow, Galvin has won numerous awards including a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Foundation Award, a Lannan Literary Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Galvin ranches half the year in Wyoming.
**Samples of Galvin’s work on Moodle: Library/River Readings**
“LunchBytes @ the Library”
Tuesday, Sept. 29
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
2nd floor north, Library
Click It! Student Response Systems in Classroom Instruction
We’ve all been there: You ask a question and your students sit there, blinking. With a remote answering device, students can log their responses — anonymously — with the click of a button. Come hear how librarian Amanda Makula uses the system to teach and review library skills, and how you can utilize the technology in your own classes with help from Shawn Beattie in ITS. Pizza provided; please bring your own beverage.
“LunchBytes” is a joint program of Tredway Library and ITS exploring teaching resources and issues in higher education.
