After a 2 year “COVID” hiatus we have again put up the ALUMNI AUTHORS BOOK DISPLAY, our exhibit of alumni authors. The works of more than 121 alumni authors, 14 producers, 3 artists, 2 composers and 13 actors are currently on display, representing a total of 153 former students. If any alumnus wants to be included in […]
A new library display is up in memory of all who lost their lives lost on 9/11/2001, 20 years ago, especially our Portsmouth Abbey School alumnus, Edward “Ted” Brennan III, of the class of 1982. Father Ambrose Wolverton, OSB of the Abbey celebrated the Memorial Mass. Ted was an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost 658 staffers on […]
During the period of dual on-site and distance learning beginning January 2021, the library conducted a full school inventory of the over 45, 000 items in the collection. The last full inventory was done by Mrs. Stevens and the then staff in 2006 with some portions (paperbacks and DVDS) also redone in 2014. We added […]
This donation has reached a milestone! The library has just added the 2,600 items into the History Department Capone Fund donation as of this spring. Robert Capone Sr., father of Robert. Jr., class of 1991, has been donating money for a number of decades in varying dollar amounts, specifically each year for the benefit of […]
To highlight and celebrate the creative effort of Black artists and musicians, the library has a spring display of the lives and works. Included are the biographies of Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Nat King Cole, Augusta Savage, Kara Walker, and others. Also featured are histories of the creative works developed during the Harlem Renaissance, the […]
This month the library has a display of the works of Fritz Eichenberg focusing on his “Works of Mercy”. Eichenberg (October 24, 1901 – November 30, 1990) was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion, social justice and nonviolence.Raised in a non-religious family, […]
The library has received a donation of books translated from the Chinese and Indonesian by alumnus author George A. Fowler, Jr. (’63). Mr. Fowler served in Vietnam with the Marines in 1966-1968 and returned to the Southeast Asian region in 1970 to study local languages. He co-authored Pertamina: Indonesian National Oil (1972) and Java; a […]
To observe Veterans Day, the library displayed books and films about the armistice that brought World War I to an end. Although November 11th became known as Veterans Day in 1954, it was originally called Armistice Day. Featured books included 11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour by Joseph E. Perrico, Cataclysm by David Stevenson, Fighting […]
This fall, the library had a display of books and information about the United States Census. Through the end of the term, the library asked a weekly question about the census, which is conducted every ten years. The answer was displayed each Wednesday. Our display included two recently released books, Thank You for Voting by […]
We needed to prepare for opening the library during the pandemic and a hybrid of “in person and on-line learning” was the directive from the administration. So first, after reading and viewing other library floor plans, we removed one half the computers, spacing them 6 feet apart wherever they appeared (student use, computer catalog stations, […]