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, […]
Early in the summer I came across this list from the website “Ideal bookshelf”. I decided to see how our collection fared in our holdings. The titles we owned are indicated by a star. Shortly thereafter we added more titles reflecting faculty recommendations and new offerings. (R.S.) Ideal Bookshelf Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, […]
Just before Spring school vacation we created a display that would recognize that Pope Francis had acknowledged a miracle in the saintly cause of a 15 year old teenage boy in Italy, Carlo Acutis, who created a religious web site before he died. The bookcase and an additional library shelf was filled with over 50 […]
In March, the library will be hosting its first ever online book club through the website Goodreads. The selection for our inaugural “group read” is The Stories of Ray Bradbury. We’ve chosen some of his finest works, including “The Pedestrian,” “The Veldt,” “A Sound of Thunder,” “The Rocket Man,” “The Golden Apples of the Sun,” […]