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March is National Women’s History Month

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Lamson Library celebrates National Women’s History Month with a display of materials focusing on this year’s theme, Generations of Women Moving History Forward.

The National Women’s History Project has more information on this year’s celebration and other educational programs and resources. During March, the library blog will connect you to local events on campus so come back often!

In the meantime, check out one of this year’s top Women’s History Books, as noted in the February 15, 2007 edition of Booklist magazine.

Unbowed: a memoir by Wangari Maathai (Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize)
African Queen: the real life of the Hottentot Venus by Rachel Holmes
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
Chrysalis: Marie Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis by Kim Todd
Beatrix Potter: a life in nature by Linda Lear
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China’s eternal first lady by Laura Tyson Li
Love and Louis XIV: the women in the life of the sun king by Antonia Fraser
A woman of uncertain character: the amourous and radical adventures of my mother Jennie by Clancy Sigal
Jane Goodall: the woman who redefined man by Dale Peterson
Virgin: the untouched history by Hanne Blank
Anna of all the Russias: the life of Anna Akhmatova by Elaine Feinstein

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Newbery award winning book banned from libraries

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Librarian/author Susan Patron discovered the downside of winning the highest award in children’s literature.

In her 2007 Newbery Award winning book, The Higher Power of Lucky, the word “scrotum” appears on the first page. The books heroine, Lucky Trimble, hears the word through a wall from another character who is describing where his dog was bitten by a rattlesnake.

Fearing controversy, libraries in several areas of the country have banned the book entirely from their collections.

Read more about the uproar of one word from Sunday’s New York Times or listen to an interview with the author on National Public Radio.

Check out The Higher Power of Lucky for yourself and tell us what you think!

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Landscape photography at the Commons Cafe

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

The Library and Lamson Learning Commons is pleased to display the landscape photography of PSU student Andrew P. Cary in the Commons Cafe.

Cary is the first student at Plymouth to create a complete digital portfolio in photography. He writes that “looking through the lens allows me to create interesting compositions and to explore and capture everyday landscape scenes into pictures that communicate on another level.”

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Harlem Renaissance display at Lamson

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

In observation of Black History Month, Lamson Library is celebrating the Harlem Renaissance with a selection of library resources on the rich literary and cultural heritage of this period.

Contributed by Lissa Pearson Zinfon, Coordinator of Library Instruction.

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Kindergarteners visit Lamson Library

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Kindergarteners from the PSU Child Development and Family Center visited the library on Thursday February 8th. The class had been exploring fairy tales and were eager to find their favorites such as Beauty and the Beast, The Three Little Pigs, and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Outreach Librarian, Anne Kulig, read a new twist on one old favorite entitled KATE and the Beanstalk by Mary Pope Osborn (author of the the popular Magic Tree House series) and then the youngsters visited the Children’s Literature collection to find their OWN magic.

The Childcare Center protocol does not permit us to show pictures of the children, but a good time was had by all. Our thanks go to Meredith Leighton and Karen McDonough, Kindergarten Teachers, for arranging the visit.

Come back soon!

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PSU’s Snowy Past

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

The Michael J. Spinelli, Jr. Center for University Archives and Special Collections presents an exhibit of winter activities at Plymouth. Most photographs and written material comes from the first half of the 20th century, including Plymouth Normal School and Plymouth Teachers College. The photographs depict typical winter activities, skiing, snowshoeing, and Winter Carnival. The exhibit is located on the upper level of Lamson Library, near the entrance to the Archives Room. These photographs of the 1959 Winter Carnival were donated by alum Marilyn Currie Mons, class of 1961.

For more information, contact Alice Staples, Archives/Special Collections Librarian at 535-2961 or email at astaples@plymouth.edu.

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February is American Heart Month

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

For more information, visit the American Heart Association and check out the library’s material on heart health.

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Environmental Art Display in Commons Cafe

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

From Phil Lonergan, Instructor

“This environmental artwork filled up all of Riverfront Park in Plymouth. As is often the case with earthworks, this one didn’t last very long. It took two hours for 12 people (with 12 rakes!) to construct theis piece, but it only took the rain until the next day to wash it all away. The interaction between the elements and the work is part of what makes this kind of art so dynamic.”

The artists participating in the project were: Matthew Blanchette, Jeffrey Chase, Chantal Cote, Katie Dexter, Sarah Flavin, Jacob Lemay, Ashley Merrill, Matthew Rich, Kearsley Rooke and Catherine Wilson.

Check out all the photographs on display at the Commons Cafe! Want to display YOUR artwork? Contact Tamara White at twhite7@mail.plymouth.edu.

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Rachel Gross “Pictorial Illusion” on display at Lamson

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Pictorial Illusion: The Graphic Art of Rachel Gross
Lamson Library January 31 – March 16, 2007

Opening Reception January 31, 4 – 6 p.m.

Vermont printmaker, Rachel Gross, has this to say about her work:

“I have always been interested in the narrative possibility of pictorial illusion. The images of furniture, interior spaces, and details of floral wallpaper and upholstery patterns, create a surreal, dream-like atmosphere. The ghost-like images are reminiscent of plans or blueprints, implying a future manifestation, while at the same time they are traces from a past event.

Time is also an important part of the process. When making the etchings the process of scratching, scraping, sanding is literally embedded in the plates. The linear images in many of the panel pieces are made by tracing from photographs onto the panels using a type of carbon paper made out of powdered pigment. The resulting image is a record of the activity of tracing.

In much of the work the sense of space alternates between depth and flatness through the layering of linear elements. This flat/deep dialectic is underscored by the illusion of depth in the drawings and paintings versus the concrete nature of the wooden panels and shaped etching plates. The rounded corners of the surfaces themselves suggest desktops, mattresses, or old television screens. These surfaces become like containers for human activity and design, psychological spaces on which to project visions for the future and memories of the past.”

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