Dec. 15-16 (Sat.-Sun.) CLOSED
Dec. 17-21 (Mon.-Fri.) 8am-5pm
Dec. 22-Dec. 31 CLOSED
January 1, 2008 CLOSED
Jan. 2-4 (Mon.-Fri.) 8am-5pm
Jan. 5-6 (Sat.-Sun.) CLOSED
Regular hours resume Mon., January 7.
BECAUSE OF THE DIFFICULT WEATHER, THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ENTRIES FOR THE LIBRARY FINE ARTS COMPETITION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, FEB. 15, AT 4pm. BRING YOUR ENTRIES TO THE CIRCULATION OR REFERENCE DESK ANYTIME UNTIL THEN. This means that the show will be judged next week (probably Wednesday) and the Awards Ceremony will be held in the Art Gallery from 2-3 Friday, Feb. 22.
Click here for printable entry form.
The IUS Library invites you to participate in our
Sixth Annual Fine Arts Competition and Show
February 11-March 13, 2008
The Indiana University Southeast Library invites student artists to participate in our Fine Arts Competition, which this year offers two options: you may choose to enter a work on any subject or theme, which will be eligible for the Grand Purchase Prize; or you may choose to enter a thematic work celebrating the nature and importance of books, literature, libraries, reading and literacy, or information in any of its many and changing forms. These thematic works will be eligible for the Grand Purchase Prize as well as a special Director’s Discretionary Purchase Prize.
Awards: The Grand Purchase Prize, a $300 purchase award for the overall best work, will be awarded based on the decision of a designated juror; and a $300 Director’s Discretionary Purchase Prize for outstanding work based on the library theme may, at the discretion of the Library Director, be awarded. Additionally, $10 Certificates of Merit will be awarded to outstanding work in each of the following categories: painting, drawing, ceramics, printmaking, and graphic arts.
Eligibility: This competition is open to any currently enrolled student at Indiana University Southeast. Works of fine art in any medium in any size the Library can accommodate are eligible. (For questions of size, call Nancy Totten, 941-2209.) There is a limit of 3 works per artist.
Judge: TBA
Calendar:
Feb 11-12: Work, ready to display, must be delivered to the IU Southeast Library Reference Desk with completed entry form attached, by 5 p.m. Feb. 12. (You will need one entry form for each work you plan to enter.)
Feb 13-14: Show selected, juried, and installed. Show will run through Mar 12.
Feb. 15: Artist reception and award ceremony, Library Gallery, 2:00-3:00.
March 14-20: Art work must be picked up from Library.
Liability: While utmost care will be taken with the works and we do not anticipate problems, the Library cannot be responsible for accidental damage or theft.
Click here for printable entry form.
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What`s your brain temperature? And why does it matter? Come hear Dr. Laura McIlvoy of the IUS School of Nursing talk about her research on the impact of brain temperature on the body. Everyone is welcome at this LITTLE KNOWLEDGE presentation to be held in the Library at 12:15 on Wednesday, Feb. 27. Feel free to bring your lunch! |
Friday, Dec. 14, we'll have our last OPEN BOOKS session of the semester, in LB230 at noon. We're discussing Three Cups of Tea, an unusual book which appears to be on its way to becoming a best-seller. It's the story of a very interesting, and probably neurotic, American mountain-climber who has become a hero in the rural mountainous areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan by building village schools. Greg Mortenson has gradually become a very important person both in those countries and in the U.S., and this book presents an account of that. Come join us!
Facebook, MySpace, Mojo, Second Life—how are these interactive social networking sites changing the way we communicate? How do they affect the academic community, and the way we do research? Maria Accardi, Instruction Librarian and social network aficionada, discusses these issues in our January A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE… presentation on Tuesday, January 29, at 12:15pm in the Library, LB230. Come and find out what those mesmerized students in the back of the room are doing with their cellphones and laptops!!!
Everyone is welcome, and feel free to bring your lunch.
Time for another semester of lively book discussions! All of the sessions are held in LB230 in the Library on the second Friday of each month, from 12:15-1 or until people stop talking! We welcome community members, staff, students, and faculty, and you can bring lunch if you wish. The fall schedule is as follows:
September 14 One for the Money, by Janet Evanovich
October 12 The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
November 9 The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, by Mohja Kahf
December 14 Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson
The IUS Library has at least one copy of each book and each one is available in paperback. Hope you can come to one or all of the discussions!
IUCAT will be unavailable from 12:01 am EST Saturday January 19 through
12:00 noon EST Sunday January 20 for scheduled maintenance
the Library will be open regular hours this weekend, Jan. 19-20, but will be CLOSED on Monday for Martin Luther King Day. Regular hours resume at 8am on Tuesday the 22.
The Art students in John Guenther's Professional Skills class have mounted a collaborative show of their work in the Library's Art Gallery. The show, which opens October 5, is being installed and managed entirely by these students, most of whom are seniors on the verge of beginning their own careers in art. Everyone is invited to the opening reception, held in the Library First Floor Art Gallery on Friday, Oct. 5, from 5-7. If you can't come to the reception, be sure to come view the show, which will be available until Nov. 10.
Walden, by henry David Thoreau
Howard's End, by E. M. Forster
Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
A Morbid Taste for Bones (A Brother Cadfael Mystery), by Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
The Library is hosting several events to mark International Education week, Nov. 12-16. You are invited to attend any or all of these events:
ALL WEEK:
PENNY SISTO'S Quilts from Penny Sisto's Immigration Series, First Floor Art Gallery
International Photography Contest Display, Main Floor, Library. Come by and vote!
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:20 Immigration: An Historical Overview
Professor Yu Shen
10:20-10:30 BREAK
10:30-11:30 Panel of Service Providers
11:30-12:00 Becoming a Citizen Exercise/Discussion
12:00- 1:00 Box lunch and Presentation on ESL Education
at IU Southeast
1:00- 1:45 Panel of Immigrants
1:45- 2:00 Immigration Myths & True/False Quiz
2:00- 2:15 BREAK
2:15- 3:00 Practical Ideas for the Classroom
3:00 Wrap-Up
The IUS Library’s “A Little Knowledge…” series announces:
On Tuesday, November 30
12:15-1:15
Professors Linda Gugin and Jim St. Clair will present
an informal discussion about their adventures in researching, writing
and publishing the biographies of historical and political figures .
Come find out how they do it!
Staff, faculty, students and community members are welcome.
Ever wonder about the process an artist uses to make a painting—
where to start, how to decide on color and form—and what if you want to erase?
IUS Fine Arts Professor and award-winning painter Debra Clem will
share her methods with us, using illustrations from her own work.
Come and hear her at 12:30, Wednesday Dec. 5 in the Library, LB230, in the Library's
A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE... series.
Everyone is invited!
For one week only, Nov. 26-30, you can view a block of the AIDS quilt on display at the IUS Library. The quilt's appearance is sponsored by the SAFEZone Committee and Campus Life, and is located hanging from the rear skylight. It is a moving experience, made more poignant because two of the persons memorialized on this block are from Louisville.
Library Intersession Hours
August 8 (WED) Summer II ends, Intersession Begins
August 9 (THUR) 8AM-5PM
August 10 (FRI) CLOSED for Staff Retreat
August 11 AND 12 (SAT AND SUN) CLOSED
August 13-17 (MON-FRI) 8AM-5PM
August 18 AND 19 (SAT AND SUN) CLOSED
August 20-24 (MON-FRI) 8AM-5PM
August 25 AND 26 (SAT AND SUN) CLOSED
Regular Hours Resume August 27 (MON) with the start of the fall session.
The Library has added the following databases to the Article and Databases pages:
Black Short Fiction
Black Women Writers
Twentieth Century North American Drama
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000.
Social Theory
Nineteenth Century Newspapers
Check them out! (Select Article and Database Search and find the databases by title in the Alphabetical list)
The Library's First Floor Gallery is currently hosting an MLS graduate exhibit by Kelly Powell, an MLS graduate and Fine Arts Adjunct. Called A Life in Layers, the show consists of twelve digital prints designed by the artist, inspired by the "mola" art of the Kuna Indian women of Panama. Using intricately worked layers of fabric, the Kuna women create brightly colored designs drawn from their everyday life. Using the digital software which are the tools of her graphic design career, Ms. Powell has created designs representative of her own life as daughter, designer, wife and mother.
Visitors are welcome anytime the Library is open.
OPEN BOOKS, the IUS Library Community/Campus book discussion group will meet twice more during the summer:
Friday, June 8 : Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Friday, July 13: Crack in the Edge of the World, by Simon Winchester
OPEN BOOKS will be on vacation for August!
All sessions are held in LB230 at noon. Everyone is welcome!
National Library Week
April 15-21, 2007
IUS Library would like to thank the local merchants who have made donations for National Library Week.
These donations were given as prizes for the drawing on Friday, April 20 and for the 5K Fun Run on Saturday, April 21.
Earth and Fire: Pottery by You
Ideal Fitness
Joe’s O.K. Bayou
McDonald’s
Pacers & Racers
Penn Station
Pizza King
Puerto Vallarta Mexican Restaurant
Scorpio Salon & Spa
Subway
Target
Total Fitness & Wellness
Wings to Go
The OPEN BOOKS discussion group is taking a vacation during August, but look to this space for the announcement of Fall book selections!
On Friday August 31, Congressman Baron Hill will be talking with constituents from 3:45-4:30 in the Library's Third Floor Reading Area. Everyone is invited--come, have some refreshments, and let Congressman Hill hear your views. That's Friday, August 31, 2:45-4pm. Additionally, Congressman Hill is sponsoring the following event: 2007 SOUTHERN INDIANA ECONOMIC FORUM Friday, August 31, 2007 9:00 – 11:45 a.m. Paul W. Ogle Cultural & Community Center Agenda: ·Panel One: Outlook on the Southern Indiana Economy ·Panel Two: Healthcare Today: Problems & Solutions ·Panel Three: Achieving Energy Independence in Southern Indiana
On Friday Oct. 12, Dr. Bill Sweigart will lead a discussion of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, in LB230 from 12-1pm. This compelling memoir details the aftermath of the death of Didion's husband of 40 years, John Gregory Dunne. Everyone is welcome to join the discussion!
REGULAR HOURS RESUME TUESDAY, MAY 8
Best-seller author, James Alexander Thom, and his wife, Dark Rain (who is Shawnee, a co-author and consultant on many of Thom's novels and an author in her own right) will visit campus on Thursday, June 21, for a lecture entitled "Cultural Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition--Legacies Backward and Forward." The lecturers will be available for book signings and informal discussions beginning at Noon in the 3rd Floor Reading Gallery, IU Southeast Library.
At 1:30 they will discuss Native American Cultures Then and Now and the Roles of Native Women; they will remain for additional book signings and discussion following the lecture.
The Thoms' novels include FOLLOW THE RIVER (1983), FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA (1984), LONG KNIFE (1986), PANTHER IN THE SKY (1989), THE CHILDREN OF FIRST MAN
(1994), WARRIOR WOMAN, and SIGN TALKER.
The event, co-sponsored by the Indiana Lewis and Clark Commission and the Center for Cultural Resources/IU Southeast, is free and open to the public.
Faculty, students and the community are encouraged to attend.
Celebrate National Library Week
with the IUS Library!
All events are open to the public, and all events
(except for the5K Fun Run), are free.
Monday, April 16: “A Little Knowledge…”
IUS Psychology Professor Diane Wille shares her findings from a 14-year study on “Parenting and Attachment.” Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.
12:15-1:15 p.m., Third Floor Rear Gallery
Tuesday, April 17: International Poetry Reading
(co-sponsored by the School of Arts and Letters)
Come hear poetry read in many different languages—we’ll provide translations.
Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.
12:15-1:15 p.m., Third Floor Rear Gallery
Thursday, April 19: Sallie Bingham
This award-winning playwright and novelist will read, sign and discuss her new novel, Nick of Time.
7:00 p.m., Third Floor Rear Gallery
Friday, April 20: Drawing for Prizes
Entry forms will be available all week to those who bring in canned goods for our food drive. Prizes include 256mb flash drives and gift certificates. You need not be present to win. Winners will have 2 weeks to claim their prizes.
12 noon, Reference Desk Area
Saturday, April 21: 5K Fun Run for Literacy
Held on the IUS Campus. Registration forms available on the Library’s website and at the Reference and Circulation Desks. Registration fee: $18 through April 9; $20 after April 9 (including the day of the race). Participants will get t-shirts, and proceeds will be donated to the Family Literacy Center.
9 am, IUS Campus (Meet outside library doors)
PRINT OFF REGISTRATION FORM HERE.
Saturday, April 21: Children’s Story Hour
Enjoy a read-aloud of wonderful children’s literature by IUS students and faculty, along with an activity for you and your child.
10 am, CULAB, LB330
All week: Canned Food Drive
During National Library Week, patrons can bring in canned foods. For each can, the donor will receive one entry form for the prize drawing on Friday. All donations will be distributed to Southern Indiana food banks.
June 20-22 (Wed.-Fri.) 8am-5pm
June 23-24 (Sat.-Sun.) CLOSED
June 25-26 (Mon.-Tue.) 8am-5pm
REGULAR HOURS RESUME Wednesday, June 27 with the start of Summer II
The prize drawings for those who brought in canned food during National Library Week took place on Friday, April 20. Winners of a jump drive and local restaurant gift certificates are Jean buchanan, Delilah McAdams, Sandy Sweeney, and Julie Dreggors. Congratulations!
5K FUN RUN
to benefit the Family Literacy Center
as part of
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK
Saturday, April 21
Start time: 9:00 a.m.
Indiana University Southeast Campus
Meet outside the library doors
Registration:
$18 by April 9
$20 April 9-21
(Same day registration at 8:30 a.m. in front of library)
All participants will receive a shirt.
Those registered by April 9 will have the shirt on race day;
late registrants will get their shirts after the race.
Those who do not want a shirt may register for $15.00
PRINT OFF REGISTRATION
FORM HERE.
All event proceeds go to the benefit of the Family Literacy Center.
Participants will be entered into a drawing for prizes that will take
place at the completion of the event.
For more information call 812-941-2262, or e-mail mwillman@ius.edu
Friday, May 11, the IUS Library's campus-community book discussion group will be looking at Willa Cather's acclaimed novel Death Comes to the Archbishop, based on the life of Jean Baptiste Lamy, the first Archbishop of Santa Fe. Vickie Meredith will be the discussion leader for this session. Join us in LB 230 at 12 noon on Friday!
The IUS Library invites you to participate in our
Fifth Annual Fine Arts Competition
April 9-May 10, 2007
The Indiana University Southeast Library invites student artists to participate in our Fine Arts Competition, which for the first time this year offers two options: you may choose to enter a work on any subject or theme, which will be eligible for the Grand Purchase Prize; or you may choose to enter a thematic work celebrating the nature and importance of books, literature, libraries, reading and literacy, or information in any of its many and changing forms. These thematic works will be eligible for the Grand Purchase Prize as well as a special Director’s Discretionary Purchase Prize. Download Registration Form.
The Library will be hosting three NCECA-sponsored shows of internationally acclaimed ceramic artists during the month of March. The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts is a professional association of individuals and organizations whose interests, talents, and careers are focused on the ceramic arts. The NCECA will be having its annual conference in Louisville KY March 13-17, and there will be associated exhibitions of works of international ceramic artists all over Louisville and Southern Indiana . IU Southeast is hosting several of these exhibitions, and the Library is the venue for three shows: Clay & the Transferred Image; Convergence: A North-South Discourse; and Line to Volume. The shows will be available for viewing any time the Library is open from March 5 through March 17.
FEBRUARY: Just how do you go about writing a successful novel? Virginia Anderson, an IU Southeast English professor, has published several novels and has just completed a new one called "The Drowned Man," a work which combines elements of mystery and mysticism with a searing psychological study of toxic parenthood. Join us as Dr. Anderson reads from this work, and discusses and answers questions about the PROCESS of writing and publishing a novel. Feb. 19, 12:15 pm, LB 230. Everyone is wecome.
MARCH: While torture is universally condemned, it seems to persist in the world. Are there ever times when torture is justified? Does torture actually work for any good end? While most of us have strong, even passionate responses to these questions, we can all benefit from an objective look at the evidence from scientific research. Join Dr. Bill Ferrell of the IUS Criminal Justice Department as he discusses "Torture and Enemy Combatants" from a research perspective. Thursday, March 22, 12:20pm, in LB230. Everyone is welcome.
APRIL: Fourteen years ago, IU Southeast psychology professor Dr. Diane Wille visited and collected information from a group of new mothers and their infants, with an eye to studying attachment processes. Fourteen years later, she is still visiting and keeping track of the same group, with 14 years of data to theorize about. The infants Dr. Wille visited in 1993 are now teenagers! Join us as Dr. Wille shares some of the data and conclusions from her ongoing longitudinal study of parenting and attachment. April 16, 2007, 12:15-1:15, LB230. Everyone is welcome!
FEB: OPEN BOOKS, the IU Southeast Library`s campus/community book discussion group, will be discussing Stephen King`s most recent novel, Lisey`s Story, which has been widely praised by critics. While this novel is less sensational and more literary than any of King`s previous works, this story of a marriage is embellished with some of King`s usual devices. Come join us as we discuss this book--everyone is welcome. LB230, Friday, Feb. 9, 12 noon.
MARCH: IU Southeast Library`s campus/community book discussion group will meet March 9, 2007, to discuss Louisville author Mary Welp`s novel of politics, love, and marriage--with the author! Mary Welp has agreed to come to the session to talk about the book, The Triangle Pose, answer questions, and most of all, to hear our thoughts about her novel, which happens to take place in Louisville. This is definitely not a "local" story however; Welp deals with universal issues (marriage, children, adultery, friendship) with insight and dead-on humor. Join us for this special session! Everyone is welcome. March 9, 12 noon, LB230.
APRIL: OPEN BOOKS, the IU Southeast Library`s campus-community book discussion group, will meet on Friday, April 13, to discuss Australian psychologist Cordelia Fine`s book about how the brain really works, A Mind of Its Own . If you think your conscious mind is in charge of your life, think again! Fine discusses research which shows how the subconscious mind controls our actions and even our thoughts, and she does it in a breezy and entertaining style. While this is certainly not a scholarly work, it does present the research in a responsible way. Join us for a discussion of this very current topic in LB230, Friday, Apr. 13, 12noon. Everyone is welcome!
The IU Southeast Library is hosting an exhibit of original and first edition historical documents from the Remnant Trust, a public educational foundation headquartered in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Documents include an original Journal of the First Senate Session containing the Bill of Rights from 1789, a 1781 original of the Articles of Confederation, and a 1483 edition of Aristotle's Ethics, Pollitics, & Economy. The items are in locked cases on the main floor of the Library, but the Remnant Trust encourages viewers to "touch, feel, and read the originals." To do so, ask at the Reference Desk.
A series of lectures have been scheduled by the Common Experience Program to complement this exhibit. The lecture schedule can be found at http://www.ius.edu/commonexperience .
The IU Libraries are upgrading the IUCAT (online catalog) software December 19-20. From the evening of December 18 through the morning of December 21, IUCAT will be unavailable. Access to all other resources and databases will continue uninterrupted.
On Thursday, Dec. 21, the new version of IUCAT will debut. It includes some significant new features as well as a different look and feel. If you have questions or need assistance, call the IU Southeast Library Reference Desk at 941-2489.
While torture is universally condemned, it seems to persist in the world. Are there ever times when torture is justified? Does torture actually work for any good end? While most of us have strong, even passionate responses to these questions, we can all benefit from an objective look at the evidence from scientific research. Join Dr. Bill Ferrell of the IUS Criminal Justice Department as he discusses "Torture and Enemy Combatants" from a research perspective. Thursday, March 22, 12:20pm, in LB230. Everyone is welcome.
Local author Mary Welp will be with us this Friday, March 9, at 12 noon, as we discuss her novel The Triangle Pose. She will answer our questions and hear our comments about her novel, set in Louisville, which explores themes of marriage, adultery, friendship, and politics with insight and dead-on humor. Come and join us! LB230, 12 noon March 9.
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