Nonfiction Reading
Thursday, March 18, 2010 @ 5:30 p.m. in the Wendell Will Room (Stockwell-Mudd Library).
Melissa Delbridge (”…honest, funny, and fiercely Southern…” –Poets & Writers Magazine) has won awards from the Southern Humanities Review and the Southern Women Writers Conference for her nonfiction and fiction. A native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, she works as an archivist at Duke University. In her essay collection, Family Bible (University of Iowa Press, 2008), she explores themes of race, gender, and sexuality as they impacted her life in the 1960s and 1970s.
There will be a reception and book signing immediately after the reading.
This event is free and open to the public, and sponsored by the English Department and the Stockwell-Mudd Library. For more information, please contact the English Department at (517) 629-0232.
The library is offering these three music database trials, Jazz Music Library, American Song, and Contemporary World Music, through May 1, 2010. Please send feedback to library@albion.edu.
“Jazz Music Library will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online—with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. At launch, the collection includes works licensed from legendary record labels, including Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Contemporary Records, Fantasy, Jazzology, Milestone, Nessa Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige. Labels being added include Circle Records, GHB Records, Good Time Jazz, GRP Records, Impulse, Peak, Riverside, Solo Art Records, Stretch Records, Verve, and dozens more.”
American Song
“American Song is an eclectic collection of music from Americans of diverse origins and all walks of life, from America’s past and present. The songs are by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. They touch topics as varied as Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. And the range of genres includes country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, shape note singing, doo-wop, Motown, R&B, soul, funk, and others.”
Contemporary World Music
“Contemporary World Music contains the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music – Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. This database is a complementary database to Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries – it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world. The focus is concentrated on contemporary genres, such as fusion and world beat. Users can trace the history of a people’s music by comparing the traditional styles with the modern interpretations offered in this database.”
The Friends of the Albion College Library present
The Odd Topics Society Luncheon
The next Odd Topics speaker is:
Katie Dever,
Albion College Senior
The title of her presentation is:
“Living with Bibliophilia: Handmade Books and Journals in the Age of Technology”
- Source: ukiahgreen, flickr user
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Mary Sykes Room, Baldwin Hall
at noon.
2010 FRIENDS OF THE ALBION COLLEGE LIBRARY
BOOK SALE & SILENT AUCTION
March 17th – 19th, 2010
Some areas of interest include:
Literature & Fiction, History & Geography, Social Science, Economics & Business, Reference Works, Philosophy & Religion, Science, Art, Music, and LP Records.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
SILENT AUCTION
12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Stockwell-Mudd Library, Wendell Will Room
Bidding will cease promptly at 7 p.m. Please click the links below for official rules and a complete list of silent auction books.
SPECIAL FRIENDS PREVIEW
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Stockwell-Mudd Library, Room 210
Here’s your chance to beat the crowds and get first crack at the items for sale!
This preview book sale is open to Friends of the Albion College Library only. Book dealers and non-members may pay a $10.00 per person entrance fee at the door. Admittance to the preview will be done by number. Numbers may be picked up starting at noon at the Circulation Desk.
BOOK SALE: OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
8:30 AM – 9:00 PM
Friday, March 19th, 2010
8:30 AM – 1:00 PM
($1.00 a bag 8:30 AM – 12 PM Friday; Free Books from 12 PM – 1:00 PM Friday)
The library has reduced hours March 5 – 14, while the college is on Spring Break. The regular schedule resumes Monday, March 15.
The next Odd Topics Luncheon speaker is:
Dean McCurdy
Associate Professor of Biology & Associate Director of the Brown Honors Institute
The title of his presentation is:
Long Distance Endurance Motorcycling:
Seeing the World Non-Stop
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Mary Sykes Room, Baldwin Hall at noon.
In Dean’s own words:
For the past five years, I have spent much of my free time modifying, re-building, and riding motorcycles. The most enjoyable experiences of my riding career have been long rides I’ve taken to various places on continent done at a near non-stop pace. In this talk, I will discuss the world of competitive long-distance riding, including the types of people (and their motorcycles) that participate in this activity, and strategies involved in competition. I will also describe some of the 1000+ mile days I’ve spent riding a 600cc Yamaha sport-bike.
Please join us! For more information, please contact Cheryl Blackwell at the Stockwell-Mudd libraries at 517/ 629-0447 or cblackwell@albion.edu.
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But maybe you think of it more as a maze of confusing twists and turns.
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Now through February 28, the library is offering a free trial of Films On Demand. Films On Demand is a state of the art digital video delivery system that makes it easier than ever to incorporate outstanding educational programs from Films Media Group into your presentations and lesson plans. There are over 6,000 programs available.
You can access this trial at (http://digital.films.com). Contact a librarian at 517.629-0382, or email library@albion.edu for the user name and password.
This free trial is possible because Albion College is a member of the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS). If you have any questions about how to use this free service, contact a librarian at 517.629-0382, or email library@albion.edu.
The Albion Reads selection for 2010 is Three Cups of Tea, the story of Greg Mortenson’s work building schools in remote villages in Pakistan.
Copies available to checkout from the Albion College Library
Albion Reads gets the entire community reading and discussing a common book. Information about discussion questions and much more is available via the Albion District Library. The Stockwell-Mudd Libray is a proud co-sponsor of this community event.
