Aracelis Girmay to give GLCA Poetry Reading Monday November 23 in Library
Aracelis Girmay will give a poetry reading Monday, November 23rd at 5:30 p.m. in the Wendell Will Room. Girmay is the winner of the 2009 GLCA New Writers Award for Teeth, a collection of poetry that reflects her Eritrean, Puerto Rican and African American traditions.
A former Watson fellow and Cave Canem fellow, Girmay has published extensively in journals and literary magazines including Ploughshares, Indiana Review, and Callaloo, and is the author of a children’s book, ”Changing, Changing: Story and Collages.” Born and raised in Southern California, Girmay now leads community writing workshops throughout California and New York. Co-sponsored by the English Department and Stockwell-Mudd Library.
LOVE,
you be the reason why
we swagger & jive,
lift the guitar, & pick up the axe.
when it is i tilt my hat to the side,
wearing colors & perfumes, it’s cause, love,
you did it to me. oh,
you do sure turn my tongue to fiddle,
& make the salt taste sweet. man,
i don’t need a rooster, or peacock even,
to help me spend my time, nope,
just you, love, right & solid as
a line.
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The Library is currently running free trials of several full text databases from Gale Cengage, including:
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GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) - a new, authoritative online resource that focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. |
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GLOBAL ISSUES IN CONTEXT - offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics. |
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GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE – offers more than 800 online full text reference books from multiple publishers. |
These free trials end December 8. We invite you to try these resources. Please contact Mike Van Houten if you have comments or questions regarding these databases.
If you are in the library, we invite you to check out the display for Veterans Day on the bridge. Amidst the books focusing on veterans from various wars are two books by current Albion College student (a military veteran) Andrew Layton:
Wolverines in the Sky : Michigan’s Fighter Aces of World War I, World War II and Korea and Eagles’ Wings : An Uncommon Story of World War II. Our library catalog record for Eagles’ Wings includes this description: “Eagles’ Wings presents the remarkable story of two friends who grew up in Battle Creek, Michigan during the 1930’s. At the onset of World War II, both men embarked on separate paths that simultaneously thrust them into the terror of war amid the skies of Europe. Both were seriously wounded and would spend nearly a year as prisoners of war. Through an unlikely series of events, the two men were later reunited and sent by chance to an orthopedic hospital located just blocks away from their childhood homes. Lived by Air Force veterans Jack Curtis and Larry Jenkins, this book will take you back in time with them as they deliver a powerful first-hand account”–P. [4] of cover
The copies in the display case are signed copies for the College Archives, but copies are being ordered for the regular collection.
| Nov. 24 (Tues.) | 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
| Nov. 25 (Wed.) | 8 a.m. – Noon |
| Nov. 26-28 (Thurs.-Sat. Thanksgiving) | CLOSED |
| Nov. 29 (Sun.) | 2 p.m. – 2 a.m. |
The Library is beginning a trial of the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) through our Web of Science database subscription. This trial will run through November 28. We invite you to try this resource!
Access the AHCI database trial
AHCI is a multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes more than 1,450 journals as well as covering selected relevant items from over 6,000 of the world’s leading science and social science journals.
This database also provides the capability to perform Cited Reference Searching, a search technique lets you use a given work to identify more recent articles on the same topic. The video below demonstrates Cited Reference Searching.
Please contact Mike Van Houten if you have comments or questions regarding this database.
The next Odd Topics speaker is:
Randy Nails
President of Fredonia Community Grange
The title of his presentation is:
“What Is The Grange?”
For more information, please contact Cheryl Blackwell at the Stockwell-Mudd libraries at 517/ 629-0447 or cblackwell@albion.edu.
The next Odd Topics Society meeting will be February 24, 2010.
The next Odd Topics speaker is:
Andy Boyan
Instructor, Communications Studies Department
The title of his presentation is:
“Video Games and Learning:
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start”
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Mary Sykes Room, Baldwin Hall
at noon.
Boyan says of his speech, “People have a pretty good grasp of the rules of chess, the strategies of chess, and how the rules and strategies are intricately intertwined. I argue that video games have many of the same features as chess; that we can understand the way players interact with, learn, and react to video games by understanding the rules and strategies that make up video game play.”
For more information, please contact Cheryl Blackwell at the Stockwell-Mudd libraries at 517/ 629-0447 or cblackwell@albion.edu.
The Marilyn Crandell Schleg Memorial Lecture presents:
Exploring the Vann Archives at Albion and Unconquered Maya in Mexico
Dr. Joel Palka
7:00 P.M. – OCTOBER 20, 2009
Wendell Will Room, Stockwell Building. Albion College Library
- Joel Palka, Associate Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago
In Joel’s own words:
Since I investigate unconquered Lacandon Maya in the remote rainforests of Guatemala and Mexico, faculty and staff at Albion College brought my attention to their recently acquired collection of slides, film, and notes from Marvin Vann, an Albion alumnus who visited my research area in the 1970’s. Vann’s numerous images, films, and insightful investigations in Lacandon Maya territory are important for many reasons. Vann studied and photographed the Lacandon when they first started interacting extensively with the outside world. His archive contains valuable images and information on Lacandon Maya culture change in an under-explored region. In this slide montage, as Vann would put it, I will reflect upon Vann’s insights, scientific investigations, humor, and vivid photography in the context of my on-going archaeological research.
 Vann with Lacandon child |
 Drum made by Lacandon potter |
Dr. Joel Palka is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he has taught since 1996. Prof. Palka’s current research project, which is funded by National Geographic and the National Endowment of the Humanities, examines the origins of the Lacandon Maya during the Spanish Colonial Period in Peten, Guatemala, and Chiapas, Mexico. His books include Historical Dictionary of Ancient Mesoamerica (2000) and Unconquered Lacandon Maya (2005), and he has chapters in Postclassic to Spanish Era Transition in Mesoamerica (2005) and Maya Worldviews at the Conquest (2009).
