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HeART of the Spectrum's Exhibit
Posted on Wed, 2012-04-11 15:35
April is National Autism Awareness Month
This month is National Autism Awareness Month and the AS Disability Outreach Center is displaying art from the HeART of the Spectrum's artists on the autistic spectrum, based in Seattle. The exhibit is located in Wilson Library’s Gallery 1, just off the Skybridge, and will run through the end of the month.
The exhibit is also meant to bring awareness to the 5th annual Disability Awareness Week. Disability Awareness Week is a weeklong series of events meant to educate students on disability issues as well as help create a sense of community. I would also encourage you to check out socialstripes.com, a greeting card website dedicated to supporting adult artists living with autism.
To find out more about the Disability Outreach Center or Disability Awareness Week head over to Viking Union 528 or send us an email at as.disability@wwu.edu
Boycott! Academic Literacy Series
Posted on Mon, 2012-04-09 11:52
Watch for additional events in this series this Spring
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April 17: BLACKOUT! What impact would bills and treaties
such as SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA have on scholarly communication?
- April 24 : PIRATES! The differences between disciplines and views on issues of copyright and plagiarism. What are the ethics of reusing other’s work?
- May 1 online:TMI: how to use and evaluate information we need? Evaluating sources and what does it mean to find information in a time of information abundance.
- May 8 MINE! Who owns your work? What are the copyrights faculty and students have to their own work and how they reuse other’s work?
- May 15 online: FREE! I already paid for that! What is open access and how does it work?
Impact of SOPA -TODAY!
Posted on Fri, 2012-04-06 20:23What impact would bills and treaties such as SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA have on scholarly communication?
Watch for additional events in this series this Spring
- April 24 : PIRATES! The differences between disciplines and views on issues of copyright and plagiarism. What are the ethics of reusing other’s work?
- May 1 online:TMI: how to use and evaluate information we need? Evaluating sources and what does it mean to find information in a time of information abundance.
- May 8 MINE! Who owns your work? What are the copyrights faculty and students have to their own work and how they reuse other’s work?
- May 15 online: FREE! I already paid for that! What is open access and how does it work?
April is National Poetry Month
Posted on Wed, 2012-04-04 20:08
National Poetry Month
A month-long, national celebration
of poetry established by the Academy
of American Poets. The concept is to widen the attention of individuals and the media—to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our complex poetic heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic range and concern. We hope to increase the visibility and availability of poetry in popular culture while acknowledging and celebrating poetry’s ability to sustain itself in the many places where it is practiced and appreciated.
Join more than 68,000 readers by subscribing to receive daily poems by email; or access through RSS, the Poem Flow iPhone App, or by browsing the Poem-A-Day Archive.
The poems can also be found each day on the Poets.org homepage and mobile homepage.
Reading Room Gets New Look
Posted on Wed, 2012-04-04 19:21
Reading Room Experiment Spring 2012
Based on feedback from students and faculty in a recent Facilities survey,
we are experimenting with some new configurations in 4 Central Spring 2012.
Suggestions included flattening the tables in the Reading Room for easier use with laptops, & adding more soft seating and outlets throughout the building. Since several events are scheduled in the Reading Room this quarter which require a lot of furniture moving, we have decided to capitalize on this and use this time to experiment.
We moved in some tables and soft seating from the area outside the CLIC, as well as a couple of other upholstered pieces in the library, into the center of the Reading Room, and moved the tables and chairs housed there near the CLIC space.
There is a Comment Box by the door in 4C.
Please tell us what you think of the new arrangement.
National Library Week 4/8-14
Posted on Wed, 2012-04-04 15:06
National Library Week
April 8 - 14, 2012
YOU BELONG @ your library
Like Western Libraries on Facebook
& tell us how you belong @ your library!
by sharing what you like best!
Events in the Skybridge Wed. noon - 2pm
Learn about the Whatcom
County One Card,and how
the Bellingham Public
Library and your Western
Libraries are connected!
It’s almost like having a branch of BPL right on campus!
Online Events
You belong @ your library Six Word Story Sweepstakes
Share your story of why you belong at your library by composing a six word story for National Library Week! Tweet your story at #nlw6words.
Check out the six word story sweepstakes for more information and examples.
Share Your Library Story
You belong @ your library. Do you have a story about how the library has impacted your life? Share your story!
Show support for your library during National Library Week by uploading one of several Facebook cover images available on atyourlibrary.org.
Join theTLA Discussion
Posted on Fri, 2012-03-30 15:45
How can we engage and connect multiple voices to strengthen Western as a 21st-century liberal arts university?
Spring TLA Dialogue Groups start next week, April 4 & 5 & meet every OTHER week after that.
- Spring 2012: Apr 4, 5, 18 & 19; May 2, 3, 16 & 17
- Time: 12-1:20 & 2-3:20 pm on both Wed & Thur
Return to the River: Steve Raymond explores the literary legacy of Roderick Haig-Brown
Posted on Wed, 2012-03-28 10:28WWU Libraries Heritage Resources Presents
Return to the River: Steve Raymond explores the literary legacy of Roderick Haig-Brown
August 3, 2012
1-3pm
Special Collections
Wilson Library 6th Floor
Save the Date!
Roderick Haig-Brown is known internationally for his writing on fly fishing. Born in England, he came to British Columbia, Canada, and lived on the banks of the Campbell River, Vancouver Island. He published many books and articles, and is known for his writing on fly fishing.
Roderick Haig-Brown article in the Wikipedia
Books by Roderick Haig-Brown available in the library
Steve Raymond was born in Bellingham, Wash. Raymond has been a major contributor of articles and book reviews to angling magazines, and served as an editor of The flyfisher and Fly fishing in salt waters. He has won many awards including the Roderick Haig-Brown Award of the Federation of Fly Fishers and the Letcher Lambuth Angling Craftsman Award of the Washington Fly Fishing Club.
Photo: Ledge Pool. Image taken at the Grand Ronde River, October 15, 1964. Ralph E. Wahl Photograph Collection, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, a department of Heritage Resources, Western Libraries.
"Wild About Whatcom" Exhibit
Posted on Mon, 2012-03-26 12:39
Allied Arts
"Wild About Whatcom" Exhibit
Whatcom County Washington,
February 15th – September 12th, 2012
The exhibit will be rotating
through Library exhibit spaces thru mid-September.
Allied Arts of Whatcom County is hosting its second traveling art show; Wild About Whatcom! The goal with Wild About Whatcom, is to increase exposure of Whatcom county’s many talented artists by displaying works in publically accessible buildings throughout Whatcom County. Works for this year’s show were selected from the entries to the Allied Arts Annual Member’s Show in January.
This show consists of 5 groups, with 10 pieces of work in each group, making for a total of 50 pieces. The groups will rotate between the locations every 6 weeks. The art in each group is tied together by a common theme or subject matter ranging fro
m land and sea to animals to abstract works.
At the end of their travels, the works will make their way to the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle for a 3 month long exhibit. For more information visit www.alliedarts.org or contact:
Katy Borden, Artist Services Coordinator at 676-8548 x5 or katy@alliedarts.org.
Back to the Future – Historic Films Capture Century 21 Exposition
Posted on Mon, 2012-03-12 10:002012 marks the 50 year anniversary of the Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World’s Fair) of 1962. Held on the site of the present-day Seattle Center, the Fair’s theme and exhibitions emphasized the role of science and technology in paving the way to an improved future way of life. Among the notable attractions were the newly-constructed Space Needle and the Alweg monorail.
Although the Space Needle frequently dominates memories of the Fair, visitors were presented with many and varied spectacles, including exhibitions of science, commerce, industry and art. Among the less orthodox and more adult attractions was Gracie Hansen’s “Paradise International Club” featuring Las Vegas style revue shows. In an August 1962 interview with KVOS-TV (see footage below), Hansen described her “pet theory that science will never replace sex or cotton candy,” and subsequent journey to the stage at the Century 21 Exposition.
Clips from this KVOS interview (archived at WWU’s Center for Pacific Northwest Studies) will appear in a new KCTS 9 documentary about the history and impact of the Exposition, entitled “When Seattle Invented The Future” (air-date March 24). Footage from the same “Girls, Glitter and Gracie” interview is also featured in an online trailer for Don Horn/Triangle Production’s musical “Gracie,” opening in Portland, Oregon in the Spring.
For more information about World’s Fair related materials available through Western Libraries and its Heritage Resources programs, please contact us and/or visit this online research guide at: http://libguides.wwu.edu/worldsfairs. A selection of KVOS Channel 12 Films (including “Girls, Glitter and Gracie” and an earlier Jack Webster Report about the 1962 Exposition) can be accessed online as part of Western Libraries’ Digital Collections.
