Academic Libraries Celebrated National Library Week
Bowling Green
The Friends of Bowling Green State University Libraries celebrated National Library Week by serving cake to our patrons in our main lobby.
Pictured: University Libraries Friends Bob Graham and Janet Parks serve cake to students to celebrate National Library Week
Capital University
The Blackmore Library at Capital University celebrated National Library Week with a “Library Trivia Quiz”. Out of 96 responses, two winners were chosen to receive $50 gift cards to Starbucks. We also had free cookies for the students and book displays that celebrated libraries and our staff’s favorite books. Information from their website.
Cleveland State University: National Library Week 2008 Events
Display - All week
Throughout the week, we had a display which included the week’s events and giveaways such as ID wallets, bookmarks, note pads, and candy. We also had a display about OhioLINK and the 15th Anniversary.
Library Survey - all week
Take a short survey http://html.ulib.csuohio.edu/techsurvey2/form.html for a chance to win an Apple iPod Touch, $50 in Viking Cash, an iPod shuffle or one of two flash drives.
Anniversary Party - Monday April 14, 2008 at 12 p.m. - 1st floor of the Library
We celebrated the 50th anniversary of National Library Week and the 15th anniversary of OhioLINK. There was cake and ice cream and students could enter to win an iPod shuffle, flash drives, and more. The party was started with a group of students and staff members reading the National Library Week Proclamation. As people were enjoying their cake and ice cream, there was a screen showing the OhioLINK video, as well as the entries for the OhioLINK video contest.
National Library Worker’s Day - Tuesday April 15, 2008
National Library Worker’s Day is a time to honor the contributions of all library staff who make library services possible. There was a continental breakfast in the morning for all library staff.
Reading Circle in Honor of Dr. Shorrock - Tuesday April 15, 2008 - RT 503
Suite Francaise and Lest Innocent Blood be Shed was presented by David Goldberg, Professor of History, and Michael Wells, Associate Professor of Urban Studies to honor the memory Dr. Shorrock, our former President of the Friends of the Library.
Book Sale -Wednesday April 16, 2008 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. - 1st floor of the Library
We held a book sale where patrons could get some great deals on books and it was sponsored by the Friends of the CSU Library.
Dedication of the Adaptive Technology Lab - April 17, 2008 at 12 p.m. - RT 103
The Adaptive Technology Lab was dedicated to the memory of Preston White, the Coordinator of the lab, who passed away unexpectedly in the fall. - Tracy Kemp
College of Mount St. Joseph
I sent emails to the campus community every day of National Library Week. These included facts about libraries (from ALA and other sources) in general, and about our library in particular. - Paul O. Jenkins
Heidelberg College
Beeghly Library at Heidelberg College invited College Students, Faculty, Staff and the Community to
Join the Circle of Knowledge@Your Library by:
• Introducing its new Instant Messaging Service, AskBergLib.
• Holding a Poetry Reading.
• English Professor Bill Reyer read family poems from his recently published collection, Promontory Pines.
• The event, hosted by the Friends of Beeghly Library Literary Club as its final program for the semester, was held in the library’s Rare Books Room.
• Offering Half-Price Fines on books returned late and for old fines paid-off during Library Week. - Nancy Rubenstein
John Carroll University - Grasselli's Library
BOGO Book Swap - bring one/take one - table set
Graffiti Wall of Reading - We used brightly colored crayons and butcher paper to make a big splash, having students/staff/faculty sign the wall of reading and share their favorite book title & author.
To celebrate National Library Workers Day, we wore NLW buttons and placed "recognition boxes" in the library - an opportunity for others to recognize the valuable contributions made by library workers. We posted a staff photo on top with names underneath for easy recognition.
Create your own READ postcard (using ALA's READ CD)
We invited the campus to join the many celebrities that have lent their images to promoting reading and create a READ postcard for themselves! - Diane Williams
Kent State
Kent State Map Library put out a poster of our library’s offerings, services and materials, and had a plate of cookies with the NLW bookmarks. - Edith Scarletto
Lourdes College
In preparation of the celebration of National Library Week at Lourdes College, announcements appeared in the Carillon, the student newsletter, about the upcoming activities that included the waiving of fines during the week if patrons donated non-perishable goods and the holding of a raffle at the library on April 16. In addition, the college Web site provided a link to the two Julie Andrews PSAs, “Magical Places” and “Libraries Make a Difference” that began appearing two weeks prior to the actual week.
Then, on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, visitors to the library participated in the raffle and enjoyed refreshments including soft drinks, juice, cake and other snacks. The day ended with the raffle drawing for the student, faculty and staff winners of eight different prizes, four for students and four for faculty/staff members. - Patsy Kiros
Miami University
The Walter Havighurst Special Collections at Miami University celebrated National Library Week with two public programs:
“I Copied All the Letters in a Big Round Hand:” The Lost Art of Library Hand - Tuesday
Before the advent of typewriters and computers, librarians used a distinctive form of handwriting called “Library Hand” to do their jobs. Betsy Butler, Special Collections Librarian at Miami University, shared a brief history of Library Hand and how it was created by Melvil Dewey. Maureen Nimis, Curatorial Assistant at the Miami University Art Museum and an artist and calligrapher, offered tips for writing in Library Hand and other helpful hints for aspiring calligraphers. Then, participants tried their hand at this type of penmanship by completing catalog cards for books in the Walter Havighurst Special Collections that were published during the heyday of Library Hand.
Gift Book as Facebook: Digitizing the Literary Annuals - Thursday
Laura Mandell, professor of English at Miami University, editor of the Poetess Archive (http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess) and associate director of NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship), discussed how the literary annuals publishing popular poetry between 1823 and 1865 in Britain and America can be digitized. Through two specific examples, Mandell shared what happens to these literature collections after they enter virtual reality. She focused primarily on the Forget Me Not, the first and most important British annual, and the Bijou of 1828, an electronic edition of a gift book held in the Walter Havighurst Special Collections. Dr. Mandell’s lecture complemented “Friendship’s Offering: The Literary and Artistic Appeal of Gift Books,” a display in the Walter Havighurst Special Collections exhibit area that offers some highlights from gift books, or literary annuals, from the collection.
Both programs were very well-received by participants - Betsy Butler
Ohio Wesleyan
The fifth annual Ohio Wesleyan University Libraries & Information Services Celebration of Scholarship was held during National Library Week on Friday, April 18.
Graduating senior Amanda Masters received the $500 Library Research Paper Award from the Friends of the Libraries for her paper “Pollinator Decline, Colony Collapse Disorder among Apis mellifera and Implications for American Agriculture.” Science Librarian Deb Carter Peoples coordinated this year’s event that received sixteen papers. The judges were Tom Burns (Associate Professor of English and Physics-Astronomy), David Johnson (Professor of Botany-Microbiology), Ed Kahn (Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance), Ulle Lewis (Director of the Writing Resource Center), Akbar Mahdi (Professor of Sociology-Anthropology), Paul Burnam (Public Services Librarian), Tom Green (Associate Director of Libraries & Head of Public Services), Deb Peoples (Science Librarian), Pete Szabo (Music Librarian), Danielle Clarke (retired Public Services Librarian)and Dr. Byrd (CIO & Director of Libraries), ex officio.
Also, 40 faculty and staff authors were recognized at the event for their scholarly work during the 2007-2008 academic year.
Lastly, three faculty members - Jeremy Baskes (Associate Professor of History), Amy Downing (Associate Professor of Zoology), and Justin Kronewetter (Professor of Fine Arts) - posed for READ posters that are now on display above the Beeghly Library Circulation Desk. - Tom Green
Otterbein College
We had YouTube videos of the local Otterbein community reading poetry. - Allen Reichert
Here are a couple examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjyhphhYIXs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6he7OcZIANI
Owens Community College
My library is also an art gallery, with new exhibits about every month. In April, I borrow an exhibit from the Mazza Museum of the University of Findlay. The Mazza Museum is a collection - a large collection - of original art from children's picture books. Because April is Month of the Young Child, as well as Community College Month and the month including National Library Week, it seems very appropriate to have art from picture books on my walls.
For National Library Week itself, and continuing the theme developed above, we had the Owens daycare children over for a BIG party. The theme of the borrowed Mazza collection was "fairy tales," so we had a fairy tale party. The children dressed up as they chose. We gave them gold and silver crowns and sparkly wands. The party featured two deans and a department chair reading books to the kids (fairy tales, of course), the curator of the Mazza Museum telling stories, dogs in pink tutus and crowns, a very fancy cake in the shape of a castle plus other treats, bean planting ala Jack and the Beanstalk, and decorating masks with jewels. Students from the Early Childhood Education program, as well as teachers from the daycare center, helped the children and kept everyone safe and happy. I can report that a really good time was had by all. We'll do it again next year. - Gail McCain
The Ohio State University - Health Sciences Library
Here at the Health Sciences Library of Ohio State University, we planned three lunch time Read Aloud sessions, with coffee and cookies. The theme was "Celebrating the Intersection of Literature and Medicine." Some of us had originally participated in one of the weekly Read Aloud sessions sponsored by Main Library elsewhere on campus, and we thought it would be a good idea to engage the medical center community. A few librarians and staff members read each afternoon, but we also hoped to have participation from others in the health sciences areas. Although those of us who participated really enjoyed the effort, we were disappointed in the low turnout. If we were ever to try something like this again, we would have to work to engage faculty beforehand, so they could encourage their students to participate, and perhaps set an example by participating themselves.
Last year's events were more successful. We set up suggestion boxes asking our users what they would like to see in "the library of the future." We also picked one or two suggestion slips from the boxes each day to award prizes which were mostly flash drives and a few other sample items we'd gotten over the years from various vendors. There was one grand prize donated by our technology group - an ipod mini. The winner of that was really pleased! We also had a coffee and pastries "thank you" table set up one morning. - Marguerite Crowley Weibel
Walsh College
Walsh College Library celebrated National Library Week with a “Meet Your Professor at the Library” feature. Both adjunct and full-time instructors were asked to give us their list of top ten favorite books, not necessarily in their field of study. We printed out the picture of the instructor with his their of books and put them into plastic literature holders. Two staff members went to used book sales and obtained copies of many of the titles. In addition, we made bookmarks listing the titles for each instructor so that students and staff could take the list home with them. The display went up on one of our low shelving units. It was very warmly received by everyone and was very informational about the instructors. The display was so successful that we decided to make it a monthly feature highlighting one instructor’s list. The books from the display are currently on a shelf designated as Faculty Selections and can be checked out.
We also started a new weekly feature spotlighting interesting websites of interest to our business students. There are rows of strips with urls at the bottom of the web site announcement for students to tear off for future reference.
We also had a raffle with first, second, and third place prizes—a $25.00 gift certificate, The World is Flat (book), and a Walsh mug, in that order- Nancy Brzozowski
If you would like to share your National Library Week celebration activities and ideas send email to: marshams@sloma.state.oh.us