We will soon welcome a new staff member: Martin Cleaver, formerly a bookstore manager and library staff member at La Salle University will join us on May 30th. His first evening stint will be on June 2d, and if you are on campus, please stop by and say hello. Martin is seriously considering attending graduate school for library science down the road.
Sadly, this is farewell to Maurice Champagne, whose last day is today! We will miss him. Congrats to Maurice on attaining his PhD in Rhetoric from the University of Maryland. We hope he will stay in touch with us.
We have much to accomplish this summer! We will soon begin to set up our satellite library at the Owings Mills campus. It will be exciting to see the library there taking shape. We have also taken the first steps in planning the renovation here at Stevenson. We have generated some interest among members of the Learning Beyond Committee and will soon call together a planning committee. We also plan to solicit input from students via course-related projects currently in the planning stages.
Summer hours in the library are posted on our website, so be sure to check it out if you are taking or teaching courses this summer. I will continue to post as things develop. Happy Summer to all of you!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
CIC-PKAL Workshop on Learning Spaces
I just returned from Decatur, Georgia, where I joined my Dean and Sue Bonsteel (a library staff member) in learning how to rethink our library space. Wow! This was really inspiring! One highlight was a tour of the Cox Computer Center at Emory University, which features exciting floor layout and furniture configurations designed to enhance group work. We toured the facility on Friday afternoon, and were those students enagaged! If you want to see photos of this cutting edge computer lab, try a search on Flickr.
After the Emory tour, we began meeting in groups on the campus of Agnes Scott College (which was the prettiest college campus I think I've ever seen). Our assignment was to decide on a goal for our project, and we found it: we have decided we want to explore ways to support Villa Julie's Learning Beyond program, which encompasses experiential learning beyond the classroom.
Returning on the plane, Sue and I brainstormed ways to reach out to our campus and engage faculty, students and staff. We will begin at our Library staff Retreat in May, and keep building on this, hoping we can sustain momentum.
After the Emory tour, we began meeting in groups on the campus of Agnes Scott College (which was the prettiest college campus I think I've ever seen). Our assignment was to decide on a goal for our project, and we found it: we have decided we want to explore ways to support Villa Julie's Learning Beyond program, which encompasses experiential learning beyond the classroom.
Returning on the plane, Sue and I brainstormed ways to reach out to our campus and engage faculty, students and staff. We will begin at our Library staff Retreat in May, and keep building on this, hoping we can sustain momentum.
Monday, March 31, 2008
New Exhibit
Library staffer, Carol Maxwell has done it again! She's created a fabulous display as part of the College's 60th Anniversary on one of the most famous residents of the Greenspring Valley, opera singer Rosa Ponselle. The Display features some unique photos of the Singer, news clippings detailing events in her life, and 2 pairs of the star's shoes on loan from a friend of the library who wishes to remain anonymous. Oh yes, and books about her life are also featured. If you want to hear how she sounded, you can borrow a DVD or CD recording from the library's collection, or easier still, go to YouTube and plug her name into the search box. I promise you will not be disappointed. Rosa's voice is amazing, and she had quite a stage presence. To see where she lives, all you need to do is look out the window and across Greenspring Valley Road to her former home, Villa Pace.
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