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As Plymouth celebrates Homecoming 2009 this weekend, take a look at these parade pictures from Spinelli Archives. Can you guess the year and the location on campus?
Do you recognize these Belknap Banjos?
The Lamson Library and Learning Commons is pleased to welcome a selection of prints from Professor Annette Mitchell’s Summer 2009 Studio Printmaking course. The artwork, done on paper and cloth, express a personal voice using a variety of printmaking processes that include: foam plate printing, silk screen printing methods, akua inks, and “open” acrylic medium.
The work featured here is by Janet Cocchiaro. The show will continue through October.
Want to help us improve our service and get a free meal at the same time? Lamson Library & Learning Commons is looking for four hungry students.
Here’s how it works: we’ll give you an “assignment”, but don’t worry, there’s no essay or exam. You simply search for materials (books, magazines, websites, etc) like we weren’t even looking. We’ll film the process, edit out the boring parts, and post the video here. The video will teach us how students do research and how we can help you better. It will also teach other students something about library research. We hope the whole thing leads to faster research, better grades, and lower tuition (okay, maybe not).
If you’re out-going and don’t mind being in front of the camera, please send me a private comment to sign up. Return the books, keep the pizza.
Artist Paul Klee once said, “A line is a dot that went for a walk.” Just as walking can be relaxing, so can letting your pen flow freely. This is the principle behind a process called Zentangle. The term originates from the words zen (meditative state of being) and tangle (pattern) and was coined by Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts.
Last spring, students in Liz D’Amico’s class Creativity and the Visual World, were introduced to the process and the result of their work is on display at the Lamson Library and Learning Commons.
An opening reception will be held on Thursday September 24th at from 4-6 pm. All all welcome and refreshments will be provided.
Plymouth State University welcomes author Linda Tarr-Whelan on Wednesday, September 23rd to discuss and sign copies of her newly published book, Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World.
The book event and signing will take place at 3 p.m. in the Commons Café of the Lamson Library and Learning Commons.
The author served as Ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in the Clinton Administration and as Deputy Assistant for Women’s Concerns to President Jimmy Carter in the Carter White House, the first nurse appointed to these positions. Later, Ladies’ Home Journal named Ms. Tarr-Whelan as one of the 50 most powerful women in Washington. Currently, she serves as Chair of the National Advisory Council for the Pax World Resources Women’s Equity Fund. In 2007, Ms. Tarr-Whelan was the Undergraduate Commencement speaker at PSU and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.
This event is being co-sponsored by the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, the S.A.G.E. Center and the Lamson Library and Learning Commons. All are welcome and refreshments will be served.
Each year in September, our country pauses to honor and reflect on the United States Constitution, the most influential legal document in existence. In fact, over 100 countries around the world have used it as a model for their own Constitutions.
Constitution Day is celebrated on September 17th, the anniversary of the day the framers signed the document. Here is a bit of other trivia:
Check out the Interactive Constitution sponsored by the National Constitution Center and celebrate We the People!
Welcome to Fall 2009! The Lamson Library and Learning Commons would like to extend special greetings to the Class of 2013. We’re glad you’re here! Fall hours resume this week.
As PSU’s “academic HUB”, the LLC offers one stop shopping for research, writing, tutoring and technology assistance. During the summer, we created more general seating areas on the popular Main Level where you and your classmates can collaborate on assignments. Remember, this is YOUR library…come and visit often!
Dear Library Patrons, during the upgrade on Friday the 28th, the library website was unavailable for longer than we had intended. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Nevertheless, I hope you have a productive and successful semester.
To all of our patrons: please note that we will be upgrading our website on Friday, August 28 beginning at 8:00 AM EDT. During the upgrade, the appearance of the New Item and search result pages may not appear normally. Some functions of the website may be intermittent or unavailable. Following the upgrade, descriptive content, including summaries and book covers, will be incorporated into the more than 300,000 items in our catalog.
We are sorry for the inconvenience, and will work to keep the disruption to a minimum. This upgrade will pave the way for many positive changes to our website. Thanks for your understanding and have a great semester!
Please note: The Search Library Catalog page will not be disrupted or affected during this upgrade.
Don’t let the summer pass you by without reading for the total fun of it! No matter where you go, a good book is a good companion. To get started, check out the lists on National Public Radio, Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble.
On the local front, Pease Public Library offers a great summer reading program and a slate of activities for the young and young at heart, and students at Plymouth Regional High School can join the summer reading blog and check out their library’s new arrivals.
Want a few quick suggestions? Try Mabod Seraji’s story of young love, set in pre-revolutionary Iran on the Rooftops of Tehran; live in Leningrad during World War II in City of Thieves by David Benioff; or experience life as The Leper, author Steve Thayer’s fictional account of life in two mid-20th Century leper colonies.
Email Anne Lebreche your favorite summer read and we’ll share it here.
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The Lamson Library and Learning Commons is pleased to welcome the art of Brian Moriarty who received his BFA in 2 and 3 Dimensional Design during May 2009 Commencement exercises. Of his work, Brian wrote the following:
“….My focus is on humans as destructive creatures. The way I see it, there are three main sources of this destructive nature found in human existence. Those destructive behaviors are of nature, society, and self. The focus I am working with here is the destruction of self, whether it is from depression, psychosis, rage, or other mental disabilities. The marks are meant to be visceral responses to that certain self-destructive emotion…..My quality of making the mark in my art is what helps compliment this violent behavior. The mark is intended to reflect the inner anger, sorrow, or whichever negative emotion that the piece conveys.”
Brian’s images will be on display until mid-August.
The Lamson Library and Learning Commons will observe the following schedule in celebration of Independence Day.
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This month, PSU and the Lamson Library and Learning Commons welcomes six visitors from Houdegbe North American University, Cotonou, Benin, West Africa to observe how a modern American university operates. We will be demonstrating our processes and procedures in the Library, Admissions, and the Registrar’s offices.
Our guests include the President of Houdegbe North American University, Octave C. Houdegbe; Dr. Dare Arokoyo, Dean, School of Continuing Education & Part-Time Studies; Thelma Udo, Director of Admissions; Adeline Gai, Registrar; Genevieve Quenum, Library Administrator; and Edmond Segla, Library Technician.
PSU employees and the visiting educators recently enjoyed a reception in the Library.
The Lamson Library and Learning Commons is pleased to display the work of Benjamin Hunt who received his BFA in Graphic Design in May 2009. Benjamin describes his work below.
“I put a good amount of time into deciding what my senior thesis would be….in the end, I decided to go with an idea that would mean the most work, but would be the most enjoyable. That idea would be Volt, a superhero comic where I could combine my design education, with my love for cartooning, comics, and superheroes……in the course of this project, I have been teaching myself to illustrate digitally, to learn new forms of web programming, and to overall push my knowledge of design.”
Make sure to check out the further adventures of the Volt comic at his own website.
The works will be on display until mid-August.
We are happy to report that the library catalog upgrade completed successfully this morning. While the primary changes of this new software are internal to Lamson Library, please contact our Information Desk if you experience difficulty with our catalog. Thank you for your patronage!
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