You may have noticed the construction noise on the original side of the library. Half of the first floor is undergoing a renovation and this week the construction noise is a lot louder than usual. The louder than usual construction work is unavoidable, but it should be over late next week.
There are still many quiet areas to study in the library. The further you move away from the front stairwell, the less you hear the noise.
April 24th is the 12th Annual National Day of Puppetry.
We have hand puppets to die for, available to check out from Odum, including many realistic-looking animal puppets from Folkmanis. Ask at the front Circulation Desk if you’d like to see the puppets.
This summer the Port City Puppet Festival, July 15th-18th in Wilmington, NC, will offer a Professional Day for the Teaching Artist & Therapist with presentations by puppeteers, educators and therapists.
Or, this summer you could visit Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts. The Center has many historic puppets on exhibit, and presents unforgettable performances.
Donkey Hand Puppet from Folkmanis
Legendary Civil Rights leader Dr. Dorothy Height died Tuesday at 98.
Her memoir Open Wide the Freedom Gates can be checked out from Odum Library.
Read, hear and see video of Dr. Height at the University of Virginia Library Institute for Public History’s Explorations in Black Leadership.
You can also read about Height, see archival photos and listen to a retrospective here at NPR.
Read Alouds
Read Alouds
Hula Hoops
Celebrity Appearance by the Chick-fil-A Cow
Music
Face Painting
Coloring
Jump Rope
Slate.com and Magnum Photos post these wonderful photographs of libraries and people reading, from around the 1940’s to the present.
#13 is a photo of Marilyn Monroe hanging out at a playground, reading a book, in a bathing suit.
#20 is James Dean reciting James Whitcomb Riley‘s poetry.
Here’s a snapshot of the reading room in the old Valdosta State College Library, when the library was in Powell Hall:
Photo courtesy of VSU Archives
The first floor, original side, of Odum Library is closed for renovation.
The bound periodicals are still on the first floor, covered with huge sheets of plastic.
Librarians, faculty, students, and staff are not allowed into the construction zone, for safety reasons. If you need a bound periodical, microfiche, or microfilm that is located in the construction zone, you need to fill in a request form…
A designated library employee will retrieve the item for you, as soon as is safely possible.
Request forms are located at the main Circulation Desk and the Reference Desk.
Cooking with the Bible takes eighteen meals found in the Bible and gives menus and recipes for recreating dishes like those served at the prodigal son’s return, at Queen Esther’s table, or at King David’s wedding.
Carob Cake for Two Sons
1 ½ cups flour ~ 2 cups sugar ~ ¾ cup milk ~ 5 T. cooking oil ~ 2 tsp. vinegar ~ 2 egg yolks ~ 2 tsp. baking powder ~ 1 tsp. vanilla ~ 1 tsp. salt ~ 6 T. carob powder
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a large cake pan. Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl. Pour into the pan. Bake for 1 hour. Serve warm.
Cooking with the Bible on the Web
Kevin Wilson‘s Tunneling to the Center of the Earth collects eleven short stories including “The Shooting Man”:
It took me damn near a week to convince Sue-Bee to come watch this guy shoot himself in the face. “Why would I wanna do something like that, Guster?” she asked me, which seemed like a dumb question because why does anyone want to do anything? It just seemed like fun, that’s all.
The book includes extras, like “The Stories Behind the Stories,” a little essay from the author, and an interview. He says:
This is how I came to writing . . . I read book after book by authors infinitely more talented than myself and tried to learn from them. The only strange detail was that, as I was writing and reading, I was saying to myself, “Kevin, this is going to get you laid.” It did not. This was for the best.
One hundred years ago and a bit, Mark Twain toodles around his Connecticut estate and has a nosh with his daughters.
Mark Twain by www.PDImages.com
