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Moving the discussion here so we don’t lose your good ideas.
Observers in Oberlin will see (approximately) 3m 51s of totality!
Ohio author David Giffels will be the 2023 Friends of the Library speaker.
A former Akron Beacon Journal columnist, his writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic.com, Parade, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire.com, Grantland.com, The Iowa Review, and many other publications. He also wrote for the MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head. He is the author of several books, including Barnstorming Ohio, Furnishing Eternity, and his latest…on the Akron band Devo.
His awards include the Cleveland Arts Prize for literature, the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and a General Excellence award from National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He was selected as the Cuyahoga County Public Library Writer in Residence for 2018-2019. Giffels is a professor of English at the University of Akron, where he teaches creative nonfiction in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program.
His title will be: “No Poor, Indifferent Place: Writing When You Have No Ideas”
This year’s event will be re-designed a bit. It’s a tapas affair and library staff will be honored invitees. I hope you will join us.
With the fall semester quickly approaching, the ACE Team would like to encourage everyone to submit their events and communications content as early as possible. While we do the best we can to advertise and post everything submitted, last minute requests cannot always be fulfilled.
We would also like to announce that you can now request advertisement for your events through the Events Form, rather than filling out two forms. If you would prefer to create your own advertising content, you still have the option to separately upload that through the Communications Form. Please reach out to us if you have any questions.
And as always, please remember to review the Communications Platform Standards prior to submitting communications content.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 18 at 7am, a new sculpture, commissioned by the Friends of Oberlin College, will be installed in the Contemplation Garden of the Mudd Center (148 W. College). “Oberlin Reader” is the work of renowned stone carver Nicholas Fairplay. Its engaging combination of text and image perfectly captures the spirit of Oberlin: serious and playful, studious and creative. The sculpture is done in the classical style of a stele and fashioned from Indiana limestone to match the brutalist building in front of which it will stand. The artist donated the stone and the Friends of Oberlin College commissioned the work as “a gift to all Oberlin readers.” A campus-wide outdoor sculpture committee worked with the artist and approved the design last year.
For newer staff who haven’t come across these “memories” of Carnegie Library. I particularly enjoyed John Elder’s horror story!
https://www.oberlinlibstaff.com/omeka/gb_carnegie.html
The IDEA committee of the Oberlin College Libraries and Oberlin’s Big Read project are pleased to announce a book discussion of Yaa Gyasi’s “Homegoing” at noon on Thursday April 6 from noon to 1:30 pm in the Library Learning Lab (Mudd 113)
Registration for library staff is now open! Copies of the book are available for participants to borrow and read before the discussion. BYOB your own lunch and drinks, the IDEA committee is providing dessert.
Staff from all Libraries are invited to join our CELA neighbors for a potluck Chili lunch on February 24 in the Moffett Auditorium. If you can come…or if you would like to contribute you own special dish or condiment, please sign up here.
Doubles pickleball returns starting on February 20. Sign up for the Monday night or Wednesday noon leagues. Fun is guaranteed to be had by all. Email sschoenh@oberlin.edu to sign up.
Mark your calendars for a Chili in February event in Moffett (Looking at Friday, February 24. )
Volunteers from the Oberlin Chili Libraries (OCL) and the Cornbread Eating Liberal Arts (CELA) will share their secret chili and cornbread dishes amidst general frivolity and collegiality in Moffett.
Look for a sign up sheet soon!
