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Please see attached for AES quarterly reports for the deletes, additions and updates of our e-record loads from April to June 2023, plus FY23 Expenditure Report.
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.
I am pleased to let you know that we will be installing a Short Story Dispenser in Terrell Library’s Readers’ Row. Visitors can push a button to get a 1- or 3-minutes story/poem/comic OR they can push a special button to get “Oberlin Shorts,” which will be a collection of stories/poems/comics by the Oberlin community.
In the fall, we will work with Creative Writing on being part of the Oberlin Shorts project, but to get us started, we need to load up our dispenser with some great stories/comics/poems by YOU, your students, creative alums you may know, Kendal friends, etc. I need about 30-50 pieces in place before the machine is delivered (in mid-september).
Please don’t be shy! Use this form to submit your creative pieces. Guidelines and word counts are included in the form–read the comics tech specs carefully before submitting please. I am only sending the form to Oberlin library staff–please feel free to share with those you may know who would be interested in being part of this fun and creative project.
Please see attached for AES quarterly reports, the additions, updates and deletes of our e-record loads from January to March 2023.
AES Team,
Ashley, Justin and Selina
A survey by Cilip shows members of the public using increasingly threatening behaviour about the removal of books on empire, race and LGBTQ+ themes
Just in time for the Oberlin folk music exhibit, a large media collection that was transferred from Concert Sound to the Archives last fall is now available for research, listening and viewing in the College Archives, processed by intern Stephen Renko. Phyllis and Rebecca kindly provided background on the provenance of the Con’s Folk Music Archive. The Oberlin Folk Music and Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse Collection comprises original reel-to-reel tapes and duplicate CDs of both the Conservatory Library’s Folk Music Archive and Cat in the Cream coffeehouse recordings. Additional materials unique to the Archives’ collection include some early sound recordings, such as Pete Seeger and others in 1959. Later audio, video and photographs from 1997-2018 include roughly 51 videos of Spring Folkfest and Cat in the Cream performances.
In addition to the Bill Norris Papers that you heard about at the last Pan-L, the Jan Cooper Papers are now processed. This one is very small, only one box. Most of it comprises transcriptions of oral history tapes with OLGBA members from Cooper’s Expository Writing class. Finding guide here.
Please see attached for AES quarterly reports, the additions and updates of our e-record loads from October to December 2022.
AES Team, Ashley, Justin and Selina
