Category: OCL Events

ART&CRAFT: Cyanotype Patches, tonight, 6pm-8pm

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The Clarence Ward Art Library would like to invite you to tonight’s Art&Craft event at the Art Library, from 6pm-8pm.

Tonight, we’ll be sun-printing cyanotype patches in the herb garden out front.

Join Master of Crafting (MC), Lilian Feinberg, and Guest Makers (GMs), Sophia Samra & Violet Kotzin, as they guide you in designing and creating a sateen cotton cyanotype fabric patch you can sew on your outerwear, bags or… forehead, if it’s meaty!

Previous experience is not required, our MC and GMs will be there to support you. All materials are provided for the first 25 attendees (there may be extra materials, but not guaranteed). Play your best little boy blue in the greatest way, and make cute stuff with us!

Verified Book Club, 7/25

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All library staff and FYSP faculty are invited to join RIG in the Thornton Room or on zoom at 3:00PM on Thursday, July 25 to discuss Verified:
How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg.

It’s an engaging and funny read that updates outdated information literacy advice (like paying too much attention to website domain) and provides helpful strategies for navigating misinformation online. I highly recommend that anyone who teaches or promotes library collections to students check out the book and attend the discussion. We’ll be brainstorming how we can use these techniques to get students to engage critically with resources like our New York Times and Wall Street Journal subscriptions. Use this form to suggest discussion questions.

You can find copies in OhioLink and SearchOhio. If you’re having trouble getting one of those to arrive on time, 2 of the 5 copies we purchased to give away at new student orientation are still available for staff to read before the book club (just treat them gently!) Ask Alonso if you want to borrow one.

Con Library Study Break April 10 and Tiny Ref Desk Concert April 12

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We hope you will be able to join us for and help get the word out about two events at the Con Library this week:

  • Wednesday April 10, 4pm we have Melodies on the Menu (with Snacks!) study break. This is in conjunction with our current student-curated exhibit, “Melodies on the Menu” featuring music inspired by food or cooking. Emily Dickinson’s black cake recipe, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pot roast recipe, and composer Erberk Eryilmaz’s “collection of love songs all using dairy to rhyme or to describe emotions.”
  • Friday April 12 at noon we have a Tiny Ref Desk Concert featuring Damian Goggans, guitar, performing works by Villa-Lobos, Goggans, and Brouwer. The concert will be streamed on Instagram @obieconlib.

Con Library Events – Study Break April 10 and Tiny Ref Desk Concert April 12

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We hope you will be able to join us for and help get the word out about two events at the Con Library this week:

  • Wednesday April 10, 4pm we have Melodies on the Menu (with Snacks!) study break. This is in conjunction with our current student-curated exhibit, “Melodies on the Menu” featuring music inspired by food or cooking. Emily Dickinson’s black cake recipe, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pot roast recipe, and composer Erberk Eryilmaz’s “collection of love songs all using dairy to rhyme or to describe emotions.”
  • Friday April 12 at noon we have a Tiny Ref Desk Concert featuring Damian Goggans, guitar, performing works by Villa-Lobos, Goggans, and Brouwer. The concert will be streamed on Instagram @obieconlib.

Learn to play Speculation before the Card Game event on March 14

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There will be two lunchtime sessions on how to play Speculation, the 18th-century card game that we will be playing at the upcoming Friends of the Library event on March 14 (7-9pm).  the session will be held in Room 113 on March 1 and March 8 from noon to 1:00. Feel free to bring your lunch.  Could be fun…..and then you’ll be an expert at the Friends event.

Web Accessibility Workshop 1:30-3, 2/1

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All library staff are invited to a web accessibility workshop on Thursday February 1 from 1:30-3 PM in Mudd 113. Join Rebecca Belford, Tim Keller, Elizabeth Sullivan, and Julie Weir and deepen your understanding of how patrons with disabilities navigate the web. Learn best practices for ensuring that web content and communications are equally available to all users. Be ready to practice navigating websites without a mouse, writing effective alt-text, and more!

Valerie strongly recommends that anyone attend who creates public facing web content, including but not limited to updating the website, emailing patrons or donors, advertising events, submitting or creating social media content, or creating digital exhibits. Coffee, tea and sweet and savory snacks will be served. All attendees are eligible to win a door prize.

This version of the workshop includes activities that will work best in person. Contact the organizers if you’re interested in a zoom version at a later date.
Register by Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Thing One and Thing Two

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Two fun events–with volunteer opportunities–to keep in mind in March!

THING ONE: Thursday, March 14, 7-9pm in Terrell Academic Commons: “Jane’s Games: Playing Cards with Jane Austen” Short lecture and lessons followed by an evening of playing Speculation, a fun and easy card game popular in the Regency era.

Volunteer opportunity: Learn how to play Speculation beforehand and serve as experts at each table to town/gown guests.  1.5 time flex time for OCOPE folks if you come out to help (and have fun!). Let Valerie know if you are interested and we will have a Speculation lesson sometime in February during work hours.

THING TWO:

Friday, March 29, StudiOC, 8:30am-1:30pm: The First Annual Edible Book Festival!  Co-sponsored with the Oberlin Public Library. I hope that your and/or your department will submit an entry (registration form here) and come by on your lunch hour from 11:30 to 12:30 to see and eat.  But if you wish to volunteer for the event, we could use one or two more for the duration.  Again, if OCOPE employees who volunteer to help out with the event can take 1.5 the time as flex time.

OOPSIE! Trivia lunchtime event is on Friday, January 19!

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My apologies; I misspoke at Pan Library Forum yesterday and gave the incorrect date for our staff trivia lunch.  It’s next Friday, January 19 from 12-1:30pm in Room 113 – the date is correct on the calendar invite you all received.   There is plenty of time to respond to that if you haven’t yet.   Should be a really fun time!