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Save the Date!

Memorial Library Information Fair

Friday, Sept 26^th

11 AM – 2 PM

Find out how the library is more than just a library!

Free snacks (sponsored by ASC)

Win a GPS unit!

Come see how we can help you:

• Design your online courses
• Create a research poster
• Detect Plagiarism
• Create multimedia projects
• Provide real-time online writing instruction in your classes
• Connect you with the resources you need for your research
• Teach students how to use library resources to improve their research strategy
• Design a service learning component to your coursework
• Help your students decide on their career path and transition into college
• Get a great cup of coffee

For more information: contact Lorraine Melita, Education and Outreach Librarian (Lorraine.melita@cortland.edu / x4009)

WHO? Discussion Leader, Nicola Morris, SUNY Cortland English Department

WHEN? All discussions will be held on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 PM on the following dates:

            A Contract With God on August 27, 2008

            The Complete Maus on September 24, 2008

            Julius Knipl on October 15, 2008

            The Quitter on November 12, 2008

            The Rabbi’s Cat on December 3, 2008

WHERE? Teaching Materials Center, Memorial Library, SUNY Cortland

Books and other materials will be provided to participants at the Memorial Library Circulation Desk.

For more information, call Ellen McCabe at 753-4051

These discussions are free and open to the public.

Refreshments provided by funding from Friends of the Library at SUNY Cortland.

This program is made possible by a grant from the American Library Association and Nextbook.

Coming in the fall to Memorial Library!

Let’s Talk About It will be back in the fall with more book discussions on Jewish literature. This year we will be looking at Modern Marvels, a series of graphic novels, including A Contract With God by Will Eisner; The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman; Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories by Ben Katchor; The Quitter by Harvey Pekar; The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar. Once again, sessions will be conducted by Nicky Morris of the English Department and held in the Reading Area of the Teaching Materials Center at Memorial Library. Projected dates for the discussions are: August 27, 2008, September 24, 2008, October 15, 2008, November 12, 2008 and December 3, 2008; all at 7:00 P.M. Refreshments will be served. Please join us!

For more information please contact Ellen McCabe (753-4051; mccabe@cortland.edu ).

This program is made possible by a grant from the American Library Association and Nextbook

April 17th  (Thursday)
Literature Circle in Action with Fahrenheit 451
TMC, Memorial Library, 1:30 - 2:15pm

April 19th   (Saturday)
Read-A-Thon: Fahrenheit 451 (Join us for a marathon read)
While adults read, there will be supervised activities with books for children
Center for the Arts, Homer, 9:00am-4:00pm

Event Sponsors: English Department, Literacy Department, Office of Sponsored Programs, Memorial Library Staff, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest, National  Institute for Museum & Library Services.

Mark your calendars for April 15, 2008 at 1:15 PM and 2:50 PM.  Suzanne Bloom, noted author and illustrator, will be presenting in the Children’s Reading Area in the Teaching Materials Center, Memorial Library in conjunction with The Big Read.  Her theme will center on “Dare to Read:  The act of reading to a child creates a powerful connection between the reader and the child and between the child and a larger world.”  Ms. Bloom was an illustrator before she became a writer.  She notes, “..as much as I love writing the story, drawing the pictures is like dessert.”  She went to Cooper Union College, an art school, where she painted, made sculptures, and drew throughout her four years there.  She uses everyday details in her illustrations and lets the reader get to know who lives in each of her books.  Some of her books include A Family for Jamie: An Adoption Story, Girls A to Z, No Place for a Pig, The Bus for Us, A Splendid Friend Indeed, and Treasure.

Stop in at the Children’s Reading Area for a lively, energizing visit with Suzanne.  You will be glad you did!

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library in conjunction with The Big Read.

Banned Books are back at SUNY Cortland!Ever wonder why anyone would not let people read The Bible?  Why would someone think Where’s Waldo is a bad book?  What is wrong with Beloved?  The Friends of the Library invite you to check out the Banned Books displays in The College Store, Corey Union, Old Main, and Memorial Library from Wednesday, September 26 through Monday, October 8 to see how familiar literature has been and continues to be censored on a regular basis.  Contest entry forms at each display will test your knowledge to see how much you know about the books on display! 

Participants who complete the contest forms are eligible to win one of two $25 ASC gift cards, a Cortaca Jug sweatshirt or T-shirt, or a Banned Book tote bag filled with lots of goodies inside.  The contest is open to students, staff and faculty, limit one entry per person per display.  The drawing for the prizes will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 10 in the Memorial Library Teaching Materials Center.   One winner per display will be drawn for all correct entries received. You do not need to be present to win.

Please contact Lorraine Melita at ext. 4009 or Gretchen Douglas at ext. 4029 with any questions you may have.  This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

Virtual Worlds

Originally uploaded by SUNY Cortland Memorial Library.

Friday, May 4th at 4:00 p.m. in the library conference room, the Friends of the Library is sponsoring a presentation by Bret Ingerman, Vice President for Computing and Information Services at Vassar College, “The Evolution of the Internet: Using ‘Virtual Worlds’ to Enhance Teaching, Learning, and Scholarly Research.” This session will examine the various technologies that have converged to make virtual worlds a viable platform for exploration. You will experience these environments first hand, see how they are being used for education, explore how easily the environment can be changed to suit essentially any need, and discuss the potential for this technology in your own teaching and research. No prior experience is necessary to attend the presentation: all that is needed is inquisitiveness. (If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact Dan Harms in the library at harmsd@cortland.edu or Ext. 4042.)

Snowy greetings:

The Copyright and Plagiarism talk scheduled for February 15^th is canceled due to poor travel conditions. We will reschedule.

You Are Invited!

Brigid Hubberman, Executive Director of the Ithaca Family Reading Partnership will speak on Family Reading Partnerships

Thursday
February 15 at 4:20
in the TMC (Fireplace Lounge if we have a larger audience)

Please r.s.v.p. to
Joy Mosher mosherj@cortland.edu if you plan to come or bring a class

The Center for the Advancement of Technology in Education (CATE)
The Office of the Associate Provost for Information Services
The Faculty Development Center
The Friends of the Library at SUNY Cortland
Memorial Library
Using the Works of Others: Copyright and Academic Integrity

What‘s Yours is Mine (Not!): Innovation, Culture & Copyright
Presented by Jill Hurst-Walsh
Hurst Associates, Ltd.

Academic Original Sin: Plagiarism and the Millennial Student
Presented by Gail Wood
Director of Libraries

February 15, 2007
4:00 p.m.
Library Conference Room

Refreshments courtesy of CATE

Jill Hurst-Wahl has worked in and around information for most of her life. Her background is in information technology and library science. She has been both a programmer/analyst and a corporate librarian. While a corporate librarian, she worked on competitive intelligence research projects and helped to build a competitive intelligence system that used digitization as one of the methods of inputting information. That was more than 15 years ago and Jill has continued to do work both in the areas of digitization and competitive intelligence.

For more information contact
Gail Wood at x2221 or woodg@cortland.edu