LMU Library News

Lions Read! Announcing our new summer reading contest, May 29 – August 3.

What are you reading this summer? 

The Lions Read Program was developed to showcase the library’s Popular Reading Collection and the Children’s Book collection, but any book from the library is eligible. We want you to read!

Who can participate?

All members of the LMU community with library borrowing privileges are eligible to participate. This includes staff and faculty and their family members, plus students, alumni, and community members. There are two divisions: Youth – Lion Cubs (age 0 - 13) and Adult – Lions (14 years and older).

How long is the program?

The program runs for 10 weeks, from May 29 – August 3.

Sounds fun! How do I participate?

It’s easy! Check out books from the Hannon Library, and read. When you finish reading each book, return and complete a ticket to be entered into our weekly raffle. Tickets will be at the Information Desk on the first floor. The raffle ticket will ask for your name, contact information and the title and author of the book. One ticket per book; you may not use multiple tickets for the same book. Books must be read between May 29 and August 3, 2012. Prior readings are not eligible.

Readers are also encouraged to submit book reviews and/or photos during the contest. Guest reviews may be featured on the library's blog and/or Facebook page. In addition, we encourage everyone who is participating to join the Lions Read Facebook community, where you can share feedback about what you've read, see what others are reading, and find like-minded LMU Lions who love to read!

What can I read?

Only books owned by the Hannon Library or available through LINK+ may be counted. Books read must be age-appropriate. (For example, adults may receive credit for YA fiction, but no other categories from the children’s book collection.) Youth are also required to read books appropriate for their age and reading abilities. Watching a DVD based on a book does not count.

Reading aloud to children is acceptable and encouraged!  In the case of an adult reading aloud to a young child, the child will receive the raffle ticket.

When are the raffle drawings? What can I win? How many prizes will be offered?

Drawings will be held weekly, every Friday between May 29 and August 3 at 3 p.m. (Note: no drawing will be held during the week of July 4.) There will be two winners for each division. Prizes will be $10 gift certificates. Winners need not be present.

Are any parties or events planned?  Free food?  Free books?

Two Lions Read celebrations will be held at the library (dates & times TBD).  At these events, participants will be invited to meet others and “talk books.”  Refreshments will be served and free books will be distributed! 

What if I have more questions?

Please feel free to get in touch with Education Librarian and Lions Read coordinator Silvia Gutierrez. You can call her at 310.338.7488, or email her at Silvia.Gutierrez@lmu.edu.

 

Google Docs & Google Forms Workshop

   

Learn how these easy-to-use Google tools can save you time and help you collaborate with your coworkers!

• Use Google Docs to store and share your documents online

• Use Google Forms to create online surveys

 

 When: Tuesday, May 22nd, 10:00 - 11:30am 

            Thursday, July 12th, 10:00 - 11:30am
 

Where: WHH 118 (The computer classroom on level 1)
 

To learn more or to RSVP, please visit our Google Tools LibGuide

Although Google Docs & Google Forms is part of the Library Workshops for Staff & Faculty Series, students are welcome too.

For more information, contact Elisa Slater Acosta.

 

Congratulations to our 2012 Undergraduate Library Research Award Winners!

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 7th Annual Undergraduate Library Research Award!

 

Winner ($1000 prize)

Owens Valley on Tap – Early Los Angeles and the Quest to Quench Her Thirst, by Steven A. Solari (pictured above, right)

Nominated by Professor Cara Anzilotti (History)

 

Honorable Mention ($450) 

The Lost Text: A Critical Edtion of the Rych Cheyne, by Michael Madrinkian (pictured above, left)

Nominated by Professor Stephen Shepherd (English)

 

Honorable Mention ($450)

Effect of Training Mode on Post-Exercise Heart Rate Recovery of Trained Cyclists, by Kelia G. McDonald (pictured above, center)

Nominated by Professor Silvie Grote (Health and Human Sciences)

 

The winners' work will soon be available for viewing and download in the library's Digital Commons (along with winners from years past.) We thank the awards committee for their work: Alexander Justice (Chair, Library), Tom Klein (Animation), Jennifer Masunaga (Library), and Jennifer Ramos (Political Science), and all of the students and faculty who submitted their best work this year. We hope that you'll all consider applying for next year's award!  

All are invited to celebrate these students and their accomplishments at the awards reception on Tuesday April 24 at 5 p.m. in the library's Von der Ahe suite.

 

Creation, Creatureliness, and Creativity: The Human Place in the Natural World

This Friday and Saturday, April  20 and 21, the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology will sponsor a conference at LMU’s William H. Hannon Library, hosted by Brian Treanor of the Philosophy Department.

The Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology seeks to promote inquiry at the intersection of philosophy and theology. The 2012 conference of the SCPT takes today’s ecological crisis as its point of departure, with presentations from philosophical and theological perspectives informed by continental traditions such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, eco-feminism, post-structuralism, post-colonial studies, deconstruction, and social and deep ecology.

Those wishing to participate or attend the banquet can visit https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/scpt for registration.  See the Conference LibGuide at http://libguides.lmu.edu/SCPTConference  for more about the many presentations and about the speakers coming from as far as Great Britain and Australia, as well as the U.S. 

Keynote speakers include Bruce Foltz (Eckerd College),Janet Martin Soskice (Cambridge University), and Norman Wirzba (Duke Divinity School). We are proud to say that among the many prestigious scholars presenting is LMU graduate philosophy student Dan Olson.

The Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology was founded in 1997, and seeks to promote inquiry at the intersection of philosophy and theology. Members are philosophers and theologians from diverse backgrounds from the fields of phenomenology, deconstruction, feminism, Radical Orthodoxy, political theory, environmentalism, idealism, and ethics.

 

LMU @ Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Do you love to read? Write? Listen to storytelling? All of the above?

If so, you don't want to miss the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, which is taking place across town at USC on Saturday April 21 and Sunday April 22.

LMU faculty and Alumni will be well represented amongst the hundreds of authors who will be at the Festival. Here's where you'll find them:

(Note that advance tickets may be required for author panel presentations: click here for the schedule and to check availability.)

• Anne Perry in Conversation with Denise Hamilton, alumna / Saturday, 12:30 p.m., Bing Theater
• Michael Genovese, Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies, professor of Political Science, director of the Institute for Leadership Studies, speaking at "Current Interest: Decision 2012," Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Ronald Tutor Campus Center
• Adilufu Nama, Chair of African American Studies, speaking at "Cultural Visions:  Blackness Now & Then," Saturday, 3:00 p.m., Davidson Continuing Education Center
• Denise Hamilton, speaking at "Crime Fiction:  Buried Secrets / Sunday, 11:00 a.m., Seeley G. Mudd (SGM 124). 
• Gail Wronsky, professor in the English department, reading from "So Quick Bright Things" / Sunday, 12:30 p.m., on the Poetry Stage.
• Carroll Kearley, professor emeritus of Philosophy, reading from "The Plain Above the River" / Sunday, 4:00 p.m., on the Poetry Stage.

And don't forget to stop by the LMU booth, as well! You'll find it on both days at booth number 214, on Trousdale Parkway. 

The Heart, the Gift, and the Book

 

**Note to those studying in the library on Monday April 23. This special event will be taking place between 7-10 p.m. in the Von der Ahe Suite and the Level 3 Atrium. We apologize for any disruption to your studies during this time.**

The William H. Hannon Library is wrapping up LMU's Centennial year with a special exhibition and event that you won't want to miss. 

The Heart, the Gift, and the Book is the fourth and final exhibition honoring 100 years of Special Collections donors and the important treasures they entrusted to LMU. This exhibition, on display in the Department of Special Collections through June 30, presents first editions, exceptionally beautiful specimens, and historically noteworthy volumes from our rare book collections. 

And on Monday, April 23, you are invited to join the Hannon Library and the Marymount Institute for an unforgettable evening of music and performance followed by an exhibition viewing and reception celebrating Shakespeare's birthday and our copy of the First Folio. See below for more details, and RSVP by clicking here or calling Library Administration at 310-338-4593. (Space is limited!)

Reception sponsored by the Bellarmine Forum Centennial series, "Moving Forward, Looking Back: Imagining LMU's Next 100 Years."

 

 

4/17 Faculty Pub Night: Poet Sarah Maclay

Join us at our last Faculty Pub Night of the semester, celebrating National Poetry Month with Clinical Professor Sarah Maclay as she reads from and discusses her latest provocative work, Music for the Black Room. 

Tuesday, April 17 / 5:30–6:30 p.m.
Von der Ahe Family Suite (William H. Hannon Library, L3)

• Free and open to the public.

• Light refreshments will be served.

• Books will be available for purchase and signing

 

We hope to see you there!

 

4/11 Alumni Authors Wraps Up With Kristen Tracy '94

It's hard to believe, but we're finally at the end of our Centennial Alumni Authors Series! This week is National Library Week, and we can't think of a better author to celebrate with. Please join us to welcome Kristen Tracy back to LMU this Wednesday, April 11, at 6 p.m. in the library's Von der Ahe Suite.

Kristen Tracy grew up in a small Mormon town in Idaho not far from Yellowstone Park, which she left to attend LMU. She now lives in San Francisco where she writes children’s books and volunteers as a gardener on Alcatraz.

She has an MA in American Literature from Brigham Young University, an MFA in poetry from Vermont College, and a Ph.D. in English from Western Michigan University, where she was selected as an All-University Creative Scholar.

Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Threepenny Review,Southern Review, North American Review, AGNI, TriQuarterly, Poetry Northwest and others. She co-edited A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women (University of Iowa Press, 2002).

Her first children’s book, Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus (Random House 2009), was chosen by School Library Journal as one of the best children’s books of the year.

And her second middle-grade novel, The Reinvention of Bessica Lefter (Random House 2011) was recently honored with a Parents' Choice Award.

She's published several critically acclaimed teen novels as well, including Lost It, Crimes of the Sarahs, A Field Guide for Heartbreakers, and Sharks & Boys. She has additional titles forthcoming, including Bessica Lefter Bites Back (Random House 2012) and Death of a Kleptomaniac (Disney-Hyperion 2012).

Her talk will be particularly suited to readers of all ages, so please feel free to invite your family and friends! This talk is free and open to the public. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. RSVP here! 

We Love our Student Workers: Undergraduate Research Symposium Edition

The William H. Hannon Library would like to congratulate Michael Mandrinkian, the winner of the Bellarmine Forum Undergraduate Research Award for his project called The Lost Text: A History of The Rych Cheyne. Michael's research involved an anonymous, 16^th century manuscript, held by our own Hannon Library’s special collections. The manuscript, entitled The Riche Cheyne, contains all of the Biblical books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. (For those interested in more background information, Michael blogged about his research for us over the summer. Click to read about his journey here, here, and here!) 

We would also like to congratulate the following library student workers on their participation at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium:

Impact of Irrigation Systems on Arthropod Community Composition of Coastal Sage Scrub along Ballona Wetlands
Mindi Catala (pictured above with her partner Justin Aquino) - Reference Department

Indian Families of Mexico City: Gender Relations in the Late-Colonial Era, 1725 – 1816
Erika Chavez - Circulation Department

Fifteen Years of Adaptation: Analyzing Angelinos’ Sentiments in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riot
Erin Golightly - Department of Archives & Special Collections

Enumeration of bacteriophage and prokaryotic populations in an urban coastal wetlands (Ballona Wetlands) in Los Angeles County by epifluorescence microscopy
Emma Kennedy - Circulation Department

Computational Investigation toward a Predictive Understanding of Ruthenium Water Oxidation Catalyst Design
Brian Lee - Media & Reserves Department

Perceptions of Los Angeles after 1992 Riots by Age Group
Paige Pardo - Media & Reserves Department

Great work, all!

Click here to read more about the 2012 Undergraduate Research Symposium. (And don't forget that there's still time to submit your work for the 2012 Undergraduate Library Research Award!) 

 

3/28 Alumni Authors: Graciela Limón

All are invited to join us for the fourth evening in our Centennial literary series, Alumni Authors.

Alumni Authors: Graciela Limón

Wednesday March 28

6 p.m. / Von der Ahe Family Suite

Graciela Limón is a Latina/Chicana writer, educator and activist. She is the daughter of Mexican Immigrants and a native of Los Angeles. She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Spanish Literature from Marymount College Los Angeles, a Master of Arts Degree in the same field from the University of the Americas Mexico City, followed by a PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

Prior to retirement, Limón was a professor of U.S. Hispanic Literature and Chair of the Department of Chicana/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She is now Professor Emerita at LMU as well as Adjunct Professor at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara.

Limón has written critical work on Mexican, Latin American and Caribbean Literature. However, she now concentrates her writing efforts on creative fiction that is germane to her areas of interest: feminism, social justice and cultural identity.

Her body of work includes In Search of Bernabé, a winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1994). Limón also published The Memories of Ana Calderón(1994), Song of the Hummingbird (1996) andThe Day of the Moon (1999). Erased Faces, which was awarded the 2002 Gustavus Myers Book Award, was published in 2001, Left Alive was released in 2005, and The River Flows North came out in 2009.

The Madness of Mamá Carlota, to be published in March 2012, is her most recent endeavor. Guests at this event will have the first opportunity to purchase her newest work, which is not yet available in bookstores or libraries!

This special evening with Dr. Limón is co-sponsored by the Department of Chicana/o Studies and Sigma Lambda Gamma. 

RSVP here.