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Past Event

Aligning Academic Libraries with Real User Needs

Sherrer Small
Friday, 26 September 2008, 3 p.m.

Susan Gibbons, Vice Provost and Dean of the River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester, NY, will present the 2008 Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture, “Aligning Academic Libraries with Real User Needs” on Friday, September 26, at 3:00 pm in the Gordon H. Smith Hall in Albany Quadrangle.

Ms. Gibbons’ innovative work with anthropologist Nancy Fried Foster to study the research behavior of undergraduates has gained attention from libraries around the world. Their findings have been presented in the co-edited book, Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester (ALA, 2007) and covered by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Ms. Gibbons will speak about her experiences with this anthropological research project and the illumination and guidance it has provided in developing library services in the new century.

About the lecture:

The Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service was established in 1999 to commemorate the contributions and legacies of a respected friend, colleague, and champion of service.

Johannah Sherrer was the Director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College from July 1993-September 1998.  Known for her warm smile, her boundless energy, vitality, and drive, her compassion and friendliness to all creatures great and small, and her devotion to service in all its connotations, Johannah Sherrer was a friend, a colleague, a mentor, and a champion of libraries.

Past Event

Herman Asarnow

Poetry Asarnow Herman
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 7 p.m.

Herman Asarnow—poet, essayist, and translator— is the author of Glass-Bottom Boat (Higganum Hill Books, 2007), a collection of his recent poetry.

Past Event

Architecture Lecture on Paul Thiry

Lecture On Thiry
Sunday, 24 February 2008, 2 p.m.

In honor of Watzek Library’s 40th anniversary, architectural historian Dr. Libby Dawson Farr will present on Paul Thiry, the architect who designed Watzek Library and Agnes Flanagan Chapel. The presentation is titled “The Art Within the Architecture: Paul Thiry and the Respectful Integration of the Pacific Northwest’s Cultural and Natural Environment at Lewis & Clark College and Beyond”. A reception will follow.

Past Event

Sam Witt Poetry Reading

Witt Sam
Thursday, 21 February 2008, 7 p.m.

Sam Witt will read from his new book, Sunflower Brother, and also from his first book, Everlasting Quail. Additionally, he will read from a new manuscript on which he is working.

Past Event

Maps of the Pacific Northwest from the Collection of Robert Hamm

Exhibit Hamm
1 September through 21 December 2007

This exhibit documents the evolution of the Pacific Northwest’s depiction in maps, beginning with Münster’s 1580 map of the world and concluding with modern depictions of the Pacific Northwest from the late 1800s. The maps in this exhibit are on loan from Lewis & Clark College alum, Robert L. Hamm.