Check out our latest art exhibit in the Salmon Library Art Gallery now until the end of March. You will find works by UAHuntsville art faculty, Roxie Veasey. You can find details on other Spring 2011 art exhibits across campus here.
Category Archives: Events
Plan ahead for parking: Let’s Pretend Hospital March 11-18
The College of Nursing will host its annual Let’s Pretend Hospital March 11-18 this year. There will be over 3,000 first graders and parents on campus participating in this event. Parking may be congested during this time. We ask that all students and faculty that normally use the parking area in front of the library to please be aware of this and be sure to arrive early in case you need to spend a few extra minutes looking for parking. Thank you for your understanding!
For more information on this wonderful event:
http://nursing.uah.edu/projects/lph/
Celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8 @ the library
March 8 is International Women’s Day and the theme for 2011 is equal access to education, training and science and technology: pathway to decent work for women.
International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the economic, political, and social achievements of women past, present, and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam, and Bulgaria, International Women’s Day is a national holiday.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, the library will have displays set up on the first floor near the InfoArcade. The Coffeehouse Writers Series will be gathering at 7 p.m. in the library art gallery. The local writing group that will be reading their work is BWFFs: Susan Gorrell, Erin Reid, Susan Phelan, Kathie Butler, Marylyn Coffey, Heather Kilgore, Betty Clemens, Sandra Shattuck, and Bee Barbara.
Designs on Black History Month Art show reception today at 4 p.m.
There will be an art reception today for Designs on Black History Month from 4-6 p.m. in the Art Gallery. The UAHuntsville Department of Art & Art History is celebrating the graphic design work of five young African-American art students:
Marques Dawson
Trevor Jones
Greg Thomas
Cady Reisman
Devin Ward
Now through Feb. 28: Designs on Black History Month
The Art and Art History Department present graphic design works by African-American art students from now until Feb. 28 in the Salmon Library Art Gallery. Artists featured include Marqus Dawson, Trevor Jones, Cady Reisman, Greg Thomas, and Devin Ward. For more information, please call 256-824-6114.
SciVerse Scopus Demo on Tuesday, Feb. 22, from 2-3:30 at library
Bruce Cary from Elsevier, Inc. will be here at the Salmon Library (room 111) on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, from 2-3:30 p.m. to provide a demonstration of the SciVerse Scopus database.
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Dr. Belinda Ong at ongb@uah.edu or 256-824-6432 if you have any questions related to the demo.
SciVerse Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.
• Contains 41 million records, 70% with abstracts
• Nearly 18,000 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide
• 70% of content is pulled from international sources
• Includes over 3 million conference papers
• Provides 100% Medline coverage
• Offers sophisticated tools to track, analyze and visualize research
19 million records include references going back to 1996 and 19 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1823! Scopus is designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process.
Coffeehouse Writers Series Begins Feb. 11
Women’s Studies and the Salmon Library are partnering in a series of programs featuring local writers reading their work. We hope to eventually draw in a diversity of writing groups from Huntsville and its environs, and we are beginning with the focus on women writers.
The series begins Friday, February 11th, at 4 pm with the Coweeta Poets: Susan Luther, Rosemary McMahan, Margaret Vann, Erin Reid, Debbie West, Rose Norman, and Evelyn Hurley. This group got started in the 1990s at a retreat led by Susan Luther at McClure Mill, near Franklin,NC, on the porch over Coweeta Creek, and has been meeting quarterly in each other’s homes ever since. They will be reading from their new chapbook, Something More Solid Than Earth.
The series continues on Tuesday, February 22, at 6 pm, with a program called “She Speaks,” featuring poetry by Ruth Braswell, Katina Walton, Symonia Montgomery, Shawana Ariel, La’Shea Monique Johnson, and Caneeka Miller. La’Shea has a new book, Paradigm: Poetry Through Life Lessons. Caneeka Miller, whose work will be featured, also has a new book of poems, Smeared Eyeliner & Faded Lipstick.
On March 8, at 7 pm, the series will celebrate International Women’s Day with readings by the local writing group BWFFs: Susan Gorrell, Erin Reid, Susan Phelan, Kathie Butler, Marylyn Coffey, Heather Kilgore, Betty Clemens, Sandra Shattuck, and Bee Barbara.
All readings are at the Salmon Library art gallery, on the ground floor just past the reference desk, near Jazzman’s Cafe. Admission is free, and Jazzman’s Café will be open before the Tuesday night readings. We expect Coffeehouse Writers programs to continue through the end of April and will be advertising them in groups of several programs at a time.
For information about the programs, to propose a program for the series, or to become a sponsor for the series, call Marylyn Coffey at 256-824-6114 or email coffeymt@uah.edu.
Exhibit to Commemorate Turkish Jewish History begins Jan. 10
The UAHuntsville Salmon Library Art Gallery will be hosting a new art exhibit starting Jan. 10 entitled “Ladino Exhibition: Under Vine and Fig Tree; 500 Years of Turkish Jewish History” and it will run until Jan. 31, 2011.
The Istanbul Center of Atlanta, Georgia, Peace Valley Foundation of Alabama, and their co-sponsors present an exhibition of images commemorating over 500 years of Jewish-Turkish history, courtesy of The Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews in Istanbul, Turkey, the official museum in Turkey that archives objects and images documenting Jewish life in Turkey. The collection is designed to illuminate the special relationship between the Jewish community and the Turkish people that began primarily in the 15th century when Jews fleeing persecution from Spain settled in the Ottoman Empire at the invitation of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II.
Photo of The Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews by Izzet Keribar
The opening reception for the Ladino Exhibit has been rescheduled for Wed., Jan 12, 2011 at the Salmon Library at UAH at 7:00 PM. Dr. Richard Chambers will not be able to come and be the keynote speaker, so Rabbi Bernard Honan has graciously accepted. Rabbi Bernard Honan, born in New York in 1927, attended public school and graduated from City College of NY in 1947. That same year he entered the Jewish Institute of Religion which subsequently merged with the Hebrew Union College. He was ordained as Rabbi in 1951, and spent the next 50 years serving congregations in New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Texas.
In 1953 he entered the Air Force as Chaplain, and served in Japan and Korea. Upon release, he met and married his wife, Roslyn, and together they raised 3 children. Rabbi Honan was actively engaged in student work, both at the University of Virginia and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (UAT), where he simultaneously served as Hillel director and as both student and instructor at UAT. In 1976 he was awarded the degree of Ph D as well as Doctor of Divinity by the Hebrew Union College.
In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Rabbi Honan has the distinction of being the only Reform Rabbi who is a Torah Scribe. Over 100 scrolls have passed through his hands for repair and re-lettering.
Rabbi Honan is of Sephardic Heritage, descended from a long line of Rabbis and Scholars, dating back to the 15th Century. Although his parents arrived on these shores about a century ago, their families lived under the Ottoman Empire ever since the Spanish Inquisition in 1492. Retired in 1999, the Honans have been happily living in Huntsville.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville is located at 301 Sparkman Dr. in Huntsville. The Salmon Library is the red brick building to the left of the University Center. For more information, please call 256-824-6529.
E-Info Global 2007
The Library’s E-Info Global Symposium 2007 will be held at UAH on Dec. 6 & 7, 2007. Stephen Abram, Vice President of Innovation for SirsiDynix, will be the Program Chair this year. Visit Stephen’s blog for more information about him. Click here to learn about his new book, Out Front with Stephen Abram. Anyone who heard Stephen speak at last year’s symposium knows that we can look forward to a very dynamic and innovative program this year! Please be sure to check the E-Info Global website for more information in the coming months.
National Library Week coming soon!
National Library Week is fast approaching and will be here April 15-21, 2007. This is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation’s libraries, librarians, and library workers and to promote library use and support. Click here for more information about National Library Week from the American Library Association.