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Mar 30 2009
Events

National Library Week @ Special Collections

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Longwood Connects @ Greenwood Library:
A Program in Celebration of National Library Week
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Thursday, April 9 – 3:30 p.m. – Greenwood Library’s Atrium
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What’s so special about Greenwood Library’s Special Collections? You are invited to attend an event that has been designed to answer this question. On Thursday, April 9, at 3:30 p.m., the Greenwood Library will host an event that will feature faculty, staff, and students reading excerpts from books and performing musical compositions that are among the holdings in Special Collections.

openbookYou are encouraged to come out and enjoy readings and performances by President Patricia Cormier, Dr. Craig Challender, Marty Dorrill, Dr. Mary Carroll-Hackett, Dr. Lisa Kinzer, Dr. Lily Run Ren, Dr. Gordon Ring, Dr. John Sturtz, Director of Multicultural Affairs Lonnie Calhoun, and Longwood students Rachel Burchard, Emily Kilgore, and Ashley Lauer. We may have some surprise guests, as well.

Attendees will have an opportunity to win one of three Barnes and Noble gift cards being given away as door prizes. Refreshments will be available following the event.

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Mar 12 2009
Databases, Events

Celebrate Women’s History Month

Do you want to learn more about the role of women in history, politics, science, the arts, sports, the world of work, and more?

For quick links to Longwood events related to Women’s History Month 2009 and other interesting facts, check out the Women’s History Month guide created by librarian Mark Lenker and sociology professor Carl Riden.

For more in-depth research, consult the Women’s Studies Research Guide or search the following electronic resources:

Feb 02 2009
Events

Game Night ’09

Come visit us in the library for our semi-annual game night!Games will include the following:
Mario Kart Wii,  Rockband 2,  Guitar Hero: World Tour, NCAA Basketball 09
Apples to Apples, Cranium, Mousetrap, card games, and more!

Refreshments will be served.

February 6th, 2009 ~ 6:30 to 10pm

Hosted by Greenwood Library and Lancer Productions

hrum_music Music provided by WMLU.
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Jan 15 2009
Events

Presidential Inauguration in the Library

inauguration1Want to watch the Presidential Inauguration on campus? Beginning at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 20, the Janet D. Greenwood Library will offer full coverage (audio and video) of the presidential swearing-in and address in rooms 147A and B. We look forward to seeing you in the Library.

Oct 30 2008
Events

Civil War author and historian William Freehling to speak

Wiliam Freehling

Dr. William W. Freehling, a noted historian and author of four books on the Civil War, will address “Can Coincidences Change History? The Coming of the Civil War as a Test Case” at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, November 7 in the Greenwood Library. The program, sponsored by the Friends of the Janet D. Greenwood Library, will be preceded by a reception at 6 p.m. and followed by a book signing.

Books for sale at the event include Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (Vol. 1); Road to Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 (Vol. 2); and The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.

Freehling, a senior fellow with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, has taught at Berkeley and Harvard and held professorships or endowed chairs at Michigan State, the State University of New York, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Kentucky. He has written four books on the American Civil War, three of them prize winners. His Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina (Oxford University, 1965) was awarded the Nevins and Bancroft Prizes. He is currently working on a book about Abraham Lincoln.

Date: Friday, November 7, 2008
Time: Reception at 6:00 pm, Lecture at 7:00 pm
Location: Atrium of the Greenwood Library

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Oct 20 2008
Events

Campus Sustainability Day in Greenwood Library

Events for Longwood University’s first annual Campus Sustainability Day will take place in Greenwood Library on Wednesday, October 22 from 2 to 5 pm.  Here’s the schedule:

  • 2 to 3:30 in 147A — Interactive webcast presentation of Climate Realities, Challenges and Progress in Higher Education, a discussion moderated by Andrew C. Revkin, Science Reporter for the New York Times. For more information, click here.
  • 3:30 to 5 in the Library Atrium — Campus Sustainability Fair.  Departments, organizations, and clubs around campus will showcase their efforts to work more sustainably.

Questions?  Contact Kelly Martin, Sustainability Coordinator, at martinka2@longwood.edu or at (434)395-2572.

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Sep 26 2008
Events

Longwood Reads During Banned Books Week

LONGWOOD READS DURING BANNED BOOKS WEEK

DATE:  Wednesday, October 1, 2008

TIME:  1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Children’s Literature Room, Greenwood Library

This event will feature Longwood University faculty and students reading passages from books that have been challenged and/or banned from schools and libraries.  The schedule for the readings is as follows:

Banned Books Reading Schedule

Sep 23 2008
Events

Dr. Martha Cook to speak about Ellen Glasgow

On Thursday, October 2, at 3:30 pm, Greenwood Library will host an event in a series of ongoing lectures related to its archival and special collections. This event will feature Dr. Martha Cook, professor of English at Longwood University, who will speak on the popular early 20th Century Virginia author Ellen Glasgow who was a native of Richmond. Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia.

The title of Dr. Cook’s presentation is Evasive Idealism: Ellen Glasgow and Virginia. Dr. Cook will give an overview of Glasgow’s life in Virginia and then discuss Glasgow’s characters that develop this theme she called “evasive idealism,” particularly in the novel entitled Virginia (1913), in The Romantic Comedians (1926), whose main character is based on Henry Anderson, a native of Farmville, and in The Sheltered Life (1932), which most critics believe should have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She later received that recognition for In This Our Life (1941). Following the presentation refreshments will be served in the Library’s Special Collections Room.

Books in the Greenwood Library by Ellen Glasgow

Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Atrium of the Greenwood Library

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Aug 22 2008
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Events

Game Night 2008

Join Greenwood Library and Lancer Productions for our semi-annual game night with music by WMLU! We will have refreshments with the following games:

  • Mario Kart Wii
  • Wii Sports
  • Rockband
  • Guitar Hero
  • Madden 09
  • and lots of card and board games!

Hope to see you there!
Saturday, September 6, 2008 – Time: 6:30pm – 11:00pm
@  Greenwood Library

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Apr 08 2008
Events

Remembering School Days: Oral Histories of Black Education in Jim Crow Virginia

Where: Atrium of Greenwood Library
When: April 17, 2008
Time: 4:00 pm

You are invited to a library event featuring Dr. Larissa Smith Fergeson, Associate Professor of History, who will speak on “Remembering School Days: Oral Histories of Black Education in Jim Crow Virginia.” Following the presentation, refreshments will be served in the Special Collections Room of the Library.

Dr. Fergeson has been involved in public history projects that have focused on recording the memories of African Americans who attended segregated schools in Southside Virginia during the twentieth century. She will share with the audience some oral histories of individuals who attended schools in Mecklenburg County, Appomattox County, and Prince Edward County. She will discuss what these oral histories can teach us about African Americans’ views of education during the era of segregation.

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