“Leading the Way:  Women, Poetry, and Social Movements in Eighteenth Century Britain”

by Paula Backscheider (Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar, Dept. of English, Auburn University)

Thursday, March 5 at 3:30 p.m.

Location:  Special Collections and Archives Department, Ground Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library

Sponsored by:  Auburn University Libraries, and Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts

A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840

By Howard Colvin and published by Yale University Press in 2008, this is the Fourth Edition.  This large volume is located in the Library of Architecture, Design, and Construction in the Reference Shelves under call number NA 1996 .C6 2007.

The LADC is located in Dudley Hall.

Edited by Samuel C. McQuade III and published by Greenwood Press in 2009, this volume is located in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library on the Third Floor under call number HV 6773 .E53 2009.

In West Africa, the griot functions as a poet, a praise singer, a wandering musician, and a repository of oral tradition.

Located in the five flat glass display cases on the east side (facing South College Street) in the Special Collections and Archives Department, is an exhibit on griots.  The exhibit features numerous books, photographs, and informative captions about griots and some of the connections to African American folklore.

The Special Collections and Archives Department is located on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

Along with the recent recarpeting of the First and Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, some other reorganization of the physical plant is taking place.  Included in this reorganization is a new location for the Current Periodicals shelves.  Current issues of periodicals are now located in the shelves found to the left shortly after entering the Ralph Brown Draughon Library from the Mell Street entrance (i.e., the entrance that faces Haley Center) close to the former location of the New Books shelves.

The New Books shelves have been moved from near the Mell Street entrance (i.e., the library entrance facing Haley Center) on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library to a new area just around the corner next to the main Reference Department office.

Located in the three large glass display cases immediately on one’s left upon entering the Special Collections and Archives Department is an exhibit featuring “The Evolution of Charles Darwin.”

The exhibit features numerous books, illustrations, and informative captions concerning Charles Darwin and his development of the concept of evolution and his theory of Natural Selection.  Also included are realia such as fossils and life-size models of skulls showing the evolution of human beings.

The Special Collections and Archives Department is located on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

Located on the north side (facing Samford Hall) of the Special Collections and Archives Department in the three upright display cases, is an exhibit featuring “The Many Faces of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”  The exhibit includes books and photographs and informative captions covering King’s activities as civil rights champion, orator, Nobel Peace Prize winner, activist, clergyman, and author.

The Special Collections and Archives Department is located on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present:  From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Paul Finkelman and published by Oxford University Press in 2009, this five-volume set is the continuation of the three-volume set published in 2006 covering the period 1619-1895,  This five-volume set is located on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number E 185 .E5453 2009.

The Architecture Student’s Handbook of Professional Practice

Produced by the American Institute of Architects and published by Wiley in 2009, this is the 14th. edition.  This volume is located in the Library of Architecture, Design, and Construction in Dudley Hall under call number NA 1996 .A726 2009.