What's New at the Auburn Libraries » Announcements http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew News from the Auburn Libraries Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:12:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Apr. 11 Lecture: Dr. Xolela Mangcu Black Consciousness: Re-Reading Steve Biko http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2013/04/apr-11-lecture-dr-xolela-mangcu-black-consciousness-re-reading-steve-biko/ http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2013/04/apr-11-lecture-dr-xolela-mangcu-black-consciousness-re-reading-steve-biko/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:12:15 +0000 Auburn Libraries http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/?p=2232 The University community and the general public are invited to hear

Dr. Xolela Mangcu (Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution)

Black Consciousness in the Intellectual History of Western Modernity: Re-Reading Steve Biko

Date and Time:  Thursday, April 11 at 3:30 - 4:15 p.m.

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

A reception and book-signing will follow Dr. Mangcu's talk.

Presented by:  Africana Studies, Auburn University Libraries, and the Multicultural Center with assistance from the Special Lectures Fund.

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Location:  Ralph Brown Draughon Library, Newspaper Reading Room on the First Floor.

Please do your part to help reach our goal of 10,000 meals packaged.

Sign up to donate or volunteer at events.stophungernow.org/auburn or send e-mail to DLW0015@auburn.edu .

]]> http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2013/03/april-13-packing-meals-for-those-in-need/feed/ 0 March 25: Lewis Hyde Lecture http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2013/03/march-25-lewis-hyde-lecture/ http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2013/03/march-25-lewis-hyde-lecture/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:49:25 +0000 Auburn Libraries http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/?p=2209 Meet Littleton-Franklin Speaker Lewis Hyde, Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College

Author of Common as Air:  Revolution, Art, and Ownership as well as The Gift (1983) and Trickster Makes this World (1998).

Date and Time:  Monday, March 25 at 10 - 11 a.m.

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

Sponsored by Auburn University Libraries and Auburn Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

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Panel Discussion

Charles Darwin: A Celebration of his Life and Legacy

Edited by James Bradley and Jay Lamar (Director of Special Programs, Office of Undergraduate Studies, Auburn University)

Date and Time:  Tuesday, March 19 at 3 p.m.

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

Sponsored by Auburn University Libraries and Auburn University Bookstore.

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Be sure to consult the Library Hours link located in the upper right side of the Auburn University Libraries homepage to determine library hours of operation during the Spring Break period in effect Saturday, March 9 through Saturday, March 16 .  Normal hours resume on Sunday, March 17 (St. Patrick's Day).

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The Saint John's Bible

The first illuminated handwritten Bible commission by a Benedictine monastery in more than 500 years.

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

Date and Time: Thursday, March 7 at 3 p.m.

"One of the extraordinary undertakings of our time." - Smithsonian Magazine.

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The exhibit features numerous photographs of Ralph Brown Draughon (1899-1968) plus memorabilia and informative captions.  Draughon served as President of Auburn University from 1947 through 1965.  The exhibit covers important events of Draughon's presidency including the transition of Auburn from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute to Auburn University in 1960 and the desegregation of the University in 1964 when Harold Franklin was admitted as the first African American student.  The photos cover Draughon's life from a 1925 scene where he was serving as a teacher at Sumter County High School in 1925 through his retirement.

]]> http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2013/02/exhibit-on-ralph-brown-draughon/feed/ 0 Humans vs. Zombies April 5 http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2013/02/humans-vs-zombies-april-5/ http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2013/02/humans-vs-zombies-april-5/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:45:09 +0000 Auburn Libraries http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/?p=2175

 Humans vs. Zombies will take place at the Ralph Brown Draughon Library on Friday, April 5 from 8 to 11 p.m.

Registration starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Parking Deck entrance.

An Auburn University student i.d. is needed to participate.

Fight the horde!

 

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Roger Thurow, author of

The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change

Date and Time:  Wednesday, February 20, 9 - 10 a.m.

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

]]> http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2013/02/feb-20-roger-thurow-and-last-hunger-season/feed/ 0 Feb. 27 Lecture: I Hope I Join the Band: Antiracist Rhetoric http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2013/02/feb-27-lecture-i-hope-i-join-the-band-antiracist-rhetoric/ http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2013/02/feb-27-lecture-i-hope-i-join-the-band-antiracist-rhetoric/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:38:05 +0000 Auburn Libraries http://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/?p=2159 Multicultural Center Lecture Series

I Hope I Join the Band: Narrative, Affiliation, and Antiracist Rhetoric

Frankie Condon (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

Date and Time:  Wednesday, February 27 at 3 p.m.

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

Sponsored by:  Auburn Univeristy Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, Auburn University Office of University Writing, and Auburn University Libraries.

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