New Exhibit in the Beyond Words Gallery

The current exhibit in the library's Beyond Words Gallery features the photography of thirteen Mumford High School students, the result of a project funded by the Michigan Campus Compact in which students worked with Mumford and Marygrove instructors. The exhibit is titled Through Your Eyes and In Your Words: the Mumford Project, and it runs through December 16th, 2008.

Children of Incarcerated Parents Receive Books

With the help of Marygrove Library, more than 50 new books were purchased and will be presented to children of incarcerated parents during the Angel Tree ceremony on December 11, 2008, in Alumni Hall.

The Angel Tree Prison Fellowship Christmas Celebration gives us the opportunity to reach some of the hundreds of thousands of children who won't be spending Christmas with their parents.

The 46 children who arrive on campus December 11 will be presented with gifts, entertainment, refreshments, and a brief tour of campus. Thank you, Marygrove, for your help in brightening Christmas for these children!

New Art Database Added

The Marygrove Library has just added the Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO) database to our collection. CAMIO is an online collection of art from prominent museums around the world, including the Detroit Institute of Arts. For more information on CAMIO, visit the site now (you made be prompted to enter your Marygrove user name & password).

You can also access CAMIO from the Marygrove Library Art Research web page.

Angel Tree Book Drive at the Marygrove Library

As part of the Marygrove College Angel Tree program, the Marygrove Library is conducting a book drive to provide children of incarcerated parents with new, age-appropriate books for Christmas.

The library has set up an Amazon wishlist to make it easy for you to choose appropriate books to purchase and donate to the program. Just choose the book you would like to donate, and during the checkout process make sure the shipping address is to:

Marygrove College Library
Angel Tree
8425 W. McNichols Rd.
Detroit, MI 48221

For more information on the Marygrove Angel Tree Book Drive, please contact Christy Malmsten.

Work Smart On The Web

There are lots of great services on the Internet that aim to help your productivity when working online. The latest issue of Computers in Libraries lists a number of them in this article available in the Academic OneFile database. You may need to login with your Marygrove ID and password to view this article from off-campus.

Banned Book Read-In

The 1st Annual Read-In will be held in the library's Beyond Words Gallery on September 30th from 3pm-6pm. This event takes place in conjunction with the American Libraries Association’s Banned Books Week, September 27th – October 4th. Please join the Library Staff, Faculty and students as they read freely from their favorite works. Join the dialogue as readers discuss the historical and societal contexts of banned and challenged books. Some of the works to be read include: Lolita, The Chocolate Wars and The Awakening. All of these banned books, plus many others, can be found in the Marygrove College Library collection.

Many questions regarding banned and challenged works abound: Why do people ban books? Why do so many classical works remain banned and/or challenged today? How can understanding weaken the argument to control and censor readership at any level? What can I do to help?

To view the American Libraries Association’s banned book list, please visit: ALA Banned Books or the Parents against Bad Books in Schools List of Lists. The PABBIS website focuses primarily on books found in K-12 schools – over 1,350 books to date!

Please join us at the Marygrove College Library 1st Annual Read-In to listen, learn and discuss. Refreshments will be served.

Text a Librarian

In addition to being available by phone, email, and instant message, you can now also contact the reference librarian on duty by text message through your mobile phone. You can send a text whenever a librarian is on duty to 265010. Start your message with "marygrovelibrary:" (without the quotes), and then type your question. Keep in mind that your question is limited to 160 characters. See the Reference Services web page for more information on contacting a librarian.

New Library Tutorials

Three new tutorials have been added to the Quick Reference Guides section of the library website. On the right side of the Quick Reference Guides page are links to basic search guides for the Academic Onefile and ProQuest databases, and also basic guide to the ERIC database to go along with the updated advanced ERIC tutorial.

Ebooks on Job Searching, Resumes, and Cover Letters

A large number of ebooks on resumes, cover letters, and job searching are available in the Marygrove Library Netlibrary collection. A list of these ebooks is linked to the library's Career and Employment subject page, where you can click on the link under Ebooks to see all the titles available.

Updated Quick Reference Guides Now Available

Updated Quick Reference Guides on using Marygrove email, Marygrove printing accounts, and APA formatting in Microsoft Word are available today. You can access these and all of the guides and tutorials available through the library at the Quick Reference Guides page on the Marygrove Library website.

New Exhibit in the Beyond Words Gallery

A new exhibit entitled Further Reflections on the AIDS Crisis is showing in the library's Beyond Words Gallery. This is part of the larger, multimedia exhibit in The Gallery (located on the 4th floor of the Liberal Arts Building) entitled AIDS: The Children Left Behind. These exhibits, featuring contributions from the NAMES Project – AIDS Memorial Quilts, will be on display through March 13.

Photo Exhibit: Jeff Pearson and the Marygrove Dance Company

The Library's Beyond Words Gallery is featuring images of the Marygrove Dance Company by photographer Jeff Pearson. The exhibit runs until February 8, 2008.