New exhibits in Magill's Information Hub
Come check out the new displays in the Information Hub. During the first half of the semester, you can check out exhibits on the following subjects:
Science Library Presents Planet Earth and Beyond
Check out the well-received documentary Planet Earth on DVD or books and videos on the cosmos.
Music Library
The 30th anniversary of the Summer of Love is upon us this year, and to celebrate, the Music Library offers an enticing display of psychedelic concert posters, albums from 1967, and the Monterey Pop Festival on DVD.
Explorations in Literature
Monsters, of the human and animal variety are the topic for the literature display. Visit an island where the humans are yahoos and beasts are cultured in Gulliver's Travels, see a video performance of Beowulf (in Old English!), or read about centaurs, werewolves, or vampires.
Multinationals
This semester's economics exhibit contains several books on multinational corporations and their effects on the global economy. The featured imprints, along with a fine essay by the late international economics scholar Edith Penrose, offer a window into this increasingly important topic.
Faculty Publications
The first faculty exhibit of the 2007-2008 academic year features the work of four Haverford scholars. Anne Preston, Associate Professor of Economics, presents several papers on charitable giving and other-regarding behavior. Karl Johnson, Associate Professor of Biology, presents research on flagella that was completed in his lab with Haverford alumni Jessica Shapiro '99 and Jessica Ingram '04. Lisa Jane Graham, Associate Professor of History, presents her paper on 18th Century novels that were used to criticize current events and royal government. Ken Koltun-Fromm, Associate Professor of History, features his recent book, Abraham Geiger's Liberal Judaism: Personal Meaning and Religious Authority.
Political Science
In the area of Political Science, a display features books and articles on the interactions between new technology and political processes including the Internet in China and cell phones in Africa.
Fountain Area Exhibits
Banned Book Week, September 29-October 6, recognizes titles that have been challenged in libraries across the United States as well as censorship practices in other countries. The display includes a list of the ten most frequently challenged books in 2006 in the United States along with a selection of titles on censorship in various time periods and areas of the world.
Rock and roll poster art inspired Shepard Fairey's graphic "Make Art, Not War." The display features reactions from Goya and Picasso to recent photographers' conceptions of peace and protest art against the war in Iraq.
Zora Neale Hurston is featured on another lobby table. Her work both as an author and a folklorist is represented in collections of short stories, biographies, letters, and critical works.
