MacArthur “genius” fellow and frequent New Yorker contributor George Saunders will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, in Ely Room at the Wyndham Alumnae House as part of the Creative Writing Program Reading Series.
In addition to The New Yorker, Saunders’ work regularly appears in Harper’s , McSweeney’s, and GQ.
His short story collection, In Persuasion Nation, was a finalist for the 2007 The Story Prize. His other books and collections include CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip.
His latest book, 2007’s The Braindead Megaphone, was called “a Mark Twain-syle shot in the arm for Americans, an antidote to the dumbing-down virus plaguing our country,” by Vanity Fair.
Ikebana is a formal style of flower arrangement art dating back to medieval Japan. The Sogetsu school emerged in the 20th century and incorporates modern style elements. For this special campus exhibit, designs will focus on incorporating Trifoliate Orange (aka Hardy Orange) in the arrangements. The displays will be of interest to students of Japanese art and culture. 
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks will perform her work at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, in Bryn Mawr College’s Goodhart Theater as part of the 2009-10 
A reading by best-selling author Lorrie Moore from her new novel 
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As the final event associated with the 
Tobias Wolff will be reading at Bryn Mawr on 
The Friends of the Library are sponsoring a public program, “Student Life at Bryn Mawr Since World War II: Reflections of Alumnae from the ’40s to the ’90s” on Monday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Carpenter Library 21, on the Bryn Mawr campus. This event has been re-scheduled; the first attempt was canceled due to the snowstorm.
The Friends of the Library are sponsoring a public program, “Student Life at Bryn Mawr Since World War II: Reflections of Alumnae from the ’40s to the ’90s” on Monday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Carpenter Library 21, on the Bryn Mawr campus. This event has been re-scheduled; the first attempt was canceled due to the snowstorm.
Poet Mary Jo Salter, whose 2008 collection 
"Blinking Sam, 'Johnson's Grimly Ghost' and the Haverford Portrait of Samuel Johnson"
Now open in the Rare Book Room in Canaday Library, : 
The imaginative vision embodied in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has inspired pictorial illustration since shortly after its first recounting in manuscript in the 1300s. This exhibition features books and prints from the collections of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges and, over the course of three installations, presents illustrations of all 100 cantos of the Divine Comedy. Among the works on display will be anonymous 15th- and 16th-century woodcuts, the canonical 18th- and 19th-century illustrations of John Flaxman, William Blake, and Gustave Doré, 20th-century renderings by Franz von Bayros, Amos Nattini, Salvador Dalí, Leonard Baskin and Tom Phillips, plus the contemporary graphic novels of Sandow Birk and Gary Panter.
Award-winning short-story writer Amy Hempel will give a reading at Bryn Mawr on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ely Room at Wyndham Alumnae House.
New! The Tri-College Libraries have all begun subscriptions to 
The Tri-College Libraries are participating in a pilot program to offer online access to materials from our music collections. In addition to some classes and ensembles that are trying out this service, it is available to other users in the Tri-Co who want to give it a whirl. The software, called Variations, allows users to listen to streaming audio files, as well as to create bookmarks, playlists, and listening drills. Scanned scores will be a feature to come at a later date.
We anticipate the new platform will replace the current JSTOR site today, April 4. With new features such as:
Whitney Ale, teaching assistant for Haverford sculpture professor Marianne Weil, spent the tail end of fall semester restoring a 150-year old plaster- cast bust of the goddess Diana that once sat atop the shelves of the old Haverford Library. As reported in a 
Following the initial sanding, Ale will soak the bust in water to open its pores in preparation for the final steps, patching large cracks with new plaster and giving the work a final sanding to make the repairs flush with the rest of the piece.
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After our exhibit announcements went out, we were informed by Haverford professor Darin Hayton that the bust of Diana could be found in the faculty lounge of Hall Building. Scuffed up, embellished with magic marker, and appearing to have suffered a neck fracture, Diana has clearly been through some rough patches over the past century and a half!
Archival photographs from 1865 to 1895 reveal an array of Ancient Greek mythological and philosophical characters to have been part of the collection, as well as a couple of Quaker luminaries and some mystery busts yet to be identified. Librarians have long wondered what had become of these venerable figures as they are not part of the extensive online inventory of college-owned art maintained by College Archivist Diana Franzusoff Peterson. 
Eighty-six-year-old poet Richard Wilbur, the only living American poet to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry two times, will be reading from his work at Bryn Mawr College on Thursday, Sept., 27 at 7:30 p.m., in the Ely Room of the Wyndham Alumnae House.
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Exterminators beware! The Bryn Mawr College library staff don't believe in killing bugs. 
Please join us for a lecture by Steven Rothman, noted Christopher Morley scholar and curator of the current exhibition in the Philips Wing, on Morley and his life-long relationship with Haverford College. Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 4:30 pm in the Philips Wing of Magill Library, Haverford College. Refreshments will be served.
As a part of the two weeks of environmental events leading up to the "Saving Communities, Saving the Environment" conference at Haverford during Earth Day weekend, there is an exhibit of rare and valuable environmental books in the Special Collections. This exhibit has been developed by Lesley Fleischman, in conjunction with Earthquakers (Haverford's environmental group) and with help from Ann Upton.
Please join us for a screening of Christopher Morley's potboiler-turned-Hollywood hit Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman, starring Ginger Rogers in her academy award-winning role. Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 8:00 pm in the Philips Wing of Magill Library, Haverford College. Popcorn and refreshments will be served.
The Gest Program in Comparative Religion presents Thomas Hamm, Department of Religion, Friends Collection and College Archives at Earlham College, in a talk entitled "The Use and Abuse of Quaker Tradition" on Thursday, April 4. Please join us in the Philips Wing of Magill Library, Haverford College, for tea at 4:15 pm followed by Tom's lecture at 4:30 pm.
