Twisted Tales & Sinister Scribes: Selections from the Rare Book Room and the Michael M. Rea Collection of Short Stories is on display at McCabe Library through November. This exhibition features the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce and O. Henry.
Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday will be celebrated in McCabe Library with a reading of some of his grimmest, gloomiest and most gruesome tales on Wednesday, October 28th at 10pm.
The Main Line Sogetsu Study Group will hold its annual exhibit of ikebana floral arrangements at the Haverford College Library on Oct. 23 to 25 throughout the main tier of Magill.
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.
The exhibit is open to the public during regular library hours. See http://www.haverford.edu/library/ for library hours and contact hmckay@haverford.edu for more information.
McCabe Library is hosting an exhibition of historic photographs, documents, and artifacts related to the history of Swarthmore College and of the Borough from their beginnings in the mid 19th century through the 20th century. Items in the exhibition will be drawn from the collections of the Swarthmore College Archives and Friends Historical Library. The exhibition celebrates a new book, Swarthmore Borough, written by Susanna Morikawa and Patricia O'Donnell, which will be published in September. The exhibition runs from August 17-October 9, 2009.
A trio of tripeds are currently on display in McCabe Library. Philip Stern '84, made these “hybrid” sculptures of copper tubing and cement—blending representation of human forms with abstract curves and found objects. Stern is generally interested in ideas questioning the precise definition of human identity—where we stand in relation to other animals, plants, and objects, and how we cope with a radically changing environment. After studying art at Swarthmore, he went on to receive an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in sculpture. The three works on display in the library are Time Curling In (2004), Hybrid 1 and Hybrid 2 (2006).
As the final event associated with the exhibition of illustrations from Dante's Divine Comedy from the Tri-Colleges, Haverford College Special Collections and the Bryn Mawr Film Institute present a special screening of Sean Meredith's updated movie version of "Dante's Inferno." Set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls and the U.S. Capitol, Meredith's take on the literary classic uses hand-drawn paper puppets and a Victorian-era toy theater to tell Dante's tale of sin and redemption.
Wednesday, April 29, 7:30 pm. Bryn Mawr Film Institute. All students with ID get in for free! And a reduced admission flier for others is available here.
For more information, please contact John Anderies 610-896-1161 janderie@haverford.edu
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 program will feature a panel discussion of alumnae from different eras discussing what life was like on campus during their times at Bryn Mawr. The discussion will be moderated by Elliott Shore, Professor of History and Chief Information Officer of the College, and questions and observations from the audience will be very welcome.
Peggy Oneil '47 majored in Mathematics, lived at home in Chestnut Hill her first two years, then in German House and Rockefeller. After graduation, she worked for Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby (a pension consulting company) until 1960, and then taught mathematics at Marple Newtown Senior High from 1960 to1993 and at Villanova University's "University College" from 1974 to 1989.
Jane Miller Unkefer '55 was a political science major who spent half her time in Goodhart working on class shows and College theatre productions. After graduation she worked in New York City as a researcher and assistant to a senior editor at a major magazine. Marriage in 1962 brought her back to Philadelphia, where she was an active BMC volunteer, and later Director of the Alumnae Association.
Jane Alavi '62 was a Chemistry major and pre-med, "which meant lots of labs and not much time for other things." After graduation she went to Harvard Medical School, did further training at Virginia, UCLA and Penn, and was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School from 1974 to 2004. She is now doing volunteer work at the Morris Arboretum, the Schuykill Center for Environmental Education, and the Philadelphia Public Schools.
Lucinda Ayers '68 majored in French, played field hockey, performed in college shows, and "spent a lot of time in Washington and elsewhere protesting the war in Vietnam." After college she worked as a cook in Paolo Solieri's construction camp, was the chef/owner of the restaurant Belle Aurore, and is now the Vice President of Campbell's Kitchen.
Teresa Wallace '79 was an English major who lived at Haverford her junior and senior years and served as a class representative to the Student Association at Haverford. During her senior year she was also an intern in the BMC President's Office. She received a law degree from Penn in 1984, practiced in the area of commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense work, and later became a teacher and administrator at the Widener and Drexel law schools. She is currently completing a degree in school counseling at Penn.
Michelle Mancini '91 majored in English and Greek, was co-president of Denbigh Hall, and a Dorothy Nepper Marshall Fellow. After a year of working in bookstores and doing environmental canvassing, she went to the University of California, Berkeley for a Ph.D. in Victorian Literature. For the last six years she has been working in the Dean's Office at Bryn Mawr.
This event is held in connection with the exhibition “The Very Best Thing in a Girl’s Life”: Early Women’s Colleges in Fiction and Fact, now open in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room in Canaday Library.
For additional information, please contact the Library’s Special Collections Department: 610-526-6576 or SpecColl@brynmawr.edu.
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.
Now open in the Rare Book Room in Canaday Library, : "The Very Best Thing in a Girl's Life": Early Women's Colleges in Fiction and Fact. This exhibition draws on BMC's large collection of serial fiction about college girls from the turn of the last century and our archival resources - scrapbooks, diaries, and letters home from some of Bryn Mawr's earliest graduates - to explore what people thought about college girls - and whether they were right! The show includes dozens of photos from Bryn Mawr in the early years - come and see if you recognize your room! The exhibition is open weekdays from 9-5.
On March 23, the Friends of the Library invite you to join us for a panel discussion, " Student Life at Bryn Mawr Since World War II: Reflections of Alumnae from the 'Forties to the 'Nineties." This event will take place at 7:30 in Carpenter 21. This event has been re-scheduled due to snow of the original date.
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.
January 20 to May 22, 2009
Sharpless Gallery, Magill Library, Haverford College
Inferno: January 20 to March 1, 2009
Pugatorio: March 2 to April 12, 2009
Paradise: April 13 to May 22
Related events:
Lecture: Seeing Through the Dark Woods
By Christian Dupont
Followed by a Reception
Philips Wing, Magill Library
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 4:30 pm
Mini-Exhibition: Haverford's 1472 Foligno Edition of "La Divina Commedia di Dante"
Special Collections Reading Room, Magill Library
March 25, 2009
Mini-Exhibition: Dante's Divine Comedy in Graphic Novel
Special Collections Reading Room, Magill Library
April 15, 2009
Dante's Inferno: The Movie
Screening at Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 7:30 pm
Free for students
Please join us for a lecture and exhibition opening
John Zarobell, San Francisco Museum of Art
"How I See Is What I Know: Technology and Vision in the Nineteenth Century"
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
5:00 pm
Carpenter Library 21
The lecture marks the opening of the exhibition
"Educating the Eye: Nineteenth-Century Optical Toys and Devices"
Exhibition curator: Matthew Feliz, Graduate Student in the History of Art
Kaiser Reading Room, Rhys Carpenter Library
October - December 2008
A reception in the London Room will follow the lecture.
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George Stephens is still an enigma, even though it's been almost 40 years since a group of Haverford students founded the George Stevins [sic] Memorial Association. Their quest was to gather enough information about him in order to understand this courageous Haverfordian. Here are some of the characteristics known to date through discovered artifacts: he was a little ungainly on the soccer field, his team having suffered defeat in Ethiopia when the ball dribbled past his left-leaning feet (see "Sinistericon" and his sneakers as evidence); he had little humor, as the well-known artist, Kevorkian, revealed in his portrait of Steyvens [sic]; he wrote his senior thesis on an unknowable topic, given that the 5" floppy on which it was presented can no longer be read; and he had a preference for large women (see Margaret Dufay's toothbrush). Perhaps a visitor to the exhibit, which closes on March 15th, will discover the perfect artifact. We welcome any creative evidence that will fulfill the mission of the Jorge Esteban [sic] Memorial Association.
You are invited to join
Jake Brunkard '08
Mark Kharas '08
Trude Raizen '08
The three winners of this year's A. Edward Newton Student Book Competition Awards will discuss their experiences creating their book collections
Come enjoy the talk accompanied by refreshments at our reception on the first floor of McCabe Library.
Thursday, February 28th 4:15 PM
McCabe Popular Reading Lounge
Religion and Spirituality Week may have been last week, but you can still enjoy the great exhibit sponsored by the Interfaith Center in McCabe Library, 2nd floor Cratsley Lounge.
The exhibit displays books, artifacts, and objects from various religions and beliefs represented on campus, including Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Bahá’í Faith.
This January we're starting out the semester with several new displays. Come by and take a look!
Explorations in Literature takes a look at books and the movies based on them, featuring Oil, by Upton Sinclair (There Will Be Blood, currently in theaters, is based on this book), Persepolis (a graphic novel), and the old favorite of screenwriters everywhere, Jane Austen.
The display for political science features new books and journal articles about voter turnout in U.S. elections. Some titles focus on the problems of disengagement and low numbers of voters at the polls, while others look at such recent positive trends as political activism, youth involvement, and results of democratization.
In the fountain area library displays welcome students back to campus and honor the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. One display features photographs from the Civil Rights movement. Whether the book was published in the 1950s or last year, the photographs preserve the immediacy of the protest marches and organizing efforts.
An adjacent display invites viewers to "Read" with a tempting array of novels, critical studies, histories and art books on a wide variety of topics.
The final display in the Fountain Area presents new books about the French Revolution which demonstrate a number of current themes in historical research including the body, gender, popular caricature, and the continuities from the period of the monarchy through the Napoleonic era.
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 previous blog posting, busts of Diana and Aristotle were recently identified and discovered on campus.
Ale, a senior anthropology major from Bryn Mawr, has put in over 20 hours of work cleaning and repairing the sculpture and predicts just as many hours before she finishes. The first step in Ale’s restoration process is to sand the entire bust by hand with a fine grit sandpaper. This step removes small nicks and gives the bust an even and clean appearance.
“When I first saw Diana she looked tortured,” reports Ale. “She had been colored on with marker, given eyeballs with pen. It looks as though at one point her head had fallen off and was glued back on.”
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.
Having worked extensively in bronze, wax, steel and clay, this is the first time Ale has worked with plaster and she is really enjoying it: “I feel that I am forming a real connection with the piece. It is very exciting at this point to see her becoming beautiful again.”
Once completed, Diana will make a triumphant return to Magill Library where she will be offered pride of place in Haverford Special Collections.
Need to get out of your tiny library cubicle and see something exotic and stimulating for a change? Want a rest for your weary computer screen strained eyes? Stop by Special Collections any day this week to see rare and unique materials from the collection.
Each day we'll be bringing out one or more of Haverford's major treasures from the Collection, including:
12/17/07 – The Pemberton Bible, Northern France, ca. 1225-50 & the Haverford Hebrew Bible, Spain, 1266
12/18/07 – Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium caelestium, 1543
12/19/07 – Maxfield Parrish, Chemistry Notebook, 1890
12/20/07 – Germantown Quaker Protest Against Slavery, 1688
12/21/07 – Eadweard Muybridge, Photographic Plates from Animal Locomotion, 1887
If final papers and exams are making your head swim, just take a moment to imagine what your life might have been like as a Haverford student in 1836. In those days, all exams were given orally in the presence of the school's entire Board of Managers. They covered all material from an entire school year and lasted for three full days.
You can find out much more about early life at Haverford, as well as about Haverford's earliest library collections, at "A Few Well Selected Books," the current exhibit at the Sharpless Gallery, Magill Library. The exhibit runs through January 31.
Last week we posted about the re-discovery and ensuing restoration of two 150-year-old Greek plaster-cast busts that had once graced the shelves of the Haverford College Library. Through careful examination of photographs from the College Archives library staff have identified a total of eleven busts that were once on display in the library from at least 1865 to 1895 and perhaps beyond. As we would be pleased to see the identification and return of more of these wayward characters, we provide below—in the form of an old FBI wanted poster—a line-up of this motley gang of Ancient Greeks, Quakers, and a few unknowns. If you’ve seen any of these fugitives lurking around campus please don’t hesitate to be in touch with Special Collections staff!
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When the organizers of “A Few Well Selected Books,” the current exhibition in Magill Library, chose an 1865 photograph of the library to use in the promotion of the exhibit, they had no idea it would lead to the rediscovery of two very old plaster-cast Greek busts. This iconic photograph of the library in Alumni Hall features (from left to right) professors Thomas Chase and Paul Swift, superintendent William Wetherald, seniors James A. Chase and Allen C. Thomas, assistant professor and librarian Clement L. Smith, sophomore Samuel Collins, and president Samuel J. Gummere. Peering down from high atop the wooden bookcases are several Ancient Greek busts, including (from left to right) Socrates, Aristotle, Diana, and Cicero. 
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!
A few weeks after the discovery of Diana, as librarians Christa Williford and David Conners were preparing to record an exhibit narrative with Classics professors Deborah Roberts and Bret Mulligan, Roberts revealed that she and husband professor emeritus Aryeh Kosman had another of the busts—that of Aristotle—in their home on College Avenue. Kosman reports having rescued Aristotle from a trash pile in the 1970s.
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.
Both busts have been returned to Special Collections and now they will be undergoing restoration and repair courtesy of Haverford sculpture professor Marianne Weil and her teaching assistant Whitney Ale BMC '08. Over the course of the next few weeks, we will provide updates on their progress and will also report on more of the missing busts which have been identified in photographs from the College Archives.
The Lost-Wax Initiative, is a collaborative project between Swarthmore College art history students and sculpture students from Haverford College. For a limited number of studio/foundry sessions, students from Associate Professor Patricia Reilly's Ancient Greek and Roman Art class met with sculpture students from Visiting Associate Professor Marianne Weil's class at Haverford's Foundry. Under Prof. Weil’s guidance, students explored the lost-wax casting process through "hands-on" preparation of their wax sculptures, investment molds and the finishing “chasing” of the bronzes at our College Foundry.
This project was a unique opportunity for students in both departments to share an in-depth collaborative research experience in a workshop setting and provides the premise for an ongoing dialogue between our departments. It was generously funded by a Mellon Tri-Co Seed Grant.
Painting and drawing students from the 200 and 300 level classes will be showing their work from this semester in the Alcove Gallery at Magill. There will be large scale drawings, designs created for the library mural now underway, as well as collages and paintings. From November 20 through 29.
Podcasts to accompany Magill Library's current exhibition, "A Few Well Selected Books: Building Collections, Curricula & Community at Haverford College," are available through iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=267176778).
The new exhibits are up in the 2nd tier Information Hub. Through the end of the semester, stop by and take a look at the resources highlighted in the following areas:
Religion: The past two years have witnessed an interesting phenomenon in the book publishing world. A number of books which have challenged religion have captured the attention of the public and gone on to become bestsellers. This display features those books.
Economics: This semester's economics exhibit contains several resources related to development economics. Along with the featured items is an essay on the building blocks of development authored by Uma Kambhampati.
Literature: Stop by to see literature and poetry about war, starting with futuristic tales of war from H.G. Wells to poems by modern writers against the Iraq War. Other highlights include Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Max Aub's Laberinto mágico.
Music: The Music Library's exhibit ties in with both literature and anthropology in featuring music with a connection to war. Take a look at the score to Benjamin Britten's War Requiem or listen to the CD. Handel's rendition of Orlando Furioso, Orlando, joins Berloiz's take on the Trojan War, Les Troyens.
Anthropology: The anthropology of war and peace is featured in the Information Hub with books, journal articles, and web pages. Specific topics treated include mass crime, death squads, genocide, and reconciliation commissions.
In the Fountain Area one display celebrates gay history with a selection of books and a poster declaring "History has set the record a little too straight."
Another poster advises passersby to practice random acts of reading. To facilitate this activity, a variety of eye-catching titles are spread out in history, political science, art history, and literature.
A small display features a poster , "The First People," with an early photograph of a native American mother, father, and child. Books concern Native American history and current political issues.
Modern Musings: Treasures from the Lieberman Collection
McCabe Library lobby, October 24-December 23
Talk by Professor Graham Bader, Tuesday, October 30, 4:15 p.m.
This exhibit, curated by Sarah Burford '08, showcases some of our favorite items from the Lieberman collection. This generous gift from William S. Lieberman '43, prominent curator at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, comprises thousands of volumes on art, history, literature, and a myriad of other subjects. Lieberman graduated Swarthmore in 1943 with a B.A. in English, and almost immediately embarked on a six-decade career in the art world. The exhibition includes books, catalogs, original prints, and lithographs created or signed by figures such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, W.H. Auden, and Andy Warhol. Lieberman knew many of these artists personally, and the exhibition offers an exciting look at works representative of some of the most important developments in modern artistic culture.
Please join us at 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, October 30th, for a talk on the exhibit by visiting Art History Professor Graham Bader. We hope to see you there!
October 5, 2007 to January 31, 2008
Curated by Christa Williford
Sharpless Gallery
Magill Library, Haverford College
Haverford's first library catalog was a slender 40-page book printed just three years after the first students arrived in 1833. The 770 titles included in this nascent collection give clues to the kind of intellectual life the school's Quaker founders sought to encourage in these young men. In the years that followed, the collection has expanded under many other influences; faculty, alumni, community groups, other libraries, and, most especially, students have all played a role in building Haverford's collections. This exhibition tells the story of the first "few well-chosen books" and honors those who have been responsible for growing this corpus into today's wide-ranging collections.
http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/
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.
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.
Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was a prolific and popular novelist, editor, playwright, poet, essayist, and book lover. But more than anything, Morley was a devoted Haverfordian, who grew up on the campus (his father was a beloved mathematics professor), graduated from the college in 1910, and returned as a successful writer to give lectures and visit brother Felix, who became Haverford’s fifth president. On the fiftieth anniversary of Christopher Morley’s death we honor this “local boy made good” and his lifelong commitment to Haverford College.
For more information on our exhibition and events:
http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/
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.
reBound is a collaboration between the Bryn Mawr College Special Collections Department and The Philadelphia Center for the Book. The Center, formed in 2004, promotes the book as a vital contemporary art form and as a catalyst for inspiration, education and creative expression. Its diverse membership includes book artists, collectors, teachers, writers, librarians, book dealers, and art professors. The works being exhibited are newly-created pieces that respond to the exhibition, Bound and Determined: Identifying American Bookbindings, on display in Canaday Library’s Rare Book Room through May 2007.
Exhibition opening and reception - free and open to the public
Friday, March 30, 2007
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Come check out the new displays in the Information Hub. Topics include Sports Economics, the Senior Thesis Archive, and SExplorations in Literature. The Music Nook is featuring Jazz CDs and scores from the Music Library, and the Science Library is showing materials on mathematics and dark matter.
Our faculty publications display features works from four professors: Casey Londergan, Ying Li, Paul Smith, and Benjamin Le.
Most items on display are available for checkout. Just ask at the Circulation Desk if you're not sure.
Please join us:
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Magill Library - Haverford College
for the closing reception for:
Revealed: Selections from the Fine Arts Collection of Haverford College
Beauty, skill and imagination are uncovered in the more than 70 works of art--many presented in public for the first time--on display in the exhibition Revealed: Selections from the Fine Arts Collection of Haverford College. Spanning many centuries and cultures, the show includes prints and paintings by artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Edouard Manet, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró and Haverford’s native son Maxfield Parrish, artifacts from ancient Greece and Africa, as well as a rich selection of photography including prints by André Kertész, Diane Arbus, Eikoh Hosoe and Andres Serrano.
More information:
Phone: 610-896-1161
http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/
Award-winning mystery writer Laura Lippman will speak on campus, talking about her mysteries, her reporter-turned-detective Tess Monaghan, and her own work as a reporter in Baltimore before she began writing novels. Lippman has won every major prize in American crime fiction, including the Edgar, Nero Wolfe, Anthony, Agatha, and Shamus. Her novel In a Strange City was a New York Times Notable Book.
Lippman will speak on Tuesday, November 7 at 4:30 pm in Carpenter 21. Her lecture is sponsored by the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library, and will be followed by a reception in the Rare Book Room, Canaday Library. The Bryn Mawr College bookstore will make copies of Lippman's works available during the reception. The exhibition Pointing Fingers: Women, Sin, Crime, and Guilt is on view in the Rare Book Room. Lecture and reception are free and open to the public.
The votes are tallied and the winner is in: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the famously postmodern novel set in late WWII London. Pynchon's novel, nominated by three people, was the only book with more than one vote. Other nominees included Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, A Time to Kill by John Grisham, and Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Thanks to all who participated, and congratulations to Alyssa Perez who won the $50 gift certificate to the bookstore! Come by the Information Hub at Magill to see these and other nominees for best American novel on display.
Beauty, skill and imagination will be uncovered when more than 70 works of art, many presented in public for the first time, go on display in Revealed: Selections from the Fine Arts Collection of Haverford College. Spanning many centuries and cultures, the show includes prints and paintings by artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Edouard Manet, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró and Haverford’s native son Maxfield Parrish, artifacts from ancient Greece and Africa, as well as a rich selection of photography including prints by André Kertész, Diane Arbus, Eikoh Hosoe and Andres Serrano.
October 2, 2006 through January 31, 2007
Magill Library - Haverford College
Free & open to the public
http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/
An exhibition of prints from photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion series is on display in Magill Library until April 11, 2006.
Muybridge (1830-1904) gained widespread renown for his innovations in instantaneous photography which lay the groundwork for the development of early cinematic technology. Challenged to settle a bet between California railroad mogul Leland Stanford and a friend over whether or not all four feet of a galloping horse were ever simultaneously off the ground, Muybridge invented a method of photographing in series the components of an animal’s motion. With support from the University of Pennsylvania, Muybridge completed a series of 781 studies of human and animal locomotion. The series, published in 1887, had profound impact on both the scientific and artistic worlds.
The current exhibition, located in the study gallery adjacent to the library’s lobby, includes a number of Animal Locomotion plates from Haverford College’s rare book collection, plus supportive manuscript material. The show is curated by Kate Phillips, Haverford class of 2006.
Please join us for Lost & Found: Rediscovering Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance. Monday, April 3, at 4:30 Valeria Finucci of Duke University will speak on "The Epic Romance in the Hands of Women Writers: The Case of Moderata Fonte" and Carol Moore of the University of the Arts will talk about her "Dialogue with Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance". The talks will be in Carpenter Library, 21, and will be followed by a reception in the Rare Book Room in Canaday Library.
Moore's exhibition/installation "Lost & Found" is on display in Canaday Library March 26 through April 15 and periodically throughout the campus during that time, with the distribution of handkerchiefs printed with the words of the poets.
Women at Haverford, 25+ Years
Magill Library, Sharpless Gallery & Foyer
Haverford College
March 2006
Although women have been present on the Haverford campus by special consideration over the years it was not until the fall of 1980 that the College became fully coeducational. In celebration of Women's History Month, the Haverford College Archives present an exhibition on "Haverford, 25+ Years" that show the many ways women have challenged, engaged and produced change within the college community. A display of 20th-century photographs complements a selection of documents that reveals the controversies surrounding the decision to go coed and provides an example of Haverford's growth toward a more inclusive community.
The Bryn Mawr College Library offers an early taste of spring with its new exhibition "Luxuriant Nature smiling round": Illustrated Botanical and Ornithological Books from the Ethelinda Schaefer Castle Collection. The exhibition will open Tuesday, Feb. 7, with a lecture by Robert McCracken Peck, senior fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, at 4:30 p.m. in Carpenter Library 21. His lecture, "John Gould and His World," will focus on the most important British producer of illustrated bird books in the 19th century. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room in Canaday Library.
The exhibition will run through May 31. The hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 1 to 4:30 p.m. on weekends, except for holidays and the College's spring break. For additional information, please see the exhibitions web page or call the Special Collections Department at 610-526
A View to Encourage Liberian Emigration:
Letters to Benjamin Coates
Magill Library, Sharpless Gallery & Foyer
Haverford College
February 2006
Among the remedies proposed in the nineteenth century to treat the scourge of slavery in America was the emigration of free blacks to Africa. Believing that African Americans could never receive justice in this country and might live more fulfilling lives away from racial discrimination, a number of abolitionists took up the controversial cause of the so-called colonization movement in order to give black Americans a fresh start.
Proponents of the movement came from many walks of life: young and old, black and white, male and female, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Quaker. Their efforts led to the resettling of thousands of African Americans and the establishment of the country of Liberia on the west coast of Africa. These individuals' dreams and fears, successes and disappointments are recorded in a rare collection of over a hundred letters written to one man, Benjamin Coates, a Quaker philanthropist and social reformer living in Philadelphia.
Letters from the Benjamin Coates African Colonization Collection form the core of the exhibition and are featured in the newly published book, Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848-1880, edited by Haverford professor and Curator of the Quaker Collection, Emma Lapsansky-Werner with noted Quaker author Margaret Hope Bacon.
An exhibition of photographs and documents relating to African-American student life at Swarthmore from the 1940s through the present.
Sponsored by SASS, the BCC, and the Swarthmore College Library.
Exhibit in McCabe Library Lobby: Friday, January 27 - Monday, February 27th
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706. To celebrate the 300th birthday of our favorite Founding Father, please join us in the lobby of Magill Library for Cake & Punch, Tuesday, January 17, 3:00-5:00 pm.
And while you're at it, you may wish to take in our exhibition "Franklin & Friends" before it closes on January 31.
Haverford's Union Music Library now has a new book shelf! All new music books and scores will be held on the new book shelf for one week. Come stop by and see the latest arrivals!
From November 8 to December 11, the Bryn Mawr College Art Gallery will present "Reliefs in Stone," an exhibition of sculptures by Natalie Charkow Hollander.
By means of panels carved in marble or limestone, Charkow Hollander explores three-dimensional representations of classical paintings by artists including Tintoretto, Poussin, and Bellini.
The gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 1 to 5 PM; the gallery will be closed Mondays and also November 23 to 28.
This exhibition has been made possible through the support of the Bryn Mawr College Center for Visual Culture, the Friends of the Library of Bryn Mawr College, and the Bry Mawr College Office for the Arts.
As part of the Ben Franklin 300 Philadelphia celebration Haverford College Special Collections and the Hurford Humanities Center present the exhibition 'Franklin & Friends' and the Franklin Speaker Series.
Franklin & Friends
Magill Library, Sharpless Gallery
October 17, 2005 through January 31, 2006
While not a Quaker himself, founding father Benjamin Franklin had important and meaningful relationships with many members of the Society of Friends including Anthony Benezet, Humphry Marshall, John Bartram, and John Woolman. These individuals, together with Franklin's associates outside of the Society, shared many of his wide-ranging interests, such as his printing business, his service as an American diplomat, his interest in science and education, his engagement with politics, and his concern for the abolition of slavery and fair treatment of Native Americans. At times both supportive and critical of the Quakers, Franklin even went so far as to "dress the part" when he visited Paris, where American Quakers were held in high esteem. Books, original manuscripts, maps, portraits, artifacts and other materials from Haverford College Special Collections reveal these and other fascinating associations between 'Franklin & Friends'.
Ben Franklin 300 Philadelphia is a year-long celebration of Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday in Philadelphia and Its Countryside™.
Iranica: Modes of Transmission, an exhibition curated by Bryn Mawr Ph.D. candidate Benjamin Anderson and University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. candidate Yael Rice, is on display in the Kaiser Reading Room of Rhys Carpenter Library through December 1, 2005.
In Iranica, three display cases are devoted to three different "modes of transmission" by which Iranian art entered Western collections.
The first case begins with late 19th- and early 20th-century excavations of medieval sites by commercial art dealers perfectly legal enterprises during that period of Iranian history and the eventual emergence of scientific, archaeological excavations of such sites.
The second case displays several manuscript illuminations that were excised from manuscripts and sold as individual miniatures, as well as wall tiles that were removed from buildings. "It illustrates how things are extracted from context and turned into art objects in the modernist mold," Anderson explains.
A third case displays three manuscripts that survived intact, with an exploration of the reasons some objects escaped art dealers' scissors and entered Western collections as whole books.
The Kaiser reading room is located on floor A of Carpenter library beyond the circulation desk. The hours for Carpenter library can be found at: http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/carpenter.shtml. The exhibit is open to the general public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The importance of athletics at women's colleges will be addressed in Canaday Library's new exhibition, Building Muscles While Building Minds: Athletics and the Early Years of Women's Education.
The exhibition will open Tuesday, September 20th with a lecture by Jenepher P. Shillingford, Director Emeritus of Physical Education, entitled "A Century of Empowering Women Through Sports: From 'the Apple' to Title IX". The lecture will be held at 7:30 pm in Thomas Library 110, and will be followed by a reception in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room to celebrate the exhibition opening. The lecture and exhibition are sponsored by the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library.
The Building Muscles exhibition looks at how Bryn Mawr College responded to nineteenth-century attitudes that questioned whether women were both mentally and physically capable of a rigorous academic program. Curated by Barbara Ward Grubb of the Special Collections Department and Emily Houghton '05, the exhibition draws upon period photos, instruction books, contemporary student publications, and the national press to illustrate how the "physical culture" program influenced the layout of the grounds, added variety to campus life, inspired literary and satirical publications, and connected the College with other schools.
The exhibition runs through December 22, 2005
Open M-F 9-4:30; S-S 1-5. Restricted or no access during holidays and vacations.
For additional information, please call Special Collections at 610-526-6576.
A student artist's sketch of Auden (from the Phoenix, March 21, 1944).
He was a poet who wrote in his library books, a celebrity who greeted visitors in his bathrobe and slippers, and a professor who believed that "a professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep."
W.H. Auden taught at Swarthmore from 1942 through 1945, and he participated in campus life as a distinguished lecturer, a contributor to the Phoenix and the Dodo literary magazine, and a consultant (and occasional actor) in the theater club. In the decades that followed, he returned for lectures, discussions, and to receive an honorary degree from the college.
Visit the new virtual exhibit, "Fellow Irresponsibles, follow me": W.H. Auden and Swarthmore College, 1940-1972, to read about Auden's presence in the Swarthmore community and to view rare documents and unique artifacts from the Auden Collection of McCabe's Rare Book Room. The collection features an assortment of Auden oddities, from Phoenix articles and library call slips to a manuscript notebook and the typewriter he used while he was a member of the English department.
Many of these items are currently on display in the lobby of McCabe Library; the online exhibit is, of course, accessible at any time and from anywhere, but the library exhibit will only be up through the beginning of August.
If you'd like to read more about Auden, take a look at this biography from Literature On-Line (Lion).
If you're interested in learning about other special collections in McCabe, check out the Rare Book Room page.
Magill Library Exhibit
April 15 through October 7
Gallery Talk and Reception: George E. Thomas, PhD., partner, CivicVisions LP and Susan Nigra Snyder, partner, CivicVisions LP
Friday evening, April 15, 2005, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Lobby, Magill Library
In 2003, Haverford College received one of the first Getty Foundation College Heritage Grants. Its purpose was the examination of the changing palette of paints of Haverford's historic buildings over its nearly 175 years of history with the larger goal of understanding the evolving identity of the campus. Seen through the lenses of history and contemporary design, the campus and its buildings divide into four distinct eras that clearly targeted distinct audiences: 1) a rural school to educate the male youths of the Religious Society of Friends, 2) a men's college engaged with the forces of the new industrial age, 3) a men's college emphasizing its regional heritage rooted in the monoculture of the early twentieth century Religious Society of Friends and finally, 4) a visually unified campus that contrasts with a culturally pluralistic student body now comprising men and women from around the nation and the world. Using historic images and contemporary photographs as well as the evidence of the paint analysis, the exhibit raises questions of the construction and expression of campus identity in the future.
WHAT IS PAST IS PROLOGUE II:
African American Student Experiences at Swarthmore
April 22-26, 2005
Ashton House
An exhibition of of photographs and documents relating to African-American student life at Swarthmore from the 1940s through the present.
Saturday, April 23, 2005, 4pm
Ashton House
An informal discussion with Maurice Eldridge '61, Clinton Etheridge '69, Vaneese Thomas '74, Yvette Miller Browne '82, Gregory Posey '95, Shavaughn Lewis '05; a reception to follow.
Please RSVP (610) 328-8573 or knesbit1@swarthmore.edu
Sponsored by Swarthmore College Library and SASS
Image courtesy of Friends Historical Library
Everyone is invited to a Newton-related event Friday, April 8th at 4:15 in the
former coffee bar area of McCabe, last year's first-prize winner for the best student book collection, Micah Horwith '06, will give a brief multi-media presentation about his bibliophilism. There will also be an official announcement of this year's winners and, of course, a reception (with cookies!).
What is Past is Prologue: African-American Student Experiences at Swarthmore, currently exhibited in the McCabe lobby and coffee bar area, is a collection of photographs and documents relating to African-American life at the College from the 1940s, when the first African-American students were admitted, to the present. It includes materials that reveal the issues and events that precipitated the 1969 SASS sit-in in the Admissions Office, as well as the reactions of students, faculty, staff, and alumni to that tumultuous week.
On Monday, February 28th at 5 p.m. in the McCabe coffee bar, there will be an informal discussion with a panel of alumni that includes Maurice Eldridge '61, Vice President of the College. A reception will follow.
Discussion and reception:
McCabe Library coffee bar (on the main floor)
Monday, February 28, 2005, 5 p.m.
Exhibit:
McCabe Library lobby and coffee bar
February 14-March 4, 2005
This event is sponsored by the Swarthmore College Library and SASS.
Please join us for a lecture and discussion with internationally renowned book artist Maureen Cummins. Cummins, whose work is on display in the McCabe lobby, uses found materials and images, first-person accounts, and, in some cases, classical or literary texts to create works that explore or interrogate history and human experience. Artifacts such as cancelled checks, correspondence, and entire sections of the New York Times are layered with new meanings that meld the personal, the political, the private, and the communal in startling, subversive ways.
Lecture, gallery walk, and reception:
McCabe Library
Thursday, February 3, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
Exhibit:
McCabe Library lobby
January 10-February 28, 2005
Signs and Voices: Language, Culture & Identity from Deaf to Hearing features an eclectic mix of artwork - from painting to digital film - by deaf and hard-of-hearing artists. It provides a glimpse into the lively and diverse world of deaf culture, not often seen by those outside of it.
Opening Reception
McCabe Library Lobby
Friday, November 12 , 3-5 p.m.
The exhibit will run from October 25-November 30, 2004.
Signs & Voices is part of a tri-college conference sponsored by the Linguistics department. Click here for more information about the artists and the conference.
Featured artist Susan Dupor's work is shown above.
If you have not yet seen this popular exhibit, complete with 10 listening stations and a video display, make an appointment with yourself to visit Magill Library before the final exhibit day, Thursday, September 23, 2004.
This exhibit examines the complex relationship between music and Quakerism from the founding of the movement to the present. Among the types of documents on display are 17th century religious tracts against music, writings that reveal the changing attitudes towards music among Friends in the late 19th century, musical portrayals of Quakers from various eras, and compositions by contemporary Quaker musicians.
If you can’t make it to Magill in person, pay a visit to the virtual exhibit at www.haverford.edu/library/quakermusic/.
McCabe Library Lobby - Monday, January 19, through Sunday, February 29
An exhibit featuring artistic responses to traditional bookbinding techniques from around the world, including, but not limited to, papyrus, palm leaf, Coptic, scrolls, spirals and library bindings. Original examples of bookbinding will be juxtaposed alongside their contemporary spin-offs.
Sponsored by the Associates of Swarthmore College Library.
For more information call 610.328.8486.
Magill Library Photography Exhibit February 7 – March 6
Magill Library is pleased to announce THE LATENT IMAGE: BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS by Lisa Boughter. “With these images,” Boughter says, “my goal was to make manifest fantastical and haunting elements of the everyday.” The latent image will be on display February 7 - March 6 in the Alcove Gallery at Magill Library, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue. For details, call 610.737.6566 or email info@lisaboughterphotography.com.
Haverford's Magill Library Alcove Gallery features lithograph, etching, monotype, and silkscreen prints by Haverford and Bryn Mawr students from the classes of '03, '04, and '05 under the instruction of Professor Kee Sook Kim. October-Noverber 2003.
Haverford's Magill Library will once again be the stage for dramatic flower arrangements by the Main Line Sogetsu Ikebana Phila. Chapter #71 over Family Weekend, Oct. 24-26. Stop by to enjoy the displays!
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