https://www.biography.com/inventors/frederick-jones
Want more Trivia?
Join us for Team Trivia Night in Herrick Library!
Saturday, February 18th 8pm-10pm in the BookEnd Lounge
Come with a group, join one when you arrive or play as a group of one. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun.
Hosted by DJ Mike Allen.
Pizza & Soda, Milk & Cookies Provided!
>>PRIZES!! for the top 3 teams<<
For the record, you may be pronouncing it wrong. Rhianna pronounces her name Rhi-ANNA.
https://time.com/5597167/rihanna-name-pronounce/
Herrick Library is hosting Team Trivia
Saturday, February 18th
from 8pm-10pm in the Book End Lounge.
Come with a group, join one when you arrive or play as a group of one. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun.
Hosted by DJ Mike Allen.
Pizza & Soda, Milk & Cookies Provided!
>>PRIZES!! for the top 3 teams<<
Want more fun facts?
Join us for Team Trivia Night in Herrick Library!
Saturday, February 18th 8pm-10pm in the BookEnd Lounge
Come with a group, join one when you arrive or play as a group of one. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun.
Hosted by DJ Mike Allen.
Pizza & Soda, Milk & Cookies Provided!
>>PRIZES!! for the top 3 teams<<
Congratulations to Scholes Library student employee Tyreek Ormil on being selected as Alfred University’s Sportsman of the Year!
The Empire 8 Conference emphasizes that “Competing with Honor and Integrity” is an essential component of a student-athlete’s experience in conjunction with an institution’s educational mission. Tyreek embodies these traits on and off the field. Tyreek is known for his reliability, hard work and positive attitude.
Read about all ten students who received Empire 8 All-Conference honors.
Information literacy is not just for research projects! Alfred University Librarians Kevin Adams, Samantha Dannick, John Hosford, and Mechele Romanchock will present a brief overview of information literacy theory followed by practical strategies for fact-checking, avoiding misinformation, and applying information literacy concepts in daily life as well as in the classroom.
The panel presentation will be Thursday, November, 10th in-person from 12:10 to 1:00pm in Nevins Theatre, Powell Campus Center.
For those not able to make it to Nevins, there is a Zoom link which is the same each week.
The Bergren Forum is sponsored by the Division of Human Studies and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Bring a brown bag lunch if you wish. Coffee and tea will be provided.
But people who Zoom in will have to make their own tea or coffee.
Library Hours for October Mid-Term Break
Friday, Oct. 14
Scholes Library 8:00-4:30 pm
Herrick Library 8:00-4:30 pm
Saturday, Oct. 15
Closed
Sunday, Oct. 16
Closed
Monday, Oct. 17
Scholes Library 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Herrick Library 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Tuesday, Oct. 18
Scholes Library 8:00 am – 12:00 am
Herrick Library 8:00 am – 12:00 am
*24 Hour study rooms in Herrick and Scholes are available anytime! Stop in to the service desk during library hours with your AU ID to receive the access code.
In observance of September as Color Blindness Awareness Month, Alfred University will be giving away two pairs of EnChroma glasses designed to help people with color blindness. EnChroma, the Berkeley, CA company co-founded by Alfred University alumnus Don McPherson ’84 M.S., ’88 PhD, donated the glasses to the University.
People can register for the free drawings—hosted by Alfred University Libraries—during Family Weekend/Homecoming, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Sept. 23 and 24. To enter, go to Herrick Memorial Library and Samuel R. Scholes Library—during the hours of operation listed below—where interactive EnChroma displays will provide information on color blindness and how the glasses were developed. Anyone who visits the display—students and their families, staff, faculty, alumni, local community members—can enter to win a pair of EnChroma glasses.
Visitors can also try on one of the pairs from the libraries’ circulating collection of EnChroma glasses. Herrick and Scholes libraries each have 10 pairs of the glasses, which can be checked out and borrowed for up to seven days.
Following are the hours of operation of Herrick and Scholes libraries during Homecoming/Family Weekend:
· Friday, September 23: Herrick: 8 a.m.-10 p.m.; Scholes: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
· Saturday, September 24: Herrick: 2 p.m.-10 p.m.; Scholes: 12 p.m.-6 p.m.
EnChroma was co-founded in 2010 by Don McPherson, a co-inventor of the EnChroma lens technology. McPherson, who earned master’s and doctoral degrees in glass science engineering from Alfred University, serves as EnChroma’s chief science officer.
There will be one drawing at Herrick and another at Scholes; people can enter both drawings. Registrants will be notified by Monday, September 26. Email: libraries@alfred.edu for more details.
Read about one woman’s experience living with color blindness
25 Interesting Facts About Color Blindness
Color blind people face challenges at school and work
Alfred University Libraries will host its first Team Trivia Night of the fall semester from 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10 in Herrick’s Bookend Lounge.
Returning as host of Team Trivia Night is Mike Allen of Elmira. His trivia questions cover a broad range of topics such as current events, sports, geography, and history. He intersperses his trivia questions with pop music, making for an enjoyable evening for those participating.
After a two-year Covid-induced hiatus, this will be the twelfth year that Mike has been hosting Team Trivia twice a semester at Herrick Library. He has also hosted at Hornell area restaurants for more than a decade.
Groups are welcome to come to compete as a team; individuals are also welcome to play either solo or to join others to compete for the prizes awarded to the top teams.
Pizza and soft drinks along with milk and cookies will be provided, free of charge, to all participants.
Additional Team Trivia events at Herrick Library have been scheduled for the 2022-23 academic year have been scheduled for Saturdays, Nov.10, Feb. 18, and April 15.
While supporting the voices of those in the LGBTQAI+ community is a year-round commitment, Pride Month presents an opportunity to really foreground the issues, ideas, and art of the LGBTQAI+ community.
Not only is Pride Month a time for celebration, but it is also a time for remembrance of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City. This event, also known as the Stonewall Uprising, sparked a new wave of activism and tradition, which has grown over the past few decades.
According to the American Library Association, LGBTQ+ content is one of the most often cited reasons books are banned or challenged. Alfred University Libraries seek to be active partners in support of the LGBTQAI+ community, the freedom to read, and a welcoming and inclusive space for all. Here you can read the full AU Libraries Commitment to Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression including progress on our action items.
Below are some of the voices on display through June. Stop into either Herrick or Scholes Library for more materials and resources!
Art & Queer Culture by Catherine Lord & Richard Meyer
Scholes Library Display N8217.H67 L67 2013
Spanning 125 years, Art and Queer Culture is the first major historical survey to consider the ways in which the codes and cultures of homosexuality have provided a creative resource for visual artists. Attempts to trouble the conventions of gender and sexuality, to highlight the performative aspects of identity and to oppose the tyranny of the normal are all woven into the historical fabric of homosexuality and its representation. From Oscar Wilde to Ryan Trecartin, from the molly houses of eighteenth-century London to the Harlem drag balls of the 1920s, the flamboyant refusal of social and sexual norms has fueled the creation of queer art and life throughout the modern period.
The Gay and Lesbian Guide to College by John Baez, Jennifer Howd, Rachel Pepper and Princeton Review
Herrick Memorial Library Display LB2343.32 B225 2007
A practical guide to higher education addresses the specific challenges confronting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students during their college career, covering such topics as how to select a college, dorm life, activism, health resources, support networks, and issues and resources for LGBT youth of color.
Pride Parades by Katherine McFarland Bruce
Herrick Memorial Library Display HQ76.965 .G38 B78 2016
On June 28, 1970, two thousand gay and lesbian activists in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago paraded down the streets of their cities in a new kind of social protest, one marked by celebration, fun, and unashamed declaration of a stigmatized identity. Forty-five years later, over six million people annually participate in 115 Pride parades across the United States.
Queer externalities: hazardous encounters in American culture by W.C. Harris
Herrick Memorial Library Display HQ76.3 .U5 H3695 2009
In television shows such as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and movies like Brokeback Mountain, as well as gay young adult novels and other media coverage of queer people – including the outing of several prominent Republicans – queer lives are becoming more visible in the media and in U.S. culture more generally. How does the increasing visibility of queer subjects within mainstream culture affect possibilities for radical and transformative queer activism?
Real queer America: LGBT stories from red states By Samantha Allen
Herrick Memorial Library DisplayHQ73.3 .U6 A44 2019
In Real Queer America, Allen takes us on a cross-country road trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah, to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible belt and to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: ‘Something gay every day.’ Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to extraordinary LGBT people working for change, including the first openly transgender mayor in Texas, a bisexual activist in Mississippi, the manager of the only queer bar in Bloomington, Indiana, and many more. Along the way, Allen weaves in her own moving story of discovering her identity, venturing out of the closet, meeting her wife, and creating a national network of chosen family.
Stonewall by Martin Bauml Duberman
Herrick Memorial Library Display HQ76.8 .U5 D85 2019
On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of responding with the routine compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The five days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life. In Stonewall, renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of this pivotal moment in history. With riveting narrative skill, he recreates those revolutionary, sweltering nights in vivid detail through the lives of six people who were drawn into the struggle for LGBTQ rights.
We are here: visionaries of color transforming the art world by Jasmin Hernandez, Sunny Leerasanthanah & Beatz Swizz
Scholes Library Display N6490 .H4645 2021
We Are Here presents the bold and nuanced work of Black and Brown visionaries transforming the art world, with a particular focus on queer, trans and nonbinary artists. This collection features fifty of the most influential voices in New York, Los Angeles, and beyond. Striking photography of art, creative spaces, materials, and the subjects themselves is paired with intimate interviews that engage with each artist and influencer, delving into their creative process and unpacking how each subject actively works to create a more radically inclusive world across the entire art ecosystem.
Zanele Muholi by Zanele Muholi, Sarah Allen, & Yasufmi Nakamori
Scholes Library Display NH681.H65 M842 2020
Born in South Africa in 1972, Zanele Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that sought to envision black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and intersex lives beyond deviance or victimhood. Muholi’s work challenges hetero-patriarchal ideologies and representations, presenting the participants in their photographs as confident and beautiful individuals bravely existing in the face of prejudice, intolerance, and, frequently, violence.
Below are resources for those looking to further their education, join the community, and keep Pride going all year long!
https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/
https://www.genderspectrum.org/
https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/tretter
https://www.translatinacoalition.org/
https://www.qzap.org/v9/index.php
Metcalf, M. (2019, June 1). LGBTQIA+ studies: A resource guide: 1969: The stonewall uprising. Research Guides. Retrieved June 8, 2022, from https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies/stonewall-era
Pride month: Resources by Loida Garcia-Febo. CPDWL Blog. (2020, June 29). Retrieved June 8, 2022, from https://blogs.ifla.org/cpdwl/2020/06/29/pride-month-resources-by-loida-garcia-febo/
“Top 10 Most Challenged Books Lists”, American Library Association, March 26, 2021.
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10 (Accessed June 16, 2022)
Document ID: 8417fa9e-ceff-4512-aca9-9fbc81b8bd81
AU Libraries are hosting extended hours (see schedule below) in preparation for Final Exams. Starting Sunday, May 1st Herrick and Scholes Libraries will be offering free coffee, tea, and cocoa along with cookies to fuel your studying.
There are numerous reservable study rooms, group study areas, and walk-in spaces (no reservation required!) Rooms can be reserved here: Room Reservations
In addition, both Herrick and Scholes have 24-hour-access study spaces. These spaces are for AU students only, so show your AU ID at the front desk of Herrick or Scholes to obtain keycode access to these spaces.
Extended Library Hours for Final Exams Spring 2022:
Herrick Memorial Library Extended Hours
Tuesday, May 3, 8:00 am-1:00 am
Wednesday, May 4, 8:00 am-1:00 am
Thursday, May 5, 8:00am-1:00am
Friday, May 6, 8:00 am – 1:00 am
Saturday, May 7, 2:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Sunday, May 8, 2:00 pm – 12:00 am
Monday, May 9, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Scholes Library Extended Hours
Tuesday, May 3, 8:00 am-12:00 am
Wednesday, May 4, 8:00am-12:00 am
Thursday, May 5, 8:00 am-12:00 am
Friday, May 6, 8:00 am – 12:00 am
Saturday, May 7, Noon- 6:00 pm
Sunday, May 8, Noon – 10:00 pm
Monday, May 9, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Summer Hours Begin Tuesday, May 10
8:00am-4:30pm