Events

The campus will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary during the 2009-2010 academic year. We plan to join the party by hosting a “Library Alumni Open House” October 16th from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

The library has employed hundreds of students over the years. Student Assistants perform many essential functions: processing materials to be “shelf ready,” shelving books, staffing the Circulation Desk so that their fellow students borrow materials, and providing reference assistance under the guidance of reference librarians. In short, Student Assistants are crucial to the library’s ability to serve the campus. We literally could not function without them. In fact, when our staff members are at meetings and someone asks, “Who is running the library?” we always answer, “The students, of course!!”

We are trying to locate ALL former library Student Assistants so that we can invite everyone who has ever worked at the library. If you are a former library Student Assistant, please be sure that we have your contact information so that we can invite you to the party. If you know others who worked in the library during their student days, please share their contact information with us so that we can invite them to the party and encourage them to come. It will be wonderful to see “old friends” and to catch up! Please send contact information to: sasbury@umd.umich.edu or call 313-593-5236.

The Berkowitz Gallery, located on the third floor of the Mardigian Library, will host the annual Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Commemoration on Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. The event will feature presentations by Samuel Totten, of the University of Arkansas, and Roger Smith, of The College of William & Mary, as well as a discussion period and refreshments. The event is free and open to the public.

For more details please, including how to R.S.V.P., visit the Voice/Vision website.

April 2009 R.E.A.D. (Read, Eat, and Discuss) Meeting

Book: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Date: Wed., April 8, 2009

Time: Noon to 1:00 p.m.

Location: 1210 ML


Books selected for 2009/2010:
Tues., 9/29 - Dreams From My Father: A story of race and inheritance by Barack Obama
Wed., 11/18 - The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Feb. 2010 - The Book Thief by Marcus Suzan
April 2010 - Three Cups of Tea: One man's mission to promote peace...one school at a time by Greg Mortenson