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Schedule of Events
4/10, 4 p.m. Library Russo Student Scholarship & Library Prize Award Ceremony
4/27, 6 p.m. One Book, One Michiana: A Presentation by Drs. Darryl Heller and Benjamin Balthaser
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Veterans Book Club: Wendell Affield
By Rhonda Culbertson
On
Tuesday, April 18, the Veterans Book Club and the History Department will be hosting author Wendell Affield for a discussion of his memoirs,
Muddy Jungle Rivers: A River Assault Boat Cox'n's Memory Journey of His War in Vietnam and Return Home.
It will be held on the 3rd floor bridge area in Wiekamp Hall beginning at 5:00.
Mr. Affield was a teenager when he enlisted in the Navy. He was sent to Vietnam and piloted a troop transport carrier through the rivers near the coast. An ambush resulted in serious injuries to him and others on the carrier. He was sent home for recovery and therapy, and kept his painful memories and experiences to himself. In retirement, he enrolled in university writing and history classes and began the 10-year process of writing his memoirs. I recently had the chance to interview Mr. Affield and the story can be found on the library's
blog.
Tom Murphy, IU South Bend History professor, met the author while he was teaching at Bemidji State University. He was struck by Mr. Affield's story, and the gripping account he wrote of his time in Vietnam. Dr. Murphy uses the book in his American History curriculum, and has given students opportunities to contact the author. Veterans in particular have found these interactions very meaningful.
The event is free and the public is encouraged to attend. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library, or by contacting Vicki Bloom (
vdbloom@iusb.edu) For more information, or to RSVP, please contact Rhonda Culbertson, (
rculbert@iusb.edu).
The Veterans Book Club aims to better integrate veteran students into university life as well as enlighten the faculty, administrators, staff and other students about the challenges and strengths that these students bring to campus. It also is open to community members interested in veterans' issues. It is made possible through a generous donation from
Jerry and Dorene Hammes.
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Scholarship and Library Prize Winners Celebrated April 10
Congratulations to
Katherine Arterbery and Amanda Miller, winners of the Michele C. Russo Library Student Worker Scholarship, and
Jennifer Kucharski, winner of the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. The winners were honored at a reception on Monday
, April 10, at 4 p.m. in the Library's 5th floor atrium.
Arterbery currently works in the Wiekamp Educational Resource Commons, while Miller works in the Schurz Library.
Kucharski won the Library Prize for her
History J495 research project titled, "Mexican Exoduses: The Mormon Struggle for Freedom, Identity, and Community in the United States and Mexico 1823-1917".
The Michele C. Russo Library Student Worker Scholarship (previously the Friends of the IU South Bend Libraries Student Employee Scholarship) recognizes the essential work the libraries' student workers provide to help maintain our services, collections and operations.
Learn more about the scholarship and previous winners here.
The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research rewards and celebrates excellence in undergraduate research projects. To learn more about the prize and past winners,
click here.
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Library Partnering with Honors on Used Book Sale
The Library is co-sponsoring a Used Book Sale on
Thursday, April 12, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Library's 5th floor atrium.
Books will be sold for $1 each, with a 50-cent bargain table as well. Proceeds will be divided between the library and its co-sponsor, the Honors club.
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Noir with a Twist
, Celebrating One Book, One Michiana
On
Thursday, April 27, 6:00 p.m. Dr. Benjamin Balthaser and Dr. Darryl Heller will present, "Noir with a Twist," an exploration of the themes and setting of Walter Mosley's
Devil in a Blue Dress. The event will take place at the
Civil Rights Heritage Center, a perfect setting to discuss this important book with a post-WWII setting and deeply embedded themes of race and class. Enjoy clips from classic Noir films that will illustrate the tropes that the novel both uses and subverts.
This lecture is part of the
One Book, One Michiana community-wide reading celebration. There are a variety of events scheduled throughout the community during the month of April related to this year's book selection, including screenings of
The Maltese Falcon,
The Big Sleep and
Devil in a Blue Dress. The movies will be introduced by
IU South Bend professors.
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Congratulations, Susan Jacobs: 2017 Library Alumna of the Year
Congratulations to Susan Jacobs, who was named the 2017 Library Alumna of the Year. Jacobs was a student worker in Archives and currently serves as Assistant Director of the
Alpena County Public Library in Michigan. Jacobs was part of a group of students featured in the Spring 2011 issue of the library newsletter for their work on "
Team Archives," a group of student workers mentored by Campus Archivist Alison Stankrauff.
This is the
second year of the campus honoring almuni from each school on campus and the library. The library's 2016 honoree was Seianna Giden, who leads "A is for Apple Pie," a food-based interactive education program for children. Giden was also featured in
Foundations magazine as one of eight siblings to attend IUSB (three of whom also worked at the Schurz Library).
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