The library invites you to Cookie Break on Wednesday, May 14th at 2pm! Please join us at Dimond Library and all the branches to enjoy a study break with home-baked cookies, coffee, and water.

Cookie Break is sponsored by UNH Library faculty and staff, Computing and Information Services, and the Parents Association.

Tonight, Monday, April 14 at 9pm, New Hampshire Public Television broadcasts the latest installment of the New Hampshire Authors’ Series.

Local humorist Rebecca Rule interviews former Poet Laurete and Pulitzer Prize winner Maxine Kumin in an engaging discussion on the subject of writing.

The author of 16 books of poems, Maxine Kumin has written 3 essay collections, a collection of short stories, 4 novels and an animal rights murder mystery, Quit Monks or Die!. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and the Aiken Taylor Prize, the Poets’ Prize and the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize and a grant from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a National Council on the Arts fellowship.

Join local humorist Rebecca Rule and former Poet Laurete and Pulitzer Prize winner Maxine Kumin for an engaging afternoon of discussion and laughter on the subject of writing. The event is on Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 2pm in the Dimond Library 5th Floor reading room. The program is free and open to all, but seating is limited. Please register online or call 862-1541.

The author of 16 books of poems, Maxine Kumin has written 3 essay collections, a collection of short stories, 4 novels and an animal rights murder mystery, Quit Monks or Die!. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and the Aiken Taylor Prize, the Poets’ Prize and the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize and a grant from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a National Council on the Arts fellowship. She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress before that post was renamed Poet Laureate of the United States, and as the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1994.

In the style of Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio, Rule serves as host and interviewer for The New Hampshire Authors’ Series from Dimond Library. Three times a year, the Authors’ Series features an author who lives, summers, teaches or was born in New Hampshire.

Interviews are conducted in front of a live audience (with an opportunity for questions from the audience) and recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for future broadcast.

The annual UNH Greenhouse Open House is a welcome event for gardeners wanting to get a jump on the planting season. Each year, UNH staff and students present informative displays of interest to home gardeners, growers and landscapers.

This year, on March 28 and 29 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm, the Library’s own Biological Sciences Librarian, David Lane, will be on-hand to answer questions about carnivorous plants.

For more information, read about David’s interest in carnivorous plants in a recent TNH article. Also, check out his photoblog, What’s Flowering Now (at UNH).

The UNH Greenhouse Open House is sponsored by the UNH Thompson School of Applied Science, department of Plant Biology, Cooperative Extension, and College of Life Sciences and Agriculture.

The Harvard Sitkoff book signing scheduled for 4 pm today in Special Collections has been cancelled due to the weather.

The book signing has been rescheduled for March 7 at 4 pm in Special Collections.

Noted Civil Rights scholar Harvard Sitkoff, professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, will sign books at a celebration of the publication of his new biography about Martin Luther King Jr., “King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop.”

The book signing will be held 4-6 p.m., Friday, March 7, 2008, in the Milne Special Collections, Dimond Library, 1st floor. Copies of Sitkoff’s book will be available for purchase. The event is sponsored by American Studies; African American Studies; Race, Culture, and Power; and the Department of History. It is free and open to the public.

For more information about the book signing, contact Lesley Rains at lesley.rains@unh.edu or (603) 862-2179.