As an early gift to the faculty and staff from Claudia Morner, Dean of the Library, we are all going home early on Friday 12/22. Dimond library will close at 3:30pm, but please check the hours page shortened hours of Departments in Dimond and all the Branch Libraries as some will close earlier.

Happy Holidays to all.

Due to a planned software upgrade, the UNH Library’s online catalog will be unavailable beginning at 5:30 pm on Monday, December 18. The catalog will be back online the morning of Tuesday, December 19. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause our patrons. Please contact Val Harper with any questions.

The most recent New Hampshire Authors’ Series program (Becky Rule interviewing Seacoast New Hampshire mystery writer, Brendan DuBois) will be shown on New Hampshire Public TV on Friday, December 22nd at 10:30 p.m. (after Masterpiece Theatre) and again on Thursday, December 28th at 9:30 p.m. (before Frontline). Be sure to tune in!

Also:
Tomie DePaola will talk with Becky Rule on Sunday, January 28th at 2:00 p.m. on Level Five in Dimond Library on the UNH Campus and the event will again be taped for future broadcast on NHPTV. For more information, or to register!

In this season of giving, if you’d like to contribute any amount to sustain The New Hampshire Authors’ Series, please visit the UNH Foundation, click Other and type in Friends of the Library. Your support is essential to the program’s success and greatly appreciated.

Best wishes for happy holidays and a wonderful New Year,
Your Friends at the UNH Library.

Thank you to all who attended the Libraries’ Cookie Break on Monday. We wish you lots of luck with your finals, have a happy break, and we look forward to seeing you next semester!

Cookie Break photos

At the Winter Solstice by Jane Kenyon

Two poets, Donald Hall and his wife, Jane Kenyon (d. 1995), and two distinct accounts of the same event, the annual Christmas pageant at the South Danbury (N.H.) Church. Both Hall and Kenyon served as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and in October 2006, Donald Hall became Poet Laureate of the United States. The Milne Special Collections and Archives Department of the UNH Library maintains the correspondence and literary manuscripts of both poets.

The Pagent by Donald Hall

Jane Kenyon, “At the Winter Solstice,” broadside, 20×38 cm. and Donald Hall, “The Pageant,” holiday card, 29×23 cm. Published by William B. Ewert, Publisher, Concord, N.H., with illustrations by Barry Moser, in 1996 and 1995, respectively. From the William B. Ewert Collection, Milne Special Collections and Archives, UNH Library.

Courtesy of Milne Special Collections and Archives.