The University of New Hampshire Alumni Association will present its most prestigious award - the Pettee Medal - for extraordinary achievement and distinguished service to the state, the nation, and the world, to Jan Nisbet on Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 1:30 p.m., 5th floor reading room, Dimond Library.
Because of the event, the 5th floor reading room will be closed starting at 1:30pm.
Dr. Nisbet is awarded the Pettee Medal as a result of her commitment, achievement and leadership in the field of disability services. Nisbet is director of the Institute on Disability and a tenured associate professor in the Department of Education.
Attendees are requested to RSVP with the Alumni Association.
UNH alumni now have access to thousands of journals and magazines through a joint arrangement between the UNH Alumni Association, the UNH Library and EBSCO, a major provider of online journals and magazines.
The databases include the EBSCO Academic Search Alumni Edition and EBSCO Business Source Alumni Edition. Alumni have free full-text access to more than 4,700 scholarly journals and magazines covering a wide range of disciplines. In addition, access to indexes and abstracts are available for more than 12,000 additional journals and magazines.
As always, alumni graduated from UNH, Division of Continuing Education, College of Lifelong Learning, Granite State College, Keene State College, Plymouth State College, or Merrimack Valley College are entitled to a free UNH library borrowing card. See a full list of alumni privileges in the UNH library.
The Friends of the Library continues its series of one-on-one conversations with authors who have ties to the Granite State Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007, at 2 p.m. when local author Rebecca Rule interviews award-winning writer and illustrator David Carroll before a live audience in Dimond Library’s 5th Floor Reading Room. The program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Please reserve a space online, e-mail nh.authors@unh.edu or call (603) 862-1541.
Author and illustrator of three widely acclaimed natural histories — The Year of the Turtle, Trout Reflections and Swampwalker’s Journal — Carroll is an active lecturer and turtles/wetlands preservation advocate. His art and writing, as well as his fieldwork with turtles and wetlands, has been widely recognized, and his botanical and forestry paintings have earned him awards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the International Society of Arboriculture. He is the 2006 recipient of a $500,000 McArthur Foundation “genius grant.”
Three times per year, in the style of Bravo’s Inside the Actors’ Studio, Yankee humorist, book reviewer and author Rebecca Rule invites poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, and journalists with a connection to New Hampshire to share their insights and discoveries as they pursue their passion for writing. These one-on-one interviews are conducted in front of a live audience and recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for future broadcast. There will be an opportunity for members of the audience to ask questions, light refreshments will be served after the interview and both authors will be available to sign their books.
Come one, come all to the event marking the 100th anniversary of the Government Information Department as a U. S. Federal Depository. We, along with colleagues from other New England Depository libraries and a representative from the Government Printing Office, celebrate this historic milestone when 43 libraries at land-grant institutions entered the depository program in 1907. And help us begin our next 100 years!
We will have coffee and refreshments in Milne Special Collections and Archives on Level 1 in Dimond Library beginning at 9:30am, Friday, October 26, with celebratory remarks beginning at 10:00am.
We have also created displays in the Dimond lobby area and the University Museum hallway to showcase the expected and frequently unexpected, wonderful world of U. S. government information.
A series of community forums will be held with each of the finalists for the position of Library Dean.
The next is Monday, October 22. Dr. D. Russell Bailey will join us from 2:30pm-3:30pm in Dimond Library room 510 for an open community forum. All are welcome!
He will also meet Tuesday, October 23 with library staff from 8:30am-9:30am in room 421 and with library faculty from 10:30am-11:30am in room 343.
