In addition to learning about jazz history, the evening will also feature Eastern faculty members Dave Manley and Nimrod Speaks performing jazz pieces from history. Sponored by Friends of the Library, this event is free and light refreshments will be available.

Details-
WHEN: Thursday, April 25, 7pm to 9pm
WHAT: Great jazz education and live music
WHERE: Warner Library, Upper Atrium
A free event with light refreshments

“Jazz is a uniquely American music.  It arose through the African American experience in the American South and spread worldwide as an art form.  Jazz touches the human soul in many ways. Discuss the spiritual dimensions of jazz as an avenue for human and divine connections.”

Listed below are the winners. Click on a name to read their essay.

First place: Chris Bernhard
Second place: Abigail Storch
Third place: Cassandra Rauch

Congratulations to all our winners!

Photos from this year’s dinner

Many thanks to Ted Merriman who took such great photos and video during the event. Thanks Ted!

Are you already feeling burned out? Here in Warner Library we have just the stress-relieving remedy for you- dogs!

Mark your calendars now for the first ever Warner Library Goes to the Dogs event!
APRIL 29th: 10am-1pm
APRIL 30th: 12pm-3pm

Stop by to throw a Frisbee (on the lawn of course) or just to sit and pet one of them and calm your frazzled nerves from the end-of-semester stress.

These dogs are certified from Therapy Dogs International (TDI) (http://tdi-dog.org/) and come to us from their local chapter.  TDI dogs visit senior facilities and hospitals (like CHOP) to provide stress-relief to everyone they meet.  These owners and their dogs are very excited to be a part of our de-stressing day!

This event is open to the entire Eastern community!  So take some time to stop by, pet some lovable dogs and most importantly relieve some of that end-of-semester stress!

Continuing with our month-long celebration of jazz and the donation of 500+ jazz CDs to the library’s collection (more to come on this!), Friends of the Library and Warner Library are holding a free coffeehouse this Saturday night at 8:30pm in Jammin Java. We will be offering one free Jammin Java drink per person and plenty of free baked goods!

Jazz musician Joe Holt will be performing two jazz sets. In between we’ll feature poetry readings by faculty, students & alumni. Local artist George Rothacker will be present to sign posters of his The Duke Ellington Orchestra painting. (image below).

Here is some more information about Joe Holt, courtesy of his bio-

“Joe’s performances are grounded in the historical foundations of solo piano jazz and stride piano, but reflect a wide range of styles and influences. Joe will present this coffeehouse concert in the memory of Dave McKenna, including selections from his recent tribute CD “In the Spirit of Dave McKenna”. Joe performs extensively in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. as a soloist, along with several area jazz groups including: Shore Jazz, Spontaneous Invention and his own trio. Joe also performs with singer/songwriter Beth McDonald, as her accompanist and project collaborator. Joe is a featured (walk-on) entertainer for American Cruise Lines, at ports along the Chesapeake Bay. He is active in recording, having appeared on over 25 albums, 9 of which are on his own label, For more information, including Joe’s performance schedule and video performance diary: visit www.joeholtsnotes.com. Joe lives in Chestertown, MD.”

You can get a taste for Joe’s talent by watching the video below:

by George Rothacker

Kicking off our April “Jazz in the Stacks” events, we’ll be showing the 1984 Oscar nominated jazz movie, The Cotton Club. Starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines and Nicholas Cage, The Cotton Club is about the famous Harlem night club in the late 1920s “…where Crime Lords rub elbows with the rich and famous. Where deals are made, lives are traded. And the legends of jazz light up the night.”

Did I mention there will be FREE POPCORN & BEVERAGES?! I can’t think of a better way to spend a Friday night

Details-
When: FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 10:30 PM
Where: UPPER ATRIUM, WARNER LIBRARY (Bring your pillows and blankets!)

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• Friday, April 5^th, 10:30 p.m. to Midnight – Movie Night in Warner Library’s upper atrium showing the jazz film, Cotton Club.  Free popcorn and drinks will be served.  Bring your blankets and pillows!
• Saturday, April 13^th, 8:30 p.m. – Coffee House with live music and poetry readings held in Jammin’ Jave Café.  Jazz pianist Joe Holt will perform a 45-minute set, and Eastern faculty and students will read their poetry.
• Friday, April 19^th, 5:45 p.m. – Friends of the Library Annual Dinner.  All are invited to this evening of great New Orleans-inspired food and jazz concert.  Performers include Eastern’s own Teresa Moyer and David Bryant.  Additionally, the winners of the Jonathan Orr Essay will read their prize winning essays. Cost is $30 per person.  View the invitation at http://bit.ly/FOL2013Dinner.
  
• Thursday, April 25^th, 7pm to 9 p.m. – An Evening of Jazz Education.  Come support Eastern history students as they provide an informative night about jazz history.  Dr. Tyler Flynn’s jazz history class will present their jazz masters biographies. In addition live, accompanying music will be performed by Eastern students and staff to illustrate the particular style and songs of the jazz masters. Eastern jazz music student-ensemble and two faculty members will perform.

Each week I’ll post more details about the upcoming events, starting on Monday, April 1st. So check back often to learn more!!

This annual contest recognizes Eastern U. undergraduate student essays that demonstrate excellence in communicating how books have influenced the opinion of the student concerning significant questions of the day. Our essay question for this year is-

“Jazz is a uniquely American music.  It arose through the African American experience in the American South and spread worldwide as an art form.  Jazz touches the human soul in many ways. Discuss the spiritual dimensions of jazz as an avenue for human and divine connections.”

FIRST PLACE: $400
SECOND PLACE: $300
THIRD PLACE: $200

The essay guidelines are:

1. We will be looking for well-crafted, grammatically correct essays with proper spelling.
2. Essay length must be at least 400 words and must not exceed 700 words.
3. Essays must be the original work of the applicant. Plagiarism in any form will result in disqualification. Please cite any and all resources.

Please electronically submit your essay to Andrea Reed at areed@eastern.edu.
Include your name, year, major and contact information.
Entries will be judged by a panel from Friends of the Library.

DEADLINE: MARCH 27rd

Winners will be notified by April 11th (via email) and the awards will be given out at the Friends of the Library Annual Dinner, held on April 19th.

To read past Orr Essay winners, visit http://warnerlibeu.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/announcing-this-years-orr-essay-contest-winners/.

Every now and again, I thought I would post some noteworthy digital collections. Kicking things off this week, we have a variety of collections, some very specific, some so extensive you could spend hours browsing them. Enjoy!

Royal Society Picture Library- https://pictures.royalsociety.org

“The Royal Society Picture Library is an online database of digital images of paintings, drawings and prints held in our collections. It has been created to inspire the exploration of science through its visual history,” (https://pictures.royalsociety.org/home). The Royal Society’s members are composed of some of the world’s most distinguished scientists, engineers, and doctors. It’s image collection contains portraiture of well-known scientists (think Issac Newtown, Darwin, etc.), drawings of botanical studies, microscopical observations, anatomical drawings and more, and 16th to 19th century published plates.

Europeana- http://www.europeana.eu

This is one of those sites that you could easily spend a couple hours browsing through. Europeana allows you to browse through about 1500 European institutions’ collections, like items from British Library in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Louvre in Paris. A great place to start is on the site’s virtual exhibits page- http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/. You can view exhibits on spices, Yiddish theatre in London, ski jumping and winter sports, Royal book collections, and more!

Philadelphia University’s Historic Philadelphia Postcard Collection- http://digitalcollections.philau.edu/cdm/search/collection/postcards

Looking for some local flavor? Take a look at Philadelphia University’s Historic Philadelphia Postcard Collection- “Collection of postcards from 1900 to contemporary times, focusing on the build environment of the Delaware Valley.” This collection contains over 1,000 historic Philly postcards. Ever wonder what Market Street looked like in 1910? They even have a historic postcard of Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Flickr Commons- http://www.flickr.com/commons

“The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world’s public photography archives,” (http://www.flickr.com/commons). Libraries and archives from around the world have uploaded their historic photograph collections to the Flickr Commons. This site also encourages you to add your own knowledge of history to the images. Many images in the Library of Congress have been identified as a result of crowd sourcing and social media. On of my favorite collections is called The spirit photographs of William Hope. Through double exposure, the photographs look like there are ghost images of deceased loved ones in the portraits. Some of the institutions that participate in the Flickr Commons include NASA, the U.S. National Archives, National Galleries of Scotland, National Maritime Museum, and more. You can view a complete list at http://www.flickr.com/commons/institutions/.

UCLA’s Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts- http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/Manuscripts_list.php

For the medieval scholars, we have UCLA’s Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts. The search interface isn’t the prettiest, but it’s simple and gets the job done. The digital image of each item allows you to get up close and personal with the texts. You can search the collection or browse by location, language, author or title. Europe is represented the most in this collection, though some American institutions (Univ. of Chicago, Harvard, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Hispanic Society of American to name a few) do have items listed.

Dear ERIC Community,

We have currently disabled access to many ERIC full-text PDFs due to the discovery of personally identifiable information in some documents. A team is in place to check each PDF to see if it contains personally identifiable information. Due to the quality of many of the documents, a large portion of the search has to be done by hand. This will take several weeks, but our primary concern is to protect the privacy of individuals.

To minimize the burden on our users, we will prioritize searching the PDFs that users request. If you would like to request a PDF to be returned online, please fill out this form, which requires only the document’s ERIC record number and your email address. Full-text PDFs will be returned on a rolling basis. We will be posting the list of newly released documents here.

We are sorry for the inconvenience and want to thank you for bearing with us through this unexpected delay.

The ERIC Team

In the meantime, we’re trying our best to pool together our physical holdings of ERIC, while also working with local colleges and universities to share each others collection of ERIC holdings. If you need a full-text article from ERIC, please email the Reference Desk (reference1777@eastern.edu) with the article’s citation and we’ll work on getting you access to it. We’ll also notify the Eastern Community once all ERIC documents are again available online.

To view a complete list of titles available through JSTOR via our subscription, visit- http://www.jstor.org/action/collectionsAvailable

To view a complete list of the newly added titles, visit-

Arts & Sciences III- http://www.jstor.org/action/collectionInfoPage?selectCollection=asiii-backfile-collection
Arts & Sciences IV- http://www.jstor.org/action/collectionInfoPage?selectCollection=asiv-backfile-collection
Arts & Sciences VII- http://www.jstor.org/action/collectionInfoPage?selectCollection=asvii-backfile-collection

What research are you using JSTOR for? What do you like about it?