Library News
- January 12, 2015
Applications are now being accepted for the Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence Program at Goucher College. This residency, to be taken during the 2015-2016 academic year, includes stipend and expenses and provides an opportunity to spend 5 days with the Goucher College Library's outstanding Burke Collection. The Scholar will offer a public lecture and meet with students and faculty. The deadline for applications is March 27, 2015. You can see the full announcement on Goucher's web page here.
- December 6, 2014
Author and historian Robert Beachy, Ph.D., will lecture on his new book, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity, on Wednesday, December 10, at 5:30 p.m. in the Batza Room of the Ungar Athenaeum. This event is free and open to the public, and no tickets are required. For more information, contact Chelsea Shields, history instructor, at chelsea.schields@goucher.edu or Matthew Hale, associate professor and chair of the Department of History, at matthew.hale@goucher.edu.
- September 3, 2014
Through the letters and correspondence of Sara and H.L. Mencken, the Charmed Love exhibit illuminates the relationship between these two writers and the Baltimore they loved. The exhibit is on display from September 2014 through June 2015 in Special Collections & Archives. For more information about the exhibit see http://meyerhoff.goucher.edu/library/mencken/.
- August 28, 2014
Want to win $150, $250, even $500 for a personal collection of books and related ephemera? The Goucher College Library is taking applications for its Applestein-Sweren Prize, a competition for book collectors. The application deadline is Monday, February 2, 2015. For more information and an application form visit the website.
- July 21, 2014
An exhibit featuring a series of Holocaust-related drawings by local artist Nancy Patz is on display in the Siebert Center of the Goucher College Library. The drawings stretch across two panels and feature more than 125 small pen and ink, pencil, and watercolor portraits of authentic Holocaust artifacts from the Holocaust museums in Washington, D.C., Jerusalem, Houston, and New York, and the Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore.
For more information, please see www.goucher.edu/artifactsdrawings.