National Library Week 2022
Happy National Library Week 2022. The theme for this year's National Library Week is Connect with Your Library. National Library Week 2022 promotes the idea that libraries are places to get connected to technology and offer opportunities to connect with books, media, programs, ideas, and classes. Most importantly libraries also connect communities.
Take a moment to view the ORU Library National Library Week 2022 LibGuide to see what the ORU Librarians and student workers are reading or visit the National Library Week 2022 page to find ways to celebrate and connect.
Molly Shannon, Emmy-nominated and Spirit Award-winning actress and comedian will serve as honorary chair of National Library Week
Molly Shannon, multiple Emmy-nominated and Spirit Award-winning actress, comedian, and legendary Saturday Night Live cast member, will help celebrate our nation’s libraries as the honorary chair of National Library Week, April 3–9, 2022. Shannon will highlight the numerous ways libraries serve to connect communities to books, resources, programs, and, of course, each other.
In 2000, Molly received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. Prior to joining Saturday Night Live, Shannon appeared at The Up Front Comedy Theater in Los Angeles in The Rob and Molly Show, an improvisational show she co-wrote with Rob Muir.
In 2017, Molly was awarded the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the highly acclaimed drama Other People (2016). Shannon received rave reviews for her portrayal of Joanne, a mother who is struggling with terminal cancer and whose son moves home to take care of her. The film won the Grand Jury prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. She also co-starred in the independent feature films Miles (2016) from and We Don't Belong Here (2017).
On television, Molly has co-starred in the hit HBO comedy, Divorce (2017) and in the Wet Hot American Summer (2016) miniseries for Netflix.
The Library is Key to Your Success
- Academic Library Impact on Student Learning and Success
A growing body of evidence suggests that students’ academic success is linked to library usage, including improved student retention and an enhanced academic
experience. - Libraries as Student Success Hubs
A new report analyzing what students need the most found they often chose the library as a top destination for services.
Advice from ORU Professors
Dr. Angela Watson, associate professor in the ORU Behavioral Sciences Department, encourages students to use library resources for their coursework.
Dr. William Ranahan, cancer researcher and chair of the ORU Biology and Chemistry Department, shares his advice to students about research in the library.
Books About Libraries
Sacred Stacks by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780838909171Publication Date: 2006"Librarians serve a higher purpose that no amount of digitization or computerization can ever replace...Libraries have survived and will continue to thrive in the future, because they fulfill eternal needs for people."--Nancy Kalikow Maxwell from the Preface. Librarianship as a calling is a powerful perspective. Drawing from history, sociology and philosophy, Sacred Stacks voices the importance of the library profession and libraries as community institutions in a secular time. Considering these higher purposes of libraries, she outlines the work of librarians and libraries that: promote community, uplift society, bestow immortality, preserve and transmit culture, organize chaos, and provide sacred space.
Libraries and the Enlightenment by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781936117420Publication Date: 2012Contemporary American libraries are products of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment-the intellectual and political movement that emerged in 18th century Europe-consolidated various scientific and political ideals into a worldview advocating scientific discovery and experimentation, reason as a touchstone of truth, intellectual freedom to study and publish, skepticism about received traditions, individual liberty, political and social equality among all persons, democracy, and toleration of diverse opinions among other beliefs. From the 17th century on, libraries were crucial to the development and dissemination of Enlightenment ideals. These two goals of Enlightenment-to support the creation of knowledge and to disseminate that knowledge throughout a free society-provide the philosophical foundation for modern American libraries, with the ultimate ideal of a universal library universally accessible. There can be libraries without Enlightenment, but no Enlightenment without libraries.
Library by Call Number: Z721 .B28 2003ISBN: 9780393020298Publication Date: 2003On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge.Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the british Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age. He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish--and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia.
The Library at Night by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780300151305Publication Date: 2009A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. "Libraries," he says, "have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic." In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries. Manguel, a guide of irrepressible enthusiasm, conducts a unique library tour that extends from his childhood bookshelves to the "complete" libraries of the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google. He illuminates the mysteries of libraries as no other writer could. With scores of wonderful images throughout, The Library at Night is a fascinating voyage through Manguel's mind, memory, and vast knowledge of books and civilizations.
The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780199577804Publication Date: 2010In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject up till now. In fact, the library is a complex institution with many different forms. It can be abuilding with books, but it can also be individual people, or the individual books themselves. In antiquity, the library's functions are numerous: as an instrument of power, of memory, of which it has various modes; as an articulation of a political ideal, an art gallery, a place for sociality. Too indirectly raises important conceptual questions about the contemporary library, bringing to these the insights that a study of antiquity can offer.
