Extended Library Hours for Finals

 

Library hours have been extended to accomodate students for finals. Please click here to see more library hours. Good luck on finals!!!

Book Scanner Provides Unique Service for Students and Patrons

Swing by the Simon Schwob Memorial Library and check out the latest electronic resource that is sure to better scholarship, productivity, and creativity on campus. Students and patrons are invited to use the service and resources provided.

Located near the Information Commons Area, the Scannx Book ScanCenter is the library’s most powerful and accessible self-service book scanner. With its user-friendly touchscreen monitor, the book scanner is easily able to produce seamless document duplicates. This feature improves the library experience for both library staff and patrons. 

Users are able to scan books and documents into searchable PDF, Word doc, JPEG, TIFF and PNG file formats with the click of a button. Along with other functions, users are able to send scanned files to email; to a smartphone/tablet; to document-storage systems like Google Drive, Dropbox, and network folders or to additional document-management devices like fax machines, USB flash drives and other multi-function devices.

Other benefits of the book scanner include less paper and waste, extends lifespan of books, increases accuracy, add-on features, and the scanner also provides a multi-language compatibility.

Be sure to properly utilize the newest gadget, responsibly. For more information, browse CSU Libraries or Scannx Product pages. 

Summer Relaxation, Sponsored by SAC, in Schwob Memorial Library

Take a break from finals and get a taste of summer relaxation with Ready, Set, and Relax hosted by Student Activities Council Thursday, April 23, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Grab a great novel or magazine and relax in the library.

Join the SAC on the first floor of the Simon Schwob Memorial Library and come socialize or read in massage chairs, enjoy an oxygen bar and many, other interesting fun elements as well.

The event is free and open to all CSU students. Students and patrons of the library are encouraged and invited to relax and have a good time!

For more information, please contact CSU Student Activities Council.

Friends of Libraries Book Sale

Spring into summer with a good book! Be sure to check out the Friends of Libraries Book Sale April 21st through 22nd, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., in the Simon Schwob Library. 

CSU libraries encourages all patrons, faculty and staff members, and students to browse or purchase their favorite works. The book sale will take place from in the forum area on the first floor of the Simon Schwob Library. 

For more information about Friends of Libraries, the book sale or CSU Libraries, feel free to browse CSU official pages and websites.

Casting a Long, Long Shadow: The Brilliance of Col. Richard Hallock

Join the Simon Schwob Memorial Library and CSU Archives in celebrating the opening of the Colonel Richard R. Hallock papers, Monday April 20^th at 6 p.m. The opening will feature guest speaker Pierre Sprey, former defense analyst under Robert McNamara.

Following the presentation, a reception will be held afterwards. Students, patrons, and faculty and staff members are advised and invited to this special occasion.

Don't miss out on an occasion to celebrate veterans, military and American military history. For more information, feel free to browse CSU Archives or CSU Libraries.

CSU's National Library Week Winners

Congratulations and cheers to all winners of all National Library Week events! Cheers to Alyssa Hudson, winners of the 2015 Bookmark Contest. The winning design reads “Read— expand the garden of your mind with CSU Libraries” was exhibited Thursday, April 16. 

Winner of the Bookmark Contest will receive a 100 printed copies of their winning design along with a $25 Amazon Gift Card. The winning design was displayed on the first floor of the Schwob Memorial Library for viewing and judging along with two other bookmark art that was submitted. 

Winners of the Online Trivia are Trevor Comeau and Abolanle Abikoye. Shevah Rezaee and Denzil Tieku were Wednesday and Thursday’s Trivia Winner. The first to answer all five trivia questions correctly, on Friday, April 17, will receive a gift certificate for the book sale along with a tote bag, notepad, and pens.

Winners of the Scavenger Hunt, Erika Shea, were announced Wednesday. Scavenger Hunt winners received $25 Amazon gift card after Language out Loud celebration, on April 15.

In under a hundred creative words, patrons were asked to describe ways they creatively use a library. Kevin Simmons as awarded for winning the Drawing Contest, that took place on Monday. Prizes are awarded every day of Library Week.

CSU libraries congratulates all its winners and thanks all those that participated throughout the week. A special thank you is extended to all students and patrons during the National Library week for helping to make the week such a success.

For more information about similar events of National Library Week, feel free to browse the American Library Association. 

Drawing Contest, Scavenger Hunt, and Online Trivia Winners Revealed

Congratulations to CSU's winners of National Library Week events, so far! Cheers to winners of the Online Trivia, Trevor Comeau and Abolanle Abikoye. The first to answer all five correctly, on Friday, will receive a gift certificate for the Friends of Libraries Book Sale along with a tote bag, notepad, and pens.

Congratulations to this year’s winner of the scavenger hunt, Erika Shea. Scavenger Hunt winners received $25 Amazon gift card after Language out Loud celebration, on April 15.

In under a hundred creative words, patrons were asked to describe ways they creatively use a library.Kevin Simmons as awarded for winning the Drawing Contest, that took place on Monday. Prizes are awarded every day of Library Week, here at CSU. 

CSU libraries congratulates all its winners and thanks all that participated throughout the week. A special thank you is extended to all patrons and students during the National Library week for helping to make the week such a success.

Patrons and students are encouraged and greatly advised to participate and become involved with the remaining event of National Library Week, at CSU libraries. For more information about similar events to National Library Week, feel free to browse American Library Association or CSU National Library Week Itinerary.

CSU Libraries Sponsors Bookmark Exhibition and Contest

Thursday April 16, CSU Libraries will sponsor a Bookmark Contest and Exhibition. This exhibition is one of the many events to celebrate National Library Week.

Various bookmark submissions will be exhibited for viewing and judging on Thursday, on the first floor of the Simon Schwob Memorial Library, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to view and are encouraged to vote for their favorite bookmark.

The winning design will receive 100 copies of his/her bookmark made and a $25 Amazon Gift Card.  Bookmark submission guidelines were available on CSU’s National Library Week Itinerary for interested participants. Winners will be announced on Friday, April 17. 

The bookmark exhibition and contest is one of the last scheduled events for Library Week for CSU libraries. Following National Library Week, Friends of Libraries Book Sale will be held on April 17 and 21-22, 2015.

Patrons and students of the library and faulty and staff members are encouraged to participate and vote for his or her favorite bookmark. For more information about the Bookmark Exhibition and Contest, please browse CSU Library Week page or contact Bookmark Contest Coordinator.

New Government Documents Exhibition Features American Military History And Civil War

Outside of CSU’s National Library Week festivities, there are additional events happening around CSU libraries. Near The Express Einstein Bros. Bagels, located on the first floor of the Schwob Memorial Library, exhibits the new Government Documents exhibition.  

This is one of many Government Documents exhibitions displayed this semester. Patrons of the library and foodies of Einstein’s Bagels are invited and encouraged to review the exhibition and any other Government Document exhibition.

The current exhibition features historical elements of The Civil War and was curated by CSU Technical Services Assistant and graduate student, Jesse Chariton. Along with other highlighted areas the historical war and period, American military history is also a featured theme in the collection.

"The purpose of the whole endeavor is to promote the use of Government Documents, in general, by showing that books exist in the collection which are of interest to all majors" Chariton added. Previous displays included NASA/Space Exploration, Current Events, Black History and Women's History month. 

Largely, Government publications provide additional and more information on a wide range of academic areas and time periods. Commons types of information are statistical and reference works, bibliographies, handbooks, reports, studies, maps and others.

Be sure to enjoy and visit the new exhibition before the end of the month! For more information about Government Documents displays, collections, and exhibitions, feel free to browse the Official CSU page, CSU Government Documents, CSU Government Documents Collection Development Policy, or contact CSU Government Documents Coordinator.

Languages out Loud: Classics in Their Own Words

Join CSU libraries and celebrate numerous languages at this year's Languages out Loud: Classics in Their Own Words. This celebration will be held on April 15, from 12:30pm - 1:30pm in the Forum Area of the Simon Schwob Library.

This is one of the many events CSU libraries will host for 2015 National Library Week.  After the presentation, winners of the Drawing and Scavenger Hunt will be announced. Winners will receive a $25 Amazon gift card. Patrons and Students are advised to attend the language celebration.

For more information, please browse this CSU’s National Library Week Itinerary and CSU Official Libraries page.

Friends of Libraries Book Sale at CSU Libraries

Not only can check out many books and novels in a library, but you can also purchase some of your favorite novels and works at the Friends of Libraries Book Sale April 17, 21 & 22, with the CSU libraries. CSU libraries encourages all patrons, faculty and staff members, and students to participant.

CSU Libraries encourages the passion to read and literacy after National Library Week with the book sale. April 17, a book sale on the RiverPark Campus will take place form 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in front of Saunders Center for Music Studies. A rain date is scheduled on April 24.

On the main campus, the book sale will take place April 21-22 from 10 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The book sale will take place from in the forum area on the first floor of the Simon Schwob Library.

For more information about Friends of Libraries, the book sale or CSU Libraries, feel free to browse CSU official pages and websites. 

Library Week Kickoff Features Barbara Moushon at CSU Libraries

Come celebrate literacy and education with the CSU libraries April 12^th – 17^th! This year’s National Library Week celebrations will begin on Monday, April 13^th, with a Kickoff, from 12:30pm - 1:30pm featuring the kickoff’s guest speaker, Barbara Moushon of The Literacy Alliance.

                          

Barbara Moushon has been with the Literacy Alliance since 2003. She also serves as the Executive Director.

The Literacy Alliance, established in 1990, serves Columbus, Georgia and surrounding communities as part of the State of Georgia’s Certified Literate Community Prom (CLCP). In 2000 Columbus/ Muscogee County officially was recognized as the first “Certified Literate Community” having surpassed the state guidelines. For more details about this state program visit CLCP: Georgia State Program.

Patrons and students are advised to attend the kickoff and participate. Cake and sandwiches will be served during this event.

Following the event, a drawing will take from 12:30 -9:00p.m. In under a hundred words, participants are asked to write down creative ways you’ve used your library. The winner will be drawn from a pile and announced on Wednesday, April 15^th.

For more information, please browse this CSU’s National Library Week Itinerary. 

CSU Libraries Sponsors Bookmark and Online Trivia Contest for Library Week

Throughout April 12^th - 17^th, the CSU libraries will celebrate National Library Week, a week where communities around America celebrate the contributions of their library. CSU Libraries invites all CSU students and patrons to visit the library and explore their services and resources.

On Thursday, April 16, between 10:00am - 4:00pm the Schwob Library will exhibit submitted contest bookmarks, for viewing and judging. Bookmark submissions must be a 2" x 6" bookmark
design and sent to jones_michelle@columbusstate.edu by 3:30pm on April 14^th. The winner will have 100 copies of his/her bookmark made as well as receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card.

  Link: Bookmark Submission Guidelines .

For the Online Trivia, prizes will be awarded every day of the week. Online Trivia and Bookmark Contest winners will be announced, online, on our Facebook page, Twitter account, and website. To enter the 2015 bookmark contest, please see the link below.
Online Trivia Quiz

$25 Amazon gift cards and other prizes will be awarded for a Drawing, a Scavenger Hunt, a Bookmark Contest, and Online Trivia. For more information about other events, hosted by CSU libraries, browse this year’s Library Week Itinerary .

National Library Week at CSU Libraries

"Unlimited possibilities @ your library."

"Unlimited possibilities @ your library". It's the theme for this year's National Library Week, a week where communities around America celebrate the contributions of their library. From April 12th - 18th CSU Libraries invites all CSU students to visit the library and explore their services and resources. $25 Amazon gift cards and other prizes will be awarded for a Drawing, a Scavenger Hunt, a Bookmark Contest, and Online Trivia. 

Monday 

•Kickoff 12:30pm - 1:30pm - Listen to guest speaker Barbara Moushon of The Literacy Alliance. Cake and sandwiches will be served. 

Drawing 1:30pm - 9:00pm - In under a hundred words write down creative ways you've used your library. The winner will be drawn from a pile and announced on Wednesday.

Online Trivia Quiz

Tuesday 

•Scavenger Hunt 10:00am - 4:00pm - Walk through the different service areas of the library and answer questions about them. Those who answer every question correctly will be put in a drawing. The winner will be announced on Wednesday.

First Trivia Quiz Question 
Second Trivia Quiz Question
Third Trivia Quiz Question

Wednesday 

•Languages out Loud: Classics in Their Own Words 12:30pm - 1:30pm - After the presentation winners of the Drawing and Scavenger Hunt will be announced. Winners will receive a $25 Amazon gift card.

Thursday  

•Bookmark Contest 10:00am - 4:00pm - Submit a 2" x 6" bookmark design to jones_michelle@columbusstate.edu by 3:30pm on April 14th and have your bookmark displayed at the library where CSU faculty, staff, and students will vote for their favorite design. The winner will have 100 copies of his/her bookmark made as well as receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card.

Bookmark Submission Guidelines 

Friday  

•Online Trivia and Bookmark Contest Winners Announced Online on our Facebook page, Twitter account, and website. 

All Week 

•Online Trivia - Prizes awarded every day of the week. The first to answer all five correctly on Friday will receive a Gift Certificate for the book sale, a tote bag, notepad, and pens.

*All CSU employees will be ineligible for prizes. However, they are encouraged to visit the Kickoff and Languages out Loud presentations. 

New Issue of Simon Says Highlights Interactive Battle Map and Business Librarian

Simon Says, CSU Libraries' newsletter, provides great insight about CSU’s upcoming events for National Library Week, CSU Archives, and many other exciting additions in the library. Readers are encouraged to review Simon Says about the new interactive battle map and the recent additions.

Experience the Battle of Columbus through this interactive map created by CSU Archives which includes troop placements and defensive fortifications. Often called the Last Battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Columbus took place on April 16, 1865, just a few days after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.

The Schwob Library introduces Alison Sperry as the new Business Librarian and Government Documents Coordinator. Alison’s subject areas include the following:

Political Science, Business, Criminal Justice, and Government Documents

Find out about upcoming renovations to the Center of Online Learning (COOL), meet new library faculty, and stay connected with events and exhibitions held at Schwob Library. Visit the website below to access Simon Says.

https://library.columbusstate.edu/about_us/simon_says/index.php

For more information, be sure to view the Battle of Columbus Map webpage, or, CSU libraries official page, CSU Archives. 

Battle of Columbus Interactive Map

Experience the Battle of Columbus through this interactive map created by CSU Archives which includes troop placements and defensive fortifications. Often called the last battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Columbus took place on April 16, 1865, just a few days after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.

The interactive map also highlights Columbus as a whole during the Civil War with important points of interests such as Columbus businesses and homes of prominent individuals all highlighted in this digital exhibit. Unique items from the collections of the CSU Archives and the Columbus Museum help tell the story, such as Colonel Von Zinken’s original letter telling local citizens to get out of town and many historic photographs representing Columbus during the Civil War.

The battle is certainly an important part of Columbus’ history. Some of the city's most fascinating stories come from this time, such as Randolph L. Mott, John Pemberton, Henry Benning, the Eagle Mills, Haiman’s Sword Factory, the CSS Jackson, and many others. 

For more information, be sure to view the Battle of Columbus Map webpage, or, CSU libraries official page, or the CSU Archives. 

Last Faculty Research Forum of 2015 Fiscal Year

CSU libraries will host the last Faculty Research Forum April 7, 2015 at 12 p.m. on the first floor of the Simon Schwob Memorial Library. The lecture will feature Dr. Jennifer Newbrey, Assistant Professor of Biology, and Dr. Gary Sprayberry, Chair of the History and Geography Department.

This faculty forum will conclude the CSU libraries’ Faculty Research Forum for the fiscal year. Newbrey will present “Eastern Bluebirds in West-Central Georgia” and her discussion will be followed by the Department Chair’s presentation over “The Atlanta Pop Festival.”

The Assistant Professor, Newbrey, will discuss the features and importance of Eastern Bluebirds in the West-Central Georgia area. “Effects of West Nile Virus Infection and Immune Function on Female Yellow-headed Blackbird Reproduction” is one of the many works by Newbrey. She earned her PhD from North Dakota State University and also earned her Master and Bachelor of Science at the University of Wisconsin.

Sprayberry’s most recent professional works include his latest “One Doesn’t Integrate on Sunday: The Creation of the Human Relations Council and the Origins of Desegregation in Anniston, Alabama, 1961-1963” in the April 2008 edition of the Alabama Review. The Jacksonville State University alumni will discuss the iconic 1970 Atlanta International Pop Festival that features many musicians such as Canned Heat, Jimi Hendrix, the Chamber Brothers, and Georgia Music Hall of Fame inductee, Johnny Jenkins.

All patrons, students, faculty and staff members are encouraged to attend this Faculty Research Forum. Before each faculty member’s presentation, a lunch will be provided in the Forum Area of the Schwob library. For more information, review and browse the CSU libraries official page.

CSU Libraries’ Suggested Poetry to Read for National Poetry Month

Since President Bill Clinton’s issued proclamation in 1996, April is annually celebrated as National Poetry Month. Each year, the Academy of American Poets and others around the country and global celebrate, encourage and increase awareness and appreciation of poetry.

The poetry celebration is one of the most awaited celebrations for literati, poets and bibliophiles. The Found Poetry Review invites and encourages poets to participate in their annual National Poetry Month project, PoMoSco. The project is an opportunity for poets, of any experience level or publication history, to earn more than 30 merit badges and all poetry, for PoMoSco, will be posted on a centralized site to encourage others to particularly focus their attention to poetry.

CSU libraries encourage students and patrons to participate and read various selections of poetry. For this year’s poetry month, CSU libraries suggests poets, writers, and all patrons to review and read as much poetry as possible to help spread the awareness and increase the appreciation for poetry.
**List not in any order of significance

Poetry and Other Selections 

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

The Elephant by Hilare Belloc
Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson

Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
If by Rudyard Kipling

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
I Carry Your Heart with Me by E.E. Cummings

Why I am Not a Painter by Frank O’Hara

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

The Selected Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski

The Langston Hughes Reader by Langston Hughes

A Dream within a Dream by Edgar A. Poe
The Poor Ghost by Christina Rossetti

The Second Coming by William B. Yeats

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

The Vanity of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson 
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge

On Being Brought from Africa to America Phyllis Wheatley

Ulysses and In Memoriam by Lord Tennyson

Before the Birth of One of Her Children and Contemplations by Anne Bradstreet

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
To Autumn by John Keats

The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

Outside of The Found Poetry Review’s PoMoSco, there are other literary projects, festivals, poetry slams and events hosted in the state of Georgia and in the city of Columbus. For more information, review the below list or browse The Southern Literary Trail: 2015 Georgia Events, supported by the Georgia Humanities Council, and The Georgia Poetry Society.

THE MARGUERITE AND LAMAR SMITH FELLOWSHIP FOR WRITERS
Deadline: April 1, 2015
The Carson McCullers Center Fellowship Program- English Department

Columbus State University

http://www.mccullerscenter.org/fellowships.php

AN AFTERNOON WITH POET NOAH BLAUSTEIN

Tuesday, April 13, 2015

The Carson McCullers Center of Columbus, Georgia

EUDORA WELTY: A LIFE IN LETTERS

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

The Balzar Theater at Herren's, Atlanta

AN EVENING OF MASTERFUL STORYTELLING: ERSKINE CALDWELL, THE SHORT STORY WRITER

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Moreland, Georgia

A READING WITH POET ACE BOGGESS

Thursday, April 30, 2015

The Carson McCullers Center of Columbus, Georgia

ACTRESS BRENDA BYNUM PERFORMS "JORDAN IS SO CHILLY: AN ENCOUNTER WITH LILLIAN SMITH,"

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Brenda Bynum Dillard, Georgia

A KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY GRAMMY NOMINEE TED OLSON AT THE BYRON HERBERT REECE FARM

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Blairsville, Georgia

BOURBON, LITERATURE AND SOUTHERN CHARM: SOUTHERN LITFEST 2015

Friday and Saturday, June 5 & 6, 2015

Newnan, Georgia

As the semester comes to an end, CSU libraries encourage all, particularly students, to partake in some of the literary events around campus, the city and the state. For more information, browse CSU libraries official page and CSU Gil-Find Catalog to locate items and visit The Georgia Poetry Society.