A Few More Weeks of Summer Reading!

There are only a few more weeks of summer left before the Fall 2016 semester starts! Why not bring your summer to a close with an awesome book from the Schwob Memorial Library McNaughton collection? It's filled with great leisure reading books that will help you get your mind in gear before the Fall semester starts. There are a plethora of fun reads that will satisfy any reader! You could choose to follow Eileen Tumulty's chase for the American Dream in Matthew Thomas' We Are Not Ourselves. You could explore race and its contemporary resonances through Ta-Nehisi Coates' personal narrative Between the World and Me. Or, explore the lives of music legends like James Brown, Travis Barker, and Beyonce! Not exactly what you're interested in? No worries! The McNaughton collection has a wide range of topics and genres to choose from. Surely there is something waiting for you on the shelf! The world is literally at your finger tips, one page at a time. Come by the Schwob Memorial Library and check it all out!

Happy Summer Reading!

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Getaway with a Great Book This Summer

Have little time or money for an adventure this summer but want one all the same? The library has recreational reading for anyone who wants to experience something new. Bring your CSU ID or Friends of the Library card for your own instant getaway.

CSU's National Library Week Bookmark Available

Students, faculty and staff members, and patrons are encouraged to pick up their copy of this year’s National Library Bookmark Contest Winner. The design, by Alyssa Hudson, features the quote, “Read— Expand the garden of your mind with CSU Libraries.”

Hudson’s design as well as two other entries were displayed during the week of National Library Week at CSU and exhibition and voting. The winning design features warm colors and is covered with flowers throughout the bookmark.

Be sure to pick up your copy of the winning design while supply lasts. “Mark” your place with your summer reading with this awesome piece of art and creative bookmark. 

For more information about similar events of National Library Week, feel free to browse American Library Association. For more information about CSU’s National Library Week or future events like the bookmark contest, be sure to visit the Official CSU Libraries Page.

                                 

Beat the Heat with Summer Reading

Students and patrons are advised to accommodate the summer heat in the Schwob Memorial Library to continue scholarship and the pace of their studies. Be sure to review suggestions for keeping cool during the hot months of summer and the last weeks of the spring semester. 

Studying for finals, planning summer vacations, or cramming all the information you are accountable for before a final can be overwhelming especially with the pollen-infused, heavy summer heat blaring throughout the CSU campus and libraries.

CSU libraries encourages patrons and students to “Beat the heat” with a few suggestions that may jump start his or her summer and summer reading lists. Be sure to also browse Galileo, Gil-Find and other CSU library databases, and CSU libraries to compile your summer reading lists, to beat the heat!

Top tips for beating the heat

1. Stay hydrated and drink lots of water and non-carbonated drinks 

2. Dress in appropriate fabrics and garments to keep cool

3. Wear the appropriate grade of sun protection for your skin

4. Stay cool with a good book or magazine inside or near the Chattahoochee River

5. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables to increase energy 

For more information, be sure to visit the Schwob Memorial Library for a various reading selections to read and stay cool! For more information or help with summer reading, contact a CSU Subject Librarians for help. 

New Government Documents Exhibition Features Political History Selections

During the last weeks of the spring semester, be sure to visit the new Government Documents Exhibition curated by Jesse Chariton. Explore new and interesting topics about political cartoons, American politics and American political history before the end of the year and spring graduations. 

Located near the Express Einstein’s Bros. Bagels, its new location, on the first floor of the main library, the exhibition highlights multiple selections of various historical events and topics.

Titles like, Blind Justice: Jacobus tenBroek and the Vision of Equality, Thomas Jefferson's Library: A Catalog with the Entries in His Own Order, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, and Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium are just a few selections that the exhibition displays. Other major themes like Russian politics, library history, and other selections that cover the evolution of technology will be up for the month of May.

Students and patrons are invited to view and skim the exhibition. For more information, be sure to visit the Schwob Memorial Library, Government Documents Coordinator, Alison Sperry, or the curator of the current exhibition, Jesse Chariton.

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.

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.

CSU Libraries’ Suggested Novels and Dramas to Read

In 2013, Republican and Idaho State Senate Education Committee Chairman, John Goedde, introduced legislation for all high school students in the state to read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, in order to graduate. This requirement, and novel, greatly encourages and is referenced by many Tea Party members, before the legislation and now. This signifies how literature is still a significant, administrative influence and inspiration outside a library or college campus.

The Simon Schwob Memorial Library encourages the reading habits of its patrons and students; however, not all books closed are meant to stay that way. On any campus, a collegiate environment inspires many to become more serious about his or her studies. Regardless of students’ major, of study, or a patrons’ intent to conduct their research, there is simply a list of novels and dramas that many are presumed to, and should be, familiar with.

Each year the New York Best-Sellers list features familiar and new authors and writers. The British and Western canon is becoming larger with new, contemporary contributions; however, certain literary works are not as appreciated or read by millennials and bibliophiles, as they should. Here are CSU Libraries’ suggested novel and dramas lists.
**Lists are not in any order of significance.

Novels

 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Night, Day, and Dawn by Elie Weisel

Middlemarch by T.S. Eliot

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand            
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Wuthering Heights by Elizabeth Brontë

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell

The Color of Water by James McBride

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

A Good Man is hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora N. Hurston

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce          
Candide by Voltaire
Curious Wine by Katherine Forrest

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angeluo

                                                                       

Dramas

The Histories, Tragedies, and Comedies of William Shakespeare

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind

The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe

She Stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith

The Way of the World by Congreve

Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring

Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht

The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World by Suzan-Lori Parks

A Streetcar Names Desire by Tennessee Williams

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill

After reading a few pieces of literature, one is not considered a literati; yet, it is advised that readers maintain their passion to read. As the semester comes to an end, CSU libraries encourages many, particularly bibliophiles, to review the list of canonical literature. For more information about reading selections, browse CSU libraries official page and CSU Gil-Find Catalog to locate items. 

5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Schwob Library

The CSU Libraries encourage scholastic integrity and studious work ethic both on campus and off-campus while students are away on spring break. For many students and patrons of the Simon Schwob Memorial library, it may become harder to him or her to find activities or things to do in the library. Here are a few suggestions that may interest all readers and visitors of the Schwob library.

5. Become a Film Buff
The main campus library, the Schwob Memorial Library, offers a wide variety of films, productions and television shows available to check out to use in the library. While many are away on spring break, the CSU libraries’ film collection might interest many, compared to reading a novel or article. CSU libraries also manage Films on Demand that consists of 7,000 video titles and includes the new collection of United Newsreels, an additional 260 titles to the film collection.

4. Get Ahead on Summer Reading

The summer season is often filled with sunscreen, planned vacations, and a “good read.” There are many databases, such as Galileo, Gil-Find, and others to help avid readers compile a summer reading list. Book clubs, English majors, and other avid readers are encouraged to use the services and databases to compose a summer reading list too cool for the summer heat ahead. For more information about finding aids and the library’s databases, be sure to see CSU libraries official website.

3.  Catch up on Current Events

It is often hard for students and educators to catch up on social and current events. While most of the campus will be away, reading the local, state and national major newspapers is always encouraged in the library. Not only are newspapers available but so are other publications, i.e., academic journals, government documents, and magazines.

2. Finish Assignments and Study

One of the most snubbed feature of the library is the consist quietness that many, if not most, students appreciate on the first floor of the Schwob library. With a large portion of CSU students away, the Schwob library is one of the best places on campus to study, meet up with classmates to commune, and study together.

1. Explore

Many people come in and out the library with set objectives. Instead of planning out a trip to the library, browse the three, different floors of the Schwob library. Near the Information Commons Area, various art pieces adorn the perimeter of the computer area; yet, there are numerous historical resources to read within the CSU Archives, located on the third floor. The CSU Archives serves as a repository documenting the history of Columbus State University, the city of Columbus, as well as, and the broader Chattahoochee Valley area. Whether you wish to inquire about the Columbus and Chattahoochee Valley area history or wish to observe eclectic art work— The Schwob Memorial has it.

For more information about other events, services, and activities to do within the Schwob library, visit the official website or social media pages of the library.