Year: 2021
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Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage
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Join us in celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May. Below is a sampling of resources on AAPI heritage in the library, including decolonial travel guides, memoirs, novels and graphic novels, plays, films, current news, and primary sources. Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i edited by Hokulani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuña…
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Summer Reads at Gustavus Library: Fantasy
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Looking for some leisure reading after finishing Game of Thrones, Chronicles of Narnia, or Harry Potter? Check out these fantasy series available at Gustavus Library. The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin Call Number: PS3610.E46 F54 2015 Publication Date: 2015-08-04 The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin Call…
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Guest Post! TRANSforming Book Study
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Today we welcome guest blogger and Library Intern Amber Wolfinger (’21), who highlights a recent book study. This spring, the Chaplain’s office sponsored a book study of Austen Hartke’s Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians. The book study discussions were led by Maggie Falenschek (Chaplain’s Office) and Aaron Geringer (Counseling Center), who…
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Library Hours for Spring Finals
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Friday, May 7: 8 am – 12 am; Saturday, May 8: 8 am – 8 pm; Sunday, May 9: 12 pm – 12 am; Monday, May 10: 8 am – 12 am; Tuesday, May 11: 8 am – 8 pm; Wednesday, May 12 – Friday, May 14: 8 am – 4:45 pm.
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A Starting Point that Never Ends: A Brief Look at Feminist History (Guest Post!)
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Today we welcome guest blogger Ashley Evans, the Library’s academic assistant, for the second post is a series on feminism resources. You can read her first post here. Feminism has been around arguably as long as women have existed. As mentioned in the previous blog post feminism is a movement for equality, and people believe…
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Census Information and the Library
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On April 26th, the U.S. Census Bureau released the first data compiled from the 2020 decennial survey. This information included state populations and the apportionment of representatives in Congress for the next decade. Minnesota will maintains eight representatives and the state population grew to 5,709,752, about a 7.6 increase from 2010. Looking at populations shifts,…
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Guest Post! What is Feminism?
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Today we welcome guest blogger Ashley Evans, the Library’s academic assistant, for the first post is a series on feminism resources. (Please note that you will need your Gustavus user ID/password to access some of these materials.) As many of you know, the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library holds thousands of books on all different subjects.…
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National Poetry Month : Nobel Prize Winner Louise Glück
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Gustavus Library actively collects works by Nobel Prize laureates, and since it’s National Poetry Month we thought there’s no better time to explore the works of American poet Louise Glück (1943- ), who last October was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence…
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Celebrate National Poetry Month
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April 2021 is the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month! Celebrate the voices of poets from today and the past: “The Hill We Climb” (excerpt) – Amanda Gorman, 2021 When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? … We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always…
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Join us on Saturday for (virtual) Books in Bloom!
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Friends of the Library – Gustavus Library Associates (GLA) is proud to present: A Virtual Books in Bloom event Saturday, April 17, 2021 2-3:30 p.m. Register Here Join Saint Peter business-owner Sara Nett, of Sweet Alice Floral and Art as she designs, via Zoom, a bloom interpreting the book Drawdown, by Paul Hawken. From Sara:…