Citizenship Project——————————-Leecy Barnett

 

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Nearly three years in the making, the Lynn Citizenship Project officially launched on January 4.  All first year students are joining Faculty, staff and peer mentors to learn what it means to be a good citizen.  Classroom session and volunteer opportunities will be enhanced by guest speakers.

 

Citizenship Project textbook

Former Florida Governor and U. S. Senator, Bob Graham kicked off the Citizenship Project, speaking on his book, America, the Owner’s Manual  yesterday at the Wold Center.   Graham has a wealth of experience in public service yet he is so down to earth.  Students and Faculty alike gained wisdom from his insights gained from over 40 years in office.  What a great way to begin this new chapter in Lynn’s history!

  Many other exciting events are planned in the next two weeks.  Lynn Professor, Robert Watson will lead a panel discussion on Can One Person Make a Difference? 10 am, January 10 in the Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall.

Student activists from across the country will share their idea on Our Green Future on January 18 in the Wold Center.

Citizenship Project days of service include working on a new home with Habitat for Humanity, Gumbo Limbo mangrove cleanup and South Bay community work day.  Students, Staff and Faculty  from the Citizenship Project will also participate Knights United Day of Caring.  Our CP class is signed up to go gleaning at a farm in Delray Beach.

The Lynn Library has created a display of books, including Graham’s America, the Owner’s Manual and Dr. Watson’s Debating the Presidency, as well as other books which highlight active citizenship.  These titles include:

• Citizen Democracy: Political Activism in a Cynical Age.
• The Good Citizen:  How a Younger Generation is Reshaping American Politics.
• How Free People Move Mountains.
• Make a Difference America’s Guide to Volunteering and Community Service.
• Leading without Power:  Finding Hope in Serving Community.

2 New Displays highlight Library collection – Susan Montgomery

             

Book or film?

Your choice!

 Lynn Library has a wonderful book and film collection.  To highlight both, the library created a display of books which became films.  Both the books and films are on display for several titles. 

Read the book or watch the film, it’s YOUR CHOICE!  Why not both?!  Materials on display include:

 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, film directed by Marc Forster

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar, film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly

The Blind Side by Michael Lewis, film starring Sandra Bullock

The Great Santini by Pat Conroy, film starring Robert Duvall & Blythe Danner

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, film starring Jack Lemmon

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo, animated film with the voices of Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, & Emma Watson

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares, film starring Amber Tamblyn & America Ferrera

In my mind, I’m going to….

Summer is the time we travel.  The library has wonderful resources to help you plan your trip or visit a new place via books or films.  Materials on display include:

Great American Vacations, 25 affordable family trips

Cruises & Ports of Call

Belize: ecotourism in action

Great Lakes Journey: a new look at America’s freshwater coast

Metro Stop Dostoevsky: travels in Russian time

Lost in the Jungle: a harrowing true story of survival

American Places: encounters with history

Great Hotels: Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas (DVD)

America’s Castles: the Grand Resorts (DVD)

Great Hotels: The Peninsula, Beverly Hills (DVD)

Diane Ravitch display – Susan Montgomery

Renowned education author Diane Ravitch will be at Lynn on Wednesday, May 12.  Her talk will be held from 5:30 – 7:30 PM in the Wold Performing Arts Center.  Lynn Library has created a display highlighting her publications.

Why Public Schools need Democratic Governance, an article written by Ravitch will be discussed during her talk and is included among the books on display.

What do our 17-year-olds know?

Making Good Citizens

The Language Police

The Great School Wars: a history of the New York City Public Schools

Left back: a century of failed school reforms

The American Reader: words that moved a nation

2 New displays @ Lynn Library – Susan Montgomery

May is Jewish American Heritage Month!

To celebrate, Lynn Library has created a display featuring materials to honor Jewish Americans.

Books include:

Jewish American and Holocaust Literature edited by Alan L. Berge and Gloria L. Cronin

Judaism in America by Marc Lee Raphael

American Judaism: a history by Jonathan D. Sarna

Jews in American life and thought by Stephen J. Whitfield

Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz

Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture by Julian Levinson

Films on display include:

The Jewish Americans

They came for good: a history of the Jews in the United States

Visit the online site: Jewish American Heritage Month to learn more.

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Award winning Children’s Books on display!

Lynn Library has acquired award winning books improving its children’s literature collection.  They include:

My people by Langston Hughes with photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr, winter of the Coretta Scott King Award

The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney, winner of the Caldecott Medal

Red Sings from the Treetops, a year in colors by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, winner of the Caldecott Honor Medal

All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and Marla Frazee, winner of the Caldecott Honor Medal

Going Bovine by Libba Bray, winner of the Printz Award for excellence in Young Adult Literature

Punkzilla by Adam Rapp, Honor Book winner of the Printz Award for excellence in Young Adult Literature

Tales of the Madman Underground by John Barnes, Honor Book winner of the Printz Award for excellence in Young Adult Literature

Charles and Emma: Darwins’ leap of faith by Deborah Heiligman, National Book Award Finalist

Where the Mountain meets the Moon by Grace Lin, Newberry Honor Book Award

Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez, winner of the Pura Belpré Award

Two New Displays at Lynn Library – Susan Montgomery

April is National Poetry Month!!! To celebrate, the library created a display featuring materials on poetry.

Books on display include:

Haiku: seasons of Japanese Poetry edited by Johanna Brownell

Good Poems selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor

Naked Poetry: recent American Poetry in open forums edited by Stephen Berg and Robert Mezey

Bum rush the page: a defpoetry jam edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera

Americana and other poems by John Updike

Walk through this Journey, volume 1 by Yanatha Desouvre (both book and CD)

Films on display include:

Russell Simmons presents DefPoetry

An evening with Edgar Allan Poe

A touch of Greatness

Play Ball! Baseball season has arrived!  Lynn Library has a display featuring books and films on America’s pastime.

Books include:

Bases loaded: the inside story of the steroid era in baseball by the central figure in the Mitchell Report by Kirk Radomski

May the best team win: baseball economics and public policy by Andrew Zimbalist

Fair ball: a fan’s case for baseball by Bob Costas

Wait till next year: a memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Baseball without borders: the international pastime edited by George Gmelch

We are the ship: the story of Negro league baseball words and paintings by Kadir Nelson

Into the temple of baseball edited by Richard Grossinger and Kevin Kerrane

Baseball films on display include:

A league of their own starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell

Fever Pitch starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon

The Final Season starring Sean Astin

Lynn Library invites our community to check out any of these materials or to browse our catalog for others to celebrate these events.

The Great Palm Beach County Library Treasure Hunt – Susan Montgomery

Lynn University Library is one of several Palm Beach County Libraries participating in The GREAT PALM BEACH COUNTY LIBRARY TREASURE HUNT and you can too! In celebration of National Library Week, April 10 – 17, library “hunters” throughout Palm Beach will be seeking answers to clues about libraries. You can join in on the hunt by registering online at the Palm Beach County Library Association website.
The library has created a display of Pirate-themed materials to support the event. Along with these items, treasure hunt bookmarks are available free for users.
Books available include:
Pirates: Predators of the Sea by Angus Konstam
The Pirate I must be… the true story of “Black Bart,” King of the Caribbean pirates by Richard Sanders.
The Pirates by Charles Ellms
How I became a Pirate by Melinda Long

Films on display include:
Hook starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams and Julia Roberts
Both Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly.

If you have any questions regarding Lynn’s participation in the event, please contact Susan Montgomery at 237-7066 or by email at smontgomery@lynn.edu.

“Spring” into April – Susan Montgomery

Lynn Library has created a display of materials to celebrate the beginning of April and the Spring season.

Books on display include:

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Since Silent Spring by Frank Graham, Jr.
Before Silent Spring by James Whorton
The torrents of Spring: a novel by Ivan Turgenev
The Prague Spring: a mixed legacy edited by Jiri Pehe
Peach Blossom Spring by Richard M. Barnhart

Videos include:

Late Spring, a film by Yasujiro Ozu
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone with Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty

The CD Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is also on display.

We encourage the Lynn community to borrow any of these “Spring” materials as a way to welcome the new season.

Nuremberg Trial

PROJECT NUREMBERG

The library has also created a display featuring the events of Project Nuremberg, a week-long remembrance of the Nazi trials conducted after World War II.

On display are materials written by Scholar –in-Residence, John Q. Barrett as well as resources about the trials. They include:

That Man: an insider’s portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, edited and introduced John Q. Barrett
Henry T. King, Jr. at Case , and on the Nuremberg Case by John Q. Barrett
Drexel A. Sprecher (1913-2006), Nuremberg Prosecutor by John Q. Barrett
The path from the 1907 Hague Conference to Nuremberg and forward by John Q. Barrett
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 1945-46, a documentary history by Michael R. Marus
The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa and John Tusa
The anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials by Telford Taylor

Project Nuremberg events start on Thursday.
Thursday, April 1 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
“Nuremberg” movie and lecture with Professor Nava Dushi,
deHoernle Lecture Hall, Green Center

Thursday, April 8 5:30 PM
“Nuremberg Sixty Years Later – An Eye towards the Future” with Professor John Q. Barrett, Lynn University Scholar-in-Residence, deHoernle Lecture Hall, Green Center

Saturday, April 10 8:00 PM
“Project Nuremberg Theatre Experience” written by Professor Carrie Simpson and directed by Professor Adam Simpson, Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall, deHoernle International Bldg.

New Library Displays highlight Faculty Publications

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

On Monday, March 22, the Office of Academic Affairs and Lynn Library hosted a reception recognizing Lynn faculty who have succeeded in publishing their work in the last year.  The library has created a display highlighting some of the works honored at the reception.  They include:

Sindee Kerker, Review of Unified School District #1 v. Redding, “Sex Offender Law Report”

Jill Levenson, Sex offender residence restrictions in “Sex Offender laws: failed policies, new directions,” Springer Publications.

Jeff Morgan, The architecture of dreams and Spring break in “Florida in the Popular Imagination,” McFarland Publishers.

Barbara Barry, In Adorno’s broken mirror: towards a theory of musical reproduction,” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music.”

Malcolm Asadoorian & Valerie Storey, Educational leadership – perceptions and determinants of moral and ethical behaviour,“International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research.”

John Cipolla, The organization as artifact: structuring the organization in times of constant, dramatic change, “Design Principles & Practices: An International Journal.”

Valerie Fabj, Private symbols as vehicles for a public voice: “Women of the Fast” reject the Mafia, “Global Media Journal.”

We invite you to browse all Lynn faculty publications in our collection available on the 1^st floor of the library.  Ask at the Information desk for help.

Films to make you laugh or cry – Susan Montgomery

 Lynn Library has created 2 new displays featuring films to make you laugh or cry.  Check out any of these films depending on your mood.

 Films to make you laugh include:

Best of Gallagher, vol. 1 & 2

The best of Gilda Radner

The best of Jim Belushi

The best of Chris Rock show vol. 1 & 2

Bill Cosby, himself

Eddie Murphy, RAW

No Respect, Rodney Dangerfield

Richard Pryor live in concert

Robin Williams, live on Broadway

Film to make you cry include:

A Beautiful Mind

The King of Masks

Atonement

Grace is Gone

Ordinary People

Kramer vs. Kramer

My Family

Places in the Heart

Marley & Me

The Namesake

Steel Magnolias