April, Poetry Month

Li Po (Li Bai)

The annual poetry contest is almost upon us!

 Anyone can write poetry. Give it a try! Every year we see many students turn their emotions and energies into this creative outlet, following in the footsteps of the illustrious and the inspired, standing in the long shadow of Basho, Poe, Angelou, Hughes, Yeats, Neruda, Homer, Byron, Li Po and Plath.

The library partners with the English Department for the poetry contest, and we offer prizes to the winners in long poetry and in a special haiku division.

Take advantage of this wonderful opportunity during the month of April.

The Johnson Family Library Blog

This semester the Director of Library is joining a number of faculty and staff who are participating in the Dean of Academic Technology's MADE course, a professional development course that dives down deep into the opportunities and features of our Learning Management System, Canvas by Instructure. Introductory modules go over using threaded discussion posts and blogs, and both features can be utilized as assignments for grades in Canvas.

We are utilizing this blog in the hope that it will be a more robust feature to promote our "libraryatsage," and all the things we're doing there. In the future we hope to expand to more diverse and media-focused platforms like Tumblr, and maybe even video, as there are exciting advancements in that field. Stay tuned while we plan for better and more engaging information literacy lesson plans and designs.

This summer we also welcome our new Library Coordinator, Miss Wahl, who joins us from Nashville Public Library system, and Michigan public libraries before that. She loves engaging programming and we are lucky to have her. Visit the lower library to say hello to Miss Wahl welcome her to the community!