library news
announcements
- **LIBRARY HOURS**
- The library will close for inter-session break beginning Saturday, 5/11, and reopen on Monday, 5/27, at 8:00am. Summer hours will be Monday through Thursday 8:00am - 6:00pm, and Friday 8:00am - 4:00pm.
- **THE LAUREL**
- Explore Digitized Laurel Yearbooks from 1917-2011.
exhibits and programs
renfro library
- RECEPTION CELEBRATING SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS: April 11, 2013, Renfro Library
- EXHIBITS
- "IN THE CARDS" Exhibit
- Our upcoming exhibit chronicles the history of cards. Examples of strange, unique, and beautiful card types will be showcased, accompanied by informative text.
ramsey center
- THE ROLE OF THE CHESTNUT IN APPALACHIAN LIFE: January 31, 2013, 7:00pm, Peterson Conference Center, Blackwell Hall
- Dr. Charlotte Ross will present a program on the ways the chestnut blight in the 1930s and 1940s combined with outside forces to change Appalachian society forever.
- WELCOME RECEPTION FOR LES REKER, Director of the Rural Life Museum, Mars Hill College: February 19, 2013, 3:00-5:00pm, Montague Hall
- Please join Ramsey Center staff at a reception to welcome Mr. Les Reker, the new Director of the Rural Life Museum in the recently renovated Montague Hall, located on the Upper Quad of the Mars Hill College campus.
- UNVEILING OUR TREASURES: FEBRUARY 27, 2013, 3:00pm, Peterson Conference Center, Blackwell Hall
- Join Hart-Melvin Archival Research Fellows Dr. Joel Reed and Andrew Hebert as they share their research on the Paul G. Newton Collection of shape-note hymnals that are part of the Southern Appalachian Archives.
- APPALACHIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE: March 22-24, 2013, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina
- Ramsey Center staff and Regional Studies faculty members and students will give presentations and attend the 36th annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference.
- FIDDLIN' 5K "RUN FOR THE MUSIC" ROAD RACE: April 13, 2013, Mars Hill College
- With fiddle and banjo music accompanying you through the mountainous roads surrounding Mars Hill College, this race will benefit both the Bascom Lamar Lunsford “Minstrel of Appalachia” Festival and the Junior Appalachian Musician Program of the Madison County Arts Council. This event is open to the public, and we would love for you to join us!
off campus log-in
- Plan ahead -- you may need the password to work on your papers and projects if you want to do research off-campus. Be ready with the password to our collection of electronic resources. If you are a current student, or employed by Mars Hill College, please call the Renfro Library Research Assistance Desk at (828) 689-1468 for more information.
new additions
- A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names.
featured electronic resource
- Films on Demand provides high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content in a variety of disciplines.
display showcase
- "In the Cards"
- Our upcoming exhibit chronicles the history of cards. Examples of strange, unique, and beautiful card types will be showcased, accompanied by informative text.
what are you reading?
"cutting for stone" by abraham verghese
Recommended by Rachel Mitchell
- "Lauded for his sensitive memoir (My Own Country) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the '80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brother's long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up and the love story of their adopted parents, both doctors at Missing. The boys become doctors as well and Verghese's weaving of the practice of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power and coincidences of the best 19th-century novel." -- Publisher's Weekly
the hilltop
- Check out The Hilltop, a student publication of Mars Hill College.