library news
announcements
Congratulations to Patrick Cash and Blake Mattinson, our winners in "The Major Contest"!
Teen Tech Week and New PBS Videos Come to NC LIVE
NC LIVE joins thousands of other libraries and schools across the country who are celebrating Teen Tech
Week, March 7-13th. As a part of this celebration, NC LIVE is adding *24 new PBS videos* to its
collection of more than 400 online videos, including:
- Ken Burns’s The War
- Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion
- Dickens’s Oliver Twist
- Shakespeare’s King Lear and more...
Check out the PBS Video Collection
exhibits and programs
renfro library
PORTRAITS ACROSS CULTURES
by Tom Plaut
An exhibition of photographic portraits taken between 1960 and 2010
in Haiti, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Thailand and the United States by
Thomas Plaut, who taught in the MHC Sociology Department from 1977 to
2005 and was the director/founder of the college Center For Assessment
and Research Alliances (CARA). The exhibit seeks to provide students with examples of the
rich diversity in human culture. Located in the library mezzanine.
ramsey center
THURSDAY, MARCH 25
Conversations with Dr. Charles Thompson, Curriculum and Education Director Center for
Documentary Studies at Duke University.
Dr. Charles Thompson will speak about his work with undergraduate students at Duke University’s
Center for Documentary Studies and discuss the Farmers Federation Collection as an effort to document
the lives and work of farmers and farm workers.
"Documenting Farms and Farm Workers: Past and Present"
9:30 am Peterson Conference Room, Blackwell Hall
"Documentary Work as a Tool for Social Justice and Teaching"
12:00 pm Small Dining Room, Pittman Dining Hall
"Farming, Food, and Faith"
7:00 pm Broyhill Chapel
SATURDAY, APRIL 17
Service Project with Fields of Hope Honoring the Farmer’s Federation Lord’s
Acre Program
Join the Ramsey Center and LifeWorks as we honor the legacy and learn more about the internationally
known Lord’s Acre program, originally a Farmers Federation initiative, by participating in this day of
service and reflection.
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.
featured electronic resource
CELEBRATE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH!
women and social movements in the united states
"Women and Social Movements in the United States is a resource for students and scholars of U.S.
history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in
the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding
about U.S. history generally at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history
accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection
currently includes 91 document projects and archives with more than 3,600 documents and 150,000
pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 2,060 primary authors. It also includes
book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools."
display showcase
cadenza
The Cadenza is Mars Hill’s annual student-produced literary and artistic magazine that showcases
students’ work. Since 1966, the Cadenza has published many short stories, poems, photographs, and
pieces of art all done by students; and each spring semester a group of students (the Cadenza staff)
get together to go through submissions and design the layout of the magazine. Everything comes
together beautifully in each copy of the Cadenza.
This year, the Cadenza is on display on the main floor of Renfro Library, showcasing how the magazine
has evolved through the years. There are issues stretching back from the seventies, and as you look at
the works presented, the Cadenza staff wants you to know that you too can become part of Mars Hill’s
history by being part of the 2010 Cadenza! Our guidelines are:
- Please have your submission(s) be your own original piece of literature, photograph, or photograph of a piece of your art
- Email your work in a Word Document (.doc or .docx) and send it as an attachment to Cadenza@mhc.edu
- Or, you could deliver a hard copy of your work to Cornwell 205
- The submission deadline is March 23!
Thank you for considering, and we hope you enjoy the Cadenza display!
-The Cadenza Staff
what are you reading?
unaccustomed earth written by jhumpa lahiri
Recommended by Kathryn Brightbill
"Following her thoughtful first novel, The Namesake (2003), which has been made into a
meditative film, Lahiri returns to the short story, the form that earned her the Pulitzer Prize
for her debut, Interpreter of Maladies (1999). The tight arc of a story is perfect for Lahiri's keen
sense of life's abrupt and painful changes, and her avid eye for telling details. This collection's
five powerful stories and haunting triptych of tales about the fates of two Bengali families in
America map the perplexing hidden forces that pull families asunder and undermine marriages.
Unaccustomed Earth, the title story, dramatizes the divide between immigrant parents and their
American-raised children, and is the first of several scathing inquiries into the lack of deep-down
understanding and trust in a marriage between a Bengali and non-Bengali. An inspired miniaturist,
Lahiri creates a lexicon of loaded images. A hole burned in a dressy skirt suggests vulnerability and
the need to accept imperfection. Van Eyck's famous painting, The Arnolfini Marriage, is a template for a
tale contrasting marital expectations with the reality of familial relationships. A collapsed balloon is
emblematic of failure. A lost bangle is shorthand for disaster. Lahiri's emotionally and culturally astute
short stories (ideal for people with limited time for pleasure reading and a hunger for serious literature)
are surprising, aesthetically marvelous, and shaped by a sure and provocative sense of inevitability.--
Seaman, Donna 2008 Booklist"
the hilltop
Check out The Hilltop, a student publication of Mars Hill College.