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March is Women's History Month and there are many resources available to learn about, and celebrate, women making history.

The theme from the National Women's History Month Project is Women’s Art: Women’s Vision to honor the originality, beauty, imagination, and multiple dimensions of women’s lives.

Check out just some of the many books we have about women's history in our catalog or on the display in the library now, which features books about women from around the world. A great webcast can be found on the International Women's Day website which links to websites from 45 countries.

At the Library of Congress website you can look at photographs and paintings, read significant documents, and listen to speeches, music and oral histories such as these from women veterans who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

Update: Womens Festival on West Campus, March 7-9

The Luria Library! It's also the title of a novel by E. M. Forster, a Great Books author.

"Borders." Consider the various borders that we erect among ourselves, our cultures, even from the natural world itself. Robert Frost's famous poem, "Mending Wall," considers the unnaturalness of constructing a stone wall between two neighbors: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall."

Come and meet other Great Books authors Tuesday noon, March 18, at the
Luria Library Cafe for our Borders Read Aloud. Share with fellow students your favorite "GB" poem or passage, and tell us what makes it great! Learn about City College's own Great Books program. We'll meet informally near the Cafe from 12:00 to 1:00, light refreshments to be served. RSVP on Facebook.

The Great Books include the classical works from the western Canon and World Culture. Plato, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Confucius, Freud, Cervantes: Each a Great Books author.

According to the US Census, the number of U.S. resident who claim Irish ancestry is almost nine times the population of Ireland itself, and the nation's second most frequently reported ancestry. No surprise then that St. Patrick's Day, originally a religious holiday to celebrate the saint who introduced Christianity to Ireland in the fifth century, has evolved into a celebration for all things Irish.

Come check out the books on Irish history, politics, culture, art and literature on display now. Or peruse our catalog for a wealth of Irish fiction

No time to come to the library? "Check out" an electronic book on Ireland

SBCC will be making some history in Ireland this summer; the SBCC Concert Choir will make an 11-day performance tour in June, traveling to ... Read more about it at their blog.

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Part of what we try and do in the library is engage our students with ideas and engage them in the learning of new ideas. Looking for inspiration isn't that difficult and the following video illustrates inspiration, learning, and talks about who we are as humans.

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

We are constantly adding new materials to our collection. To give you an idea of the types of materials we're adding, you can browse through a list of images. Use the continue reading... link below to see the book titles. If you'd like to find the book on the shelf or see if it is available, search our catalog.

It has been a great pleasure to serve our community since the Fall of 2005. In that time, the library has experienced some dramatics shifts and I would like to honor those across campus - students, faculty, administrators, staff - who have supported us and have been an advocate for our services. In particular, the faculty who bring their classes to the library and/or send students our direction. It is an exciting time and it is my opinion that the current library staff is of the highest caliber and in the Fall we will welcome another new librarian.

So, a big THANK YOU goes out to all those supporters and advocates.