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The theme of war has been pervasive in human creative endeavors, whether the emphasis is on valor, glory, horror, loss, military success or defeat. This theme is being explored through literature for Professor Celeste Barber's English 111 course and works her students will study, as well as books of painting, photography, history, journalism, fiction and poetry, are on display in the library now.
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Representatives from six programs will be attending.
When: Saturday, October 13, 2007, 9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Where: Luria Library, Santa Barbara City College
West Campus entrance: FREE Parking in all unmarked spaces
Cost: $10.00 (includes lunch and materials)
Registration Online. Scholarships available to SBCC students by contacting Kenley Neufeld at 805-730-4435.
Come join us in the library this week for a very special event. We are honored to host the annual Day of the Dead exhibit this year. The altars are quite stunning. According to the brochure, "ancient Mexicans believed dead people moved on to a different world. Death was another kind of living. Spanish priests, wanting to replace the indigenous religion with the Catholic one, tried to stop the people's celebrations for the dead. When that didn't work, they combined the traditions with the ancient Catholic holy days for the dead. All souls and All Saints Day, on November 1st and 2nd."
Free books to Kick-Off UCSB/SB/SBCC Reads
Join the community of Santa Barbara and students at UCSB in reading The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. This unusual book by author Pietra Rivoli “tells a great story” about the complicated journey of a simple garment. A series of conversations will take place in February, including one with SBCC Professor Peter Haslund at the Carpinteria Public Library on February 19th. See the complete list of conversations. The headline event will be on March 5 at Campbell Hall when Pietra Rivoli will give a free lecture. For more information, please visit UCSB Reads.
The Luria Library will give away copies of the book to the first 45 students who are planning to transfer to UCSB this year. Stop by the library and ask for your free book.
February is Black History Month, established in 1976, expanded from the Negro History Week established in 1926. This is a time to honor and recognize those of African heritage, remember our history of racial prejudice, and help cultivate our black community. Check out the amazing online exhibit called Let Your Motto Be Resistance bringing together portraits of African Americans or the new Amistad Digital Resource from Columbia University.
A little closer to home, I encourage you to browse our library books on the topic, take a look at the World Book Encyclopedia's African American Journey, or CQ Researcher's report on Race in America.
Students, faculty and staff of SBCC are invited to join in the popular annual Black History Month Poetry Reading. Bring a favorite poem by an African American poet and share it with a receptive, enthusiastic audience. This will take place in the Library Cafe on Thursday at noon.
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.
On display now in the library is a wealth of books on marine diving, as well as actual equipment used in SBCC Marine Diving Technologies program. Come see images of diving technologies over the years, including photographs of SBCC students in the program thirty years ago.
Santa Barbara City College's Marine Diving Technologies Program is recognized worldwide for its vocational excellence. It is the only community college degree program in the nation which is accredited by the Association of Commercial Diving Educators (ACDE), the International Diving Schools Association (IDSA) and the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI).
This week's display has particular timeliness because Don Barthelmess, Professor of Marine Technology has been selected by his peers to present the SBCC 29th Annual Faculty Lecture on Wednesday, April 9, at 2:30 pm at the Garvin Theatre. Delivering the lecture is considered the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member each year.
Let’s Celebrate! April is National Poetry Month. So, mark your calendars for Monday, April 21 at noon. Bring along a poem to share, published or personal, one that considers the various bridges, real or metaphorical, that we cross over throughout life.
The event will be in the Luria Library Cafe and there will be a prize drawing for those who read a poem.
O little Icarus,
you chewed on a cloud, you bit the sun
and came tumbling down, head first,
not into the sea, but hard
on the hard packed gravel.
You fell on your eye. You fell on your chin.
What a shiner! What a faint you had
and then crawled home,
a knocked-out humpty dumpty
in my arms. . . .
(Sexton)
Join Santa Barbara City College Intercultural Communications Club as they sponsor Pangea Days on our campus. According to the organizers, "Pangea Day seeks to overcome that — to help people see themselves in others — through the power of film."
The college held a formal inauguration for Dr. Andrea Serban, the 15th President of Santa Barbara City College and the youngest President in the 110 college system.
The Middle East Studies Program and the Middle Studies Club are presenting their first of several events for this Fall semester - the first one occurs in the Library.
~A celebration of Khalil Gibran's poetry and work~
As many of you know, Khalil Gibran was part of a wave of immigrants in the 19th and early twentieth century coming from Lebanon and Palestine to America. Gibran's poetry has touched lives for generations, but few remember that he came to the West from the heart of the Middle East.
~We will gather to read from the work of Gibran in the Library on the
West campus by the
Buzz Cafe
Wednesday October 1
7:00-9:00 pm
Tea and sweets will be provided courtesy of the Middle East Studies Club.
Children of Orphalese ..., bring your favorite Gibran poem to read or story to relate or painting to show.
RSVP on Facebook and then post pictures, commentary, and comments about the event.
This week only. Come by the library and see all the altars.
With finals ahead, as well as many holiday celebrations coming up, many of us experience stress in December. The library has ideas FOR you, and needs ideas FROM you.
This week, the library will have on display objects -- and books! -- to give you ideas for how to cope with stress. The library café offers great coffees and teas and juices and will have board games to play, to give yourself a little study break. Plus, we also have a Wii console available.
On Wednesday December 3rd, you can experience some of these techniques at the annual PROJECT HOPE (Helping Others through Peer Education) DE-STRESS FEST!
On the West Campus from 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. for a free chair massage, outdoor yoga, meditation, information about the effects of study drugs, and resources on campus that can help you succeed in your classes. Participation prizes include free kayaking and paddle board rentals, movie tickets, Borders gift cards, and De-Stress goody bag
kits.
Also, the Personal Counseling Office at SBCC offers an online stress "test" to help you understand your own coping:
The Library Director, Kenley Neufeld, typically offers Mediation in the Library on Thursday mornings from 11:30-11:50. All are welcome to participate.
Finally, send a text or video comment to this posting with YOUR ideas for healthy de-stressing, to help others. Or leave a written idea inside the library.
In the library now is a small display of books, articles, and fact sheets regarding RED HAND DAY - an international effort to raise global awareness of the plight of child soldiers through public protests, demonstrations and other activities. The Red Hand symbol, has been used all over the world by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and many civil society organizations to say no to the recruitment and use of child soldiers.
Here are some facts, from the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers:
-- The problem is most critical in Africa, where children as young as nine have been involved in armed conflicts. Children are also used as soldiers in various Asian countries and in parts of Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.
--The majority of the world's child soldiers are involved in a variety of armed political groups. These include government-backed paramilitary groups, militias and self-defence units operating in many conflict zones.
--Most child soldiers are aged between 14 and 18, While many enlist "voluntarily" research shows that such adolescents see few alternatives to involvement in armed conflict. Some enlist as a means of survival in war-torn regions after family, social and economic structures collapse or after seeing family members tortured or killed by government forces or armed groups. Others join up because of poverty and lack of work or educational opportunities. Many girls have reported enlisting to escape domestic servitude, violence and sexual abuse.
-- Forcible abductions, sometimes of large numbers of children, continue to occur in some countries. Children as young as nine have been abducted and used in combat.
Find out more, in the library through February 12th.
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We will serve tea and sweets in good Middle Eastern tradition. We will
also share information on the Persian New Year (Nowrooz/New Day) which
marks the renewal of nature at the vernal equinox, March 20-21 this
year, and will show a Persian new year's display called "haft sinn."
Please join us in what has fast become an SBCC tradition!
Salaam, shalom and merhaba!
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On Wednesday, March 25, 2009, the Santa Barbara City College Luria Library held it's First Annual Edible Books Festival. Judges awarded prizes in the following categories: Most Like a Book, Most Tasty, Most Funny, Most Like the Content, and Best in Show.
Check out the other entries and the runner up winners.
The library is honored to host the esteemed faculty from the philosophy and political science departments for a discussion on ethics. The panel discussion is in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Reads, UCSB Reads and the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Thursday, April 23
4:00 – 5:00
Luria Library
Panelists
Moderated by Elizabeth Bowman, Librarian
When a Parent is in Prison is a documentary project of Mennonite Central Committee's Office on Justice & Peacebuilding and Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. The photo exhibit provides a glimpse into the lives of the two million, four hundred thousand children who have a parent in prison. As Nell Bernstein, author of "All Alone in the World" has stated "These children have committed no crime, but the price they are forced to pay is steep. They forfeit too much of what matters to them: their homes, their safety, their public status and private self-image, their primary source of comfort and affection. Their lives are profoundly affected."
This photo documentary will be in the Luria Library for ONE WEEK ONLY. Come by and see these powerful images.
Leading the initiative are Howard Zehr, Professor of Restorative Justice at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, and Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz, director of Mennonite Central Committee's office on crime and justice.
In the last few weeks of the spring 2009 semester, the library hosted a charity opportunity as part of the Knit-A-Square program. This program was designed to encourage knitters and crocheters around the world to take a little extra time to make a 8 inch by 8 inch square and mail it to South Africa. The squares would be assembled there, by a local charity called the Soweto Comfort Club, to provide comfort and warmth to some of the many AIDS orphans. This charity has taken off in ways the planners hadn’t anticipated and has gained world wide attention. Their goal for 2009 is to create 10,000 blankets (40 squares make one blanket).
The library staff considered this an appealing, comforting community project, especially as spring semester finals drew near and budget concerns loomed, making folks anxious. After announcing the charity, we mounted a display wall so that we could show library visitors how the blanket was developing, as the squares came in, and this drew a lot of interest and conversation. 
What followed next went beyond our fondest expectations; in just a few weeks, staff, faculty and students brought to us one at a time, or a few at a time, or bags at a time, ultimately One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Squares. One staff member learned to knit, in order to contribute. Several staff member’s elderly parents contributed to the project. Students asked us to continue the project in the future.
Thanks to all who participated!
photo credit: Valerie Campos
Fifty-six years ago, Ray Bradbury published Fahrenheit 451 and it has remained a best-selling book and is considered a literary classic ever since.
The National Endowment for the Arts notes this “gripping story at once disturbing and poetic, Bradbury takes the materials of pulp fiction and transforms them into a visionary parable of a society gone awry, in which firemen burn books and the state suppresses learning. Meanwhile, the citizenry sits by in a drug-induced and media-saturated indifference.”
What do YOU think? Write and submit a paper on the relevance of the book Fahrenheit 451 in 2009 for a Student Symposium and win a prize and publication of your work.
The Symposium will be held in the library on Friday, October 23, 2009 from 11am-noon
