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Faculty Seminar: E-Journal Update

The Library is presenting a Faculty Seminar on E-Journals on Thursday, November 10, 2005, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in RT 502. The seminar will focus on recent changes and additions to e-journal content available through the Library. The main topics will include the OSearch interface for OhioLINK databases and the Alerting services available in EBSCO databases, the Electronic Journal Center, and Ingenta. For questions or to reserve seats, please call (216) 875-9734.

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Faculty, take a library survey for a chance to win an iPod or other prizes

The University Library invites CSU faculty to participate in a nationwide survey, which is designed to collect information on how faculty from a variety of disciplines and institutions use collections of digital resources and search for information about teaching and professional development. Faculty input will help the Library determine how to provide materials to support research and teaching in the most effective manner. This study is funded by the National Science Foundation.

At the end of this survey, you may choose to provide your name and email address in order to be entered into a random drawing. This information will not be associated with survey responses. Participants could win one of the following prizes: the grand prize of an iPOD Nano (one available), a jump drive (2 available), or a "Viking Cash" card worth $20.00 (5 available)—prizes provided by the Friends of the CSU Library.

Click this link to get started: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=324332637529

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Faculty: Have you ever wanted to tell the Library what you really think about its multimedia collection

CSU faculty is invited to participate in an online survey to help the Library evaluate its multimedia collection. Your input will give the Library valuable information that will help improve its services and purchasing decisions. Your responses will remain anonymous but the overall results will be made available to faculty after the close of the survey.

To take the survey, which will take approximately 10 minutes, visit http://html.ulib.csuohio.edu/mmsurvey/mmform.html. The survey will be open through Thursday, April 30, 2009.

If you would like further information, please feel free to contact Fran Mentch, Social & Behavioral Sciences Librarian at f.mentch@csuohio.edu or Carol Zsulya, Head Collection Management and Business/Economics Librarian at c.zsulya@csuohio.edu.

Your participation is greatly appreciated!

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Fall Semester Library Hours

Click here for the library's hours and a listing of areas with restricted hours.

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Fenn College Memorabilia on display now at the CSU Library

Fenn College photographs and memorabilia are now on display on the first floor of the Library through the end of June, 2007. Take a look back to the early days of Cleveland State University. Display items include a replica of the front portico of the Johnson house, Fanfare yearbooks, the swim team’s warm up suit, and a wide range of photographs. The book titled Fenn College, part of Arcadia Publishing’s Campus History Series, is also available for only $19.99. It may be purchased at the User Services desk located on the first floor of the Library or by downloading the order form .

The display is just a small sampling of Fenn College memorabilia. The Cleveland State University Archives, located on the 3rd floor of the Library, includes an exhibition area featuring displays of photographs and memorabilia from Fenn College. The archives’ spacious exhibition area features two custom-designed wood display cabinets, one of which was donated by Pi Sigma Tau Alpha members. The cabinets house an exhibit of Pi Sigma Tau Alpha fraternity treasures and a wide range of Fenn College memorabilia. Fenn Alumni can now view artifacts and documents from their college days ranging from sports uniforms and beanies to yearbooks and banners. For more information about the Cleveland State University Archives, visit the CSU archives web site .

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Final Common Reading Experience Presentations this Fall: November 17 & November 18

The University’s Common Reading Experience continues on Tuesday, November 17 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the Library’s first floor with its Brown Bag Speaker Series. Professor Robert Wheeler, History Department, will present “Making History” based on the book chosen for this year’s program— Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, which all first year CSU students will read as part of their orientation to University life. --THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED--.

The final Common Reading Presentation for this semester will be held on Thursday, November 19 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. in the Theater Arts Building, Main Theater. Professor Michael Mauldin, Theater Department, will present “Copenhagen Alive: How Directors, Designers, and Actors Carry a Play from the Page to the Stage.”

Copenhagen, selected by a committee representing faculty, staff, students, and the Library is a Tony Award-winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art. It is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.

Michael Frayn shows us that these men were passionate, philosophical, and all too human, even though one of the three historical figures in his drama, Werner Heisenberg, was the head of the Nazis' effort to develop a nuclear weapon. The play's other two characters, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr and his wife, Margrethe, are involved with Heisenberg in an after-death analysis of an actual meeting that has long puzzled historians.

CSU faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend.

For more information, visit the Common Learning Experience website at http://library.csuohio.edu/cr/ or contact Paula Bloch, Coordinator, Freshman Orientation, at 687-3734 or p.bloch@csuohio.edu p.bloch@csuohio.edu.

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Find Help in Tough Times

The State Library of Ohio has just launched Find Help in Tough Times, a new one-stop center on their website to help residents quickly locate important information and resources during these difficult economic times.

According to State Librarian Jo Budler, “The State Library understands that this is a challenging time for everyone. We created the Find Help in Tough Times statewide center to highlight the valuable work of state and federal agencies, as well as state and national organizations, and make it easier for people needing assistance to find their services and information.”

Find Help in Tough Times is easily accessible from the State Library website and is divided into six sections that include Employment, Financial, Health & Wellness, Housing, Parenting, and Help for Seniors. Within these sections there are links to help with topics such as finding jobs, training opportunities, services for the unemployed, insurance, home health care, childcare, tax help, and more.

The State Library welcomes feedback on Find Help in Tough Times and asks for residents to share stories about their experiences during these tough times. Some of the stories will be posted so that others may benefit.

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Find out how to get over 20,000 books at your fingertips!

Do you love books like we do? Can you imagine being able to access more than 20,000 books with just a click of a mouse? Would you like to be able to access Reference books, computer books, government documents, and so much more without leaving your home or office?

The University Library will be holding a faculty seminar to show you some of the advantages of e-books and how to access our collections.

The seminar will be held on November 9, 2006 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in RT 502. There will be light refreshments and door prizes.

To sign up, please call Barbara Florjancic at (216)875-9734 or e-mail at b.florjancic@csuohio.edu.

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First Year Experience @ CSU Library

The Cleveland State University Library strives to support first year students in their transition to college by providing resources and services that will assist freshmen in achieving academic success. To help provide the support, the Library now has a web page dedicated to the needs of first year students. For more information contact Ann Marie Smeraldi at a.smeraldi@csuohio.edu.

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FREE 60-MINUTE LIBRARY MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOPS

Learn about multimedia technologies you can use to enhance your research projects and class presentations through this series of one-hour workshops featuring technology available in the Library's Multimedia Lab (RT 301).

The workshops include:
-INTRODUCTION TO SCANNING
-USING CD-RS AND CD-RWS
-USING ADOBE PHOTOSHOP TO EDIT SCANNED IMAGES I
-USING ADOBE PHOTOSHOP TO EDIT SCANNED IMAGES II
-CREATING MULTIMEDIA POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS
-DIGITIZING VIDEO AND CREATING DVDS

For more information or to sign up, click here

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Free Lecture on March 21: Scholarly Communication, Strategies for Change

Attend Scholarly Communication, Strategies for Change, a lecture by Ray English, Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries, Oberlin College, on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at John Carroll University. English's lecture will address questions such as:

* Why is it important for the academic community to exercise greater control of its scholarship?
* How does the current system of scholarly publishing erode authors’ rights?
* What are the alternatives for dissemination and preservation of scholarship?
* How can we ensure the retention of rights to the intellectual property created on our campuses?

In addition to being Director of Libraries at Oberlin College, Ray English chairs both the Association of College and Research Libraries' Scholarly Communications Committee and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition Steering Committee. He was named Academic/Research Librarian of 2006 by the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Scholarly Communication, Strategies for Change is a free event that is open to the public. No reservations are necessary. The lecture will be held in the Muer Room of John Carroll University's Grasselli Library, 20700 North Park Blvd., University Heights, OH, 44118. For directions to JCU and Grasselli Library, follow this link. For additional information about the lecture, contact Jeanne Somers, Director, Grasselli Library and Breen Learning Center at 216-397-3053 or jsomers@jcu.edu.

More information about the crisis in scholarly publishing is available from OhioLINK's Web site, the Challenge for Ohio Higher Education – Providing Access to Scholarly Publishing.

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FREEDOM: New American Perspectives

In conjunction with “FREEDOM: A Visual Arts Exhibit,” the Cleveland Public Library will present a moderated panel discussion of the new American experience featuring Panelists from 7 countries.

The discussion will be followed by the opportunity to sample foods from several continents/nations and groove to music by the reggae group The Carlos Jones Band.

Join us at the table for a cultural exchange of food and ideas!

Sunday, March 25, 2007, 2-4 p.m.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Branch Library
1962 Stokes Blvd.
216-623-7018

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Friends of Cleveland State University Launch Local Authors Book Talk program, featuring Thrity Umrigar.

Copies of Thrity Umrigar’s book The Space Between Us are available for check out at the Cleveland State University Library.

The Friends of the Cleveland State University Library will launch a "Local Authors Book Talk" program, with novelist and journalist Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between Us. The program will be held on Wednesday, April 26 at the Cleveland State University Library, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Rhodes Tower, room 503, from 3:00 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. The book talk is free and open to the community.

Ms. Umrigar will read from her new novel, which will be followed by a question and answer session. The Space Between Us tells the story of the lives of two women, one a upper middle class Bombayite and the other a domestic servant who has worked in her home for many years. It's a story about the bonds of gender and the divisions of class. Her book was the number one BookSense pick for February 2006 and has been on several regional bestseller lists.

Copies of The Space Between Us will be available for purchase and signing after the lecture. Light refreshments will be served. Copies are also available for check out at the Cleveland State University Library.

Thrity Umrigar is also the author of the novel Bombay Time and the memoir First Darling of the Morning. A journalist for 17 years, she now teaches creative writing at Case Western Reserve University. She has a Ph.D. in English and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 1999-2000.

The Space Between Us was the number one BookSense pick for February 2006 and has been on several regional bestseller lists. The Cleveland Plain Dealer writes, “A ruminative novel . . . layered with keen, feminine insight into class and family, betrayal, guilt and love. Umrigar is at her best conveying the small moments that sustain or degrade the minuet of intimacy.”

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Friends of Library Book Talk with President Michael Schwartz and Professor William Bowen

President Michael Schwartz and Professor William Bowen will discuss their important new book, "The Chief Purpose of Universities," at a special Library program on Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 3:00 p.m. in the Special Collections area on the third floor of the Library in Rhodes Tower.

The program is sponsored by the Friends of the CSU Library. All faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend to hear what the President and a senior faculty member in the College of Urban Affairs really think about the state of academic discourse in the nation's universities.

Light refreshments will be served.

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Friends of the Library Book Discussion on acclaimed book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Thursday, September 27, 2007
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
2121 Euclid Avenue
Rhodes Tower, room 503 (in the Library)
Free and open to the community

Mr. Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at Cleveland Public Library, will lead a book discussion one of the most discussed, acclaimed, and debated novels in recent memory, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer. Through the eyes of his nine-year-old protagonist, Foer has written what is acknowledged by many as the first great novel about September 11. The book is available for checkout at the Library.
Refreshments will be served.
Call 216-875-9734 for more information.

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Friends of the Library Book Discussion-- On Bullshit

On Tuesday, February 28th, Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at Cleveland Public Library, will lead a book discussion on the title, On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt. The author, Harry G. Frankfurt, is a renowned moral philosopher and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University. Several copies of this very small, pocket-sized tome, are available for check-out now in the Library. So pick up your copy and plan to attend this book discussion on Tuesday, February 28th, at 3:00 p.m. in the Library, RT 503. Light refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

“A gem of psychological insight, social commentary, philosophical analysis, and good humor. This is the work of an extraordinarily acute, attentive, and versatile philosopher who has succeeded in addressing an audience comprised of both other philosophers and the general public on a topic of considerable human interest in a characteristically wry and engaging way. It is one of the most enjoyable and humanly illuminating short pieces of philosophy produced in the past fifty years."--Raymond Geuss, University of Cambridge

"The most audacious of the ancient alchemists desired to transmute lead into gold. They never succeeded. Who would have known that they should have started not with a base metal, but with bullshit? Harry Frankfurt offers a philosophical analysis of bullshit that is golden. The prose by turns employs irony, broad humor, and tongue-in-cheek high seriousness while at the same time manages to have a rigorous logical coherence that is always impressive. One leaves the essay not merely thinking it was a delight. One leaves it realizing that one has engaged the accomplishment of a great analyst and thinker."--William Chester Jordan, Professor of History, Princeton University

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Friends of the Library Book Discussion on the New York Times best seller MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH by Michael Chabon.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
at Cleveland State University Library
2121 Euclid Avenue
Rhodes Tower, room 503 (in the Library)
Free and open to the community

Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at Cleveland Public Library, will lead a book discussion on the acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, by Michael Chabon. Set in industrial Pittsburgh in the mid-eighties, Michael Chabon’s breakthrough coming-of-age novel chronicles the last summer of Art Bechstein’s youth. Art meets the witty and beautiful Arthur Lecomte, who then introduces Art to the equally stunning Jane, her boyfriend, the legendary Cleveland, and worldly, exotic, and slightly eccentric Phlox. In the course of one summer, this band of colorful friends guides and thwarts Art in surprising ways as he confronts himself, his family, his sexuality, and the heartache of growing up.

About the author. Michael Chabon was born in Washington, D.C. and is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. His first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, was a national bestseller and was compared by critics to the best of Fitzgerald and Salinger. Upon publication of his second novel, Wonder Boys, he was hailed by The Washington Post Book World as “the young star of American letters.” His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and in Gentlemen’s Quarterly.

Copies of Mysteries of Pittsburgh are available for check out at the CSU Library and on sale at the CSU bookstore.

Plan to attend this popular book discussion series. Call 216-875-9734 or email b.florjancic@csuohio.edu to reserve a seat. Refreshments will be served.

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Friends of the Library Book Discussion: The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies

Book Discussion
Robertson Davies
The Rebel Angels
Thursday, May 7, 2009
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
2121 Euclid Avenue
Rhodes Tower, room 503 (in the CSU Library)
Free and open to the community
Sponsored by the Friends of the Library

Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at CPL, will return to lead a book discussion on The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies. In this astoundingly funny book, Davies both lampoons academia and shows his love for it and for the wisdom it produces.

On one level, Davies' novel is “about” four academics: Maria Theotoky, the brilliant, beautiful graduate student; her adviser, the ascetic Dr. Hollier; Simon Darcourt, the bon vivant priest; and Parlabane, once an outstanding scholar, now sycophant to his former classmates. Then there is the basic plot theme: Who will end up with the girl? Standard stuff. Yet the real focus here is on the spiritual and/or mystical personal explorations of the main characters (from Library Journal review).

The Rebel Angels is available for checkout at the CSU Library and on sale at Amazon.com.

The event is free and open to CSU faculty, staff, and students and to the general public. Refreshments will be served.

Call 216-875-9734 or email b.florjancic@csuohio.edu to reserve a seat or for more information.

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Friends of the Library Book Discussion: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

Thursday, November 29, 2007
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
2121 Euclid Avenue
Rhodes Tower, room 503 (in the Library)
Free and open to the community
Sponsored by the Friends of the Library

Join Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at Cleveland Public Library, as he leads a book discussion about the provocative new book by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Can we really live without junk food? Kingsolver describes how her family was changed by "deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air.” Barbara Kingsolver’s first nonfiction narrative will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is available for check out at the CSU Library.

Refreshments will be served.

For more information, call 216-875-9734.

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Friends of the Library Book Discussion: Beyond the River by Ann Hagedorn

Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad
by Ann Hagedorn
Book Discussion led by Richard Fox
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Rhodes Tower, Room 503
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the Friends of the CSU Michael Schwartz Library

On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, the campus community is invited to attend the Friends of the Library book discussion on Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad by Ann Hagedorn. From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you can see five bends in the Ohio River. You can see the hills of northern Kentucky and the rooftops of Ripley’s riverfront houses. And you can see what the abolitionist John Rankin saw from his house at the top of that hill, where for nearly forty years he placed a lantern each night to guide fugitive slaves to freedom beyond the river.

The discussion, led by Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at Cleveland Public Library, begins at 3:00 in Rhodes Tower, Room 503. Refreshments will be served.

Mark your calendar:
Spring book discussions include: Lies Will Take You Somewhere, by Sheila Schwartz, Wednesday, January 27; People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks; Wednesday, February 24; and Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell, Wednesday, March 31. And as part of the Annual Local Authors Book Talk Series, Mary Doria Russell, winner of nine national and international literary awards, will visit CSU on April 14, 2010 at 3:00 in RT 503.
For more information, please call 216-875-9734 or visit http://net.ulib.csuohio.edu/scripts/blog/showtopic.php?thread=394
All books for these events are available for checkout at the Michael Schwartz Library and on sale at the CSU Bookstore.

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Friends of the Library Book Discussion--Thurs. Sept. 28 at 3:00 in RT 503.

Save your seats now for the Friends of the Cleveland State University Library book discusion to be held in Rhodes Tower room 503 from 3-4:30 pm Thursday. Sept. 28th.

Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at Cleveland Public Library, will lead a book discussion on the title, The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, a master essayist and great American novelist.

Light refreshments will be served. Please call (216)875-9734 to reserve a space for this free event.

Several copies of the Year of Magical Thinking are now available at the CSU Library and on sale at the CSU Bookstore.

Find out more.

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Friends of the Library Book Sale on Thursday, April 19

As a part of the National Library Week celebration, there will be a special book sale in the Library on Thursday, April 19, 2007 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be plenty of great deals on books and records. The sale will be held on the first floor of the Library. If you would like to donate books to the Friends of the Library book sale, please contact Terri Greer at (216) 687-2481 or t.greer@csuohio.edu

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Friends of the Library Honor CSU President Emeritus Michael Schwartz as Well as Nearly 80 Faculty, Emeriti, and Staff

The campus community was invited to attend the 21st Annual Scholars and Artists Reception on November 12, 2009 where former Cleveland State University president Dr. Michael Schwartz was the guest of honor. The annual event, sponsored by the Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library, celebrates the creativity of CSU faculty, emeriti and staff for their recently published books, scholarly papers, art, music, web sites, and other works. This year, almost 80 honorees were represented by 173 submissions of work.

The highlight of the well-attended event was the honored guest himself, Dr. Michael Schwartz, President Emeritus of Cleveland State University. This event was in celebration of the University Library's recent name change to the the Michael Schwartz Library and to recognize Dr. Schwartz's long support of the Library as the "heart of the University."

Attendees to the reception were treated to a peek at the portrait of Dr. Schwartz by Rob Hartshorn, which will hang at a place of honor within the library, as well as a rendering of how the new sign for the Michael Schwartz Library will appear once it is installed across the top of the library doors in the lobby of Rhodes Tower.

During the event, Tony Bakale, President of the CSU Alumni Association, presented Dr. Schwartz with a gift, a painting by CSU Alumna Gail Laba, Class of '85 depicting the CSU campus. Other speakers included Mary Jane Saunders, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Michael Wells, President of the Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library, and Glenda Thornton, Director of the Michael Schwartz Library. The reception was sponsored by Cleveland State University Advancement.

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Friends of the Library Spring Programs

This spring, the Friends of the Library is planning a number of exciting programs. The ever-popular Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at CPL, will return to lead two book discussions:

• Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Supreme Courtship by bestselling author Christopher Buckley. In this hilarious novel, the President of the United States, ticked off at the Senate for rejecting his nominees, decides to get even by nominating America’s most popular TV judge to the Supreme Court (excerpt from Twelve Publishers). Supreme Courtship is on sale now at the CSU Bookstore and available for checkout at the Library.
  
  
  
• Thursday, May 7, 2009. Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies. On one level, Davies’ novel is "about" four academics: Maria Theotoky, the brilliant, beautiful graduate student; her adviser, the ascetic Dr. Hollier; Simon Darcourt, the bon vivant priest; and Parlabane, once an outstanding scholar, now sycophant to his former classmates. Then there is the basic plot theme: Who will end up with the girl? Standard stuff. Yet the real focus here is on the spiritual and/or mystical personal explorations of the main characters (from Library Journal review). Rebel Angels is available for checkout at the CSU Library and on sale at Amazon.com.

And, on Wednesday, April 15, 2009, the Friends Local Authors Book Talk Series continues. Cleveland author Kristin Ohlson will visit CSU to discuss her experiences in Afghanistan and her book Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil (co-written with Deborah Rodriguez). There will also be a question and answer session followed by a book signing. Books will be on sale courtesy of the CSU bookstore.
Kabul Beauty School is a remarkable tale of an extraordinary community of women who come together and learn the arts of perms, friendship, and freedom. Kristin Ohlson’s book is on sale now at the CSU bookstore and available for checkout from the CSU Library.

Refreshments will be provided at all these events, which are free and open to the public. They will all be held in the Library, RT 503 at 3:00. Call 216-875-9734 for more information.

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Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library 2009/2010 book discussions

Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at Cleveland Public Library, will lead the book discussions in this series. All the events begin at 3:00 p.m. and will be held Cleveland State University in the Michael Schwartz Library, located in Rhodes Tower, room 503.

Free and open to the public — For more information: call 216-875-9734.

Books for all the above events are available for checkout at the Michael Schwartz Library and on sale at the CSU Bookstore.

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Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library 21st Annual Scholars and Artists Reception

21st Annual Scholars and Artists Reception
Thursday, November 12, 2009
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
1st floor Library (east end)
Sponsored by the Friends of the CSU Library

The campus community is invited to attend the 21st Annual Scholars and Artists Reception recognizing faculty, staff, and emeriti creativity. The event, sponsored by the Friends of the CSU Michael Schwartz Library, will be held on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. on the first floor of the Library.

This year, the guest of honor will be Dr. Michael Schwartz, President Emeritus. The Friends will honor him in celebration and recognition of the Library’s new name. During the reception, guests can enjoy hors d’oeuvres and browse the display of recently published books, scholarly papers, art, music, web sites, and other works by Cleveland State University faculty, staff, and emeriti. Also on display will be the portrait of Michael Schwartz that was presented to him during his Special Tribute at the Allen Theatre in Playhouse Square in June.

RSVP by November 9, 2009 to 216-687-5205 or rsvp.events@csuohio.edu.

Submissions accepted through November 5
Faculty, staff, and emeriti are encouraged to submit materials they have published in the past year. Download and complete the submission form and send as instructed with your submission by Thursday, November 5 (5:00 p.m.). Call 216-875-9734 for more information.

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Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library Book Discussion: Copenhagen by Michael Frayn

Book Discussion
Michael Frayn
Copenhagen
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
2121 Euclid Avenue
Rhodes Tower, room 503 (in the Michael Schwartz Library)
Free and open to the community
Sponsored by the Friends of the Library

Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at CPL, will lead a book discussion on Copenhagen by Michael Frayn. The Tony Award-winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. Copehagen is also Cleveland State University’s Common Reading book choice for 2009/2010.

Copenhagen is available for checkout at the Michael Schwartz Library and on sale at the CSU Bookstore and on Amazon.com.

The event is free and open to CSU faculty, staff, and students and to the general public. Refreshments will be served.

Call 216-875-9734 or email b.florjancic@csuohio.edu to reserve a seat or for more information.

Find out more about upcoming Friends of the Library Book Discussions as well as the Local Book Talk with Mary Doria Russell scheduled for April 14, 2010.

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