Champlain Chautauqua: Edible Books Festival!

Take part in Champlain's first Edible Books Festival!

Where: Miller Information Commons

When: Tuesday, April 1

Entries on display from 11am | Judging will begin at Noon

Formal tasting/awards ceremony begins at 3pm!

Prize Categories include:

Best Individual Entry

Best Group Entry

Punniest

People's Choice

What Is It?: The Edible Books Festival is an international, multi-media, participatory creative event which invites us all to a “world banquet where delicious, surprising bookish foods will be consumed.”  Playful and provocative, the festival explores the integration of food with “text, literary inspiration or, quite simply, the form [of the book].”

For examples, visit the links below:

http://www.books2eat.com/

http://www.books2eat.com/index.php?page=albums

Special Thanks to the Edible Books Committee - Betsy Beaulieu, Janet Cottrell, Sean Leahy, and Steve Wehmeyer

BON APPETITE!

Brown Bag #11: “Women's Voices from the Muslim World: Three Documentaries”

Please join us next Monday…..

March 24th — Brown Bag Discussion #11

“Women's Voices from the Muslim World: Three Documentaries”

Dr. Rula Quawas

Fulbright scholar-in-residence, Core Division

Where and when: Freeman Large Conference Room, President’s Office, 12:30-2

About this discussion: 

We tend to speak about women who come from the Muslim world and we come to discuss their powerful and political voices which break the silence and blaze new pathways within the terrain of Arab feminisms. By viewing three short films about the personal stories of women from the Muslim world, you will bear witness to women's realities, their hopes, their challenges and their solutions. You will create a space for yourself to experience the diversity and complexity of the Islamic world through the eyes of mothers and daughters and of sisters and wives who are determined to go against the grain and speak their mind. The short documentaries will give you a unique and deep perspective of women of all faiths and backgrounds living in Muslim-majority countries. They will create a circle that can open up spaces for dialogues that accept the rights and freedoms of individuals and respect for pluralism and freedom of speech.

Next up…

To volunteer for a brown bag talk, please contact Paula Olsen, olsen@champlain.edu

DISPLAY: March is National Women's History Month!

March is such a great month. We usher out winter and welcome Spring! It is also the month that we honor and recognize women from across the globe for their contributions and work that inspire generations. At the Miller Information Commons we have a display of books set up that honors many different women. From Joan of Arc to Gloria Steinem, so many women have broken down barriers and paved the way for women to achieve many great things.  We also have bookmarks for the taking and buttons with the faces of many different women in history. So stop by the library and check it out! For more information and resources visit: National Women's History Project.

DISPLAY: February is African American History Month

Come Celebrate with us in the Library as we recognize the many contributions African Americans have made to our country. A display of books will be up in the Library from February 17-28. We hope you can take a moment to come over and look at the display.

For more information on African American History Month please visit this website:

http://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/index.html

 

 Presidential Proclamation -- National African American History Month, 2014

NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH, 2014

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Americans have long celebrated our Nation as a beacon of liberty and opportunity -- home to patriots who threw off an empire, refuge to multitudes who fled oppression and despair. Yet we must also remember that while many came to our shores to pursue their own measure of freedom, hundreds of thousands arrived in chains. Through centuries of struggle, and through the toil of generations, African Americans have claimed rights long denied. During National African American History Month, we honor the men and women at the heart of this journey -- from engineers of the Underground Railroad to educators who answered a free people's call for a free mind, from patriots who proved that valor knows no color to demonstrators who gathered on the battlefields of justice and marched our Nation toward a brighter day.
As we pay tribute to the heroes, sung and unsung, of African-American history, we recall the inner strength that sustained millions in bondage. We remember the courage that led activists to defy lynch mobs and register their neighbors to vote. And we carry forward the unyielding hope that guided a movement as it bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice. Even while we seek to dull the scars of slavery and legalized discrimination, we hold fast to the values gained through centuries of trial and suffering.
Every American can draw strength from the story of hard-won progress, which not only defines the African-American experience, but also lies at the heart of our Nation as a whole. This story affirms that freedom is a gift from God, but it must be secured by His people here on earth. It inspires a new generation of leaders, and it teaches us all that when we come together in common purpose, we can right the wrongs of history and make our world anew.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 2014 as National African American History Month. I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand fourteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-eighth.

BARACK OBAMA

Why OWLS in the Library?? Because they’re COOL!!! And…

“These nocturnal birds of prey are remarkable creatures.  Not only are they beautiful, but they also hold meaning and historical significance.  As a constant companion to the Greek goddess Athena, owls have likewise inherited her association with wisdom, inspiration, and erudition.  What better place do they have to inhabit, therefore, than the library?  Owls seem to have captured the hearts of Millennials as well, spurring clothing trends and owl memes alike…….”   –Lindsey Rae

Save the date: April 1st is the Edible Book Festival!

In the midst of your busy academic lives, have you ever just wanted to take a break and sink your teeth into a good book?  You know, literature with flavor — literature with taste?  Have you ever, at times, had to eat your words?  Better yet, have you ever wanted to make someone else eat your words??  Well now you can!  

...Read more about the Edible Book Festival coming April 1, 2014.

Privacy in the Digital Age: A Conversation to Continue

Thank you to all of those who helped make the Privacy Panel held Wed. Jan. 29 such a success!  We started a great conversation regarding what privacy looks like today and what we can expect from the agencies that play big roles when it comes to collecting and sharing our personal information.  With the help of our panelists, we examined these issues from legal, marketing, and network security perspectives.  Together, these different perspectives gave shape to a more complete picture of personal data management in a digital world, one where laws, policies, and education were lagging behind the exponential growth of technology.  There were lots of great questions from the audience during the session, many of which we were left to ponder after the session ended.  We would like to keep that conversation going and are providing this online forum as a space for students and faculty to continue the discussion of privacy in the digital age.

The following video, "Hot on Your Trail: Privacy, Your Data, and Who Has Access to It" from NPR, touches on many of the issues that we talked about in the panel.  Check it out at the link below to see this well-illustrated and eye-opening portrayal of what is happening to our data during our normal day-to-day:

Here are some questions to get you thinking:

• Based on the Panel or the video, what concerns do you have personally regarding privacy and your personal data?
• During the Panel, we examined how the sharing of our data could be both helpful and harmful to us.  It can be collected to make our lives easier or to protect us from potential threats, but does that make it okay?  What level of privacy should we expect and what is reasonable?
• Both the video and the Panel touched on the fact that our data is being transferred all of the time, often without our realizing it. So much of this stuff is obscure to us, either because of long Terms of Use Agreements or because of a lack of transparency in business and government.  How do we educate ourselves (or our children), especially when technology is changing so rapidly?
• We got to examine the issue of Privacy from many different angles during our panel.  Looking through the lens of your major, what does privacy mean to you?  How will these issues affect you in your future career?

To contribute to the conversation, DO THE FOLLOWING:

1. POST a comment to this blog post.  Respond to one of the questions above, or express any lingering thoughts that were left with you after attending the Panel.
2. Check out some of the other posts.  Do you have any reactions to those comments?  If so, REPLY to keep the conversation going.

Thank you in advance for your participation.  We look forward to reading your comments!