Mt. Holyoke College Library hosts "Harry Potter's World"

Mount Holyoke College Library, Information, and Technology Services (LITS) is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition, Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine on Thursday, January 28, 2010 in the Williston Library Court. The traveling exhibition was organized by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. The exhibition tour is coordinated by the American Library Association Public Programs Office, Chicago.

Harry Potter's World uses materials from the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine collections to explore Harry Potter's world, its roots in Renaissance science and the ethical questions that affected not only the wizards in J.K. Rowling's books, but also the historical thinkers featured in the series.

LITS has partnered with the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, and the South Hadley Public Library to sponsor a wonderful list of events, such as, concerts, lectures, and book discussions that will be held during the exhibit (January 28 - February 26, 2010). In addition, Archives and Special Collections will be displaying an exhibit, Magic at Mount Holyoke: An Exhibition of Primary Sources from Archives, Art Museum, Botanic Garden, Biology and Geology Departments, during the month with rare and unique treasures drawn from Mount Holyoke's own collections, bewitching images of science and sorcery, of plants and potions, of creatures and monsters and mysteries from the natural world will be on display. The complete list is available on the website at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/harrypotter

If you would like more details about the exhibit, including information about visiting the exhibit, please email mailto:harrypotter-exhibit@mtholyoke.edu

Thank you for your time and we hope you'll be able to visit the exhibition and help us spread the word!

Respectfully, Leigh Mantle, Reference Librarian, Research and Instructional Support Library, Information and Technology Services, Mount Holyoke College,  South Hadley

A World of Cities

Exhibit: “A World of Cities,” prints, drawings and photographs from the permanent collection of the University Gallery, Jan. 31-April 30, 2008, Lower Level, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst. “A World of Cities” corresponds to a spring 2008 seminar “The City” (Architecture and Design 211) taught by Amherst College history professor Frank Couvares and UMass Amherst Art professor Max Page. The opening reception, February 12, 2008, 4:30 p.m., is free and open to the public, refreshments will be served. The exhibit follows Du Bois Library hours: http://www.library.umass.edu/hours.html.

Photo info:
Paul Ickovic ( American, b. 1944, Czechoslovakia)
Fellini Set #1 Prague, 1981
Silverprint, 12 3/4 x 19 inches
Collection of the University Gallery, Purchased with Funds from the Alumni Association, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
UM 1981.37


~ Leslie Schaler, Development and Communication Dept., W.E.B. Du Bois Library (413) 545-0162 lschaler@library.umass.edu

Local Artists Exhibit at Jones Library's Burnett Gallery

Theresa Rock and Caitlin Waugh, two local artists, are showing together at the Burnett Gallery in the Jones Library from December 2- 30, 2007. The artists will be in the gallery during the Amherst Artwalk, Thursday, December 6 from 5pm-8pm and on Saturday, December 8 from 2pm-4pm.

Caitlin Ezell Waugh graduated from Hampshire College in December, 2005 with a BA in Sculpture and Literary Journalism. She spent the year after college as an apprentice glazier at Luminosity Studios in Waitsfield, Vt., and continued to travel in Latin America. Waugh moved back to the Pioneer valley in January of 2007 in order to set up her studio and focus on her career as a stained glass artist.

In the Burnett Gallery December exhibit, entitled ‘Flight’, Waugh will display a flock of three-dimensional hanging glass landscapes. Small, simple and geometric, these hanging pieces create dynamic spaces and backdrops across which tiny silouttees of birds fly.

You can see some of Waugh’s other work at caitlinwaugh.com Theresa Rock is a painter in Pelham, Ma. She enjoys the freedom painting gives her to develop and experiment with organic forms. This show, Of Earth and Sky, represents her work from the past two years. All of the paintings are extracted from natural elements. The older works in the series have more concrete forms, while the most recent are a purer form of organic abstraction.

To see more of her work go to http://www.blogger.com/www.art2rock.com.