Skillman Library
Photographic Tribute to City of Venice on Display in Lass Gallery
As part of Lafayette’s 2011 Roethke Humanities Festival on “The Renaissance Spirit,” Skillman Library’s Lass Gallery will host a photographic tribute to the city of Venice with the exhibition vedute di venezia (Views of Venice). The photographs are the work of Ewa Monika Zebrowski, a Montreal photographer, who has been photographing Venice for many years. [...]
Technology and Aesthetics Merge at Skillman Library
From 2003-05, David Bishop Skillman Library underwent a $22 million expansion and renovation, which added 28,555 square feet and transformed almost every aspect of the interior and exterior. Today, students enjoy a learning and information center that combines beautiful architecture with high-end technology to provide a comfortable environment for study and research. For the design [...]
Book Artist Carolee Campbell Presents Schlueter Lecture Nov. 11
It’s a plot twist not even writers of the soap opera she appeared in could have imagined. Carolee Cambell, an Emmy-award winning actress who played Nurse Carolee Simpson for nine years in The Doctors, a soap described as “more risqué” in story line choices than General Hospital, quit one day to start Ninja Press and [...]
Marking Time Exhibit Will Run Thorough Oct. 25 in the Simon Room Gallery
Through Oct. 25, Skillman Library’s Simon Room Gallery is hosting a traveling exhibition of the Guild of Book Workers, a national organization for book artists founded in 1906. The juried exhibit, Marking Time, highlights the diverse talents of guild members, who include bookbinders, conservators, and calligraphers. The show includes nearly 50 works interpreting the theme [...]
Lafayette Celebrates Black History Month in February
Events include lectures, an art exhibit, films, discussions, workshops, and performances; The keynote address by Molefi K. Asante, Jr. ’04 has been postponed Lafayette will celebrate Black History Month throughout the month of February with lectures, an art exhibit, films, discussions, workshops, and performances. The celebration’s keynote address by award-winning author, filmmaker, and professor Molefi [...]
Exhibition Represents Collaboration Between Students and Faculty in Art and Computer Science
Computation, Vision: Emergence will run Oct. 20-Dec. 12 in the Grossman Gallery The exhibition Computation, Vision: Emergence will run Oct. 20-Dec. 12 in the Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery in the Williams Visual Arts Building. A public reception will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, in the gallery. During the reception, [...]
Joseph Nechasek ’62 Donates Robert Stone Book Collection to Skillman Library
Gift includes first editions of all of Stone’s works A collection of the works of novelist Robert Stone has been donated to Skillman Library by Joseph E. Nechasek ’62. Nechasek, a collector of recent American literature, presented the works in January. Stone, whose Dog Stories (1974) has been called the quintessential Vietnam novel, is the [...]
Taiwan Images Expand College’s Academic and Technological Capabilities
Resource establishes international access to photographic history of Taiwan during Japanese colonial rule Technological innovation has created international access to a rare collection of photographs housed in Skillman Library’s Special Collections and College Archives. Known as the Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection, the photographs have been researched, organized, and installed on a newly constructed website [...]
Robert Duncan Receives Be Innovative! Award for Implementation of WebBridge
Program allows for easier access to scholarly information on the library’s web site Robert Duncan, systems librarian, bought his first personal computer to help him organize his recipes while working in the food business. This past summer, he received the Be Innovative! Award for “Most Innovative Use of e-Resource Products” for his implementation of the [...]
Professor David Stifel Investigates Root Causes of Poverty in Madagascar
He will present research funded by the World Bank at international conference in June David Stifel, assistant professor of economics and business, spent the 2006-07 school year researching the root causes of poverty in Madagascar. He worked with the World Bank Country Office to develop a multi-year labor markets research program in consultation with the [...]
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