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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Celebrate National Library Week, Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 12:30

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Celebrate National Library Week, Wednesday, April 13, 2011

There will be several speakers, authors and artists, faculty and students, so please come join us in the J.C. Jones Board of Trustees Room at 12:00 and 1:00. Light Refreshments will be served.


April 13, 2011 at 12:00 p.m. Director Robert Rehder, Veterans Outreach Business Center; Publication: Start-Up! A 60-Minute Guide to Starting Your Business


April 13, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. Professor Shane Booth, Department of Performing and Fine Arts; Art Work: Exhibition of Photographs, Art Space Gallery, Virginia, January-February, 2009 Vulnerability's Groom

Student Presenter: Mr. Jobin Turnbull Art Work Concentration: Printmaking Student Presenter: Ms. Joanna Ali Art Work Concentration: Photography Student Presenter: Ms. Stacey Robinson Art Work Concentration: Printmaking

Monday, April 11, 2011

Tuesday, April 12, 2011, Ms. Alice Phair, National Library Week

Charles W. Chesnutt Library Celebrates National Library Week - April 10, 2011 - April 16, 2011

The Charles W. Chesnutt Library invites you to attend events celebrating National Library Week, beginning Sunday, April 10, 2011 through Saturday, April 16, 2011. The theme is “FSU Talent Create Your Own Story @ Chesnutt Library.”


Authors and Artists are scheduled to speak about their works. Classes are welcome and presentations are open to the public. Please come and join us. Presentations are to be held in the J.C. Jones Board of Trustees Room on the Second Floor of the Library. Light refreshments will be served.


Provided below is a calendar of presentations:


Monday, April 11, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

Faculty Presenter: Rev. Dr. Joseph Osei, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Government and History Publication: Osei, J. (2011). Ethical Issues in Third World Development: A Philosophy of Social Change. Lewiston, N. Y.: Edwin Mellen Press.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at 1:00 p.m.

Student Presenter: Ms. Alice Phair, Visual Arts Major, Department of Performing and Fine Arts Art Work Concentration: Ceramics

Wednesday, April 13, 2011, at 8:30 a.m. CANCELLED; TO BE RESCHEDULED

Faculty Presenter: Dr. Oliver Johnson, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Department of Social Work Publication: Risk, Resiliency, and Protective Factors Among Cocaine Dependent African American Men: Implications for Social Work Practice

Wednesday, April 13, 2011, at 12:00 p.m.

Faculty Presenter: Mr. Robert Rehder, Director, Veterans Business Outreach Center Publication: Rehder, R. (2010). Start-Up!: A 60-Minute Guide to Starting Your Business. Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Publishing Co.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011, at 1:00 p.m.

Faculty Presenter: Professor Shane Booth, Assistant Professor of Photography, Department of Performing and Fine Arts Art Work: Exhibition of Photographs, Art Space Gallery, Virginia, January-February, 2009 Vulnerability’s Groom (This “body of work deals with HIV and some of the feelings and emotions that one goes through while dealing with a positive diagnosis.”)

Student Presenter: Mr. Jobin Turnbull, Visual Arts Major, Department of Performing and Fine Arts Art Work Concentration: Printmaking

Student Presenter: Ms. Joanna Ali, Visual Arts Major, Department of Performing and Fine Arts Art Work Concentration: Photography

Student Presenter: Mr. Stacey Robinson, Visual Arts Major, Department of Performing and Fine Arts Art Work Concentration: Printmaking

Thursday, April 14, 2011, at 12:30 p.m.

Faculty Presenter: Dr. Gregory Sadler, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Government and History Publication: Sadler, G. B., ed. (2011). Reason Fulfilled by Revelation: The 1930’s Christian Philosophy Debates in France. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America.

Thursday, April 14, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. CANCELLED; TO BE RESCHEDULED

Staff Presenter: Mr. Craig Tuttle, University Archivist, Charles W. Chesnutt Library Publication: Tuttle, C. (2011). Ounce of Preservation: A Guide to the Care of Papers and Photographs.

Please contact Jan Whitfield for more information at jwhitfield@uncfsu.edu or 910-672-1750.

Monday, April 04, 2011

Chesnutt Library Film Festival