Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich, an exhibit in the Learning Commons @ Perry Library, is sponsored by the ODU Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding.  The exhibit will be available through April 30.  A reception and panel discussion will be held on Thursday, April 11 at 5:30pm at Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center.  For more information, contact Farideh Goldin fgoldin@odu.edu 

Come to a FREE Movie --  "Stomp Out Loud" -- in the Diehn Composers Room on Wednesday, April 3, from 7:00-9:00 p.m.  A short lecture about found music, presented by Jessica Mirasol, Librarian Archivist for Music Collections, will precede the film.  Light refreshments will be served.  Contact Jessica Mirasol jmirasol@odu.edu for more information.

Also be sure to view the "Found Music" exhibit, available until May 16 in the Diehn Composers Room!!

Spotlight On Scholarship: STEM Education & Professional Studies

For the Spring 2013 semester, the University Libraries will shine a spotlight on the research and recent scholarly output of the Department of STEM Education & Professional Studies. The STEM Education & Professional Studies faculty is world renowned for their teaching, research, and service. Their areas of research are diverse and include fashion retailing, game and simulation development, development and implementation of learning technologies, policies that address sea level rise, research apprenticeship programs, STEM teacher education, and much more.

An exhibit in the Learning Commons from March 17-April 15 will feature statements of current research as well as selected journal articles and books from the past five years.

Faculty members from the department will present and discuss some of their recent work at a reception in the Learning Commons Conference Room on Thursday, April 4 from 3:00-5:00 pm.

“Women Inspiring Innovation Though Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics”

ODU Perry Library is celebrating Women’s History Month 2013 with an exhibit in the Learning Commons. The national theme for this year honors 18 women with “a remarkable range of accomplishments and a wide diversity of specialties including medicine, robotics, computer programming, atmospheric chemistry, architecture and primatology. These women’s lives and work span the centuries of American history and come from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.” Our exhibit, available through the month of March, features photographs and information about the achievements of these outstanding women.

For more information, contact Teresa Statler-Keener tstatler@odu.edu or Megan Smith m4smith@odu.edu.

At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington

2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which “set the United States on the path of ending slavery.” The University Libraries are celebrating this event with an exhibit which provides information and common myths about the Emancipation Proclamation. There is also a display of books providing more information about the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington.

The exhibit, created by Edison Simmons esimmons@odu.edu, will be available in the Learning Commons through the month of February 2013.

Old Dominion University Libraries and DOVE (Desegregation of Virginia Education), a collaborative history project, formed a partnership with AARP Virginia, Virginia Conference NAACP and the Urban League of Virginia to collect stories and historic documents detailing Virginia’s historic journey toward the desegregation of its schools.

The initiative held a series of events entitled “School Desegregation: Learn, Preserve and Empower” in Hampton, Portsmouth, Richmond, Farmville, Lynchburg, Alexandria, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and Roanoke during the spring and summer. The events included an audio-visual exhibition that includes photographs of those involved in the struggle for school equality, such as Oliver W. Hill, Thurgood Marshall and others, along with a timeline of key events. Visitors to the traveling exhibit were encouraged to share their community’s experience through the donation of photographs, letters, fliers or posters, or by telling their own personal experiences through oral histories.

The exhibit will be on display in the Learning Commons at the Patricia W. and J. Douglas Perry Library of Old Dominion University from January 15 to February 14, 2013.

Oral history interviews will be conducted on Sunday, February 3, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Please contact Sonia Yaco, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, at 757-683-4483 or at syaco@odu.edu to make an appointment.

Old Dominion University and Sonia Yaco have been awarded the AARP 2012 Community Partner of the Year Award for their collaboration on the traveling DOVE exhibit.

The DOVE project, hosted at Old Dominion University Libraries, seeks to identify and preserve materials relating to school desegregation. A growing catalog and other information are available at the DOVE website, http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/dove/

For more information, contact Sonia Yaco, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, at syaco@odu.edu.

ODU Undergraduate Research has taken over the Art Gallery in Perry Library. Consider it an appetizer for the ODU Undergraduate Research Symposium on February 9th. See the Facebook post with photos!!

Come to the Perry Library to enjoy A LEGO Winterland!! Our new exhibit will be up through the end of January. It features a fun winter display and information about LEGO Mindstorms. Contact Valentina Neblitt-Jones vneblitt@odu.edu for more information.

If you've watched "The Big Bang Theory" on television, you're probably wondering what our real physicists do.

Come to the Learning Commons @ Perry Library to view an exhibit of the current research of ODU Physics faculty as part of our Spotlight on Scholarship series. Their research programs are diverse and include theoretical and experimental work in nuclear and particle physics, atomic, molecular and optical physics, materials science, solid state physics, plasma physics, accelerator physics, and geophysics. ODU physicists work in labs on and around the Norfolk campus in addition to the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) and the NASA Langley Research Center on the peninsula.

In addition to the scholarship exhibit, two display cases feature demonstrations of lasers and magnets. The exhitit will be available through December 15. More information at: http://www.lib.odu.edu/exhibits/spotlight/fall2012/index.htm

For the fall 2012 semester, the old Dominion University Libraries will shine a spotlight on the research of the Department of Physics. Their research programs are diverse and include theoretical and experimental work in nuclear and particle physics, atomic, molecular and optical physics, materials science, solid state physics, plasma physics, accelerator physics, and geophysics. Old Dominion University physicists work in labs on and around the Norfolk campus in addition to the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) and the NASA Langley Research Center on the peninsula.

An exhibit in the Learning Commons @ Perry Library from November 5 through December 14 will feature statements of current research as well as selected journal articles and books.

At a reception on Thursday, November 15 from 3:00-5:00pm in the Learning Commons Conference Room, Room 1310, faculty will discuss some of their recent work. If you'd like to come, contact Fern McDougal fmcdouga@odu.edu More information at: http://www.lib.odu.edu/exhibits/spotlight/fall2012/index.htm

For more information, contact Karen Vaughan kvaughan@odu.edu