What a week!
A stunning solar eclipse coinciding with National Library Week...no wonder I'm buzzing!
Since SUNY Plattsburgh was in the path of totality, we held an eclipse conference and an eclipse watch party. One of the conference sessions (by Dr. Rajesh Sunasee and Dr. Amy Valentine) was titled "Eclipsed Voices in STEM" and highlighted the stories of Henrietta Lacks and Alice Ball - women whose contributions to science were hidden, overlooked, minimized, or appropriated. If you don't know these women, now is your chance!
For National Library Week, we are awarding our Feinberg Library Undergraduate Research Prize - a $500 scholarship to a student whose research required library resources and achieved academic excellence, hosting a student/faculty/staff library worker appreciation lunch, and giving away rooted cuttings of our famous library schefflera plant.
I'd love to hear what other campuses did for the eclipse and are doing for the week of celebrating the contributions of the library. So write in!
All the best,
Holly
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