One Book One Community
Mount Aloysius College will participate once again in the One Book, One Community Program for Cambria County. The "One Book" concept of community-wide reading programs was initiated in 1998 by the Center for the Book, the Library of Congress, which assists in coordinating local programs across the U.S.A. and around the world. This is the third year that Mount Aloysius College has been a sponsor of this event.
The book selection for 2009 is Water for Elephant: A Novel, a New York Times Bestseller, written by Sara Gruen, the author of Riding Lessons and Flying Changes. She lives north of Chicago with her husband, her three children, four cats, two goats, two dogs, and a horse.
Stephen King writes that, "For pure story, this colorful, headlong tale of a Depression-era circus simply can't be beat. Heroes, villains, romance, a wild-animal stampede! Big fun from page 1."— (Entertainment Weekly)
Community Events
A series of community events around the themes of the book are planned and will be held at various venues throughout the county.
Monday, April 20, 2009, 7:00 p.m. Coffee Talk, Book Discussion, Perkins Restaurant, Richland.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 7:00 p.m. Film, “The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952), Blackington Hall, Room 131, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 7:00 p.m. Presentation, “Unscheduled Stop: TheTtown of Tyrone and the Wreck of the Walter L. Main Circus Train” by Paula Zitzler. Mount Aloysius College Library, Cresson.
Saturday, May 2, 2009, 1:00 p.m. Lecture, Commonwealth Speaker, Benjamin Sota, “How the Circus Helped Folks During the Great Depression”, Cambria County Library, Community Room, Johnstown.
Other sponsors of the One Book One Community program in Cambria County are the Pennsylvania Highlands Community College, Saint Francis University, the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, the Cambria County Library System, the Tribune Democrat, the Zepka Harley-Davidson, the Johnstown Harley Owners Group, the Rotary Club of Cambria County, and Perkins Restaurant & Bakery.
A copy of the book is available at the Mount Aloysius College Library, Circulation Desk. Contact Shamim Rajpar, srajpar@mtaloy.edu or 886-6442, or at the One Book One Community website http://www.pennhighlands.edu/library/onebook09/index.htm for additional information.
Monday, April 06, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
Library Film Series - Spring 2009
The Library Film Series will feature four films in the Spring Semester. All films begin at 6:00 p.m., in the Library Classroom (2nd floor), with a brief introduction and a follow-up question and answer session moderated by the faculty members list below.
LIONS FOR LAMBS is a powerful story about how the decision makers at the top affect American soldiers on the ground half a world away.
Tuesday, January 20 Dr. Rob Breckinridge
THE CONSTANT GARDENER is the kind of thriller that hasn't been seen since the 1970s: Smart, politically complex, cinematically adventurous, genuinely thrilling and even heartbreaking.
Tuesday, February 17 Dr. Virginia Gonsman
ERIN BROCKOVICH re-tells a true story which focuses on suspicious connections between a mighty power company, its abuse of toxic chromium, and the poisoned water supply of Hinkley, California, where locals have suffered a legacy of death and disease.
Tuesday, March 17 Dr. Merrilee Anderson
BLACK HAWK DOWN conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare, ending in the loss of 18 American soldiers.
Tuesday, April 21 Dr. Thomas Coakley
LIONS FOR LAMBS is a powerful story about how the decision makers at the top affect American soldiers on the ground half a world away.
Tuesday, January 20 Dr. Rob Breckinridge
THE CONSTANT GARDENER is the kind of thriller that hasn't been seen since the 1970s: Smart, politically complex, cinematically adventurous, genuinely thrilling and even heartbreaking.
Tuesday, February 17 Dr. Virginia Gonsman
ERIN BROCKOVICH re-tells a true story which focuses on suspicious connections between a mighty power company, its abuse of toxic chromium, and the poisoned water supply of Hinkley, California, where locals have suffered a legacy of death and disease.
Tuesday, March 17 Dr. Merrilee Anderson
BLACK HAWK DOWN conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare, ending in the loss of 18 American soldiers.Tuesday, April 21 Dr. Thomas Coakley
May count as a CLS Convocation. Check with individual instructors.
Monday, January 05, 2009
New Library Database
FORENSICnetBASE/LawENFORCEMENTnetBASE is the newest addition to the Library's collection of online resources. It features the full text of more than 250 essential forensic science and criminal justice books in areas such as Arson & Fire Investigation, Computer Crime Investigation, Criminal Law, Forensic Pathology, Forensics, Law Enforcement, and Security Management. Whether you're looking for the latest techniques in forensic analysis, the right questions to ask an expert witness, or case studies to present in the classroom, chances are you'll find it in FORENSICnetBASE/
LawENFORCEMENTnetBASE, which brings an ever-growing number of important texts straight to your desktop. This resource can be accessed through the Databases page of the Library web site.
Please contact us with any questions or comments about this exciting new database.
LawENFORCEMENTnetBASE, which brings an ever-growing number of important texts straight to your desktop. This resource can be accessed through the Databases page of the Library web site.
Please contact us with any questions or comments about this exciting new database.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Fourth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium
It's not too early to start planning for the Fourth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at Mount Aloysius College.
This event, which highlights undergraduate research, will take place from 3:30 until 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in the Health & Physical Fitness Center.
Student-faculty teams in all disciplines are encouraged to submit a letter of intent by February 27, 2009, and an abstract of their completed or in-progress projects by March 31, 2009, for inclusion in the event. Monetary awards will be presented to students with outstanding projects.
Once abstracts of research projects have been submitted, detailed "Information for Presenters" will be sent.
Please check out the Undergraduate Research page for additional information.
This event, which highlights undergraduate research, will take place from 3:30 until 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in the Health & Physical Fitness Center.
Student-faculty teams in all disciplines are encouraged to submit a letter of intent by February 27, 2009, and an abstract of their completed or in-progress projects by March 31, 2009, for inclusion in the event. Monetary awards will be presented to students with outstanding projects.
Once abstracts of research projects have been submitted, detailed "Information for Presenters" will be sent.
Please check out the Undergraduate Research page for additional information.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Library Film Series
The Candidate will be shown on Tuesday, November 18, at 6:00 p.m., in the Library classroom, 2nd floor. This is the last film in the Fall 2008 Library Film Series which has featured films about politics, campaigns and elections.
Michael Ritchie's 1972 drama about political idealist Bill McKay (played by Robert Redford) recruited to make a run for the Senate is still engrossing and still a terribly accurate reflection of the contemporary campaign process. In one of his trademark roles as a man haunted by some shadow of inauthenticity, Redford is superb as a first-time candidate watching his values and control over his message disappear in the age of TV-friendly prefabrication. The Candidate is all about the packaging of today’s office-seeker. It’s a sharp insider’s view of how admen, press agents, pollsters and media czars converge on election campaigns.
Ms. Kristi Bowers, Assistant Professor, Educational Enrichment Program/Department Chairperson, General Studies and Liberal Arts/Learning Center Specialist, will introduce the film and moderate a post-viewing questions & answer session.
Contact Shamim Rajpar, srajpar@mtaloy.edu or 886-8662, if additional information is needed.
Michael Ritchie's 1972 drama about political idealist Bill McKay (played by Robert Redford) recruited to make a run for the Senate is still engrossing and still a terribly accurate reflection of the contemporary campaign process. In one of his trademark roles as a man haunted by some shadow of inauthenticity, Redford is superb as a first-time candidate watching his values and control over his message disappear in the age of TV-friendly prefabrication. The Candidate is all about the packaging of today’s office-seeker. It’s a sharp insider’s view of how admen, press agents, pollsters and media czars converge on election campaigns.
Ms. Kristi Bowers, Assistant Professor, Educational Enrichment Program/Department Chairperson, General Studies and Liberal Arts/Learning Center Specialist, will introduce the film and moderate a post-viewing questions & answer session.
Contact Shamim Rajpar, srajpar@mtaloy.edu or 886-8662, if additional information is needed.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Library Film Series
The film Primary Colors will be shown on Tuesday, October 28, at 6:00 p.m., in the Library classroom, 2nd floor. This is the second event in the Fall 2008 Library Film Series, featuring films about politics and elections.
Primary Colors (1998) is a “superb comedy-drama [that] provides an illuminating, insightful, and frequently hilarious look at the harsh realities of presidential politics. John Travolta stars as Jack Stanton, a presidential hopeful whose campaign is challenged by dual dilemmas: how to squelch a scandal involving the candidate's alleged sex with an underage girl, and how to handle information that could potentially ruin Stanton's opponent (superbly played by Larry Hagman). Stanton's wife (Emma Thompson) stands by her man despite awareness of his infidelities, but his loyal campaign planners (played by Billy Bob Thornton, Maura Tierney, and Adrian Lester) experience a crisis of conscience. So does one of the Stantons' oldest friends (Kathy Bates, in an Oscar-nominated role), whose sense of betrayal and lost idealism proves too much to bear. … Primary Colors plays like a sophisticated comedy with loads of memorable scenes and dialogue, but it sneaks up on you with devastating dramatic impact. Anchored by Travolta's superb performance, the movie presents a story of great moral complexity and leaves viewers to contemplate their own reactions to the volatile and ethically complicated game of modern politics.
(Amazon.com review)
Dr. Michael Jones, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences/History-Political Science, will introduce the film and moderate a post-viewing question & answer session.
The last film in the series, The Candidate, will be shown on November 18.
Contact Shamim Rajpar, srajpar@mtaloy.edu or 886-8662, if additional information is needed.
Primary Colors (1998) is a “superb comedy-drama [that] provides an illuminating, insightful, and frequently hilarious look at the harsh realities of presidential politics. John Travolta stars as Jack Stanton, a presidential hopeful whose campaign is challenged by dual dilemmas: how to squelch a scandal involving the candidate's alleged sex with an underage girl, and how to handle information that could potentially ruin Stanton's opponent (superbly played by Larry Hagman). Stanton's wife (Emma Thompson) stands by her man despite awareness of his infidelities, but his loyal campaign planners (played by Billy Bob Thornton, Maura Tierney, and Adrian Lester) experience a crisis of conscience. So does one of the Stantons' oldest friends (Kathy Bates, in an Oscar-nominated role), whose sense of betrayal and lost idealism proves too much to bear. … Primary Colors plays like a sophisticated comedy with loads of memorable scenes and dialogue, but it sneaks up on you with devastating dramatic impact. Anchored by Travolta's superb performance, the movie presents a story of great moral complexity and leaves viewers to contemplate their own reactions to the volatile and ethically complicated game of modern politics.
(Amazon.com review)
Dr. Michael Jones, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences/History-Political Science, will introduce the film and moderate a post-viewing question & answer session.
The last film in the series, The Candidate, will be shown on November 18.
Contact Shamim Rajpar, srajpar@mtaloy.edu or 886-8662, if additional information is needed.
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