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National Library Week 2013 Round-up

From April 15 to April 19, the University Library joined with other libraries across the nation to celebrate the 55th annual National Library Week. We observed this banner week on the cultural calendar of our country with five events:

1. Faculty Recommends Poster Series. The Library continued its National Library Week tradition of offering reading and research recommendations from Regent Faculty. This year five faculty members as well as Vice President for Marketing, Sherri Miller, offered their choices:

National Library Week events at Regent

Next week (April 15 – 19) marks the 55th annual celebration of National Library Week, a yearly observance sponsored by the American Library Association. The purpose of National Library Week is to draw attention to the contribution libraries make in the cultural and civic life of our country.

To celebrate National Library Week, the Library has planned four events:

1. Faculty Recommends poster series (Library Lobby). Come get recommendations for reading from six members of the University leadership and faculty:Sherri Miller (VP, Marketing)

Library to celebrate new book by Terry Lindvall & Andrew Quicke on April 17

On Tuesday, April 17, The University Library and School of Communication and the Arts will celebrate the publication of Celluloid Sermons: The Emergence of the Christian Film Industry, 1930-1986, by former Regent President Terry Lindvall and Professor of Cinema and Television Andrew Quicke. The event will feature Dr. Lindvall and Prof. Quicke discussing their book, reading excerpts, and screening 16mm film clips. There will also be a reception, book signing, and tours of the 16mm film collection on the 4th floor of the Library.

Celluloid Sermons is the first scholarly work to survey the history of Christian films made specifically for teaching and evangelizing. According to Prof. Quicke, to whom belongs much of the credit for building the Library’s Christian film collection, Celluloid Sermons is “a book that could only [have been] written at Regent University.”

The book celebration will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Library Gallery (first floor, near the large windows in the back). To RSVP, contact Laura Thomas at lthomas@regent.edu.

National Library Week: Enjoy conversation and cookies with the librarians this week.

This week (April 9-13) marks the 54th annual celebration of National Library Week, a yearly observance sponsored by the American Library Association. The purpose of National Library Week is to draw attention to the contribution libraries make in the cultural and civic life of our country. This year the national theme for the celebration is You Belong @ Your Library.

This year the Library is celebrating National Library Week by inviting the Regent community to enjoy coffee, tea, and cookies with a member of the Library faculty each day, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 pm. Between 4:00 and 6:00, Circulation department is also offering fine forgiveness for any overdue books returned. So if your Library record shows overdue books, this is your once-a-year opportunity to ease your conscience and save some money at the same time!

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National Library Week Roundup

Written by Georgianne Bordner, Harold Henkel, and Amber Wood

Tuesday, April 12th was National Library Workers Day, and this year the Library faculty chose this day to kick off Regent’s National Library Week observance by cooking a special breakfast for the Library staff and student assistants. That evening, the Library held its first public event for National Library Week with a book talk by Booker T. Mattison, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema-Television, whose new novel Snitch has just been released. Fifty-three people gathered in the Library Gallery to hear Prof. Mattison discuss and read from his book.

Snitch adds a positive Christian message to the genre of “street lit.” Over the course of the evening, Mattison emphasized the ways in which God had worked to make the writing, publication, and promotion of the book possible by putting all the pieces together at the right time.  Aptly, the main theme of Snitch is God’s sovereignty, along with the very real community problems surrounding silence and “snitching.”

Audience members who have already read the book said that they were very impressed with the character development and the readability, commenting “It’s just like watching a movie,” and “It’s a real page turner.” Librarian Bob Sivigny added:  “Mattison is a creative dynamo; listening to him is like catching up with a fast-moving train. I am so glad I went last night. Can’t wait to read Snitch.”

Plans are being made to adapt both Snitch and his first novel, Unsigned Hype, into films, with Mattison as writerdirector. Mattison will tour with Snitch through the summer.

On Wednesday, immediately following chapel, the Library helped four more Regent scholars launch monographs at a luncheon and book talk. Dr. Susannah Clements, Chair of the Department of Language and Literature, told the audience how the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer had sparked her curiosity about the treatment of vampires in literature and film, from Dracula through The Twilight Saga, leading to her writing of The Vampire Defanged: How the Embodiment of Evil Became a Romantic Hero. Dr. Clements described how increasing secularization explains the transformation of an embodiment of sin and evil in Dracula to an innocuous or even romantic figure in recent popular treatments.

Dr. Graham Twelftree, Distinguished Professor of New Testament, discussed the five-year genesis of The Cambridge Companion to Miracles, which involved collaboration with specialists around the world. With characteristic wit, Dr. Twelftree remarked that the experience had taught him humility and the falsity of the quip in academia that “if you can’t write, you can always edit.” At the end of his presentation, he presented an advance copy to divinity librarian Bob Sivigny, to whom the book is dedicated with the words, “To Bob Sivigny and all the other librarians who support our work.”

In the final segment, Dr. Alan Arroyo, Dean, and Dr. Hope Jordan, Professor, from the School of Education discussed their newly published The Secret Kingdom for Educators, which demonstrates how teachers can improve student learning by applying the principals developed by Dr. Pat Robertson in The Secret Kingdom. In their remarks, the authors thanked Dr. Robertson for his support of the project and the ten professors of the School of Education who contributed chapters.

Both book talk events ended with an opportunity for attendees to purchase the books and have them signed by the authors.  The Library staff is glad to have had a part in connecting some of Regent’s authors with their readers.

Video of “Snitch” launch

Video of luncheon and faculty publication celebration