Galvin Library celebrates Latino Heritage Month with a variety of Latino-related books on display. Latino Heritage Month begins September 15th and lasts until October 15th. The display is located on the lower level of Galvin library across from the Circulation Desk. Stop by and celebrate our diverse communiity! If you’d like to learn more about Latino Heritage Month, click here to Ask a Librarian.

Galvin Library was honored to have 6 stunning entries in the First Annual Light Up Galvin contest. Everyone who participated stepped up to the design challenge and created a funtional lamp made out of books. That’s no small feat.

First of all, we would like to thank everyone that participated:

Elizabeth Laschiazza
Bulbul Jain
Martina Dolejs
Raman Nagaraja
Aparna Krishnamoorthy
Smita Vijaykumar

Thank you all for your lamps. These lamps will light up the Galvin Library for years to come.

And now, for the winners:

The First Place Prize (above right), a $50 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble, goes to Raman Nagaraja.

The Second Place Prize, a $25 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble, goes to Aparna Krishnamoorthy.

Join Galvin Library in the recognition of National Women’s History Month. This year’s theme is Generations of Women Moving History Forward. The display, located on the Lower Level of Galvin, showcases books about accomplished women from the past, present, and future. You can find these books and more about great women by searching the library’s online catalog. The display runs through March 31st. To learn more about National Women’s History Month, visit the official National Women’s History Project website.

A new exhibit of fascinating images by photomicrographer Dee Breger is currently on display in the Kemper Room gallery at Galvin Library. Taken using an electron microscope, the photos reveal the natural beauty of an invisible world that includes seeds, bugs, feathers, blood clots, microfossils, and cosmic dust. While the images stir the imagination with their striking visual impact, they also showcase the technical achievements of electron microscopy and digital image enhancement, creating a compelling fusion of science and fine art.

“Seeing Beyond Our Vision” will be showing through April 7. The Kemper Room is located on the upper level of the library. For more on the exhibit, see art@iit.

Did you know that cockroaches, termites, and other pests love to eat paper and glue? Food and drinks attract critters to the library, who then start eating everything in sight. Those pesky insects will feast on anything, including books you love to hate. In honor of National Library Week (April 15-21), come to Galvin Library to witness two books of your choice get devoured. Vote for one fiction and one nonfiction book you would love to see digested by bugs! Then, watch the insects chew away at the books in the display cases on the Lower Level. Come together @ your library to witness science in action!

Which novel would you like to see devoured by bugs?
Click on a title to vote
1) 1984
2) The Scarlet Letter
3) Beowulf
4) Lord of the Flies
5) Canterbury Tales
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Which nonfiction book would you like to see eaten by bugs?
Click on a title to vote
1) Cutnell & Johnson’s Physics
2) Using WorldPerfect 6.1
3) The Case for Fewer People
4) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
5) Rush Limbaugh’s The Way Things Ought to Be
View Results

Join Galvin Library in the recognition of Black History Month. In its Lower Level display cases, the library is featuring books by a host of Black authors, including Toni Morrison, Barack Obama, Edwidge Danticat, Alice Walker and Walter Mosley. You can find these books and more in the Leisure Reading section on the Upper Level or search for additional titles in the library’s online catalog.

Galvin Library remembers Dr. Leon Stover, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at IIT from 1965-1995, in an exhibit memorializing his scholarship. Dr. Stover passed away this past November at age 77. He is survived by his wife, Takeko Stover, and daughter, Laren. Dr. Stover was a scholar of many disciplines. Most notably, he was one of the premier H.G. Wells scholars, and taught the first college-level Wells course at IIT. In addition to studying Science Fiction, Dr. Stover co-authored Science Fiction novels about Atlantis and Stonehenge with Harry Harrison. Dr. Stover was also an important Sinologist and taught courses on dynastic China. Stop by the exhibit on the Lower Level outside of the Library Learning Center to see a selection of his books, articles, achievements, and memorials. The exhibit will be on display until February 1, 2007.