Pet Partners of Syracuse are stopping by with their furry friends on February 1 from 6:00-7:30 pm in the Library’s Bernat Special Events Room. Stop by to de-stress and play with a pet!

Pet therapy returns for the spring semester! These events will be held in the Library’s Bernat room following the same first Monday and third Tuesday schedule as last semester:

First Mondays: Feb. 1, April 4, May 2 from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Third Tuesdays: Feb. 16, March 15, April 19 from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Special Finals Week Session: Thursday, May 12 from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m.

These events are sponsored by Pet Partners of Syracuse.

The Noreen Reale Falcone Library was awarded a $12,600 Conservation Discretionary Grant from NYS Library in December 2015 to preserve its U.S. Civil War items.

“The Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign,” published in 1866, is an album of photographer George Barnard’s 61 original imperial size albumen prints depicting the aftermath of General Sherman’s march through the South.

 

The album, along with the original letter to Barnard from William Tecumseh Sherman expressing his support for the project, were gifts to the College in 1997 from John B. Vita ’54 and Mary M. Vita.

George Barnard’s photography stands along with those of Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and Timothy O’Sullivan, in advancing the photographic techniques used in the 19th century and in documenting the American Civil War. Barnard, who moved as a child to upstate New York, at one time had studios in Oswego and Syracuse and died in Syracuse in 1902. He worked for Mathew Brady at the outbreak of the Civil War and performed the difficult task of following the armies’ path and documenting the violence and destruction of war.

Originally intended to make 100 copies of these custom leather-bound albums, Barnard, it is believed, might have made only half as much. Le Moyne College’s copy is one of six held by libraries and museums in New York State. There are only 25 reported copies held by such public institutions.

West Lake Conservators, located in Skaneateles, NY will oversee the conservation work, which will be completed by June 2016. For more information, contact Inga Barnello at barnello@lemoyne.edu.

The Turnitin website has been experiencing a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack for most of the day on January 22. Although the @TurnitinStatus Twitter account reports that service is “stabilized”, it remains slow into the afternoon.

Come join the Le Moyne College Book Club on Wednesday, January 27 as we discuss 11/22/63 by Stephen King. We will be meeting in the Bernat Special Activities Room in the Noreen Reale Falcone Library from 7-8:30 pm. Refreshments will be served! This is a new date since the original meeting was canceled due to wintery weather.

Please contact Kari Zhe-Heimerman (zheheikm@lemoyne.edu) with any questions.

On January 16, 2016, RefWorks will be offline while it is upgrading its systems infrastructure. The outage is scheduled to begin at 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on Monday, January 16 and will last until 6:00 AM the following morning (8 hours). During this time, access to RefWorks and Write-N-Cite will not be available.

January 22 – February 19, 2016

The Wilson Art Gallery will host “Trees of Onondaga”, an exhibit of original paintings by Maria Rizzo, whose paintings, inspired by the outdoors, reflect the gratitude she feels for nature and the human connection to it.

Maria Rizzo’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the northeast of the United States and abroad, including the ArtRage Gallery in Syracuse, NY; the RSI Bank’s 3rd Annual Artists Contest in Rahway, N.J.; and the Museo d’ Arte Contemporanea di Lissone in Italy. Rizzo is also the recipient of several awards and honors, in addition to the 2014 Individual Artist Commission Grant from CNY Arts, she is the recipient of an Honorable Mention from the RSI Bank’s 3rd Annual Artists Contest in Rahway, N.J., she is the former Artist-in-Residence and Curator at The Tech Garden in Syracuse, New York and she is a 2012 NYFA Mark Alumna. Maria Rizzo was born in Bologna, Italy in 1987.

On Friday, January 22, from 4 to 6 p.m., there will be an opening reception for the exhibit, which will be on display at the Wilson Art Gallery from January 22- February 19 during regular library hours. The reception and exhibit are free and open to the public. For more information, call (315) 445-4153.

The Wilson Art Gallery at Le Moyne College seeks exhibition proposals for the 2016/2017 academic year. Proposals should be received by close of business, Monday, March 28, 2016 for consideration.

You don’t have to leave the Library for a good cup of coffee anymore. We now have a coffee vending machine that is as good as your own personal barista! The beans are actually ground in the machine after you type your selection, and each cup is brewed fresh. You can choose from espresso, cappuccino, latte, cafe americano or hot chocolate; including different flavors such as cinnamon and caramel. Prices range from $1.25 to $2.25, and the machine takes cash, credit card or ApplePay. Come brew a cup and taste it for yourself — you won’t be disappointed!

 

Feeling stressed out? Spend a little time in the library with a trained therapy dog. There will be a special pet therapy session during finals week on Tuesday, December 15 from 3:00-7:00 p.m. in the Bernat Room. Note the different, extended time.

Pet therapy events are sponsored by Pet Partners of Syracuse.