Trivia Game Winner and Answers

Thanks to everyone who played the Mott Library Trivia Game last week! The winner of the $25 bookstore gift certificate is: James Bowns

Trivia Game Answers:
1. What is one of the quietest student spaces on campus?
97.9% of respondents choose the correct answer – Mott Library’s second floor

2. Does Mott Library own more printed books or more e-books?
66.7% selected the right answer – printed books
Mott Library has about 80,000 printed books and access to approximately 40,000 e-books in ebrary, EBSCOhost, and Gale Virtual Reference Library. We expect number of e-books to increase over the next five years, but cannot predict when the number of e-books will equal or exceed the number of printed books in our collection.

3. What can you do at the Mott Library?
This was a trick question – all of the answers were correct. 93.8% of respondents selected “all of the above”.

4. How many hours per week is Mott Library open during winter term?
This was an even trickier question! The library building is open 71 hours per week, and our website is available 24/7 for a total of 168 hours a week. 50% of respondents choose 71 hours per week and 20.8% of respondents choose both 71 and 168 hours per week.

5. What is coming soon to the Mott Library?
27.1% of respondents selected the right answer – streaming video. The library will be adding a subscription to Films on Demand by the end of the month. A majority of respondents, 64.6%, selected fiction e-books. While we have access to lots of academic, non-fiction e-books, we don’t have fiction e-books yet. We are giving that some consideration!

Thanks for playing our game and for participating in National Library Week!

Celebrate National Library Week at the Mott Library

April 8-14, campuses and communities across the country celebrate National Library Week, a time to reflect on the contributions libraries, librarians and library workers make to their communities every day.

Today’s libraries help level the playing field by making both print and digital information affordable, available, and accessible to all people. The strength of libraries has always been the diversity of their collections and commitment to serving all people. This National Library Week, join our nation’s libraries and librarians by celebrating the place where we all belong.

Here are just a few of the things you can do this week at the Mott Library:

• Explore the Jacob Lawrence exhibition about the Legend of John Brown
• Play the Mott Library trivia game and have a chance to win a $25 bookstore gift certificate
• Stop by the circulation desk for candy and colorful bookmarks
• Thank the librarian who helped you find resources for your assignment
• Check out a book, read a magazine, access our online resources, use the computers, study, relax, and more!

National Library Week is the perfect time to remember that you belong at @ your library!

Mott Library Hosts Jacob Lawrence Traveling Exhibition in April

The Mott Library is hosting a traveling exhibition featuring Jacob Lawrence’s series of silkscreen prints, The Legend of John Brown, Monday, April 2 through Sunday, April 29. The exhibition is free and open to the public and can be viewed during the library’s regular hours: Monday-Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Saturday-Sunday 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. The library will be closed Sunday, April 8.

The display includes digitized images and descriptive text that tell the story of the abolitionist fighter John Brown. The display does not include original works of art. The original prints are owned by the Wayne State University Art Collection and reside on the 2nd floor of the David Adamany Undergraduate Library at Wayne State. Wayne State created the traveling exhibition to bring one of the university’s unique cultural resources to Michigan libraries and other non-profit organizations.

Lawrence created The Legend of John Brown prints in 1977, basing them on paintings he created in 1941. The original paintings were in fragile condition and in storage in a museum. By creating prints of his original paintings, Lawrence was able to make the work available to a wider audience. You can view an online exhibition of the prints digitized by the Washington State Art Collection.

Lawrence was born in 1917 in New Jersey and moved to New York City in his early teens. He attended classes at the Harlem Art Workshop and the American Artists School and was influenced by numerous Harlem Renaissance artists. His art work was first exhibited in major museums while he was still in his twenties. Lawrence used the visual arts to tell stories about important historic events. He lived, painted, and taught in New York City until 1971, when he moved to Seattle to join the faculty of the University of Washington. He died in Seattle in 2000, at age 83.

Learn more about Jacob Lawrence and John Brown from the Mott Library collection:

• The Complete Jacob Lawrence (2000) by Peter T. Nesbett
• Jacob Lawrence : thirty years of prints, 1963-1993 : a catalogue raisonne (1994) by Jacob Lawrence
• Jacob Lawrence, American painter (1986) by Ellen Harkins Wheat
• The Great migration : an American story (1993) by Jacob Lawrence
• Harriet and the Promised Land (1993) by Jacob Lawrence
• John Brown : one man against slavery (1993) by Gwen Everett and Jacob Lawrence
• Find articles about Jacob Lawrence or John Brown in Academic Search Complete or JSTOR
• Find books about John Brown in the Mott Library collection
• Find e-books about John Brown and other abolitionists in ebrary

Making Michigan Memories

Michigan is filled with fascinating stories, natural beauty, and famous and infamous people. What are some of your favorite Michigan stories or memories?

• Going up north
• Buying your first American made car
• Driving or walking across the Mackinac Bridge
• Visiting a local museum
• Driving through the country on a fall color tour
• Watching the Tigers, Red Wings, Lions, or Pistons beat the competition
• Climbing the dunes at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
• Visiting one of Michigan’s 124 lighthouses
• Listening to your favorite Motown hits
• Skiing at Boyne Mountain
• Taking a wine tour
• Dipping your toes in one of the four Great Lakes that border our state
• Picking apples from your local orchard
• Being a student at Mott Community College or any of our state’s many colleges and universities

Next time you’re in the library, take a moment to enjoy our display celebrating Michigan’s history, culture, and natural wonders. Check out one of nearly 500 books about Michigan from our library’s collection. Take a walk down memory lane or plan a new adventure. Need inspiration? Take a look at Pure Michigan’s list of events and things to do.

Doc Fletcher entertains audience

The Friends of Mott Library sponsored a Michigan author visit on Tuesday, October 18. Doc Fletcher, an avid paddler, shared beautiful photos and entertaining stories about canoeing and kayaking in Michigan and Wisconsin rivers. Doc sold signed copies of his books and gave away free canoe or kayak trips to two lucky attendees. The event was attended by 47 community members and members of our campus community.

Michigan Author Doc Fletcher Presents at Mott Library Oct. 18

Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Noon-1:00 pm
CTL, ML 3106

Please join us on Tuesday, October 18, from noon-1:00 pm as PBS-featured Michigan author Doc Fletcher presents “Paddling Across Michigan and Wisconsin”. You’ll enjoy an hour-long photographic journey down rivers selected from his books. Take a virtual tour down several rivers and hear what makes each of those rivers uniquely fun!

At the end of the program will be a drawing for a “free canoe or kayak trip”, good for a day trip down one of Michigan’s or Wisconsin’s rivers. After the drawing, Doc will sign and sell copies of his books.

Visit Doc’s website for more information about canoeing Michigan’s rivers.

Read articles about Doc in the Flint Journal:
Michigan author ‘Doc’ Fletcher, who paddled the Flint River in May, speaks at Mott Community College this month
A trip down the Flint River: Author “Doc” Fletcher says the canoeing trip is something he would do again

This event is open to the public and is sponsored by the Friends of Mott Library.

Doc Fletcher

FOML Silent Auction photos

The Friends of Mott Library Silent Auction on Wednesday, October 5, was a great success! Thanks to our guests for making this year’s auction a success, and for those who volunteered their time to make this event possible: Jennifer Follet (co-chair), Jenny Kroninger (co-chair), Bill Reich (FOML President), Lisa Poma (FOML Vice-President), Kathy Irwin (Director of Library Services), Kathleen Goodrow, Kim Brown, Kathy Burton, Chulindra Cooks, Becky Gale-Gonzalez, Cindy Sanders, Kathy Suski, Sally Shaink, Pat Alexander, Jim Drummond, Linda Rutherford, Jessica Himstedt, Mary Yarbrough, and Lowell Segorski.

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Friends of Mott Library Silent Auction Sneak Peak – Date Night Basket

Help support the Friends of the Mott Library, make your highest offer for a chance to win the “Date Night” Basket!

The “Date Night” basket includes:
Wingate Inn – one night, one room stay; 2 adults (expires 12/31/11)
Spagnuoluo’s Chocolate Shop basket of handmade chocolates, roasted nuts, and 2 small bottles of wine.

This is a “secret bid” auction. E-mail your bid to Jennifer Kroninger by 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 28, 2011. Winning bidder will be announced Thursday, September 29.

The highest value bid at closing time constitutes the winning bid.

All bids are firm contracts.

Successful bidder must pay in full by Friday, September 29, 2011. Cash or personal checks are accepted payments.

Successful bidders are required to pick up items at the time of payment.

The amount of the bid that is in excess of retail/fair market value is tax deductible.  Fair market value is $208.00.

9/11 Memorial Dedication Ceremony

Please join the Mott College community on September 11, 2011 at 2:00 pm for a dedication ceremony at the 9/11 memorial installation on the south side of the Prahl College Center by the flagpoles, directly across from the Mott Library. The memorial consists of a piece of the wreckage from the World Trade Center.

Holocaust exhibit extended

The exhibit, Recounting Memory: Flint-Area Holocaust Survivors & Youth Dialogue with History, has been extended through Friday, September 30, 2011. For more details about the exhibit, see our earlier post.