Publication Studio & Elizabeth Jaeger (LC, 2011) will present Jaeger's recent book, How Other People See Me on Monday May 2, at 3 pm, in the Library Classroom. Stop by for special snacks and hear Jaeger discuss her artistic process, project, and recent book launch. How Other People See Me is a project Jaeger first presented in Garrick Imatani's senior seminar class. Jaeger then began working with Publication Studio to print copies of her book. Of the project, she says, "It's kind of a sculptural book in so far that I am framing a self portrait through the collected gazes of people I know. In some images it seems that the person is definitely angry, annoyed or bored with me, in others it seems to have captured a certain bond. All of the photos are closeups from old snapshots I have where the people don't quite know they're being photographed, in hopes that I have secretly captured their unperformed feelings for me based on the way they look at me. Usually it's photos secretly taken after an initial Kodak moment photo or closeups of the person standing behind the subject." Images of this book, and Jaeger's other projects, can be seen at her website.

Student writers, published in new issues of The Literary Review, Meridian, Polyglot, and Synergia, will read from their works Thursday, April 14, at 7 pm in Smith Hall.

We hope you will join us in listening to these recent works, written and published right here at LC. For more information about these student publications, visit their websites: The Literary Review, Meridian, Polyglot, Synergia.

This event is brought to you by the LC English Department, The Student Media Board, and Watzek Library.

To celebrate the release of the 2010-11 Literary Review, students will be reading poetry and prose from this year's publication on Friday, April 22, at 3 pm in the Watzek Library Classroom. Light refreshments will be served.

Check out the website of Lewis & Clark's annual literary magazine, The Literary Review, for information about working on and submitting work to the publication.

Dr. Rudolph Byrd explores the complexities of defining "blackness" on Wednesday, February 23 in the Library Classroom at 4 pm.

Byrd (BA '75) is an African American studies scholar and founding director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University.  He presents a scholarly discussion of the groundbreaking Marlon Riggs film, Black Is…Black Aint.

This is one of many campus events during Black History Month.

Sophomore Claire Askew will read from her book Generation V on October 15 at 2:00 in the Library Classroom. Generation V: The Complete Guide to Going, Being, and Staying Vegan as a Teenager is a comprehensive guide to veganism for aspiring, current, and seasoned teenage and college-age vegans. Claire blogs for youthful youths and vegan vegans at Generation V.

Watzek Library will sponsor the first LC Book Club discussion on Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 12-1 pm. We will discuss The Gospel of Food by our new president, Barry Glassner. Registration is limited to 25 staff, faculty and students to allow an opportunity for discussion (registration is required).

To participate:

• Register to attend. Please note, registration is limited to 25 participants in order to allow time for discussion, so please only register if you can commit to participating on September 16.


• Read the book The Gospel of Food by Barry Glassner before the Book Club discussion on September 16. You can check out the book from Watzek or Summit Libraries, or you can buy a your very own copy at the LC Bookstore.


• Participate in the Book Club discussion which will be led by Kate Rubick, Reference Librarian and our own LC Faculty.

The College community and general public are invited to hear Petersen and Inada read on Thursday, October 28th at 7:00 pm in the Library Classroom. The reading and reception for Oregon's Poets Laureate: A Retrospective Exhibit will also feature virtual readings through recordings of past poets laureate.

Think with Me: The Possibilities of Public Conversations in Cultural Institutions. Sept. 24, 3 pm.

Associate Professor Emeritus David Carr from the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science will present the 2010 Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture, “Think with Me: The Possibilities of Public Conversations in Cultural Institutions.”

The formative legacy of any democratic culture or learning community is borne and embodied by its library. At its best, it is a living, constructive institution where experience and knowledge increase. The aspirations of a community -- what it wants to become and what it hopes to give to its children -- require a generative public conscience and provocative voices. More than a record of our time and place, the library is a record of us as we embrace or turn away from our challenges. We require a place that holds both pages and voices, electrons and arguments; and more: a place where thoughtful citizens will strive to become something together. The lecture will be held in Smith Hall, Albany Quadrangle, at 3 pm. A reception will follow in Albany Quadrangle. The Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture was established in 1999 to honor the memory of the former director of Watzek Library. For further information, please visit the Sherrer Lecture webpage.

Lewis & Clark Junior Marni Bates will read from her memoir, Marni, on Friday, April 23 at 3pm in the Library Classroom. A volume in the Louder Than Words series of teen authored memoirs, Marni brings us inside her secret world of "pulling" and the challenges of surviving high school while trying to hide an obscure stress disorder. Her book was recently included on the New York Public Library's "Stuff for the Teen Age" list for 2010.

As part of Visiting Writers Week, Matthew Dickman & Carl Adamshick will read their poetry tonight at 7pm in Albany Quadrangle, Smith Hall. Matthew Dickman’s first collection of poetry, All American Poem (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), received the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award.  In addition, Dickman has received fellowships for his work from the Michener Center for Writers, the Vermont Studio Centers, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Carl Adamshick has published poems in Beloit Poetry Journal, American Literary Review, Rhino and Mid-American Review. He lives in Portland, Oregon. This event is co-hosted by the English Department and Watzek Library. For more information about these events, please contact Debbie Richman, 503-768-7405.