Don't let the stress of Reading Days get you down. Come to the library classroom for a spread of treats and diversions to help get you through the weekend: 8-10 pm, Saturday May 4 & Monday May 6. The details:

• savory & sweet snacks and lots of caffeine

• coloring and games galore

• screening movies

• free 10 minute massages (sign up at 8 pm sharp-limited availability)

These events are organized by the Watzek Library Student Advisory Committee (SAC), and are made possible by the Student Initiatives Fund.

Join L&C Law professor, Lydia Loren, from 3-4 pm on Wednesday, April 24th in the Library Classroom for a faculty workshop on open access publishing in the scholarly environment. Loren, a Lewis & Clark Law School faculty member with a specialization in intellectual property and copyright will provide an overview on the topic, followed by a discussion about the relevance of open access to various academic disciplines and the Lewis & Clark environment as a whole.

Join Professor of Philosophy, Becko Copenhaver as she shares her Research as a Process Sequence (RPS) in a faculty workshop at 3:30 pm on Tuesday, March 19, in the library classroom. Copenhaver developed RPS to engage students in research over the course of a semester. Her sequence is a useful for students ranging from first-year to seniors.

Join Watzek librarians Jim Bunnelle & Dan Kelley at 2 pm on Wednesday, February 13, in the Library Classroom for a faculty workshop on the future of e-books! Bunnelle (Collection Development Librarian) and Kelley (Research Librarian) will share the results from a local e-books survey, then lead a discussion about the act of reading and changes in scholarly publishing. We hope to gather input from faculty to inform the way we purchase content for our academic community.

As a launch for the book 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared, Kim Stafford will teach a writing workshop on Wednesday, January 16, 5-8pm, on the LC Graduate Campus. This workshop will explore how “the trick of beginning” can release possible epiphanies from the silence of impossible stories. The evening will include refreshments, writing time, readings from the book, and music by Jan DeWeese (Banjo) and Kim Stafford (guitar), singing songs from the CD “Pilgrim at Home” (Little Infinities, 2009). Please RSVP if you are planning to join us.

This workshop is part of the Continuing Education 2012-2013 Workshop Series. It is free and open to the public.

Kim Stafford is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, and the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared (a memoir), and The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft (a book about writing and teaching). He approaches writing as a chance to compose stores we have carried into poems, essays, radio commentaries, blessings, rants, parables, and other forms of “tikkun olam,” the healing of the world. Be sure to check out this additional workshop with Kim Stafford, Memoir: 100 Tricks offered Saturday-Sunday, February 9-10, 9 am-5 pm.

For more information about this event, please contact The Center for Community Engagement (cce@lclark.edu).

Join us as we applaud the 2011 winners of the Watzek Library First-Year Research Awards. A reception in their honor will be held Wed., August 31, at 5 pm in Watzek's Pamplin Room.

This award was created to highlight the value of good research techniques, reward scholarly research that develops a thoughtful and methodical approach to the research process, and demonstrate how scholarly research develops the critical thinking, reading, writing and speaking skills that are an integral part of a liberal arts education. The awards will be given this year in memory of our much-missed library director, Dr. James J. Kopp, who taught in the Core program for many years and was an impassioned researcher and scholar in his own right.

Questions or comments regarding the Watzek Library First-Year Research Award may be directed to Kate Rubick (rubick@lclark.edu).

Listen to Doug Erickson and Melissa Dalton discuss Oregon Poetic Voices on Talking Earth, February 21 at 10pm.

Tune in to hear Doug and Melissa play samples from this exciting project, an online audio repository of Oregon poets’ voices in the first half of the show. And stay tuned to hear Barbara LaMorticella's Wordstock reading in the second half.

July 11 marks the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill A Mockingbird. Read or listen to NPR's Morning Edition feature on the golden anniversary and take a moment to share your memories of the novel.