Join us for the 5th screening of the semester on Tuesday, April 2, at 7pm in Miller 102. American Dream was directed by Barbara Kopple in 1990. To read more about this film and the Documentary film series, check out the Watzek Screens blog.

Questions or comments regarding Watzek Screens may be directed to Jim Bunnelle (bunnelle@lclark.edu).

Join us for the final screening of the semester on Tuesday, April 16, at 7pm in Miller 102. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 was directed by Goran Olsson in 2011. To read more about this film and the Documentary film series, check out the Watzek Screens blog.

Questions or comments regarding Watzek Screens may be directed to Jim Bunnelle (bunnelle@lclark.edu).

We are pleased to announce the 9th annual Watzek Rocks lineup! GUDA, The Lewis & Clark Ukelele Orchestra, and Jordan Anderson & Chris Stanbrook will be rocking Watzek, January 24 at 4:00pm. Kick off the semester with us and show us your moves.

For a preview of the sounds of these LC students, check out the links below: GUDA
The Lewis & Clark Ukelele Orchestra
Jordan Anderson & Chris Stanbrook

You can catch clips of previous shows on Watzek's YouTube page. If you would like to play Watzek Rocks in the future, or for more information about this annual concert, please contact Nikki Williams (nmw@lclark.edu).

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).

Watzek Library will be closed Saturday, December 22 through Tuesday, January 1 for Winter Break. We wish you all a holiday of comfort and joy!

To get the latest on Watzek Library hours, please check our library hours calendars.

Image: Nuthouse by Will Cotton, 2007 (via http://www.willcotton.com/)

And the winner of a brand new Kindle Fire is Anya Walker (LC 2015)! Congratulations to Anya and a big thanks to the 403 of you who completed our e-book survey this semester. With your input, we look forward to shaping the e-book collection at Watzek!

For more information about e-books at Watzek, please visit one of the following pages:

• E-book collections
• E-readers
• E-books FAQ

Following a national search, Elaine Hirsch has been named Associate Director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library. She had been serving as Interim Associate Director since 2010.

Elaine came to Lewis & Clark from Texas A&M University in 1998 as a Reference Librarian. In that position she served as liaison to the Graduate School and to several departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. To strengthen the library's ties to the Lewis & Clark student body, Elaine founded the Watzek Student Advisory Committee and established library participation in New Student Orientation. In 2007 Elaine was promoted to Library Advancement Coordinator. In that role she continued her work with the Graduate School and cultivated the library's relationship with Institutional Advancement. She also managed a variety of library events and outreach activities including the annual Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service.

In November 2010 Elaine was appointed Interim Associate Director. In this capacity she has been responsible for budgeting, space planning, and oversight of library Public Services. As Interim Associate Director, Elaine has led planning for a shared service point, overseen space renovation projects, initiated new library marketing activities, and developed innovative collaborations with the division of Student Life.

Elaine received her Master of Library Science from Indiana University. Her professional interests include library public services, library advancement and outreach, and the historical and sociocultural development of children’s and young adult literature.

Climb the library atrium stairs to interact with the figure that Claire Tsuji (LC 2013), Amy Rosenheim (LC 2014), and Faolan Thompson (LC 2013) created for their Feminist Theory capstone project. On display until Jan 2.

In the words of Claire Tsuji, "Becoming Beyond Being is a participatory feminist theory capstone project exploring the constant flux of identity and our continual state of becoming. These figures are interactive - they change the context they exist in and they change because of the context they exist in." At the top of the library atrium staircase sits a life-size fabric and fiberfill figure along with materials for your participation. Take a seat with the figure and make your mark with ink, thread, fabric, etc.

For more information, visit the group's tumblr: becomingbeyondbeing.tumblr.com

Join students and faculty at the History Department poster session on Wednesday, December 12, 3:30-5 pm in the Watzek Library atrium. History majors currently enrolled in Professor Reiko Hillyer’s senior seminar will be displaying their thesis posters.

Examples of thesis titles include:
“Repeating the Mistakes of History: How Urban Combat in Hue and Fallujah Differed From the way American Soldiers Fought in Vietnam and Iraq”
“Extracting Ethics from History: The Holocaust as Moral Paradigm in United States Secondary Education”
“‘No More of that Dignity Stuff:’ The Zulu Mardi Gras Parade and the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1969”
“The Eviction of Bonus Expeditionary Force: Media Coverage and Fears of Communism in the Great Depression”
“‘Where the men are men, and the women are too’: Gender Norms for Women in the Klondike Gold Rush.”
“The Tarnished Rose: Moral Panic and Sexuality in Cold War Portland”
“The Portland Hotel: Murder, Diamond Theft, and Other Anxieties about Urban Living at the Turn of the Century.”

Swing by sometime Wednesday afternoon to see the products of this research, chat with the students about their projects, and to nibble on a donut or two.

Joanna Haney, Watzek Library's Coordinator of Research Services, retires this month after 24 years of service at Lewis & Clark. Joanna first joined the library in September 1988 as a half-time Reference Librarian and has been the collection development and liaison librarian for Biology, Chemistry and Physics since the mid- 1990s. She currently serves as the library liaison to Religious Studies, Counseling Psychology and Psychology as well.

As Coordinator of Research Services, Joanna oversees the library’s reference desk where librarians interact with students to assist them with research questions.  Joanna is known for her commitment to high standards of service at the reference desk, a Watzek Library tradition.

Joanna has been instrumental in the library’s provision of online resources, beginning with her mediation of Dialog database searches in the early 1990s. For a decade and a half Joanna has managed the library’s extensive list of research database subscriptions and served as the library’s representative to the Electronic Resources program of the Orbis Cascade Alliance.

A reception for Joanna will be held on Thursday, December 13 from 3 to 5 pm in Gregg Pavilion. We invite the entire campus community to attend.