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Martin Luther King Day - January 20th
So what exactly is MLK Day? Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. once said, "Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'". Each year, Americans across the country answer that question by coming together on the holiday to serve their neighbors and communities.
See our MLK library guide for information about the life and works of Dr. King as well as events at DU and in the community that celebrate his legacy.
Don’t miss the exhibit that Urszula Kassel, our library display guru, will feature for MLK Day 2014.
LINK TO THE LIBRARY Margaret D. Sneden Campus Library Newsletter
Volume III, Issue 1 Winter 2014
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Winter 2014
The Archives @ Davenport
Did you know that DU had a baseball team in the early
1900s? Come to the library and check out the latest exhibit,
Davenport at Bat.
The long walk back to the bench (1963), The Retrospectus
(Davenport Institute yearbook).
Great Michigan Read Winter 2014
The Michigan Humanities Council’s Great Michigan
Read is a book club for the entire state. With statewide
focus on a single book – Annie’s Ghosts: A
Journey into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg – the
Great Michigan Read aims to connect us as Michiganders
by deepening our understanding of our state, our society,
and our history. See our library guide for more details.
How one minute on the Internet
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More people are online and Internet connections are faster which accounts for part of why each “Internet minute” is busier.
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Annie's Ghosts is part
memoir, part detective story,
and part history. It is the story
of two sisters growing up in
Detroit during the Depression.
Annie, mentally and physically
disabled, is institutionalized at
age 21. Ruth, the other sister,
finally discloses the truth
about her sister as she
approaches her own death.
Luxenberg sleuths his family
history to learn the true story
he tells in Annie’s Ghosts. In 2009, Davenport University launched baseball and
softball teams – not for the first time - but again. If
you were unaware of our baseball/softball history, the
latest exhibit from the DU archives, “Davenport at
Bat” will tell the story. Come and see the 1910 image
of the McLachlan Business University’s “Base Ball
Club”, read about our 1940 and 1941 losing seasons,
see if you recognize any of the 1960s era Saginaw
women’s softball team players, and more. The exhibit
will reside in the Margaret D. Sneden Library from
mid-January through the end of April 2014. Stay
posted for an online version of the exhibit.
Winter 2014
February is Black History Month
Every year a new theme is selected to highlight issues
important to people of African American descent and race
relations in America. The 2014 theme is Civil Rights in
America which coincides with the 50th anniversary of the
1964 Civil Rights Act. See our Black History library guide
for more information.
Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2,
1964, the Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination in
public places, provided for the integration of schools and
other public facilities, and made employment
discrimination illegal. This document was the most
sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, July 2, 1964
Featured Database: ProQuest
Below are two resources you might not know about.
Business: Guides,Templates & Tools – click on the
link or go to Browse (at top of ProQuest home page) and then
click Start-up-Tools. You’ll find balance sheet templates,
marketing budget worksheets, Excel spreadsheet guides and
more.
Health & Medicine:Video Training Programs -
click on the link or go to Browse (at top of ProQuest home
page) and then click Competency and Training Resources.
You’ll find videos on everything from Feeding Tube
Components to Heart Sounds to Anatomy of the Immune
System.
Halloween
Rachel, Katherine & Qing
Holiday Potluck
Stephanie
Novian & Nate
Winter 2014
Did you know that the DU libraries carry current best selling fiction and non-fiction?
Click on a book cover to request the title or go to the online catalog to search for other books.
2013 in Review:
Amazon’s List of Best Selling Books
1. StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
2. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl
Sandberg
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, Book 8 by Jeff
Kinney
4. Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans by Rush
Limbaugh
5. Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence by Sarah
Young
6. Inferno by Dan Brown
7. The House of Hades: Heroes of Olympus, Book 4 by
Rick Riordan
8. Things that Matter: Three decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics by Charles Krauthammer
9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. Killing Jesus by Bill O’Reilly
Just click a title to locate the book in our collection!
Pew Research Center
A report issued by the Pew Research Center in September
2013 based on new census data concludes that the
economic clout of the college educated is growing.
For the first time on record, households headed by someone
with at least a bachelor’s degree received nearly a majority
(49.7%) of aggregate U.S. household income. In 2012 one in
every three households was college educated, meaning half
of the aggregate U.S. income goes to one-third of
households.
Data: pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/24/the-growing-
economic-clout-of-the-college-educated/