Student Design Work Displayed in Hannon Library
Hannon Library recently gave students in the EMDA 343: Graphic Design Methods class taught by Sam Hayes-Hicks, Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Digital Art, an opportunity to share their work beyond the classroom setting with a unique collaboration with several librarians. The partnership began as a fun way to celebrate Hannon Library’s 70th anniversary as part of the Federal Library Depository Program (FDLP). This program allows the library to provide free access to a vast array of unique historical and current materials from the Federal government and the State of Oregon.
The collection includes distinctive posters, maps, and documents from Federal and state agencies, allowing graphic design students the opportunity to examine the design elements and possible informational purposes of the materials. Holly Gabriel, Open Access & Government Information Librarian and Jan Juliani, Cataloging & Digital Projects Librarian and Subject Liaison for Art & Art History, enjoyed working with the students to provide an overview of finding and using the library’s collection of government materials.
Students Are Given a Mission!
Students in the class were randomly assigned a Federal government agency to research and then design a poster highlighting that specific agency. Students returned to the library to present their printed posters to their classmates, librarians, and EMDA faculty. Attendees also enjoyed a decorated cake to celebrate the milestone of 70 years of providing free access for all to government information.
Students participated in a friendly competition to vote on their favorite poster regarding its design elements and how the poster represented the federal agency. The winners of best posters included Maliah Ratcliff and Gianna McCardell, who share some thoughts below:
“For my poster, I had the United States Postal Service. I was really inspired with their 1937 logo and decided to make it the focal point of the stamp.” –Maliah Ratcliff
“I enjoyed working on this project because we all got to be really creative while also getting a sense of what it’s like to work for a client instead of for a professor. My posters (which were made to represent the Department of Housing and Urban Development) were mainly inspired by colorful images of buildings I found on the Department’s website and the iconic mosaic in the entryway of the Hannon Library. During the design process, my intention was to incorporate both clean-cut graphic design and rough, loose illustration for a fun but still professional look.” –Gianna McCardell
Everyone can view the posters on display on the first floor of the Hannon Library in the windows of the Government Information Office.
For more information about the FDLP, click the link here.
Also, you can admire the students’ posters below:
Susanne Petermann: “Translating Rilke’s Poetry”
Library NewsThe Friends of Hannon Library will host Susanne Petermann, poet and translator of the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, in the final installment of the Friends of Hannon Library Lecture Series for this academic year on May 11.
Petermann has published her own poetry in a range of literary reviews, and her book of translations of Rilke’s French poetry, When I Go: The Selected French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, was published by Cascade Books in 2017. The topic of Petermann’s lecture will be a new series of Rilke poems translated from French to English in honor of the centennial of the poet’s death. Informed by her own poetic sensibilities, her translations help bring Rilke’s lesser-known French works to a wider audience.
Petermann currently lives in Southern Oregon and is a graduate of Macalester College in Minnesota. After college, she spent ten years traveling, studying language, and teaching English abroad. In addition to writing and translating, Petermann also works as a personal organizer.
The Friends of Hannon Library event, titled “Translating Rilke’s Poetry,” will be held on May 11, 2023, at 7 p.m. in the Meese Room of the Hannon Library. Interested persons who are not able to attend in person may register to receive a Zoom link to attend virtually. Metered parking is available for those visiting campus to attend the event in lots 1, 12, 29, 36, 37, and 41.
Schneider Museum of Art Installs a New Art Piece in the Hannon Library
Library News¡Provecho! by Justin Favela
Visitors to Hannon Library are now greeted with a stunning art installation coordinated by the Schneider Museum of Art as part of their Art Beyond 2023 project. ¡Provecho! by mixed-media artist Justin Favela is a large and colorful piñata-inspired fabric art work that will be on display in the Hannon Library rotunda until mid-July. Las Vegas-based Favela was a visiting artist at SOU in 2019 and originally created ¡Provecho! while in residence here. Favela’s work mixes pop culture references with commentary on society, history, culture, and identity.
¡Provecho! was created from long pieces of gossamer fabric that call to mind the tissue paper commonly used in the fabrication of piñatas. By playing with the iconic form stereotypically identified with Latinx culture, Favela is able to both celebrate the culture and question our associations. Favela’s art has been shown in museums and galleries in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and he is also an award-winning podcaster. In 2018, he was awarded the 2018 Alan Turing LGTBIQ Award for International Artist.
CEO of Abacela Winery shares his experience in winemaking
Library NewsClimatologist Greg Jones, the CEO of Abacela Winery in Oregon’s Umpqua Valley, has been involved in the Oregon wine industry for nearly thirty years. Earl and Hilda Jones, Greg’s parents, founded Abacela in 1995. Over the years, the vineyards for the family-run winery have grown to cover 76 acres, and Abacela produces more than 12,000 cases of wine each year.
Jones started out pursuing hydrology as a field, but was later drawn to climatology and meteorology, specializing in viticulture and wine production. In the early 1990s, Jones earned a Ph.D. in environmental sciences with a concentration in atmospheric sciences from the University of Virginia. His dissertation examined the impact of climate on viticulture and winemaking in the Bordeaux region of France. He has since become a globally renowned atmospheric scientist and wine climatologist. Among many noteworthy works are his contributions to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
Greg Jones has also been an important voice in education, serving in various roles such as professor and Director of Business, Education, and the Environment at Southern Oregon University and as Director for the Center for Wine Education at Linfield University. His contributions to Hannon Library are multiple: he was consultant on the first phase of the Wine of Southern Oregon project in the Southern Oregon Digital Archives (SODA) in 2013, and he was an advocate for the Sarah Powell Wine Collection Fund started by the Rogue Valley Winegrowers Association (RVWA). Jones also served on the board of the Erath Family Foundation and was instrumental in a second grant to the library to extend the Wine of Southern Oregon collection to the Upmqua AVA.
Join us as Gregory Jones presents “Climate and Wine: Trends and Influences on Sustainable Wine Production” as part of the Friends of the Hannon Library Speaker Series.
When: April 13th, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Where: LIB 305, Third Floor (Meese Meeting Room)
For those of you that can’t make it to the event in person, use the zoom link here to watch virtually.
Hannon Library 70th Anniversary with FDLP
Library NewsStudent Design Work Displayed in Hannon Library
Hannon Library recently gave students in the EMDA 343: Graphic Design Methods class taught by Sam Hayes-Hicks, Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Digital Art, an opportunity to share their work beyond the classroom setting with a unique collaboration with several librarians. The partnership began as a fun way to celebrate Hannon Library’s 70th anniversary as part of the Federal Library Depository Program (FDLP). This program allows the library to provide free access to a vast array of unique historical and current materials from the Federal government and the State of Oregon.
The collection includes distinctive posters, maps, and documents from Federal and state agencies, allowing graphic design students the opportunity to examine the design elements and possible informational purposes of the materials. Holly Gabriel, Open Access & Government Information Librarian and Jan Juliani, Cataloging & Digital Projects Librarian and Subject Liaison for Art & Art History, enjoyed working with the students to provide an overview of finding and using the library’s collection of government materials.
Students Are Given a Mission!
Students in the class were randomly assigned a Federal government agency to research and then design a poster highlighting that specific agency. Students returned to the library to present their printed posters to their classmates, librarians, and EMDA faculty. Attendees also enjoyed a decorated cake to celebrate the milestone of 70 years of providing free access for all to government information.
Students participated in a friendly competition to vote on their favorite poster regarding its design elements and how the poster represented the federal agency. The winners of best posters included Maliah Ratcliff and Gianna McCardell, who share some thoughts below:
“For my poster, I had the United States Postal Service. I was really inspired with their 1937 logo and decided to make it the focal point of the stamp.” –Maliah Ratcliff
“I enjoyed working on this project because we all got to be really creative while also getting a sense of what it’s like to work for a client instead of for a professor. My posters (which were made to represent the Department of Housing and Urban Development) were mainly inspired by colorful images of buildings I found on the Department’s website and the iconic mosaic in the entryway of the Hannon Library. During the design process, my intention was to incorporate both clean-cut graphic design and rough, loose illustration for a fun but still professional look.” –Gianna McCardell
Everyone can view the posters on display on the first floor of the Hannon Library in the windows of the Government Information Office.
For more information about the FDLP, click the link here.
Also, you can admire the students’ posters below:
Black History Month: Novels Part 1
Library NewsThe Prophets
By: Robert Jones, Jr.
A novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.
Get more information here.
The Water Dancer
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
A novel that follows a young Black man who discovers that his memories trigger a mysterious power of teleportation that can help escaped slaves flee.
Get more information here.
The Underground Railroad
By: Colson Whitehead
A novel about a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia plantation by following the Underground Railroad, which the novel depicts as a rail transport system with safe houses and secret routes.
Get more information here.
Black Cake
By: Charmaine, Wilkerson
A novel about how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories and even names can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch.
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
A novel that explores the history of an African-American family in the American South, from the time before the American Civil War and slavery, through the Civil Rights Movement, to the present.
Get more information here.