FDU Library News

International Films @ Giovatto

Mondays @ noon, Periodicals Department/Ruth Schwartz Reading Room, Giovatto Library

January 30^th – Amelie (France)

Kathy’s Picks –

Stress in America.  http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/index.aspx

Libraries:  A Paper Wikipedia.  http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/19/college-librarians-reach-out-students-during-wikipedia-blackout

The New Job Security:  The 5 Best Strategies for Taking Control of your Career.  Available fo check out @ the Library

A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond.  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/a-sharper-mind-middle-age-and-beyond.html?_r=1&hp

Reader’s Advisory –

50 Tips for College Success.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-sarkis-phd/50-tips-for-college-succe_b_922595.html

Secrets of College Success.  Available to check out @ the Library

Top 10 Secrets of College Success.  http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/professors-guide/2010/08/17/top-10-secrets-of-college-success

“Picture Yourself with a Book!”

Have your picture taken with your favorite Library book during the month of March!

You will receive one copy of your picture, and another will be on display at the Library during National Library Week

All FDU students, faculty, staff, alumni, and Friends of the Library are welcome

Contact Jessie Ribustello @ Jessie_ribustello@fdu.edu or ribustel@fdu.edu to arrange to have your picture taken

Food for Thought – Lunch @ the Library

Tuesdays – 12 noon ‘til 1:30

January 31^st – France and French Culture in a Globalized World –Kathy

February 7^th – European Travels –Paul

February 14^th – Reading and Research on European History — Dirk

February 21^st – Digital Music:  The Distribution of Music Today — Mike

FDU students, faculty, staff, alumni, and Friends of the Library are welcome

Periodicals Department/Ruth Schwartz Reading Room, Giovatto Library.

Beverages and light dessert will be provided

Have a Date with a Book

Your book is waiting for you @ Giovatto

Each time you check out during the month of February, you will have a chance to win a $25. campus book store gift certificate  

More information @ ext. 2279

The Art of Dance,” an exhibition of works by Mansa K. Mussa, a dance photographer and artist, will be on display Monday, January 23 through Friday, March 9, 2012 in the lobby of the College at Florham Library. 

An opening reception and artist’s lecture will be held 3:00–5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 21^st, in the Orangérie.  Admission is free.

In honor of Black History Month the one-man exhibition will include black-and-white and color photographs, collages, and shadow boxes, selected from the artist’s oeuvre spanning thirty-five years of dance photography.  His collection includes photographs representing over one hundred dance companies from around the world.  “The Art of Dance” celebrates the spirit of dance, as captured on film and JPEG, and with some images transformed into dynamic graphics and collages. 

Included in the exhibit is “Evidence of Evolution,” a series of nine-by-nine-inch shadow boxes which contain photographs, objects of art, fabric, and found objects.  As a visual artist, Mussa became intrigued with the prospect of transforming photographs from the flat, one-dimensional surface of the photographic paper, by creating tableaux with dancers frozen in challenging and unlikely environments.  The series has been the focus of his collage work for the past ten years.

For further information, contact:  Eleanor Friedl, 973.443.8516.