News from October 2023
See all upcoming Libraries events — including our featured events, workshops, and exhibits — on the UMN Twin Cities Events Calendar.
Your basic Jack-O-Lantern needs a glow up. Here’s how.
Carving an artistic Jack-O-Lantern isn’t as difficult as it seems. Just ask Justin Boeser, a student supervisor at Magrath Library and part-time professional pumpkin carver.
Open Access Week 2023: Community over Commercialization
The theme of this year’s International Open Access Week is “community over commercialization”. The OA Week 2023 Advisory Committee explains this is a time to discuss “which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community — and which do not.”
‘Playing Indian’: A retrospective on the YMCA’s Indian Guides program
The YMCA Indian Guides was a father-son (later parent-child) development program, intended to help stereotypical stern fathers form real, authentic bonds with their children. “Playing Indian” was the social lubricant and framework to foster those relationships, said Ryan Bean, archivist at the Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
America’s first banned book?
I was very interested to read Colleen Connolly’s essay in the Smithsonian Magazine online about the book that is widely considered the first banned book in North America: “How America’s First Banned Book Survived and Became and Anti-Authoritarian Icon.” The book in question is Thomas Morton’s New English Canaan or New Canaan, published in Amsterdam in 1637, and I was pleased to discover that the Bell Library has a copy – one of about 25 copies that have survived.