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Join us as we name BSC’s LEA hall in honor the former BSC President Dr. Larry C. Skogen!
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 l 1:30 pm
Outside the Library Main Doors
Dr. Skogen served as the 6th president of BSC from 2007 to 2020. He was a dedicated advocate of the arts, humanities, libraries, and student success. To learn more about him, click on the image below!
Author: Larry C. Skogen
…an Enlightenment era-influenced universalism, held that through an educational alchemy American Indians would become productive, Christianized Americans, distinguishable from their white neighbors only by the color of their skin. Directly confronting the assimilationists’ universalism were the progressive educators who, strongly influenced by the era’s scientific racism, held the notion that American Indians could never become fully assimilated.
For a decade educators gathered at annual meetings and presented papers on how best to educate Native students. Though the NEA Proceedings published these papers, strict guidelines often meant they were heavily edited before publication. In this volume, Larry C. Skogen presents many of these unedited papers and gives them historical context for the years 1900 to 1904.”
Indian Depredation Claims, 1796-1920
Author: Larry C. Skogen
Beginning in the seventeenth century, with the colonization of the Americas, European immigrants and American Indians encountered each other’s views on the rights and responsibilities of ownership. Disputes arose as a natural result of the meeting of two cultures, and occasionally these developed into sanguinary conflicts. In 1796 the United States Congress created the depredation claims system to compensate Indians and settlers alike for the loss of property and thereby preserve peace on the frontiers.
By presenting the lives of non-Indian people who filed for relief from depredations and the legal and political systems under which they filed claims, Larry Skogen accentuates the distinction between the lofty ideals and the penurious, tedious reality of the claims system.
Celebrate the creatives who write & illustrate cartoons, comic books, and graphic novels!
Check them out via our Comics Plus database or library catalog.
Be a more inclusive reader and celebrate those with disabilities! Read a book featuring a main character with a disability like these below 😉
Song for a Whale
Lynne Kelly
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, fly from Texas to California and then take a cruise ship to Alaska– armed with Iris’s plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
Blind
Rachel DeWoskin
When a tragic accident leaves her blind, fifteen-year-old Emma Sasha Silver must relearn everything from recognizing her family, to remembering colors, to getting around. Then, just as she’s about to reenter school, a classmate’s body is found, with all signs pointing to suicide. Determined to understand the girl’s actions–and to avoid being perceived as a poor blind kid–Emma sets out to unite her classmates to explore the situation…
Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Life without his boss, Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, (a small-time mobster) would be unimaginable…until it’s not. Frank is suddenly & fatally stabbed and the group falls apart. Lionel, the outcast who has trouble even conversing, attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight and the world making sense.
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus
In 1962, Elisa Esposito– mute her whole life– works as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center. Only Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, help her make it through her day. Then she sees something she was never meant to see: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. However, Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it.
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life–steady boyfriend, close family–who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life–big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel–and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy–but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.
BSC honors former Library with art piece
Stop by to see it in person!
We’ve got all kinds of things happening this week to celebrate the BSC Library and the wonders of library/librarians from all over the world.
Celebrate physicians and students in the medical field this week! Click here to learn more about National Physicians Week & download some free pics to help you celebrate.
The BSC Library is celebrating with a Books & Brew
@ the Wellbean 9 am – 12 pm 3/26/2024!
5 books to read this week
The Doctor was a Woman : Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier
Chris Enss
Read about 10 amazing female physicians of the Old West!
Eureka! : 50 Scientists who shaped human history
John Grant
Grant paints 50 vivid portraits of groundbreaking scientists, including their ideas, breakthroughs, lives, and various quirks.
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women — and Women to Medicine
Janice P. Nimura
The Blackwell sisters were two tenacious, visionary and complicated pioneers who broke the limits of what was possible for women in medicine.
The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: the Story of the Penicillin Miracle
Eric Lax
“Admirable, superbly researched … perhaps the most exciting tale of science since the apple dropped on Newton’s head.”–Simon Winchester, The New York Times.
One blood : the death and resurrection of Charles R. Drew
Spencie Love
Trace the life of the famous black scientist and surgeon who became known both as the father of the blood bank and by his death.
World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace. UNESCO first adopted 21 March as World Poetry Day in 1999.
Celebrate by checking out a book of poetry from the BSC Library! This guide will help.
3.14159 – Watch, listen or crack a book spine!
Pie Academy by Haedrich
“Discover recipes for all types of crusts and pastry, including gluten-free, whole wheat, and extra-flaky. Learn about the best tools and gadgets to make dough and fillings. Step-by-step instructions with photos make it easy for bakers of all levels”– Provided by publisher.
Literary Eats by Scharnhorst
“This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the late 18th century are known to have enjoyed…[including] Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rudolfo Anaya, Emily Dickinson, William Faulkner and Benjamin Franklin”– Provided by publisher
Pie by Weeks
After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice’s friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly’s secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.
How to bake Pi : an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics by Cheng
What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, unexpectedly, by insights from the kitchen…
Humble Pi : when math goes wrong in the real world by Parker
“This tour of [hilarious] real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in everyday life…[Explore] glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team…”– Provided by publisher.
A history of (PI) by Beckmann
Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress and also when it did not, because science was being stifled for one reason or another.
The maker’s guide to the zombie apocalypse : defend your base with simple circuits, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi by Monk
A collection of DIY hardware projects using circuits, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi to store electricity, detect invading zombies, generate solar power, and create communication and surveillance devices. Projects include alarms, low-power LED lighting, an FM radio frequency hopper, a periscope, a wind turbine, and flash, movement, and noise makers”– Provided by publisher
Film: Pi (Numbers)
All ancient civilizations wrestled with the challenge of calculating the area of a circle by simply using a ruler and compass. It took 5,000 years finally to come up with a solution. To solve this mathematical conundrum, mathematicians used geometry, quadratic equation, calculus and other math formulae.
CD: The Best of Don McLean
AMERICAN PIE.
“I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died
So bye, bye, Miss American Pie”
Soundtrack: Sweeney Todd: the demon barber of Fleet Street
THE WORSTPIES IN LONDON
“Wait, what’s your rush, what’s your hurry?
You gave me such a fright
I thought you was a ghost
Half a minute, can’t you sit? Sit you down, sit
All I meant is that I haven’t seen a customer for weeks
Did you come here for a pie, sir?”