SPRING BREAK LIBRARY HOURS

SPRING BREAK HOURS
M-F 8am to 5pm
CLOSED Saturday 3/3, Sunday 3/4, and Saturday 3/10.
We will reopen our normal business hours at 2pm on Sunday, March 11.
Have a safe and fun break, everyone!

Andrew Young donates DVD collection to the library

Reinhardt University was honored January 7th with an appearance by former Atlanta mayor and Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young. You can read more about Ambassador Young's visit here.

Before he left, Ambassador Young presented the university with a collection of his Emmy-winning series of documentaries Andrew Young Presents. The titles are "Tanzania: Stories of Life," "Rwansa Rising," "what's Wrong with Nigeria?," "Howe We Got Over," "Leaving Selma" and "Stars Fell On Alabama," "Change in the Wind," "In the Footsteps of Gandhi," "Willie B.: The Greatest Ape," "Continent of Opportunity," and "Walking with Guns." These DVDs are now in the library and available for checkout. This donation promises to be engaging and enlightening for our faculty and our students for years to come, and we are very grateful to Ambassador Young. Come check them out! I know I will.

Black History Month display honors military

Greetings all!

In honor of Black History Month, please come by the Hill Freeman Library and check out our special themed display: "American Heroes." This display contains books spotlighting the contributions of African Americans in our nation's armed forces, from both sides of the Civil War to the Tuskegee Airmen of WWII up to the present conflicts. Most of these are from our Triplett Military History Collection, which is one of the finest in the region. Come check it out and honor our heroes.

ATTENTION EDUCATION STUDENTS (and teachers, and parents, and babysitters, and "inner children)"

I am excited to tell you about one of our newer databases. Education majors, you will find this resource to be priceless! Picture Book Database brings you bibliographic information about thousands of picture books and illustrated books. This is tailor-made for your curriculum. You can search books based on age level, author, illustrator, artistic media, artistic style, character education, literacy ties (from audience participation to interlocking narratives,predictable patterns to phonemic awareness to rhythm and rhyme and wordplay), literary devices, origin, subjects and themes. You can even search specifically for picture books which have been made into movies. Soon they plan to incorporate Lexile and Accelerated Reading measures.

You can tell the people who designed this database were committed to education, too. Not only is it very user-friendly, it also offers clear instructions on how to search and get the best use out of the database, including a full list of subject terms.

If you want one of the books reviewed on the database and we don't have it in our library, you can always contact Stephanie, our Interlibrary Loan Specialist, and see if she can get it for you. You can email Stephanie at sfo@reinhardt.edu. (Remember to allow time for the book to ship from another library).

You can access Picture Book Database from our library home page. It will be on the right-hand side of the site under "What's New."

I'd love to hear what you all think of this resource! I hope you are as excited about it as I am.

Congratulations to Michael Martinez!

We'd like to offer our congratulations to our own Michael Martinez, director of the Hill Freeman Library and Spruill Learning Center! Michael was recently presented with the Captain A.M. Reinhardt Award.

Each fall semester Reinhardt’s Student Government Association (SGA) honors a member of the Reinhardt Community with the presentation of the Captain A.M. Reinhardt Award. This award is presented to one faculty or staff member for his or her sincere dedication to the mission, purpose and life of Reinhardt University.

One letter nominating him for the award read as follows:

Michael Martinez, director of the library, represents the best of what Reinhardt is and what Reinhardt should be. He works tirelessly to obtain for our students, faculty and staff access to the broadest scope of information for scholarship and personal development. He is dedicated to facilitating a community of inquiry, free speech and free thought. Through his work with the Year Of program for the past several years, he has helped prepare Reinhardt students to think globally and expand their horizons. Through his library instruction classes, he encourages information literacy and the ability to think critically about one's information sources. His dedication to students showed a few years ago when he won the faculty mentor award, voted on by the student body--I think that is pretty impressive for someone who is not primarily a classroom teacher (although he does teach a First Year Seminar class each year). I think students know they can come to him for help with their term papers, but they also feel free to come for him for general life advice. Information is power, and through Mr. Martinez's work we are all better empowered.

Michael Martinez has worked at Reinhardt for seven years. Since he's been the library director, the collection has tripled in size. The computers have tripled and been updated with the purchase of new units. In addition to the Captain Reinhardt award and the Elizabeth Moss Bailey Faculty Mentor Award, he has also won the Reinhardt University Outstanding Organization Adviser Award.

Furthermore, he's a great boss and a great friend. We are very proud to congratulate Michael on this award.

Irish Roots Music Lesson with John Falstaff

Doing anything Monday night? Do you love music? Would you like to hear about the roots of a musical tradition that has informed and inspired artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Metallica? Then you're in luck! The Year of Ireland and Irish Heritage Program is sponsoring a talk by John Falstaff, the host of "The Celtic Show" on WRFG Atlanta (89.3FM). Mr. Falstaff, a Dublin native, will be at the Hill Freeman Library & Spruill Learning Center on Monday, January 30th, at 6 pm. The music lover and DJ has been sharing his passion for Celtic music on Atlanta's airwaves since the mid-'90s. (I'm completely in awe of the fact that he interviewed Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains--truly the best band I've seen live...EVER). He's also chatted with other luminaries such as Susan McKeown, fiddler Kevin Burke and Riverdance composer Bill Whelan, among others. I can't wait to hear Mr. Falstaff speak!

Happy Holidays! Winter Break Hours

The Hill Freeman Library will be OPEN from 8am to 5pm Dec. 12-16, Dec. 19-22, December 27-30, and January 3-6. We will be closed on weekends. We will also be closed on December 23, December 26 and January 2. We will reopen regular hours on Monday, January 9.

We wish all of our students, faculty, staff and friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!