Lydia M. Olson Library - NMU Events and Announcements

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Diwali (also known as Deepavali or Tihar) is a five day festival celebrated amongst Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and Sikh communities around the world. It celebrates the triumph of good over evil and light over dark.  

Diwali is marked by lighting diyas, or small clay oil lamps. 🪔 While we can’t have real oil lamps at the Northern Center, we will provide LED tea lights and a holder that you can decorate. We will also have a sample of South Asian snacks and sweets and you will be able to learn some regional dances from India.

This event is made possible by generous support from Lydia M. Olson Library, NMU Housing & Residential Life, School of Education, Leadership & Public Service, Departments of Sociology & Anthropology, Earth, Environmental & Geographical Sciences, Social Work, and Languages, Literatures & International Studies, and the Marquette-Alger Great Start Collaborative.

We hope to see you there! Zarur aana! 

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Open educational resources are not limited to text and images. In this session, we will explore options for creating multimedia and interactive practice exercises that can also be shared as OER. We will look at examples including interactive videos, drag and drop sorting exercises, branching scenarios, and more. We have tools to create these exercises without the need for coding. Participants should bring their laptop computers.

This event is made possible through SISU Innovation Funding.

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In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of LibreTexts, including how to search the library and adopt materials. Participants will also have the opportunity to curate, customize, create, and edit materials specific to their courses. No prior experience is necessary. Participants should bring their laptop computers.

LibreTexts is the largest centralized open education project and platform online. LibreTexts is adaptable and user-friendly for educators, while being easily accessible and interactive for students. On this platform, you can adopt, customize, and share textbooks, adaptive homework, and ancillary materials for a variety of subjects (chemistry, biology, business, humanities, K-12 education, math, statistics, social sciences, etc.). 

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Take the Library Survey to win prizes!

The Lydia M. Olson Library is asking students, faculty, staff, and the general public to participate in a library user satisfaction survey to help us serve you better.

Once the survey is completed, individuals will have a chance to be entered in a drawing and win a $100 Amazon gift card or one of several $20 Starbucks cards.

All responses to the survey will be held in confidence. No identifying
links between responses and the individual responding will be retained. Combined data only will be reported.

Take the 15-minute survey here: https://www.libqual.org/survey/RWSLJQP27U886X8HRA.

If you have any difficulty in accessing the survey or if you have questions, please contact library@nmu.edu.

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The Lydia M. Olson Library is offering a free service to help you preserve your COVID-19 vaccination record. After receiving your final shot (either the second Moderna/Pfizer shot or the single Johnson & Johnson shot), bring your vaccination card to Olson Library to make a laminated copy. We will copy your card and laminate the copy free of charge!

It is important to note that since it is unknown how the vaccination cards will be used in the future, including whether booster shots will be needed, we are not offering to laminate the original card.

Current NMU students, faculty, and staff can take advantage of this free service through August 20, 2021. We may open the service to other community members and/or extend the service in the future.

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Need a space for late-night studying? Stressed about perfecting your group project? The Lydia M. Olson Library is offering extended hours the weekend before finals and during finals week. The hours are as follows:

Friday, 12/3: 7:30am-3am
Saturday, 12/4: 9am-3am
Sunday, 12/5: 9am-3am
Monday, 12/6: 7:30am-3am
Tuesday, 12/7: 7:30am-3am

Whether your nose is hidden behind a text book, or your fingers are tying away on an essay, the library is here to help you this week.

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From now through Monday October 24th the Olson Library is hosting Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition that examines Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.  What did Americans know, and what more could have been done?  The exhibition--from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. in conjunction with the American Library Association -- also presents stories of individual Americans, some of whom took actions that went against the grain at the time, daring to rescue Jews from Europe.

Our first event is this Thursday at 7pm in HRDN 224.  Dr. Robbie Goodrich will speak on Genocidalism.  See link for description and additional events, both here at at the Peter White Public Library.

Lydia M. Olson Library

From now through Monday October 24th the Olson Library is hosting Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition that examines Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.  What did Americans know, and what more could have been done?  The exhibition--from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. in conjunction with the American Library Association -- also presents stories of individual Americans, some of whom took actions that went against the grain at the time, daring to rescue Jews from Europe.

Our first event is this Thursday at 7pm in HRDN 224.  Dr. Robbie Goodrich will speak on Genocidalism.  See link for description and additional events, both here at at the Peter White Public Library.

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Support your community!

The American Red Cross will be hosting a blood drive on the main floor of the Lydia M. Olson Library from 10:00 a.m. — 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 30th.

While there has been a significant and encouraging response to the dire need for blood across the nation, the American Red Cross needs more people to give in the weeks ahead to recover from its worst blood shortage in more than a decade.

Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, the Red Cross employees have implemented added precautions to ensure blood drives and donation centers are safe for donors and staff.

If interested in donating, please visit the link below to schedule an appointment https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/donation-time. 
 

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Support your community!

The American Red Cross will be hosting a blood drive on the main floor of the Lydia M. Olson Library from 10:00 a.m. — 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 26th.

While there has been a significant and encouraging response to the dire need for blood across the nation, the American Red Cross needs more people to give in the weeks ahead to recover from its worst blood shortage in more than a decade.

Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, the Red Cross employees have implemented added precautions to ensure blood drives and donation centers are safe for donors and staff.

If interested in donating, please visit the link below to schedule an appointment https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/find-drive​​​​​​​.