Library Book Return Deadline — Friday, May 19

To:     Class of 2017

From: Circulation Department, Wesleyan University Library

Re:     Returning Library Items before the end of the semester

The Circulation Department reminds you that all library items need to be returned to the library by Friday, May 19, 2017.

Please be advised that starting on Monday, May 22th, the library will process bills to Student Accounts for any items still charged out to your account. You may check your account to see what items are currently charged out to you. Please go to “My Account” from the “Wesleyan Library Catalog.”

If an item is lost or not returned, there will be a replacement fee of $85.00 per item, or a charge for the actual cost of the item if it is greater. The library reserves the right to charge a non-refundable processing fee of $35.00 per item for items returned damaged. If you have any questions about your library account, please contact the following staff members to clear your account.

Randy Wilson, (rwilson@wesleyan.edu, x. 3879) for collections at Olin Library

Linda Hurteau (lhurteau@wesleyan.edu, x. 3728) for items at Science Library

Jennifer Hadley (jthom@wesleyan.edu, x. 3897) for items at Scores & Recordings

Kathleen Cataldi (kcataldi@wesleyan.edu, x. 3852) for Reserve materials.

Kate Wolfe (ill@wesleyan.edu, x. 3876) for items from Interlibrary Loan department.

For any other questions, please contact elee01@wesleyan.edu, or call x. 3454.

Thank you for returning library items by May 19, 2017.

Congratulations on your forthcoming graduation and best wishes in your future endeavors.

EunJoo Lee, Head of Access Services, Olin Library

Talk and Book-Signing: “Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter” — 11/9 at 4:30 p.m.

This coming week, the Friends of the Library Board will host an event on November 9th at 4:30pm for a talk by Christina Heatherton and Jordan Camp on their new edited volume, Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter. The gathering will be held in the in the Smith Reading Room at Olin Library and include Q & A, as well as book signing afterward.

Also, there will be an open house in the Special Collections & Archives room with rare materials related to the history of policing and incarceration. The open house will be on that same day/evening from 4-4:30pm and again from 6-7pm.

Info on the book:  https://www.versobooks.com/books/2107-policing-the-planet

Info on the guest speakers:

Christina Heatherton is an Assistant Professor in American Studies at Trinity College. She is completing her first book, The Color Line and the Class Struggle: The Mexican Revolution, Internationalism, and the American Century (University of California Press, forthcoming). With Jordan T. Camp she recently edited Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso Books, 2016). Her work appears in places such as American Quarterly, Interface, The Rising Tides of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements Across the Pacific, edited by Moon-Ho Jung (University of Washington Press, 2014) and Feminists Rethink the  Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion and Change, edited by Leela Fernandes (New York University Press, forthcoming). With Jordan T. Camp she previously co-edited Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in LA and Beyond (Freedom Now Books, 2012). She is the editor of Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader (Freedom Now Books, 2011).

Jordan T. Camp is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown. He is the author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016), co-editor (with Christina Heatherton) of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016), and co-editor (with Laura Pulido) of Clyde A. Woods’ book, Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (University of Georgia Press, forthcoming). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has previously held teaching appointments, postdoctoral fellowships, or visiting positions at Princeton, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, California State University-Long Beach, and UCLA.

 

Note from Dean Brown

2017’ers,

I hope you are getting into your classes and the rhythm of the semester—and are enjoying being a senior!  

With drop/add over, CHECK YOUR CREDIT ANALYSIS to make sure you are all set to meet degree requirements by the end of the spring semester so that you can walk in the ceremony and graduate on May 28!!! 

Update Your Major Certification Form (MCF)

December Completions should submit a completed form by September 30; May Completions should do so early in the spring semester.  This tool both tracks your progress in the major and is used by your department to confirm that you have completed major requirements. 

 Grading Option/Schedule Confirmation Deadline

September 30 is the deadline for choosing a grading mode for courses that offer the option.  It is also the deadline for confirming the accuracy of your schedule so be sure to check!

Thesis & Essay Writers

The library is offering workshops on research sources and interlibrary loan and other services for seniors writing a thesis or an essay. Sessions will be offered on Mon. 9/26, Tues. 9/27, Wed. 9/28, and Thurs. 9/29 at 11 a.m, 1 p.m and 3 p.m. each day. No need to sign up ahead of time. Choose a date and time convenient for you and join a group for a 45-minute info session at Olin Library’s Reference Office. Attendees will be granted expanded interlibrary loan privileges. Contact Kendall Hobbs, Reference Librarian, at khobbs@wesleyan.edu with questions.  

Work at Homecoming and Family Weekends
This year’s Homecoming (Oct.21-22) and Family Weekends (Oct. 28-30) are fast approaching, and we need student employees! Aside from getting paid, you’ll also have the unique opportunity to help out with one of Wesleyan’s most important events, make lasting connections with alumni, and represent the student body to hundreds of visitors and guests. Fill out and submit the student worker application by Wed., Oct. 5 at 5 PM, and we will notify you of your employment status no later than Mon., Oct. 10.  Note: Homecoming is during fall break.  There will be a mandatory student employee meeting on Wed., Oct. 26 at 5 PM. If you are hired, you must attend this meeting to receive your work schedules, event staff T-shirt, and other important event information.  If you have any questions, please contact us at aprinterns@wesleyan.edu.  Best, Nisha Grewal ’17, Avva Saniee ’17, Amanda Yeoh ’19 & Maxine Gibb ’19 

I have loved seeing so many of you already this semester.  Don’t hesitate to drop in, make an appointment, or email me with questions or concerns.  Best, Dean Brown

 

Book Sale — Sat., Nov. 2

Friends of the Wesleyan Library Book Sale

Saturday, November 2, 2013 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.  – Homecoming Weekend

libraryOlin Memorial Library, 252 Church Street, Middletown, CT  06459

3500+ academic and popular, donated and ex libris books. 

Most books priced $1-$5.  Special books $10+.  Cash and checks accepted.

Bring friends and enjoy browsing the excellent selection. You never know what treasures you will find!

We are still looking for volunteers for that day, so please consider helping out for an hour or two.  It’s fun!

For more information or to volunteer to help, contact libfriends@wesleyan.edu or 860-685-3897.

Constitution Day Lecture with Ted Shaw ’76: “Looking Backwards, Looking Forward: The Persistence of Race in Twenty-First Century American Life” — 9/17, 7:30 p.m.

CONSTITUTION DAY LECTURE

BY

TED SHAW ’76

Looking Backwards, Lookng Forward:  The Persistence of Race in Twenty-First Century American Life”

Tuesday, September 17 at 7:30 p.m.

Smith Reading Room, Olin Library

Ted ShawTed Shaw is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University Law School and of counsel at the international firm of Fulbright and Jaworski.  He served as director-counsel and president of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 2004 through 2009 and as a Wesleyan Trustee for 15 years.

NOT TO BE MISSED!