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Due to the campus closure, Dinand Library will close tonight at 6 pm and will remain closed through Wednesday. The Science Library will also be closed through Wednesday. We will provide electronic delivery of content as needed during this time, as well as continue our online support via reference, instruction, chat, PRS, etc. Students can request scans of items via document delivery. Drive up to Pick up will be restricted to Faculty.

Please note that our electronic databases and resources will be available during this time. If you have any questions or need assistance, please email libref@holycross.edu

The Holy Cross Libraries are pleased to host Professor Mark Freeman in the “Authors on the Hill” lecture series.

Join us Wednesday, April 14, at 4:30 pm on Zoom:
https://holycross.zoom.us/j/94623265329

Professor Freeman will present his book, “Do I Look at You with Love? Reimagining the Story of Dementia.” (Brill, 2021). Read more information about this book: Do I Look at You with Love flyer

For questions, please contact Outreach Librarian Laura Wilson at: llwilson@holycross.edu

The Libraries will have special hours for Easter Break. Dinand will have special hours from 3/31 – 4/4. The Science Library will have special hours from 3/31 – 4/6. Please note, all Libraries will be closed from Friday, April 2 – Sunday, April 4. See our full hours schedule: https://www.holycross.edu/holy-cross-libraries/holy-cross-libraries-hours

If you need assitance during this time, contact the 24/7 chat service: https://libguides.holycross.edu/ask Please note that all of our electronic resources including access to journals, ebooks, and streaming films will remain available during this time.

Tuesday, April 20 at 3:15-4:15pm
Join the HC Libraries for a conversation on Zoom with Paolo Parisi, Italian graphic designer, illustrator and author of Basquiat: A Graphic Novel. Come to hear more about the book, Basquiat as an artist, and also about Parisi’s own experiences, inspirations, styles, and methods of making art. The event will be hosted by Visual Literacy & Arts Librarian Janis DesMarais and Dr. Mark D. Nevins ’86.

Zoom link:
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Meeting ID: 971 5361 3698
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http://www.paoloparisi.org/
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Join the Writer’s Workshop and the Libraries for one or two citation workshops on March 24th.

7-7:30 pm : MLA Citations
7:30-8 pm: APA Citations

Zoom link: https://holycross.zoom.us/j/92685468796

We will cover formatting both in-text citations and the works cited / references page. You are welcome to ask individual citation questions in a break-out room after the relevant citation style presentation is finished. This event is open to students at the College of the Holy Cross.

Questions? Email Sam Garrity sgarrity@holycross.edu or Laura Wilson llwilson@holycross.edu

(Re)creating and Reconnecting Through Creativity

Library Services is hosting an outdoor “poetry walk” to help members of the Holy Cross community reconnect with each other and our campus through creative writing.

All students are invited to submit a poem, which will be posted on a sign along a designated walking path.

Please consider the following Guidelines when submitting:

The first 20 eligible poems received will be included in the walk

Poems must be UNPUBLISHED works

A digital version will be created for virtual enjoyment of the walk.

Longer poems may be abbreviated due to space constraints, but will be presented in whole with the digital version.

Library Services reserves the right/responsibility to determine eligibility.

Please use this form to submit your poem: https://forms.gle/9uAQXofb4MsnooPQ8 by MARCH 26, 2021.

Questions? Email Outreach Librarian Laura Wilson llwilson@holycross.edu

Congratulations to Anne-Catherine Schaff ’22, who is the winner of the “Climate Resilient Everyday Short Story Contest”! Schaff’s short story, “Blackstone Communion” describes a spiritual connection with nature experienced when walking along a trail in Blackstone Gateway Park.

Read the essay on CrossWorks: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/sustain_papers/2/

The Holy Cross Libraries are pleased to host Professor Alvaro Jarrín in the “Authors on the Hill” lecture series.

Join us Tuesday, March 9, at 4:30 pm on Zoom:  https://holycross.zoom.us/j/99494530692  

Professor Jarrín will present his book, “The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil.”  (University of California Press, 2017).

For questions, please contact Outreach Librarian Laura Wilson at: llwilson@holycross.edu

Are you in quarantine or isolation? Library resources are still available to you! You can request scans of library materials through Document Delivery and have them delivered right to your email inbox. To learn more about Document Delivery and other options for accessing library services, visit https://libguides.holycross.edu/Remote2020/books. KI ’21

The campus libraries and the Worcester Art Museum Library invite all Holy Cross students, faculty, and staff to an online book discussion for, “Basquiat: A Graphic Novel” by Paolo Parisi. A copy of this book is available on reserve in Dinand Library. This discussion will be facilitated by Rebecca Morin, Worcester Art Museum Librarian, Janis DesMarais, Visual Literacy and Arts Librarian, and Dr. Jorge Santos of the English Department.

This discusion will be March 3rd at 5:30 pm on Zoom. The Zoom meeting information is as follows:

https://holycross.zoom.us/j/96364549298

Meeting ID: 963 6454 9298
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If you have any questions, please contact WAM librarian Rebecca Morin at rmorin@holycross.edu or Janis DesMarais at jdesmara@holycross.edu