Tag: Events/Displays

Autism Awareness Month

Autism Awareness Display at the Downtown Campus Library

Autism, or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication. According to the Centers for Disease Control, autism affects an estimated 1 in 54 children in the United States today.
From: autismspeaks.org

Autism isn’t a set of defined symptoms that collectively worsen as you move “up” the spectrum. In fact, one of the distinguishing features of autism is what the DSM-V calls an “uneven profile of abilities.” There’s a reason people like to say that “if you have met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” Every autistic person presents slightly differently.

That’s because autism isn’t one condition. It is a collection of related neurological conditions that are so intertwined and so impossible to pick apart that professionals have stopped trying.

From: neuroclastic.com

Websites about Autism

Autism Research Institute: autism.com

Wrong Planet: Asperger & Autism Forum community: wrongplanet.net

GRASP: grasp.org

Autism Hangout: youtube.com/user/autismhangout

Carly’s Café: Experience Autism through Carly’s Eyes: carlyscafe.com

Let’s Talk Series

In summer 2020, the library started hosting a book club and movie/tv club to discuss all of your favorite books, audiobooks, movies and television series! We are please to continue offering this programming and cannot wait for you to join us, let us know what you think, and give us (and each other) your recommendations, meet our hosts and make new friends! All students, staff, faculty and public patrons are welcome to REGISTER HERE to reserve their seat today! You may also register by e-mailing us at library@reynolds.edu.


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Upcoming Schedule

Friday March 12th @ Noon
Books on Spring Planting and Flowers

Thursday, March 25th @ 6:30 PM
Period Pieces, focus on Marie Antoinette (2006) for Women’s History Month  

Friday, April 9th @ Noon
Books on the Environment for Earth Day & Keep America Beautiful Month   

Thursday, April 29th @ 6:30 PM
Kaiju Films, focus on Godzilla (1954) in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month*Kaiju is a Japanese genre of film featuring giant monsters. 

Past Discussions

– Classic Sci Fi movies/tv, focus on Alien (1979)
– Favorite genres/books/authors, Quarantine reads kick-off
– Disaster movies/tv, focus on Jurassic Park (1993)
– Summer/Beach reads
– Coming of Age movies/tv, focus on Eighth Grade (2018)
– Middle Grade & Young Adult novels
– Rom-com movies/tv, focus on When Harry Met Sally (1989)
– Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels
– Horror movies/tv, focus on Get Out (2017)
– Ghost Stories– Books vs Movies: Modern Sci Fi, focus on Blade Runner 2049 (2017) & Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick
– Romance novels and chick lit
– Children’s Movies, focus on An American Tail, 1986
– Action/Adventure Books
– Classics in Suspense (Film), focus on Strangers on a Train, 1951
– Books versus Movies: Stephen King adaptations
– Anime movies/series with Reynolds Anime Club, focus on Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
– Parody film classics, focus on Airplane! (1980)
– Indigenous Literature
– Martial Arts Films (focus on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000)
– “Pulp Fiction” Lit
– “Bad Movies” (focus on Room 2003)
– True Crime & Thrillers
– Mystery (focus on Knives Out 2019)
– American History
– Documentaries (focus on King of Kong, 2008)
– Books about Chocolate for Valentine’s Day
– Black Directors for Black History Month (focus on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, 2020)

Choose Your Direction at the Library!

Reynolds Libraries will be hosting three open house events this fall. We would like each of you to join us in the library for access to all of the tools you will need for succeeding in your future. Plus, we will be giving away three Kindle Fires! (One at each event.) We would love to see you there and we have lots of informative and fun activities planned for each day!

Downtown Campus: Sept 20th 11AM-1PM

Parham Road Campus: Sept 21st 11AM – 1PM

Goochland Campus: October 26th 11AM – 1PM

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Floral designs on display at Goochland Campus Library

floral design 1The Goochland Campus library is showcasing displays from one of David Pippin’s Floral Design Classes.  Drop by the library to study, read a book or newspaper, use one of our new computers, laptops or iPads and be surrounded by these beautiful floral designs.

The library has numerous books in the collection to help guide you through tFloral design 1he creative process of floral design.  Our premiere Floral Design instructor, David Pippin, is well-known in Virginia’s horticultural world, and is a sought-after designer of floral arrangements throughout the Commonwealth.  His “taste and skill in floral design have a refinement and cutting edge to them that can match the best New York has to offer.”

Reynolds offers a Career Studies Certificate in Floral Design. Read  about our instructor, David Pippin, at his website http://www.davidpippin.biz or better yet, sign up for one of his floral design classes!  Classes can be found on the Reynolds Community College homepage.

Downtown Display: Can You Hear Me Now?!

Display about Hearing Loss
One of the worst places for people with a hearing loss to work in is the library, because everyone whispers.   I am one of those people.

In his thirties my father had the hearing of a fifty year old man.  He slowly lost his hearing and became profoundly deaf in his 60s.  He had to retire early because his hearing aids could not give him the hearing he needed for his job.  I have also been losing my hearing over the years starting in my early 40s.  I now have a hearing aid that is much better than his, but my hearing is still not perfect. I often have to ask people to repeat themselves and to face my way so I can read their lips.

Hearing loss can be very exasperating for the hard-of-hearing person and the people with whom he communicates.  Family and friends get tired of repeating everything, and for the person with a hearing loss, it sounds like everyone is mumbling.

Age-related hearing loss has been a problem for generations, but now noise-induced hearing loss is a growing problem.  People who listen to music through ear buds in the high decibel range could lose their hearing many years before they should.  A decibel is a unit used to measure the intensity of a sound which increases on a logarithmic scale.  Listening to sounds greater than 85 decibels for extended periods of time can cause permanent hearing loss.

Young people today may have the option of cooler hearing aids (see below), but being hard of hearing is a permanent and frustrating state of being.  Prevention is the best cure.

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Wired for sound (Wired.com)
Plugged in (studioblog.designaffairs.com)
    

First Library Student Expo

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Mazhar Anik, Assistant Dean of the School of Business, and Alice Starke experience viruses in 3D

Over 200 students, faculty and staff attended the first Library Student Expo, held April 22 and 23 at the Downtown and Parham Road campus libraries.

Through their instructors, students submitted assignments completed as part of their coursework. Items came from multiple disciplines, ranging from Biology to English to Middle college

Projects included artwork, posters, sculptures, and even a student directed video. Refreshments were served.

Students view Expo projects at the Parham Campus Library
Students view Expo projects at the Parham Campus Library

Students were impressed with their peers’ work. One student remarked “They made this in biology? I have to take biology!”

Another student asked, “Can I enter my work next year?”

Dr. Susan Hunter, the Dean of Nursing and Allied Health, encouraged colleagues to attend the Expo.

“I had the opportunity to stop by the library and see this Expo and I was not expecting what I saw. The students’ projects were sophisticated, professional and creative. I think you would be amazed at the depth and breadth of these student work examples.”

Thanks to all students and faculty participated in this inaugural event! A big thank you to Beth Bensen-Barber, Kristin Hott, Jerrod Hunter, Chris Thomas and Shalini Upadhyaya for volunteering their students’ work. Hopefully next year will be even bigger!

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Poetry written by students in Middle College

The Library Student Expo is Reynolds Library’s spring semester event. The Expo showcases Reynolds students’ accomplishments completed during the school year. In the fall the library hosts the Library Open House, which introduces new and returning students to the library. Both events are free; students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend. Dates for the 2016 Library Open House will be announced in September.

Student Expo at Reynolds Library!

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The library will be hosting a Student Expo at the Parham Road and Downtown Campus Libraries next week.  Drop by to take a closer look at all of the great student projects on display in the library and grab some refreshments while you’re there.

Wednesday April 22nd
12PM – 2PM
Downtown Campus Library

Thursday, April 23rd
12PM – 2PM
Parham Road Campus Library

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Spring Garden Fest: Book Signing on April 25th

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At this year’s Spring Garden Fest, Reynolds’ own Cindy Conner, and author of the new book Seed Libraries and other means of keeping seeds in the hands of the people, will be signing copies of her book at the Goochland campus library on April 25th from 12 noon to 1:15PM.

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Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. If you already have a copy, bring it to the event for her to sign.  Hope to see you there!

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Local Event: Two Best-Selling YA Authors Coming to Richmond!

ifistayhbGood news for all you YA fanatics!

Next Wednesday, January 28th Fountain Bookstore is hosting a discussion and book signing with bestselling authors Gayle Forman (If I Stay – now a major motion picture!, Just One Day, I Was Here) and Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Cycle, The Scorpio Races, The Shiver Series). They will be discussing their latest books, answering questions, and signing books for fans. (Copies will be available for purchase at the event.)

Date: Wednesday, January 28th
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Cost: Free!
Venue: Richmond Public Library – Main Branch
Address: 101 E. Franklin Street, Richmond, VA

National Book Festival

 

2008 National Book Festival banner
2008 National Book Festival banner

What are you doing next Saturday, September 26th? 

If you don’t have plans, you might consider taking a trip to Washington D.C. for the Library of Congress National Book Festival. Authors, illustrators and poets in different genres will be making presentations throughout the day, and there will be plenty to see and do.

Some of the authors that will be there include:

For more information and a complete list of authors, see the National Book Festival website.