Talking in the Library

Leisure reading survey

Einstein Brothers' Bagels Fall Break Hours

Monday 11/22 8 am - 1:30 pm

Tuesday 11/23 8 am - 1:30 pm

Wednesday 11/24- Friday 11/26 closed

Researching Fun-Karts, hydraulic cement, or detection of deception? Get your favorite ASTM standard online now!

Whether you are searching in our catalog, or going directly to the ASTM Standards and Digital Engineering Database, you have access to the complete set of ASTM standards, as soon as they are in effect. According to Alice Trussell, our engineering librarian, "We have access to historic standards, journals, manuals, data series, symposia papers and selected technical papers."

I think a few people just changed what they are thankful for this Thanksgiving!

Robots are Awesome

And so are the librarians at K-State Salina. They made this really cute video, and gave us permission to share it with you.

Does it sound familiar? If you'd like help with your research from a (non-robotic) librarian, stop by the Help Desk on the 2nd floor of Hale Library, or find us online.

Collegium Musicum - Performing Live This Sunday

The Collegium Musicum will present a concert  at 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 14 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Sixth Street and Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan. The  program features works by Palestrina (1525 – 1594),  Lassus (1532 – 1594), Tallis (1505-1585), and Ockeghem (1410 – 1497). The ensemble is directed by K-State Libraries’ Faculty and Graduate Services Librarian Thomas Bell.

Collegium Musicum is the early music ensemble of Kansas State University. It is the only K-State ensemble whose membership includes students, faculty, and members of the Manhattan community.  The ensemble specializes in medieval, renaissance and baroque music. Collegium Musicum allows students to work closely with faculty artists in order to learn the subtle intricacies of authentic historical performance practices of this unique, rich repertoire.

http://www.kstatechoirs.com/collegium-musicum.html

Veterans Day

 

 

VETERANS DAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2010!

 

Memorial Stadium, Kansas State University (University Archives photograph)

 

 

 

 

 

Iraq War, 2003 (Lonnie Maynard Collection)

 

 

 

Today we recognize those in the U.S. Armed Forces, past and present, and call attention to the military history holdings in the Morse Department of Special Collections, many of which were donated by veterans.  There are approximately 50 major collections in the department that document various branches of the military from the Civil War through the Iraq War. Examples include images that illustrate General Richard B. Myers' (Class of  1965) tenure as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001-2005), the papers of  Lt. Marjorie  Honstead Feldhausen who served in Europe as a U.S. Army nurse in WWII, the collection of Capt. Nels Tornquist who was in charge of a battalion in WWI consisting of Black troops, to name a few examples.

 

For more information about the military history collections in University Archives & Manuscripts, contact Tony Crawford, arcford@k-state.edu

 

Left. Liberation of German concentration camp, 1945, Linz, Austria; photo taken  by Lt. Victor Roper (Victor and Alice Roper Papers)

 

Right. Civil War General John Casement (Dan D. Casement Papers)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Kansas State University (University Archives photo)

K-State Stand Up YouTube Video

Check this video an awesome person shared with me. I'm sure this will be sung all over campus soon.