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Stressed out about exams? Struggling to finish that last paper? Buried under a stack of grading?
Take a break with the CWC on either or both Reading Days. Enjoy snacks, meet new people, reconnect with friends, and take refuge from your work.
And if you've volunteered with us this Fall, don't miss our Volunteer Recognition!
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Volunteer Recognition: 1:30pm
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Volunteer Recognition: TBA
Monday, December 7, 2009
Winter Break library tasks
Here are some tasks if you'd like to do some volunteer work over the break. TheCWC will be open during normal university hours for Winter Break, so please feel free to stop by anytime between 9-5 if you want to staff the library or study or just hang out.
1. Pick some Book of the Week selections (see 11/3 blog post)
2. Targeted emailing:
This consists of picking a group or class and starting to send emails. I’d like to have people going to Women’s Studies classes at the beginning of the semester to do a presentation on the library. Other options include sororities and student organizations on campus.
To get started, pick a course, student group, or sorority. “Claim” them by emailing me directly. I’ll make a list on the blog of who is claiming what.
Then, email the group. Below is a sample email. Let me know how it goes – if you can set up a time to do a presentation with the class, I’d be happy to help you plan it and get you some handouts.
Awesome!
Elissa
Sample email:
Dear XXX,
I am a volunteer at the Carolina Women's Center library, and I'm writing to ask you to consider the Mary Turner Lane Reading and Resource Room for your course. We have a vast collection of books, DVDs, and CDs available for use in your classroom and by your students. I encourage you or your students to stop by any time for a look or check out the library on the CWC webpage:
http://womenscenter.unc.edu/library/
Also, I would be happy to come by your class and give a 5-minute talk on our library, and let your students know about our resources and programming. Please let me know if you can fit me into your class’s calendar.
Best,
You
1. Pick some Book of the Week selections (see 11/3 blog post)
2. Targeted emailing:
This consists of picking a group or class and starting to send emails. I’d like to have people going to Women’s Studies classes at the beginning of the semester to do a presentation on the library. Other options include sororities and student organizations on campus.
To get started, pick a course, student group, or sorority. “Claim” them by emailing me directly. I’ll make a list on the blog of who is claiming what.
Then, email the group. Below is a sample email. Let me know how it goes – if you can set up a time to do a presentation with the class, I’d be happy to help you plan it and get you some handouts.
Awesome!
Elissa
Sample email:
Dear XXX,
I am a volunteer at the Carolina Women's Center library, and I'm writing to ask you to consider the Mary Turner Lane Reading and Resource Room for your course. We have a vast collection of books, DVDs, and CDs available for use in your classroom and by your students. I encourage you or your students to stop by any time for a look or check out the library on the CWC webpage:
http://womenscenter.unc.edu/library/
Also, I would be happy to come by your class and give a 5-minute talk on our library, and let your students know about our resources and programming. Please let me know if you can fit me into your class’s calendar.
Best,
You
Volunteer Meeting recap
Thanks for a great volunteer meeting. Here’s a recap of some of your excellent ideas:
Setting up a computer with a password for library volunteers. Make the blog the homepage for this computer.
Target women’s groups on campus. Start a list of groups to contact.
Redecorate the Carriage House Lounge Day.
Target sororities. Have a library open house just for sororities.
Weekend or evening access to the library.
Brochure just for the library.
And here’s a reminder from me:
Make sure to check the blog or be on the lookout for listserv emails. These are the places where you’ll find info about ways to help out around the library.
I’ll get to work on implementing some of these ideas. Let me know if you think of anything else. Good luck with exams! Have a great winter break!
Best,
Elissa
Setting up a computer with a password for library volunteers. Make the blog the homepage for this computer.
Target women’s groups on campus. Start a list of groups to contact.
Redecorate the Carriage House Lounge Day.
Target sororities. Have a library open house just for sororities.
Weekend or evening access to the library.
Brochure just for the library.
And here’s a reminder from me:
Make sure to check the blog or be on the lookout for listserv emails. These are the places where you’ll find info about ways to help out around the library.
I’ll get to work on implementing some of these ideas. Let me know if you think of anything else. Good luck with exams! Have a great winter break!
Best,
Elissa
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Library Volunteer Meeting: Thursday, 12/3. For real.
Thanks so much to everyone for weighing in on the doodle poll. We are going to have our volunteer meeting:
When: Thursday, Dec. 3, from 5:30-6:30 pm
Where: in the CWC Carriage House.
We'll be wrapping up/taking stock of the fall semester and doing some planning for the spring. And there will be snacks. Looking forward to it!
Elissa
When: Thursday, Dec. 3, from 5:30-6:30 pm
Where: in the CWC Carriage House.
We'll be wrapping up/taking stock of the fall semester and doing some planning for the spring. And there will be snacks. Looking forward to it!
Elissa
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Library Volunteer Meeting: let's reschedule
Hi again,
It already sounds like quite a few people have a conflict with the previously suggested meeting time. So let's reschedule, and apologies for the confusion. Please follow the link below to a scheduling poll. Once everyone weighs in, we'll go with the time that works best for the most people.
Would you please take a moment to take the poll by Monday? Thanks!!
http://www.doodle.com/yi8553qenh4wdriu
-Elissa
It already sounds like quite a few people have a conflict with the previously suggested meeting time. So let's reschedule, and apologies for the confusion. Please follow the link below to a scheduling poll. Once everyone weighs in, we'll go with the time that works best for the most people.
Would you please take a moment to take the poll by Monday? Thanks!!
http://www.doodle.com/yi8553qenh4wdriu
-Elissa
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Book of the Week!
Book of the week
I am going to start adding “book of the week” posts to the CWC blog. Please help me in selecting media from our collection. Take a look around and pick out 2 or 3 (or more if you’d like) books or DVDs that look interesting or that you know and love. Remember, these need to be FROM OUR COLLECTION, so just peruse the shelves around you.
Once you’ve made your choices, write a blurb (see below for examples). Tell me the title, author, and describe the item. For your description, you can write it yourself, or use what’s on the back of the book/box, or grab a review from online like amazon.com or imdb.com, etc (make sure you indicate where your info comes from). Then email it on to me so I can post it to the blog: ezell@email.unc.edu. This will be once a week so it may take a while to get to yours – but don’t worry, yours will soon be the featured selection, wooo!
Some past blurbs:
Outside the Box, by Lynn Sherr
(from Booklist)
Sherr, an ABC correspondent and pioneer in network news, offers a memoir as well as historical perspective on television news, the women's movement, and how the two came together in her long career. Sherr was part of a "mod squad" of young female reporters for the Associated Press sent forth to record the cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1970s, a time when she and other female reporters supported the "burgeoning new women's movement and other assorted rebellions," making them less than the objective observers the profession required. Of Jewish descent, but with the blond looks and Philadelphia Main Line background and Wellesley education that favored women making advancements in the 1960s, Sherr ventured into television journalism and defied the stereotypes about her sex and her looks. She covered politics and the U.S. space program, even as she suffered the criticisms of her dress and hairstyle made by network executives. Amidst recollections of touching stories and the competitive silliness that sometimes accompanies television journalism, Sherr also recalls the painful loss of her husband to cancer and, later, her own battle with the disease. Sherr is candid, amusing, and completely engaging in this look back over her life and a respected career.
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
(from the Random House online description)
Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy to this most perfect match, a union of families and circumstances cemented by affection. Enter Countess Olenska, a woman of quick wit sharpened by experience, not afraid to flout convention and determined to find freedom in divorce. Against his judgment, Newland is drawn to the socially ostracized Ellen Olenska, who opens his eyes and has the power to make him feel. He knows that in sweet-tempered May, he can expect stability and the steadying comfort of duty. But what new worlds could he discover with Ellen? Written with elegance and wry precision, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a tragic love story and a powerful homily about the perils of a perfect marriage.
I am going to start adding “book of the week” posts to the CWC blog. Please help me in selecting media from our collection. Take a look around and pick out 2 or 3 (or more if you’d like) books or DVDs that look interesting or that you know and love. Remember, these need to be FROM OUR COLLECTION, so just peruse the shelves around you.
Once you’ve made your choices, write a blurb (see below for examples). Tell me the title, author, and describe the item. For your description, you can write it yourself, or use what’s on the back of the book/box, or grab a review from online like amazon.com or imdb.com, etc (make sure you indicate where your info comes from). Then email it on to me so I can post it to the blog: ezell@email.unc.edu. This will be once a week so it may take a while to get to yours – but don’t worry, yours will soon be the featured selection, wooo!
Some past blurbs:
Outside the Box, by Lynn Sherr
(from Booklist)
Sherr, an ABC correspondent and pioneer in network news, offers a memoir as well as historical perspective on television news, the women's movement, and how the two came together in her long career. Sherr was part of a "mod squad" of young female reporters for the Associated Press sent forth to record the cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1970s, a time when she and other female reporters supported the "burgeoning new women's movement and other assorted rebellions," making them less than the objective observers the profession required. Of Jewish descent, but with the blond looks and Philadelphia Main Line background and Wellesley education that favored women making advancements in the 1960s, Sherr ventured into television journalism and defied the stereotypes about her sex and her looks. She covered politics and the U.S. space program, even as she suffered the criticisms of her dress and hairstyle made by network executives. Amidst recollections of touching stories and the competitive silliness that sometimes accompanies television journalism, Sherr also recalls the painful loss of her husband to cancer and, later, her own battle with the disease. Sherr is candid, amusing, and completely engaging in this look back over her life and a respected career.
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
(from the Random House online description)
Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy to this most perfect match, a union of families and circumstances cemented by affection. Enter Countess Olenska, a woman of quick wit sharpened by experience, not afraid to flout convention and determined to find freedom in divorce. Against his judgment, Newland is drawn to the socially ostracized Ellen Olenska, who opens his eyes and has the power to make him feel. He knows that in sweet-tempered May, he can expect stability and the steadying comfort of duty. But what new worlds could he discover with Ellen? Written with elegance and wry precision, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a tragic love story and a powerful homily about the perils of a perfect marriage.
Brown Bag lunch
Our next screening is Wednesday, Nov. 4th at
1. Come to the actual screening. There will be snacks!
2. Email friends, professors, classes, campus organizations, groups who might be interested in the screening (see below info).
3. Put up these fliers. You can get tape in the main house – just ask, but do try to bring it back as we don’t have $$ to buy new office supplies (damn you budget cuts!!).
Info about the screening can be found on our facebook page or on the CWC’s homepage (the location is incorrect on the CWC site. Screenings are in Graham Memorial, not our Carriage House). Here’s the blurb from facebook:
Carolina Women’s Center Brown Bag Lunch Film Series
Fall 2009 Semester:
-New Location! Screenings will be held in Graham Memorial 039
-All screenings take place on Wednesdays from 12-1:30pm
-For more info please contact ezell@email.unc.edu
Wednesday,
An illuminating and compassionate look at the world of transgender identity, as seen through portraits of some of San Francisco's leading gender mixers. Whether by birth or by choice, sometimes with the assistance of hormones or surgical prostheses, we meet those who blur the lines of male and female.
For more info: http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/gendernautsdvd.html
If you can see this...
... then you are a fabulous CWC library volunteer! I've set up this blog as a way for us to communicate - sort of an electronic version of the blue notebook in the library.
Anyway, all of you are authorized to be authors (is that redundant?). You can post anything you want, anytime. I'll be posting messages here about library stuff, as will Melody, our volunteer coordinator. I have also set up a listserv so I can email you directly with tasks and instructions. Any emails that go out over the listserv will be duplicated here.
Thus, the listserv will be for sending out instructions, tasks, etc, more of a one-way street. But this blog will be for receiving info, plus more fluid communication: getting to know each other, posting fun stuff, asking questions, making comments, suggestions, etc.
Anyway, all of you are authorized to be authors (is that redundant?). You can post anything you want, anytime. I'll be posting messages here about library stuff, as will Melody, our volunteer coordinator. I have also set up a listserv so I can email you directly with tasks and instructions. Any emails that go out over the listserv will be duplicated here.
Thus, the listserv will be for sending out instructions, tasks, etc, more of a one-way street. But this blog will be for receiving info, plus more fluid communication: getting to know each other, posting fun stuff, asking questions, making comments, suggestions, etc.
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