The Library at the Center for Graduate Studies of Asheville

Henry Owl & Native American Heritage Month In honor of November's  Native American Heritage Month , we thought we would focus our History Section on Henry Owl .  Henry Owl Photo from http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/vir_museum/id/568 Who is Henry Owl, you ask? Henry Owl was the first Cherokee to graduate from a North Carolina college in 1928, which just so happened to be Lenoir College. (Lenoir-Rhyne University was once called Lenoir College.  Learn more about that history in this post here .)  Not only was Henry Owl the first Cherokee to graduate from a NC college, but Owl was the first Native American to be accepted into Lenoir-Rhyne and represent LR athletics. He later went on to earn his Masters Degree in History from the University of North Carolina in 1929. In his Lenoir-Rhyne days, " Owl played three years on both the football (1925-27) and baseball (1926-28) squads and still holds the record for longest fumble ...

In our recent #HASHINGOUT  Libraries Without Books post, we focused on libraries that mostly have digital collections versus print collections - but we would like to further give an example of how libraries can provide new experiences through the wonders of the Internet and digital technology such as this: allowing users to interact with physical books without ever touching them ourselves. A prime example is the Rare Books GIFs from the University of Iowa Special Collections blog . A special collection's materials are restricted: you usually can't take items out on loan and sometimes you need special permissions to even see items, let alone handle them. These GIFs make this experience possible. Librarians at the UI Special Collections have gotten really creative with giving users a digital experience with the materials, like one of their posts featuring miniature books , where they created charming stop-motion style animations with the illustrations: We have been hav...

In #hashingout, we talk about the issues that are positively GRIPPING the library world.  Today we are hashing out: #LibrariesWithou tBooks   Some call them "bookless libraries", some call them "digital libraries", and some stinkers call them "not real libraries". No matter what you call them, there are many places all over the world where libraries without books are popping up. These libraries offer their information in ALL DIGITAL formats via e-books, e-journals, databases filled with electronic articles, digitized resources, and other technology to search, access, and use digital media. Among these libraries without books is yours truly:  The  Library at the Center for Graduate Studies of Asheville . No, we don't have a collection of print books here at the Center, save for the APA Manual we have on our reserve shelf. (Don't all come running for it at once, now, we only have one copy!) In fact, here on the LR-Asheville cam...

Most of us modern day librarians roll our eyes at the stereotype of the scary librarian, though many of us wholeheartedly embrace others such as cats and cardigans. (Haha.) Yet, sometimes you just have to laugh or maybe... SCREAM!!!! All because we're getting into the "spirit" of Hallowe'en with our top 5 scariest librarians : 1. The Ghost Librarian from the opening scene of Ghostbusters (1984) Described as a "free-roaming, vaporous, full torso apparition" and featured as the first ghost the Ghostbusters encounter in the film, we take our hats off to Eleanor Twitty, the Librarian who wouldn't let death come between her and her duties at the New York Public Library. Read More... 2. The Night Vale Public Librarians (aka Randall): Night Vale is the horrifyingly endearing little town immortalized in the Welcome to Night Vale podcast, and very recently in book form . "Before episode 16, the library had no entrance. Inst...

 "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."  Although this famous line above describes a dreary night in December, Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven , or really anything by Poe (the original goth kid), is perfect for setting the Halloween tone. A few days ago, Christopher Walken's reading of the poem was circulating around the Internet. With Halloween just TEN days away, we think the perfect way to invoke the spirit of Halloween is to watch these 9 celebrities reciting the famous Poe-m, as shared by one of Sarah's favorite sources:  Mental_Floss . Just think - you could watch one every day until Halloween gets here. By then, you might be able to recite the poem to impress your friends. Not only can you watch Christopher Walken's reading, you can also see JAMES EARL JONES! (say, isn't there something about Star Wars that's topical?) CHRISTOPHER LEE! VINCENT PRICE! STAN LEE! and more... so, go! Fly, my pretties. Watch 9 Celebr...

A Scotland-based costume company, Morphsuits, came up with this ~~SPOO-OOKY~~ rating of literature's most popular monsters. What do you think? Loyal, Sukhi. (2015, Sept. 10). Monsters in literature. Retrieved from: http://www.morphsuits.com/blog/monsters-in-literature/

What's in a Name?  The Lenoir-Rhyne Namesake  If you've wondered where, or from whom, Lenoir-Rhyne University got its name,  keep reading and wonder no more. Who put the "Lenoir" in Lenoir-Rhyne? His name was Walter Waightstill Lenoir. He was born on the 13th of March, 1823 in Fort Defiance, which is now in Caldwell County, North Carolina. His grandfather, William Lenoir, was a General in the Revolutionary War. Walter Lenoir graduated from The University of North Carolina in 1843. He studied law and he was the valedictorian of his class.  After graduation, he was licensed to practice in North Carolina. However, back in the small farm town where he lived, there was very little law being practiced. He then concentrated on his other trades, mainly farming and cattle raising. It is said that before the Civil War, Lenoir opposed slavery and the attempted secession. However, he eventually enlisted in the Civil War for the Confederate Army. He became a ...