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...