Tech Talk Web Episodes

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If you've missed any of the episodes, you can watch them on the
Tech Talk web site.

Tech Talk Web Episodes: http://www.kzoo.edu/helpdesk/techtalk/videos.html

Tech Talk Show Notes: http://www.kzoo.edu/helpdesk/techtalk/index.html

Finals Week Library Hours

Monday Dec. 3rd - Wednesday, Dec. 5th	8:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
Thursday Dec. 6th - Friday Dec. 7th	8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 8th	CLOSED
Sunday Dec. 9th	CLOSED

Thanksgiving Weekend Library Hours

Wednesday November 21st	8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday November 22nd	CLOSED
Friday Nov 23rd & Saturday Nov 24th	12:00 Noon - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday November 25th	3:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m.

BEANER'S THANKSGIVING WEEKEND HOURS

Wednesday November 21st	7:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday November 22nd	CLOSED
Friday Nov 23rd & Saturday Nov 24th	CLOSED
Sunday November 25th	3:00 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.

Libraries, Gazette to Honor Dybek at Public Reception

Award-winning author Stuart Dybek will be honored at a festive public reception, with special refreshments and live music, on Friday, November 16, from 6:30-8:00 pm, at the Kalamazoo Public Library, 315 S. Rose St.

The libraries of Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, and Davenport College, Portage District Library, Kalamazoo Public Library, and the Kalamazoo Gazette invite the entire community to celebrate Mr. Dybek’s amazing achievement in receiving both a 2007 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the 2007 Rea Award for the Short Story in the same week earlier this fall.

KPL Director Ann Rohrbaugh will welcome guests to the reception shortly before 7:00 pm. Marsha Meyer, Portage District Library Adult Services librarian, and Western Michigan University representatives will also talk briefly. Mr. Dybek will then read from his work, answer questions from the audience, and sign his books. The Michigan News Agency will sell his books at the event.

The MacArthur Foundation bestows the five-year grant of $500,000, paid in quarterly installments, “to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future.” The Foundation’s website proclaims Dybek to be a “short story writer paying tribute to the literature and iconography of the Old World while exploring the imaginations of contemporary American communities.”

The day after receiving the MacArthur “genius grant,” Dybek was selected winner of the 2007 Rea Award for the Short Story with an accompanying $30,000 prize. “Sponsored by the Dungannon Foundation, The Rea Award for the Short Story was established in 1986 by the late Michael M. Rea to encourage short story writing by honoring a living American or Canadian writer who has made a ‘significant contribution to the short story form’.”

A native of Chicago, Dybeck served Western Michigan University as a professor of English for 33 years, retiring from active teaching this past spring. According to a WMU News release, he “remains closely connected to WMU as an adjunct faculty member, and he teaches in the university's renowned Prague Summer Program.” Dybek is now teaching at Northwestern University, as its first Distinguished Writer in Residence.

Related links:
Chicago Public Radio story
The University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop story—Dybek is a 1973 graduate
Chicagomag.com story, “The Memory Catcher”

Free Trial: Naxos Music Library

The Library is pleased to offer a free trial of Naxos Music Library. CLICK HERE for the Username and Password to Naxos Music Library (requires your K College username and password)

This database includes:

• Classical music plus six other genres, including Jazz, Blues, and World
• World's largest collection of streaming Classical music with over 250,000 tracks of music
• All new releases added monthly (more than 39 per month in 2006)
  
• Standard streaming speed is 64Kbps (broadband or ISDN/DSL required); 20Kbps service also available (suitable for a dial-up connection)
• Accessible from anywhere in the world; remote access included
• Powerful teaching tools to support educational use, including static URLs at all levels (track, repertoire, CD and playlist)
• Browse by composer to access composer’s biographies
• Click on Advanced Search to find a specific piece of music

Trial available until November 30, 2007

MeLCat Back Up!

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