Monthly Archives: October 2018

Milligan Libraries Book+Art 2018 Exhibit: Bringing New Life to Old Books!

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Milligan Libraries is currently celebrating its sixth annual Book+Art exhibit, on display now at Welshimer Library. The exhibit, which occurs every Fall during Homecoming weekend, is one of two book-related Milligan community creative expression showcases the library hosts every year – every Spring, the library hosts Edible Books Festival.

Books are repositories of information, knowledge, and inspiration. As physical objects, however, books are fragile things. Many – especially children’s books – get literally love to pieces, while others get replaced with updated, more relevant versions. To celebrate their impact on our lives, the library invites the Milligan community to use discarded books and transform them into works of art.

This year we had 10 entries, displaying a variety of techniques and ideas. The winner of our random draw for a $25 Amazon gift card was Engineering student Korynne Taylor. Congratulations, Korynne! Milligan Libraries would like to thank everyone who participated in this year’s Book+Art exhibit.

We highly recommend dropping in to Welshimer and checking out the entries – the level of detail is awesome! But we realize not everyone can make it down, so here are photos of this year’s entries:

Milligan by Joy Drinnon

Word Flurry by Katie Banks

Variations on Merry by Mary Jackson

Praying By the Book: Anglican Rosary by Jude Morrissey

Faith by Joy Drinnon

Born of History by Korynne Taylor

Pumpkin by Joy Drinnon

 

Bibliobead Tree by Jude Morrissey

Creation of Adam: Part II by Sydney Rhoton

Cookbook Conversions by Kristy Lundholm

Holloway Archives Mounts New Archives Exhibit for Fall 2018

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The Holloway Archives has installed a new exhibit for Fall 2018. “We Must Rebuild”: Milligan College’s Fire of 1918 focuses on the Milligan of one hundred years ago and the devastating fire that changed the college. “When I realized that it was exactly one hundred years since this pivotal event in Milligan’s history, I thought it would make a interesting exhibit,” says archivist Katie Banks. “While researching for the exhibit, I found some really fascinating items.”

The exhibit displays what Milligan College was like a hundred years ago. Henry J. Derthick had been president for about a year, and the campus was almost unrecognizable from what it is today. The Great War had also affected the school, including the introduction of the Student Army Training Corps, a program to train men to be officers while living on campus and attending the host institution. Just days after the war ended, the Administration Building–the main college building–burned, leaving students homeless and the college without its records, teaching materials, library, and classrooms. But through the perseverance and hard work of President Derthick, the college recovered and flourished with new buildings and improvements, including a new Administration Building–renamed years later as Derthick Hall.

The old Administration Building after the fire, circa 1918

This story is told through items such as photos, letters, and student publications. One item is a letter from Herbert Hoover, dated October 21, 1918, at the time representing the United States Food Administration, asking the college to help in a food conservation program. Another interesting item is a brick recovered during more recent Derthick Hall renovations believed to be from the old Administration Building that burned. The most sentimental item in the exhibit is a letter from President Derthick to Josephus Hopwood expressing his thoughts about the fire. “Milligan has been the object of your love for so long a time that I know you are deeply moved over the loss. We must rebuild and in a very large way. Your child must accomplish even greater things in the future than she has in the past.” [Derthick to Hopwood, 1918 November 19, Hopwood Correspondence, The Holloway Archives at Milligan College, Milligan College, TN] These lines reveal Derthick’s ambition to keep the college going and even strengthen it, which he ultimately would do.

Detail of the exhibit showing a brick believed to be from the old Administration Building.

Be sure to come check out this exhibit on the first floor of the Welshimer Library! Library hours are Monday-Thursday 7:45 AM-Midnight, Friday 7:45 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM, and Sunday 2:00 PM-Midnight. You can also view other portions of the exhibit in MCStor, Milligan College’s institutional repository.

If you would like to know more about Milligan’s history, set up an appointment with archivist Katie Banks to visit The Holloway Archives!

Milligan Libraries Hosts Book Art Workshop

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On Tuesday, October 16, Welshimer Library hosted our first-ever book art workshop!

Later this month, we’ll have our Sixth Annual Book+Art Exhibit, when we showcase works of art created from old books that need a new life by Milligan students, faculty, staff, and community members. This year, we coordinated with Dr. Jil Smith (Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy, skilled book artist, and frequent Book+Art exhibitor) to hold a drop-in workshop for those interested in learning how to turn books that have outlived their usefulness or been literally loved to pieces into something new. Dr. Joy Drinnon (Professor of Psychology, Director of Undergraduate Research, accomplished book artist, and inveterate Book+Art exhibitor) joined with Dr. Smith in providing suggestions and teaching techniques to bring their visions to life.

All materials were provided, and workshop participants were encouraged to think of way to incorporate various parts of the books, as well as other materials, to make something interesting.

We hope to see these creations and more in our Sixth Annual Book+Art Exhibit, which will be held, as usual, during Homecoming Weekend, October 26-28, at Welshimer Library. All are invited to participate – both to create something new and to come to see what others have made.

 

 

New Books and Media Received (September 2018)

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The following Books and DVDs (81 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during September 2018.

Seminary Library

New Testament Seminar
Matthew’s Bible : a facsimile of the 1537 edition, 2009.

Paul among the Apocalypses?: an evaluation of the “Apocalyptic Paul” in the context of Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic literature, 2018.

Language and Literature
Khirbet Khizeh, 2014.

“They say I say”: the moves that matter in academic writing, 2018.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Befriend: create belonging in an age of judgment, isolation, and fear, 2016.

Building a youth ministry that builds disciples: a small book about a big idea, 2011.

Cultural insights for Christian leaders: new directions for organizations serving God’s mission, 2018.

Decreation: the last things of all creatures, 2018.

EnGendered: God’s gift of gender difference in relationship, 2015.

The First Testament: a new translation, 2018.

The humility of God: a Franciscan perspective, 2005.

It’s just a phase, so don’t miss it: why every life stage of a kid matters, and at least 13 things your church should do about it, 2015.

Leading change without losing it: five strategies that can revolutionize how you lead change when facing opposition, 2012.

The living God and the fullness of life, 2015.

A peculiar orthodoxy: reflections on theology and the arts, 2018.

Seeing God: the beatific vision in Christian tradition, 2018.

Sustainable children’s ministry: from last-minute scrambling to long-term solutions, 2018.

Traditional ritual as Christian worship: dangerous syncretism or necessary hybridity?, 2018.

Social Sciences
Sticking points: how to get 4 generations working together in the 12 places they come apart, 2013.

Welshimer Library

Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources
Indelible ink: the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America’s free press, 2017.

Fine Arts
Best of college photography annual, 2018.

Virginia Intermont College: what remains, 2017.

History
American president: from Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, 2019.

Cattle kingdom: the hidden history of the cowboy West, 2018.

Caught in the revolution: witness to the fall of Imperial Russia, 2018.

A just and generous nation: Abraham Lincoln and the fight for American opportunity, 2015.

Lincoln’s ethics, 2015.

Lone star pasts: memory and history in Texas, 2007.

A nation without border: the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910, 2016.

Paradise of the Pacific: approaching Hawaiʻi, 2015.

Savage war: a military history of the Civil War, 2018.

Schlesinger: the imperial historian, 2017.

The statesman and the storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the rise of American imperialism, 2016.

The vanquished: why the First World War failed to end, 2017.

The World Remade: America in World War I, 2018.

Language and Literature
Circe: a novel, 2018.

The Odyssey, 2018.

The plum in the golden vase, or, Chin Pʻing Mei, volume 4, 2013.

The plum in the golden vase, or, Chin Pʻing Mei, volume 5, 2013.

The silence of the girls: a novel, 2018.

Law
Divergent paths: the academy and the judiciary, 2016.

Medicine
Miracle cure: the creation of antibiotics and the birth of modern medicine, 2018.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Graduate study in psychology 2019, 2018.

Science
Americans and their weather, 2014.

The book that changed America: how Darwin’s theory of evolution ignited a nation, 2018.

Data science for business: [what you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking], 2013.

Life in code: a personal history of technology, 2018.

Social Sciences
Beyond trans: does gender matter?, 2018.

Capitalism: a short history, 2018.

Democracy in chains: the deep history of the radical right’s stealth plan for America, 2018.

The end of American childhood: a history of parenting from life on the frontier to the managed child, 2016.

The life and the adventures of a haunted convict, 2017.

Technology
The Toyota way: 14 management principles from the world’s greatest manufacturer, 2004.

Juvenile

Geisel 2010 Honor Book Mouse and Mole, fine feathered friends, 2011.
Geisel 2009 Honor Book One boy, 2008.
Geisel 2017 Honor Book Oops pounce quick run! : an alphabet caper, 2016.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians, 2009 (complete series).
Geisel 2009 Honor Book Stinky : a Toon Book, 2008.
Geisel 2016 Honor Book Supertruck, 2015.
Geisel 2014 Medal Winner The watermelon seed, 2013.

 

Compact Discs
Barracoon: the story of the last “black cargo,” 2018.

DVDs
Avatar, the last airbender. The complete series, 2015.

The American Nurse, 2014.

Maya Angelou, and still I rise, 2017.

A quiet passion, 2017.

Donated Gift Books to the Milligan Libraries
City of sedition: the history of New York City during the Civil War.

Closest companion: the unknown story of the intimate friendship between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley.

Disciples: the World War II missions of the CIA directors who fought for Wild Bill Donovan: Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, William Casey.

An entertainment for angels: electricity in the Enlightenment.

The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl: how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis.

The firebrand and the First Lady: portrait of a friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice.

Heroines of Mercy Street: the real nurses of the Civil War.

If moon, then yes.

If moon, then yes. (Archives Copy)

The invisible bridge: the fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan.

One man against the world: the tragedy of Richard Nixon.

Operation Sealion: how Britain crushed the German war machine’s dreams of invasion in 1940.

Our Declaration: a reading of the Declaration of Independence in defense of equality.

Our man in Charleston: Britain’s secret agent in the Civil War South.

Pennsylvania Hall: a “legal lynching” in the shadow of the Liberty Bell.

A world made new: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.