Wednesday, March 25, 2015

A Successful Open House!

Shiv Desai, right, with Acting Library Director Steve Laughin, left.
We would like to thank everyone who came out to participate in the library's open house earlier this semester! We're really excited to be able to offer these new study spaces, and we hope that you all will enjoy using them.

We'd also like to recognize our grand prize raffle winner, Shiv Desai! Shiv won an autographed photo of himself with General Krulak, a copy of which will be held in the BSC Archives. Congratulations, Shiv!

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Spring Break hours

The College's Spring Break is coming up soon, and as always, the library will have shortened hours for the duration:

Saturday, March 14: CLOSED
Sunday, March 15: CLOSED
Monday-Friday, March 16-20: 8am-5pm
Saturday, March 21: CLOSED
Sunday, March 22: resume normal schedule

We hope everyone has a safe and relaxing break!

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

BSC's One-A-Chord Gospel Choir to Sing in Selma

This weekend is the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" and the Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights.

BSC's own One-A-Chord Gospel Choir will be part of a huge choir that is scheduled to sing this weekend at the celebration in Selma.  They will perform a variety of traditional Gospel pieces as well songs and hymns made famous during the Civil Rights era.  The program also includes contemporary music chosen especially for this 50th anniversary.

A complete schedule of the events in Selma for March 6-8 is here:

http://media.wix.com/ugd/dc1532_3d188f140bca40c88e484cbfe6d23556.pdf

http://birminghamview.com/online/2015/02/10/star-salute-selma-set-bridge-crossing-jubilee-sunday-march-8/

Find out more about this period in U.S. Civil Rights history from the U.S. National Parks Service:
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm

Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama to the state capital in Montgomery a few weeks after "Bloody Sunday" in March, 1965.
Photograph: William Lovelace/Getty