Happy Pi Day!!!

 3.1415926...

Can I have a small container of coffee?

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant - the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter - which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and to eat Pie.

Woman of the Year Award!

Miss Margaret Taylor, born 90 years ago today, was honored with a 90th birthday and Woman of the Year celebration on Monday, March 11th at the Gilbertown Campus Library. In addition to being a long-term employee at the library, she has worked for Black Creek Baptist Church and several charitable organizations, including Baptist Campus Ministries, Choctaw County WMU, Hospice, Leadership Choctaw, St. Jude, and the Veterans Auxiliary. Way to go, Miss Margaret - you make us proud!!

 

 

March is also National Craft Month!

Displayed handicrafts were hand made 

by DeeDee Baggett and Kim Coale

March 8th is International Women's Day!

International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. International Women's Day has occurred for well over a century, with the first​ ​IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. https://www.internationalwomensday.com/

March is Women's History Month!

Women's History Month display in Leigh Library

(display by DeeDee Baggett)

Genghis Khan Invades Downtown Mobile!!!

Discover the man behind the legend in the blockbuster exhibition
experienced by over a million people around the world.

Now through April 28th at the Exploreum

John F. Kennedy on Diversity

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

African-American History Month

Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot 

(display by DeeDee Baggett)

Cultural Legacy of African-Americans

(display by DeeDee Baggett)

Happy Birthday Dr. King!

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  (photo from the Library of Congress)

Civil Rights Memorial Dr. King on Biography.com Encyclopedia of Alabama I Have a Dream speech King Center (Atlanta) Letter from a Birmingham Jail M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial  Museum of African American History & Culture National Historical Park Selma to Montgomery March

"So many books, so little time..."

New books display in Leigh Library on Brewton Campus

Display: DeeDee Baggett                      Quote: Frank Zappa

Welcome to Spring Semester!

What makes a college library great?

Traditional Native American Arts & Crafts

Handmade arts and crafts
from the personal collection of
Tribal Artisan Cornelia Miller
(click to enlarge photo)

Nursing Journals on Ovid

(scan code to access Ovid)

AJN: American Journal of Nursing Home Healthcare Now Nursing 2018 Nursing Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Happy Veterans Day!

Thank you to all men and women who
have served in the Armed Forces!

November is Native American Heritage Month

American Indian Museum Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Art Faces of Poarch Moundville Archaeological Park National Congress of American Indians Poarch Band of Creek Indians Tribal Nations Directory Tribal Nations Maps Vision Maker DVDs	(click image to enlarge)

Mockingbird wins the Great American Read!!!

Alisha Linam, director of John D. Forte Library, in her appearance on the Great American Read.

Meredith Vieira's announcement of To Kill a Mockingbird as the winning novel on the Great American Read.

See earlier post.

Thanksgiving Food Drive - Gilbertown

Through November 15, bring a non-perishable food item with your overdue library book and the fines for that item will be waived!!

(click photos to enlarge)

Brain Games!

 

Try the word games & quizzes at Merriam-Webster.com.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games

Lend a helping hand!

 

BOTTLED WATER DRIVE

 for victims of Hurricane Michael 

 October 15th-19th

sponsored by Warhawks Athletics

Please leave cases of water with one of the

coaches or a member of the library staff. 

(Brewton Campus)