September Exhibit -- Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds

The Seward County Community College/Area Technical School Library is proud to present the traveling exhibit Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.

African American women revolutionized American life with their contributions to civil rights, the arts, education, medicine, and a host of other fields. Underground Railroad organizer Harriet Tubman, athlete Wilma Rudolph, poet Gwendolyn Brooks, and journalist Ida B. Wells Barnett are among the prominent women featured in this exhibit.

The exhibit is open to the public for the entire month of September.

For more information, contact the SCCC/ATS Library at (620) 417-1160.

April Exhibit -- A Photographic Narrative: Indians of Kansas

The Seward County Community College/Area Technical School Library is proud to the present the traveling exhibit, A Photographic Narrative: Indians of Kansas.

This exhibit celebrates the rich cultural diversity of the contemporary Indians of Kansas. The display presents self-portraits of Native Americans who speak their own story at a moment in time. The images and words within this exhibit should be considered the representations of living people who are forever changing.

A Photographic Narrative: Indians of Kansas was produced by the Kansas Humanities Council, and is being toured by the Kansas Interpretive Traveling Exhibit Service.

The exhibit is open to the public for the entire month of April.

For more information, contact the SCCC/ATS Library at (620) 417-1160.

In this week

Here are the magazines in this week:

Entertainment Weekly (April 8)
Consumer Reports (May)
TIME (April 11)
Rolling Stone (April 14)
Siempre mujer (April/May)
Farm Journal (Spring 2011)
Us Weekly (April 11)
Game Developer (April)
Lucky (May)
Golf Digest (May)
Fortune (April 11)
Glamour May)
Vanity Fair (May)

Last chance to see William Allen White display

This will be the last week to see the traveling exhibit on William Allen White at the SCCC/ATS Library. You can catch "William Allen White: Sage of Emporia" until Thursday, March 31st.

For half a century, Emporia newspaper editor William Allen White had something to say on virtually every topic that had anything to do with Kansas or the nation.

Born in Emporia in 1868, he grew up in El Dorado, attended the College of Emporia and the University of Kansas and worked on newspapers in Topeka and Kansas City before buying the Emporia Gazette in 1895.

Until his death in 1944 he wrote countless editorials as well as articles and books that earned him the title of the "Sage of Emporia."

This exhibit examines White’s life through historic photos, quotes and newspaper articles, and more tell the story of this famous Kansan.

William Allen White: Sage of Emporia was produced by the Kansas State Historical Society and is part of the Kansas Interpretive Traveling Exhibits Service Produced by the Kansas State Historical Society.

The exhibit is open to the public.

Final week for Twilight poster giveway

This is the last week to get your entries in for the SCCC/ATS Library Twilight poster giveaway.

Registration ends at 10 p.m. on Thursday, March 31. The drawing takes place on Friday, April 1.

The SCCC/ATS library is holding a Twilight poster giveaway for March. Three lucky individuals will win an American Library Association's READ poster featuring the stars of the Twilight saga: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson (Bella and Edward), Taylor Lautner (Jacob) and Dakota Fanning (Jane). The posters are framed and ready to hang.

For a chance to win one of the three posters, stop by the library during open hours and fill out an entry form at the circulation desk. You can register for all three posters, but can only win one. You can enter every day, but only one entry for each.

In this week

Here are the magazines in this week:

Entertainment Weekly (March 25)
VOGUE (April)
People (March 28)
US Weekly (March 28)
Wired (April)
allure (April)
Rolling Stone (March 31)
Better Homes and Gardens (April)
TIME (March 28)
Entrepreneur (April)
Spin (April)
Police (March)
More (April)
Sports Illustrated (March 21)
WWE Magazine (April)
Hispanic Business (March)
Bloomberg Businessweek (March 21)
The Hispanic Outlook (March 21)
arts & activities (April)
W (April)

Closed on Pancake Day

The library will be closed on Tuesday in observance of Pancake Day. It will reopen on Wednesday at 7:45 a.m.