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Talk about Children’s Reading Habits

Next Wednesday, March 9, at 12:30 p.m., Dr. Matthew Grenby will be giving a talk entitled “The Child Reader and the Birth of Children’s Literature” in McCain 1198. If you’re at all interested children’s literature and child reading habits, this may be of interest. Sadly, it’s during the Reading Practices class, but for those of you interested in children’s services who aren’t in INFO 6070, you’re welcome to attend! More details, below.

Dr. Mathew O. Grenby
Director of Research
Reader in Children’s Literature
Reviews General Editor, Journal for 18th Century Studies
School of English Literature
Language and Linguistics
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.

Dr. Matthew Grenby will be visiting Halifax next week. He will give a
talk in room 1198 on Wednesday March 9th at 12:30 p.m. The topic of his
talk will be “The Child Reader and the Birth of Children’s Literature”.
A light lunch will follow the talk.

Broken-Hearted Bake Sale February 15

If your Valentine’s Day was a bust, or even if it was the best, join us in the Rowe atrium Tuesday, February 15th.

Starting at 10am and going until 1pm, the CLA Dalhousie Student Chapter is having a Broken-Hearted bake sale and prize basket raffle draw.

See you there!

CLA Dalhousie Student Chapter
Leah, Alyssa, Kimberly, Andrea, Melissa, Mark

Dear Mr. Harper: We Need Better Green Policies Now

Bill St. Arnaud‘s talk at the IWB conference last Thursday focused more on the problem-global warming-and less on solutions-green IT. Granted, in order to understand climate change and its repercussions, some background information is needed. But as the topic of climate change is often perceived as negative, it is also important that positive results and solutions be the emphasis so that these messages can be easier conveyed and better digested. This is not to say that St. Arnaud’s talk was unsuccessful; indeed, despite being broadcast via Skype and a few technical glitches, it was still apparent that St. Arnaud was a dynamic, charismatic, and knowledgeable speaker. He began his talk by jokingly addressing climate-change deniers, then proceeded to provide the audience with a variety of statistics that prove climate change is in fact a reality. For example, 2010 was the hottest year on record, during the hottest decade on record. As well, one only had to look outside or recall the blizzard the night before, which had prevented St. Arnaud from traveling to Halifax, to understand his fact that precipitation levels are on the rise.

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That’s a Lot of Info to Manage

How much information is there in the world? A lot. “[A] galaxy of information for every person in the world,” according to a just-released study in Science. You can read the results of the study here. Good thing we’re learning how to manage all that information!

Art & Words Workshop with Anne Simpson

Art & Words Workshop
Dalhousie Art Gallery
Wednesday, March 2
3:00 – 5:00

On Wednesday, March 2, Dalhousie Writer-in-Residence, Anne Simpson, will give a creative writing workshop in the Dalhousie Art Gallery to celebrate the current exhibition: Betty Goodwin: Darkness and Memory. Because of the scope of Goodwin?s innovative, often transcendent, work, the exhibition lends itself to exploration in other art forms. Participants in the workshop will be given a brief tour of the works, and then Anne will engage them in writing short pieces of prose or poetry.

Last date to register: Friday, February 18.

MLIS Student Reads This Friday @ Dal English

Hello SIMers! I will be reading selections from my upcoming collection of short stories this Friday, January 7, 2011 as part of the Dal English department’s reading series. I will be reading with Anne Simpson, who is a poet, novelist, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and this term’s Writer in Residence at Dal. The reading starts at 3:45 in McCain 1198 and ends with (free) wine at 5 p.m.

And just a quick note about the Writer in Residence: if you’re a writer and a Dal student and would like a professional writer to take a look at your work, you can book an appointment to see Anne Simpson sometime in the next 3 months. I’ll post her contact info here once I get it. Cheers and Happy New Year!

Holiday Reading

Now that classes are done and the holidays are pretty well here, time to catch up on some pleasure reading–and nothing says pleasure and holidays like Canadian literary criticism! Second-year MLIS student Nicole Dixon’s polemic essay in Canadian Notes and Queries (CNQ), entitled, “The Other F-Word: The Disappearance of Feminism from Our Fiction,” is the lead essay in issue #80. You can purchase the beautiful magazine (illustrated by Seth) in Halifax at Atlantic News (at the corner of Morris and Queen) or read the article online here. The essay is already generating a buzz on the blogosphere–check out why!

Showcasing MLIS Student Writers @ The Killam

Hello all, next Thursday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Special Collections room at the Killam (on the 5th floor), two MLIS 2nd-year students, Danny Jacobs and Nicole Dixon (that’s me!) will be reading their creative writing. Danny will be reading some poems, and I’ll be reading a story from my upcoming collection High-Water Mark, which will be published by The Porcupine’s Quill in 2012. Hope to see you there!

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