Admission: Free

Time: 7:00pm

Location: - North Conference Room (W449), 4th floor, West Wing, MSU Main Library

Thursday, October 29 - American Dream (1990, US, 102 minutes)

Directed by: Barbara Kopple
Presented by: John Beck, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, and cosponsored by Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives and the School of Labor and Industrial Relations.

Academy Award(R) Winner for Best Documentary, 1990, this acclaimed motion picture captures the stark reality of working men and women making impossibly tough choices about survival during a time of extreme economic crisis. When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota, are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair.

Admission: Free
Location : North Conference Room (W449), 4th floor, West Wing, MSU Main Library
Wednesday, October 21, 4:30 pm EDT- Leonard Fleck

Leonard Fleck, Department of Philosophy and The Center for Ethics & Humanities in the Life Sciences

Just Caring: Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation (2009)

What does it mean to be a "just" and "caring" society when we have only limited resources to meet unlimited health care needs? Do we believe that all lives are of equal value? Is human life priceless? Should a "just" and "caring" society refuse to put limits on health care spending? In Just Caring , Leonard Fleck reflects on the central moral and political challenges of health reform today.

The MSU Libraries offers a variety of free LCTTP training sessions.

Some upcoming sessions are:

Endnote X3
Monday, October 19th
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
In the Business Library, Room 22

EndNote Web
Friday, October 23rd
10:30 a.m. – Noon
In the Main Library, Basement Instruction Room (EG2)

Finding Academic Funding Electronically
Friday, October 23rd
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
In the Main Library, Basement Instruction Room (EG2)

Landing Your Dream Job
Tuesday, November 3rd
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
In the Business Library, Room 22

And there are additional classes in November and December.

To register or for more information, please visit our Seminars and Workshops page.

Michigan Writers Series - Campus Authors
Tuesday, October 13, 5:00 pm EDT- Book Discussion and Panel
North Conference Room (W449), 4th floor, West Wing, MSU Main Library

In coordination with the MSU American Indian Studies Program, the Library's Michigan Writers Series-Campus Authors presents book discussion and panel with:

Heather A. Howard, assistant professor of anthropology at Michigan State University and coeditor of Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities (2009).

Susan Applegate Krouse, associate professor of anthropology and the director of the American Indian studies program at Michigan State University and coeditor of Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities (2009).

Susan Lobo, distinguished visiting scholar in American Indian Studies at University of Arizona and author of Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana. Tucson (2009), as well as coeditor of Native American Voices, Third Edition (2010).

Kimberli A. Lee, assistant professor in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures department at Michigan State University and author of "I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter":The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1940-1965 (2009).

Mindy J. Morgan, associate professor of anthropology and the acting director of the American Indian studies program at Michigan State University, and author of The Bearer of this Letter: Language Ideologies, Literacy Practices and the Fort Belknap Indian Community (2009).

Susan Sleeper-Smith, professor of history at Michigan State University, and editor of Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World (2009) and Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives (2009).

A brief reception will follow the panel discussion.





Borges and MSU

Date: Thursday, October 15, 4:30 PM
Place: MSU Main Library, North Conference Room, W449 (West Wing)

Description of event: Talk with speaker Donald A. Yates followed by reception with refreshments.

Donald A. Yates will speak about his long relationship with the acclaimed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Yates is Professor Emeritus of Michigan State University's Spanish and Portuguese Department, and translator of the first collection of works by Borges to appear in English. As a result of their friendship, Borges made several visits to East Lansing and the MSU campus.

Co-sponsoring campus units: MSU Libraries and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

University Libraries Colloquia Series

Eloisa Cartonera, Much More than Books
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, 4:00 pm, North Conference Room (W449), Main Library
Admission is Free

Speakers: Maria Soledad Gomez and Washington Cucurto of the Eloísa Cartonera publishing cooperative.
Host: Maria Mudrovcic, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Presentation and Exhibition of Books -- Maria Soledad Gomez and Washington Cucurto will discuss the work of the Eloísa Cartonera cooperative of Buenos Aires, Argentina, which publishes low-cost, avant-garde works by writers from throughout Latin America, who in turn support the press by donating their unpublished material. Their books have covers made of cardboard, which is gathered by collectors, called "cartoneros," and are hand-painted with tempera. The production of these uniquely designed books thus provides a meeting point for two groups who would otherwise rarely meet, writers and cartoneros, while simultaneously fulfilling two objectives-- promoting literary culture and combating social exclusion.

Cosponsored by the MSU Libraries, the Center for Integrative Studies in Arts & Humanities, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Public Humanities Collaborative.

Library Film Series

Henry V (1989, UK, 138 minutes)
Thursday, October 8, 7:00pm, North Conference Room (W449), Main Library

Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Presented by: Jyotsna Singh, Department of English, and cosponsored with the Department of English and the Early Modern Studies group.

Kenneth Branagh, Paul Scofield, Derek Jacobi, Ian Holm, Emma Thompson and Judi Dench star in this heroic, action-packed epic based on the timeless play by William Shakespeare. "Magnificent, passionate and steeped in powerful emotion" (The Washington Post). Henry V is a "stunning," (Leonard Maltin) Oscar-nominated adventure that takes its place amongst the greatest war films of all time.