Please join us in saying goodbye to Jane Krajeck. We would like to thank Jane for all of her years of great service to the Tri-College Film Library and to the MSUM community. An open house reception will be held in her honor in Library 208 Tuesday, February 23rd from 2-3 p.m.
MSU Moorhead will offer two sessions in March on social networking to generate business. Topics include social marketing applications and etiquette, Facebook, Twitter, marketing strategies and driving traffic to web sites and blogs, among others. “Catch the Social Networking Wave: Tips and Terminology” will be from 12:30-4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4 in the Science Lab 118. This session is for those new to social networking and want to learn how to leverage social networking sites to generate business. Cost for this session is $69. Click headline for information on the second session.
MSUM is offering a course on Understanding Generational Poverty this spring semester. The course will begin on Saturday, February 27 from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm with an introduction to the history of poverty, research, and how the condition of poverty can affect learning and work. It will continue Thursday evenings, March 4 & 11, 2010 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm with an in-depth look at those topics. Click headline for more information.
Larry Schwartz, Librarian, presents a Deans’ Lecture on “All of the Good Metaphors for a Title were Taken: The Great Plains and/in Fiction” at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17 in the Comstock Memorial Union 203. The body of Great Plains and Canadian prairie fiction is large but, outside of a number of acknowledged classics, not widely known – much like the region itself. This lecture will survey some of the known and some of the unknown works that typify the Plains. All are welcome to attend.
Don Clark, Professor, Art & Design, is participating in the invitational exhibition “Beyond Pixeltorialism, Digital Imaging in the 21st Century” at the Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois from February 26-April 11, 2010. He is showing work from his Quarry series. Click headline to see a picture from the Quarry series.