Music Library Displays Instruments In the Stacks

Several in-stacks display cases were recently mounted in the Music Library to show off musical instruments from the Lentz Collection for Asian Culture. The unusual idea came out of a discussion music librarian Anita Breckbill had several years ago with members of the User Experience team of the Libraries, and it stuck.

String instruments are in one case, flutes in another, and reed and brass instruments in a third.  There are a few larger instruments displayed elsewhere in the Music library. Faculty in the music school often borrow and incorporate the instruments into a class curriculum. 

See the new instruments during the hours that the Music Library is open. 

Exhibit on Danish Immigrant Children on display in Love Library

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries is excited to announce that the exhibit, “Danish Children Growing up American,” will be on display in Love Library starting on June 25 and running until July 31. 

This exhibit, which will be located in Room 218 of Love South, features 50 large photos that depict different aspects of a child’s life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  According to the exhibit brochure, Danish immigrants placed a lot of emphasis on their children, who they saw as the true beneficiaries of the American dream and a better life.

“Danish Children Growing up American” is on loan from the Danish American Archive and Library (DAAL) located in Blair, Nebraska, which developed this exhibit in partnership with the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). 

This exhibit will be available to see during the hours Love Library is open.  For more information on hours, visit: http://libraries.unl.edu/hours

Landscapes: An Exhibit by Suping Lu, May 19 - July 20, 2014

Love Library presents thirteen original oil paintings by Suping Lu, Professor and Librarian of UNL Libraries.  This exhibit features a self-portrait and twelve landscape paintings, including scenes from around Lincoln, NE.  This exhibit also features Lu's published books.

View this exhibit in the Talk Zone, located on the second floor of Love Library (near Media Services, room 221).  Love Library is located on UNL's City campus on approximately 13th  & R streets in downtown Lincoln, NE. 

View the exhibit during regular Love Library hours now trough July 20, 2014. 


Artist's Bio:

"Born and raised in China, Suping Lu graduated from Nanjing Teachers University before he came to the United States for further education at the Ohio University and the University of South Carolina. He joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries faculty in 1994, and was promoted to full professor in 2006.

Lu has been an avid lover of drawing and painting since his early childhood. He started oil painting when he was thirteen, and kept on his quest for artistic creativity in capturing and displaying beauty ever since.

Displayed in this room are his self-portrait and 12 landscapes he painted in recent years here in Lincoln. Mainly realistic in style, some of his paintings also show the techniques which are, to some extent, influenced by Expressionism as seen in "October Hues," "Golden Fall," and "A Country Trail."

Lu is also a prolific academic researcher. His research interest centers on the 1937/38 Nanjing Massacre. He is the author of They Were in Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Witnessed by American British Nationals (2004), and the editor of Terror in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38 (2008), A Mission under Duress: The Nanjing Massacre and Post-massacre Social Conditions Documented by American Diplomats (2010), and A Dark Page in History: The Nanjing Massacre and Post-massacre Social Conditions Recorded in British Diplomatic Dispatches, Admiralty Documents, and U.S. Naval Intelligence Reports (2012), along with four other books in Chinese he published in Beijing and Nanjing, China, from 1999 to 2014. "

Traveling Exhibit on Civil War Medicine at Love Library, April 14 – May 24, 2014

The National Library of Medicine’s traveling exhibit, “Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War,” will be displayed in Love Library from April 14-May 24, 2014. The exhibit illustrates the brutality of the Civil War and the resilience of those who survived with serious disabilities. The exhibit is free and open to the public during the hours Love Library is open (http://libraries.unl.edu/).

Two programs will be given to support the exhibit.  Dr. Susan Lawrence, Historian of Medicine at The Ohio State University, will be presenting “Civil War Suffering: Making Sense of the Civil War,” on Thursday, April 17, 5:30 pm in Love Library, Room 222. Lawrence will discuss why the Office of the Surgeon General was so determined to document the casualties not only in words, but also in drawings and photographs, in order to make sense of the medical experience of the war.  A reception will follow her presentation.

The second event will feature a round table discussion with veterans from the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan  and providers from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System, called “Life and Limbs After War.” This program will take place on Thursday, May 15 at 5:30 pm in Love Library, Room 222 with a reception to follow.

Panelists will discuss and answer questions focusing on changes in medicine, soldiering, and war since the Civil War as well as the similarities and connections between them.  The panelists include:

·          Moderator, A. Christine Emler, MD, Associate Chief of Medicine, Lincoln VA

·         Todd Fleischer, PhD, Chief of Psychology, VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System

·         Adam Jacobsen, CPO, VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System-Prosthetics

·         Terry Gillespie, Veteran, and Veterans Advisory Council president

·         David Ossian, Marine Corps League

 

These programs are funded in part by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, the Charles and Linda Wilson Humanities in Medicine Lectureship at UNL & UNMC, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, History Department, and the University Libraries.