Emma Drumright – Mary and Jeff Bell Library Blog

How to Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Bell Library!

Post author:Emma Drumright
Post published:March 2, 2022
Post category:Service for You Things to Do Today's Special

March is here which means Women’s History Month is here! Women’s History Month is dedicated to honoring contributions of women and girls across the ages. This year’s theme, Women Providing Healing and Promoting Hope, is a tribute to the work of health care workers, caregivers, and frontline workers as well as the ways women of all cultures have provided both healing and hope throughout history. The National Women’s Alliance webpage has more information on this year's celebration and theme! Looking…

Oh, There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays: At-Home Library Resources!

Post author:Emma Drumright
Post published:December 14, 2021
Post category:Books & More Service for You Things to Do

When I used to think of “the library,” I would think solely of it as a physical place: the colorful walls and cozy carpets from when I was little, to the computers, printers, and quiet study areas from when I was in college. However, working in a library has opened my eyes to all the other possibilities of how you can use library resources without having to be at the library! And there are lots of resources and activities that…

Gathering Resources for our LGBTQIA+ Guide

Post author:Emma Drumright
Post published:June 24, 2021
Post category:Books & More News @ Your Library We Made This

Gathering Resources for our LGBTQIA+ Guide The Bell Library is currently working on expanding our Social Justice Resource guides to cover a wide range of topics. Our most recent guide is our LGBTQIA+ Social Justice Resources Guide. Below I ‘m going to walk through the guide to share more about how we have organized it and about the different types of sources we’ve gathered! Books & Online Resources These tabs contain resources, items, and services that we have right here in…

National Library Week 2021: Welcome to Your Library!

Post author:Emma Drumright
Post published:April 9, 2021
Post category:Today's Special We Made This

This week (April 4 – 10) is National Library Week, a time dedicated to promoting the use of libraries and celebrating library workers and services! You can read all about this annual celebration on on the American Library Association (ALA)'s website. As this week’s official festivities come to a close, I thought it would be fun to highlight some of the ways the Bell Library took part in celebrating this year. I will also share some resources and other ways you…

Turning Trash to Treasure: Our Outstanding Faculty Speaker Event with Dr. Seiger

Post author:Emma Drumright
Post published:November 3, 2020
Post category:Things to Do Today's Special We Made This

Last Tuesday we held our Outstanding Faculty Speaker Event with Dr. Lon Seiger in the University Center! Although Dr. Seiger was our nomination for Spring 2020, due to COVID-19, we had to reschedule (and reimagine) this event. We decided to continue the event in-person with the required social distancing measures and contact tracing. This event was unique in comparison to our other Outstanding Speaker events not only because it was delayed, but also because participants got to create and take…

LGBTQ+ Stories and Cinema in Kanopy

Post author:Emma Drumright
Post published:June 30, 2020
Post category:Books & More Things to Do Today's Special

Ever since I learned that faculty and staff also have access to the library’s streaming service, Kanopy, from one of our blog posts back in March (thanks, Ed!), I’ve been exploring titles and adding lots of films to my watchlist. Many of these have included videos from their mental health and mindfulness section as well as their titles on Social and Systemic Injustice. This month I have been looking at selections from their LGBTQ categories to celebrate Pride Month and to learn more about history,…

International Transgender Day of Visibility 2020: Works in our Collection

Post author:Emma Drumright
Post published:March 31, 2020
Post category:Books & More Today's Special

Today is March 31st, the annual International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV)! Founded in 2009 as a response to the lack of positive commemorative days associated with the transgender community, TDOV is dedicated to celebrating the lives, accomplishments, and diversity of transgender people while also raising awareness of the work that is still needed to be done to save and protect trans lives. For friends, family, allies, and our communities, today is a devoted time for us to visibly show…