Biblical Heritage Gallery Cartwheelers Ride Again New Issue of Musical Offerings Newsletter Highlights Library Careers Program: Panel Discussion Course Reserves Service Centennial Library E-News The Centennial Cartwheelers once again thrilled onlookers with their intricate and disciplined maneuvers at the 2021 Homecoming Parade. The Cartwheelers, the Centennial Library’s precision book cart drill team, made their debut at the 2005 Homecoming Parade and have appeared in ten parades since then. This year’s team involved library faculty (and a daughter!), staff, student assistants, three library student interns, and invaluable additional support from the Department of English, Literature, and Modern Languages and the Registrar’s Office. Our theme was Cinderella, with the carts being wheeled down the street by mice, the fairy godmother riding in the carriage, and Cinderella herself distributing candy to the awestruck spectators. More information about Ohio's premier library book cart drill team can be found here. Cartwheelers Ride Again! NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2021 VOLUME 29 NUMBER 2 Biblical Heritage Gallery Launches The library launched its Biblical Heritage Gallery this fall with “Born out of Persecution: The History of the Early Printed English Bible.” Using the Library’s extensive Bible Heritage Collection, this exhibit includes pages from the Tyndale (1535), Coverdale (1555), and Matthews (1537) Bibles, as well as complete copies of the Geneva (1595), Bishops (1584) and early King James (1613) Bibles, among others. The mission of the Biblical Heritage Gallery is to bring people in touch with the history, preservation, and influence of God’s Word, as well as the many godly heroes who gave their energies and sometimes their lives to assure access to God’s Word by all. The Gallery is located in the upper level of the library. The current exhibit is also viewable on the Digital Commons website and will be on display through the end of the semester. Tyndale Bible Leaf
The Digital Commons announces publication of the fall issue of Musical Offerings (Volume 12, Number 2), including articles by Cedarville University students Allison Zieg, Soraya Peront, and Emilie Schulze. Musical Offerings is a journal of undergraduate research in the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, music history, and church music history. One of the most-read collections in the Digital Commons, its 72 articles have been downloaded over 198,000 times in 208 countries. It is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, Ebsco’s Music Index, and in RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale), one of the pre-eminent databases in the field of music. Dr. Sandy Yang serves as Editor-in-Chief and is assisted by Student Editor Lydia Kee. DIGITAL COMMONS PUBLISHING CORNER The Centennial Library Internship program offers a variety of activities to learn about library operations and services. In November, this included a panel discussion on Current Library Issues featuring university librarians. Each Fall 2021 intern (Elly McGillivray Watkins, Grace Kohler, Katie Gosman, and Katie Korwan) submitted questions based on their exploration of the profession to the panel, which consisted of Josh Michael (Dean of Library Services), Kari Siders (Director of Library Public Services), and Sharon Kerestes (Curriculum Materials Center Librarian). Topics ranged from the job market and the evolving role of librarians to the balance between print and electronic resources. Panelists and interns also discussed balancing Christian faith with providing secular resources and contemporary challenges related to library spaces and roles. Applications for the Fall 2022 Centennial Library Internship will be available in February. Library Careers Program: Current Issues Panel Musical Offerings Published Promoting Affordability at the Library The library promotes access to resources and college affordability through providing textbooks on reserve for students at the library. Even though students are usually restricted to using these items in the library only, this service remains highly popular. For some patrons, these reserves help to lower textbook cost, while for other students they are a convenient resource when they don't have their textbooks with them. In the past two years, reserve textbooks were used 9500 times. Many textbooks are automatically added to course reserves, but faculty can also ensure selected items are on reserve by emailing Julie Deardorff or library@cedarville.edu.
Dr. Megan Brown, Assistant Professor of Education "'Tell Me Who I Am': an Investigation of Cultural Authenticity in YA Disability Peritexts" in Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, University Press of Mississippi, 2020. "While critical and popular attention afforded to 21st century young adult literature has exponentially increased in recent years, classroom materials and scholarship have remained static in focus and slight in scope. Twilight, The Hunger Games, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Hate U Give overwhelm conversations among scholars and critics - but these are far from the only texts in need of analysis. Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction offers a necessary remedy to this limiting perspective, bringing together essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have until now been overlooked. The collection tackles a diverse range of topics - modern updates to the marriage plot; fairy tale retellings in dystopian settings; stories of extrajudicial police killings and racial justice. The approaches are united, though, by a commitment to exploring the large-scale generic and theoretical structures at work in each set of texts. As a collection, Beyond the Blockbusters is an exciting entryway into a field that continues to grow and change even as its works captivate massive audiences. It will prove a crucial addition to the library of any scholar or instructor of young adult literature". [From the Publisher] Spotlight on Faculty and Alumni Publishing Faculty in Print Alumni in Print Leslie Leyland Fields, Class of 1979 Your Story Matters: Finding, Writing, and Living the Truth of Your Life, NavPress, 2020. "From its tiniest details to its most dramatic events, your story is a sacred gift, worthy of attention. But how do you find and tell that story? In this practical, liberating guide based on her thirty years of writing and teaching, Leslie Leyland Fields will lead you step by step in exploring your past and shaping your memories into vivid, compelling stories. With writing exercises to help you dive deeper into your story, you’ll discover new spiritual truths, reclaim the past, share hope, and pass on your own extraordinary legacy. Understanding God’s work in our stories is a vital part of our faith. Not just a book for writers, this practical and inspiring book teaches us how to sift through our experiences to find the places we have witnessed God in our journey: the mysterious, the tragic, the miraculous, and the ordinary". [From the Publisher]
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