Edible Book Contest: April 14

Edible Book Contest

Thursday, April 14

10am- Entries Accepted

10am-2pm- Voting

2:30pm-Winners Announced & Entries Sampled

Prizes for winners include:

$25 WCU Bookstore gift card

Jackson County Farmers Market cooler bag and $10 in market coins

A book about food creations from City Lights Bookstore

Culinary creations inspired by books will be admired, judged and then eaten during the annual edible book contest to be held Thursday, April 14. WCU students, faculty and staff members and other visitors to the library on the day of the contest will cast ballots to choose the winners. Prizes will be awarded in several categories, including best visual, most edibly appealing, most creative and people’s choice.

Entries in the competition should be brought to the library before 10 a.m. on the day of the contest. Voting will take place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The entries will be sampled shortly after 2 p.m. and winners announced at 2:30 p.m.

In past years, the edible books contest has drawn entries ranging from pies and cakes to vegetables dishes and fruit salads. Last year’s winner, a pound cake with white and chocolate frosting and topped with melted caramels, looked just like a hiking boot. The entry by Shirley Finegan was inspired by The Appalachian Trail: Celebrating America’s Hiking Trail, a book by Brian B. King.

Any entry that is edible and relates to a book or book title is welcome in the competition. The dishes will be on display on the main floor while the competition is underway.

For more information, visit the Circulation Desk or call 227-7485.

Card Making Classes: April 11

National Library Week Celebration 2016

Card Making Classes

Monday, April 11

2-4pm & 4-6pm

HL245

Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

For more information, call 227-7485 or visit the Circulation Desk.

 All NLW events are free and open to the public.

GIS Workshop- Wednesday, April 6

An Introduction to GIS, with Dr. Rebecca Dobbs

April 6  3-5 PM

Stillwell 354

                    

Why is GIS such a powerful tool for humanities and social science scholarship and for community projects? Find out in this workshop while getting hands-on instruction aimed at absolute beginners, presented by a scholar experienced with historical, qualitative, and social GIS uses. Dr. Rebecca Dobbs  teaches human geography in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resources. 

Space is limited to the first 25 registrants.

Register here

For registration questions, contact Liz Skene, Digital Initiative Librarian, at emskene@wcu.edu.

For more information about workshop content, contact Rebecca Dobbs at grdobbs@wcu.edu.

Digitization Workshop- Monday, April 4

Are you ready to start digitizing your collection but don’t know where to start? Overwhelmed by file formats, digitization standards, and file storage? This presentation will cover the equipment for digitization, best practices for scanning, file naming conventions, and introductory digital preservation practices. At the end, participants will be encouraged to share their own challenges and success with digitization. 

Elizabeth Skene is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at Hunter Library.

Register here

Zotero Workshop, March 15, 2-3 PM

Zotero is a free citation manager that allows you to save citation information while searching and browsing the Web. With a single click, Zotero saves citations and enables you to create customized bibliographies in standard citation styles, including MLA, Chicago and APA. This workshop will introduce some of the key functions of Zotero such as: installing Zotero, adding citations to your Zotero library, organizing and managing your citations, creating a bibliography, and using the Microsoft Word plug-in to easily insert citations from Zotero into your documents. Participants are encouraged to bring their personal computers so that they may download and interact with the program. Registration is encouraged.

Cara Barker is Reference and Instruction Librarian at Hunter Library.

Register here