There's still time to cast a vote for your favorite submission to this year's student video contest, This is DePaul. Students have already submitted an impressive selection of short videos depicting the DePaul student experience, and the entries can all be viewed and voted on from the YouTube movie gallery.

According to contest guidelines, all submissions had to feature at least one aspect of academics at DePaul, so it's no surprise that you'll see shots of the library in so many of these videos! Submissions also needed to feature elements of student life and Vincentian mission and at least one iconic Chicago landmark.

After online voting closes on May 25th, a panel of judges will choose three winners and award $4000 dollars in prize money. An additional award, the Audience Choice, will also go to the entry with the highest YouTube rating. So check out some of the fine work submitted to this contest and cast your vote soon!:

http://www.youtube.com/groups_videos?name=thisisdepaul

Have you been bitten by the writing bug? If so, make the most of your summer and take part in DePaul's Summer Writing Conference, brought to you by DePaul's Continuing Education Department, the English Department, and the Chicago Public Library. The Summer Writing Conference runs July 17 - 19, and features lectures by esteemed writers, craft classes taught by some of the country's best writers and panel discussions on literary and practical topics during this new three-day conference. Participants will also enjoy the opportunity to take the podium and read from their own work. Registration is now open on DePaul's Continuing and Professional Education website

In celebration of National Poetry Month, please join us for a showcase of DePaul undergraduate poets! The University Libraries is proud to host our first student poetry reading, and refreshments will be provided. We will also be announcing the winner of our magnetic poetry contest at the beginning of this event.

Poetry Reading:

Wednesday, April 29th

Richardson Library, room 300

6:00pm

You may have heard or read about Mayor Daley (DePaul alumnus, Law '68) proclaiming Thursday, April 23rd Talk Like Shakespeare Day. The Website, compiled by the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, honors the Bard's 445th birthday with a variety of entertaining audio and video clips along with tips on how to introduce a little Elizabethan banter into your speech at work, school and home. Here's your chance to bust out all those pent up expressions you wish you could use everyday: thou, thee, Sirrah, Mistress, and [any verb]-eth, e.g. runneth, drinketh, speaketh. However, the Libraries do not condoneth calling anyone a jack-a-napes or a canker-blossom. 

Did you know that these seemingly mundane, work-a-day words were also coined by the Bard? aerial, circumstantial, employment, moonbeam, uneducated (not one we use often around here!) 

[see a list of more everyday words from Shakespeare's plays]

Message any modern phrase to "ShakespeareSays" on Twitter, and discover how it would have sounded four hundred years ago.

And there's more! Check out the Libraries' most recent acquisitions on the topic of Shakespeare or his works, or watch one of 47 performances of Shakespearean plays via streaming video through our resource, Theatre in Video. 

Happy birthday, William Shakespeare!

[image credit: Folger Library]

 

In celebration of National Poetry Month, please join us for a showcase of DePaul undergraduate poets! The University Libraries is proud to host our first student poetry reading, and refreshments will be provided. We will also be announcing the winner of our magnetic poetry contest at the beginning of this event.

Poetry Reading:

Wednesday, April 29th

Richardson Library, room 300

6:00pm

This Tuesday, One Book One Chicago at DePaul invites you to join them for a lecture by Juan Mora-Torres, Associate Professor in the Department of History. In the spring of 2006, over a million people, including large numbers of young people, marched in Chicago to demand civil rights for the undocumented population. This lecture/presentation revisits key themes in Sandra Cisneros’ novel, The House on Mango Street – the meaning of community, the politics of the youth and issues of immigration in the making of contemporary Mexican Chicago.

Tuesday, April 21st, 6:00 p.m.
McGowan South Building
1110 W. Belden, Room 108 

Help us celebrate National Poetry Month by creating a poem on our magnetic word board and snapping a picture of it with your phone or camera!

We've set a up a magnet board with plenty of words to help you create poetic masterpieces on the first floor of Richardson Library on DePaul's Lincoln Park campus.  

Send your photo to picture64that@photos.flickr.com, DePaul University Libraries' Flickr Account.  You MUST include your name and contact information in the body of your message. We will remove your contact info before we post your photo.  

We'll include some of our favorites in "The Full Text," the DePaul University Libraries blog; and one lucky poet will win a new ipod shuffle!  The winner will be selected at random from all eligible entries. And yes, we'll be using our judgment to determine what "eligible" means, so you should too.   We reserve the right to refrain from posting poems that are offensive, lewd or otherwise, so please save your risqué poems for the home refrigerator; submissions to this contest should be appropriate and in line with the University's Code of Student Responsibility.

Read everyone's contributions at www.flickr.com/photos/dpulibrary. 

The DePaul Reads Together book club program will show a screening of the film A Room of One's Own, based on book by Virginia Woolf. The program will begin with brief remarks by Kristine Garrigan of DePaul’s English department. All are welcome, regardless of having read the book:

Thursday, March 12
SAC 154
5:00pm

Interested in going "green?" Want to learn more about reducing your carbon footprint? Then stop by the Alternative Transportation Fair!  Sponserod by the Department of Campus Recreation and the Office of Student Life, the Alternative Transportation Fair will help you discover ways to contribute to the "greening" of Chicago, and enhance your healthy, active lifestyle. It's also a great way to learn about the wide array of options available for commuting to campus and around the city. To explore more about how alternative transportation methods can impact our community, start with our Encyclopedia of Environment and Society.

Representatives from CTA, Metra, I-Go Car Sharing, Active Transportation Alliance (formerly Chicagoland Bicycle Federation), DePaul Commuter Advisory Board, and DePaul U-Pass will be there and participants can score luna bars, bike bells, and pedometers. 

Friday, March 6, 2009
Lincoln Park Student Center Atrium
12:30 to 3:30 pm

 

Join us for a reading and recpetion with DePaul author, Kirk Shellko. Dr. Shellko, a member of the Department of Modern Languages, will discuss his first novel, Antinomy: A Union of Mind, and will explore the concepts of the One and the Other in his work. 

Thursday, February 26, 2009

John T. Richardson Library, room 300

4:30pm - 6:30pm