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Quinn Library hosts spring cultural events
to build campus social and learning community
The OU-C Quinn Library will host several cultural events during spring quarter to strengthen the learning community that exists among students and community members. Among the events scheduled is an Earth Day picnic, a poetry reading, an anti-bullying panel discussion and a 5-kilometer race/walk.
An Earth Day celebration picnic will be hosted at the Stevenson Center at noon on April 21. This continues an April Earth Day celebration on campus. The OU-C Environmental Club has partnered with Quinn Library to host the free picnic. There will also be free entertainment and the OU-C Environmental Club will be giving away free tree saplings.
The annual poetry reading, always held in April, will be hosted by Jan Schmittauer on April 21 as well. It will begin after the Earth Day picnic from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Stevenson Center Learning Commons.
OU-C Stray Cats Club and the OU-C Health & Wellness Committee has partnered with Quinn Library to sponsor a 5-K Run/Walk for Diversity and Against Bullying. The run/walk will be on May 7 at 10 a.m. The cost is $15 and will benefit the coming anti-bullying panel.
A panel discussion on anti-bullying will be hosted on May 12 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Bennett Hall Auditorium.
Lisa Kovach from University of Toledo will be a guest at the panel discussion. Kovach is author of School Shootings and Suicides: Why We Must Stop the Bullies and specializes in bullying in schools. She will be joined by OU-C faculty members Jamie Harmount and Ronald Vance.
“OU-C is a commuter campus, which makes it more difficult to be ‘hanging out’ somewhere and encounter other students or faculty who want to engage in discussion,” said Quinn Librarian Head Librarian Allan Pollchik. “By hosting discussions in the library or the commons we have encouraged a culture of learning and intellectual exchange – a learning community.”
Quinn Library, which has been nominated for a National Medal for Museum and Library services, has been devoted to stewarding the intellectual life of the students and community members through their programs.
“Quinn Library’s mission is to be the steward of the intellectual life of the communities inside and outside the walls of OU-C. Unfortunately, most people believe that the university library belongs only to students and faculty,” Pollchik said. “The Salon @ Quinn Library invites the community to join our discussions. We use these salons to let community members know that Quinn Library belongs to them, and we find the cross-pollination of ideas from off campus enlightening. Salon topics come from the interests of our on-campus and off-campus communities.”
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