Farewell Dr. Allen McKiel

Today we say Goodbye to Director of Libraries, Dr. Allen McKiel. He leaves for a new position at Western Oregon University.



Please note that effective January 1, 2008, Mr. Tom Messner has been appointed as Interim Director of Libraries. Tom has been serving as Director of the Library at NSU Broken Arrow, and will take on the responsibility for all of NSU’s library services and split his time between the Tahlequah and Broken Arrow campuses until a new Director of Libraries has been appointed. I appreciate Tom's willingness to serve in this capacity.


Dalton Bigbee, Ph.D.
Vice President for Academic Affairs

Library Intersession Hours

THE LIBRARY WILL CLOSE TODAY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14 AT 5:00 PM

WE WILL BE CLOSED SATURDAY & SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15 & 16

WE WILL BE OPEN MONDAY - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 - 20 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

WE WILL BE CLOSED DECEMBER 21 THRU JANUARY 1, 2008

WE RETURN JANUARY 2, 2008 AT 8:00 AM
INTERSESSION HOURS (8 AM TO 5 PM, MONDAY - FRIDAY, CLOSED WEEKENDS) ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL JANUARY 8, 2008

SPRING CLASSES BEGIN JANUARY 9, 2008 - WE OPEN AT 7:30 AM

HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR, AND A SAFE BREAK

--
S. Renée Johnson
Assistant to the Director
John Vaughan Library, Northeastern State University

Book Signing at John Vaughan Library

The John Vaughan Library on the Tahlequah campus held a book signing for authors Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw’s latest work “Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma, Stories From the WPA Narratives” on Tuesday, December 4th from 2:30 until 4:00 pm in the Special Collections Department.

In this stirring collection, the women who settled what would become Oklahoma tell their own stories in their own words. From thousands of interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration in 1936-37 and preserved in the Indian Pioneer Papers of Oklahoma, editors Baker and Henshaw have selected the words of women from a wide range of socioeconomic groups, ethnic backgrounds, and geographical locations to relate the pioneer experience as it was really lived.

Baker, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is a professor of English at NSU, where she focuses on American Indian literature. Henshaw, who researches women of the nineteenth century, is an instructor in the Department of Languages and Literature in the College of Liberal Arts at NSU.

Baker and Henshaw gave an informal presentation on their work at the book signing.

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