Cornell College Events

Cole Library hosts a preschool story time every Thursday. Cathy Boggs, public library coordinator, uses a weekly theme that ties together stories, songs, and fingerplays. Story time lasts 30 minutes.

Members of STEP will be at the tables outside of Sodexo to take donations for the Oregon Trail program. Students may also drop off their donations to "become healthy" if they have received a "disease" sign on their door. We will also be available to answer any questions regarding Oregon Trail.

Internet editor and librarian Alan Cordle will lead a small, hands-on workshop about internet security and privacy issues. Mr. Cordle has worked as a reference librarian in public, university and community college libraries for over a decade. In 2004 he founded Foetry.com, the American Poetry Watchdog, and has appeared on the covers of both the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Los Angeles Times, and he's been interviewed on Talk of the Nation and the CBC's As It Happens.

Greg Cotton, a candidate for the position of college librarian, will give a presentation titled "‘You like to-MAY-to and I like to-MAH-to’: better research via Gershwin."

Internet editor and librarian Alan Cordle will lecture on issues of internet privacy and security and his experiences editing Foetry.com. Mr. Cordle has worked as a reference librarian in public, university and community college libraries for over a decade. In 2004 he founded Foetry.com, the American Poetry Watchdog, and he has appeared on the covers of both the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Los Angeles Times, and he's been interviewed on Talk of the Nation and the CBC's As It Happens.

Poet Kathleen Halme will read from and discuss her most recent collection Drift and Pulse. In Drift and Pulse, her third book of poems, Halme is fascinated with the domain where matter is experienced as mind. Drawing upon brain science, anthropology, and biology, these poems take aim at the big questions of form and death.