New Library Displays for May 2017

The Lewis J. Ort Library is pleased to present three new displays in the library.

On the 5th floor is the celebration of the 100th birthday of President John F. Kennedy (JFK), who was born in May 1917. The display provides biographical information about JFK and includes some of the books that the library has on our 35th President of the United States.

The 4th floor of the library has a display on the history of the American Red Cross, including information on the co-founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton. The display provides some history of the organization and includes some of the resources the library has on the organization.

The final display is on the 3rd floor. This display celebrates Mother Goose Day on May 1st. This display highlights the history of "Mother Goose", including that some of the nursery rhymes may go back to the 10th century. The display also highlights some of the resources we have in the library on Mother Goose, including a Chinese Mother Goose book, a Muppets Mother Goose book, and a French Mother Goose book.

These displays will be up through the end of May.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Theresa Mastrodonato at tmmastrodonato@frostburg.edu or 301-687-4425.

Three New Library Displays for November

The Ort Library is pleased to present three new displays for November.

The first display, located on the 3^rd floor (by the main entrance) is a remembrance of the day, 50 years ago (November 22, 1963) that President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas. The display presents a timeline of events as they happened that fateful day in Dallas. Additionally, several books about the subject that are available here at FSU are shown in the display. Finally, the display also provides examples of some of the front pages of newspapers from around the country that have been collected on microfilm about the event. The library owns a copy of the microfilm entitled Memorial Collection of Newspapers on Microfilm: Chronicling Events of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 22-26, 1963 (E842 .M45). If you would like to see this newspaper collection, please stop by the 2^nd floor of the library.

The second display, also located on the 3^rd floor (located between the 4 stand-up PCs) looks at food insecurity and hunger for those living in Allegany and Garrett counties. More than 49 million Americans are living in households that are food insecure. According to the latest US Census data, more than 30% of households in Allegany County and almost 28% of households in Garrett County have incomes of less than $25,000, which can make purchasing food difficult. The Ort Library will be collecting for the Frostburg Food Pantry through the end of the semester. A collection box is located by the display.

The final display, located on the 5^th floor of the library, recognizes the 150^th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address given on November 19, 1863. His speech was one of many given that day to remember those that were killed during the Battle of Gettysburg that occurred the first three days of July 1863. Lincoln was there to dedicate a national cemetery to those killed in the battle. His speech begins with the famous line “Four score and seven years ago…”
The displays will be up through the end of November.

If you have any questions about the displays, please contact Theresa Mastrodonato at 301-687-4425 or tmmastrodonato@frostburg.edu or MaryJo Price at 301-687-4889 or mprice@frostburg.edu.

FOR for the week of Jan. 17

Featured Online Resource
Jan. 17, 2011

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.

THIS WEEK'S Featured Online Resource

JFK Presidential Archives

Marking the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, the JFK Library Foundation unveiled the nation's largest online digitized presidential archive, providing access to papers, records, photographs and recordings of the 35th president's thousand days in office. Library staff have digitized, described, and made available three entire textual collections or subcollections, which included

• photographic and audio components (the President's Office Files, the White House Central Chronological Files, and the John F. Kennedy Personal Papers)
• one collection of audio files (the White House Audio collection)
• one moving image collection (the White House Film collection)
• one collection of museum artifacts (the State Gifts)
• a portion of the White House Photograph collection, which consists of over 35,000 photographs.

Included in the materials are thousands of historical papers, documents and images from the era of the nation's civil rights struggle; the U.S. conflict with the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, including the Cuban Missile Crisis; NASA's challenge to land a man on the moon; and the creation of the Peace Corps. You can search the digital archive by simple keywords or use the advanced search to construct a more refined search or to search by object type.