Hutchins Library News Blog

Attend Marianne Williamson's convocation on

March 30, 2017, 3:00pm

Phelps-Stokes Auditorium

If you enjoyed Marianne Williamson's presentation, then you'll love her books that we have available for check-out, at the display near the cafe!

The Healing the Soul of America by Marianne Williamson; Mary A. Naples (Editor)

Call Number: 973 W731h 2000

Publication Date: 1997

A lecturer shares the principles she believes are needed to reunite the country, emphasizing a return to the spiritual roots that underlie the founding of America, including the power of nonviolence and the power of community. 

 

 

The Gift of Change by Marianne Williamson

Call Number: 158.1 W731g 2004

Publication Date: 2004

A spiritual meditation on the role of change in everyday life explores how personal difficulties often bring about wisdom, analyzes humanity's typical resistance to change, and outlines principles for navigating through major changes using such techniques as letting go, grieving, and managing fear.

 

Welcome to the Wisdom of the World and Its Meaning for You by Joan Chittister

Call Number: 200 C543w 2007

Publication Date: 2007

Certain questions are common to all of us as human beings. Why was I born? What?'s important in life? How do I know the right thing to do? What does it mean to "make a difference"? What?'s wrong with me ? why can't I change? Such questions are so deeply human that they transcend time and place, religions and cultures. In this inviting book Joan Chittister presents the insights of others from different cultures throughout history who have grappled with the same kinds of life questions that plague us here and now. Through stories and wisdom literature from major religious traditions ? Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ? Chittister highlights practical, universal truths and deftly shows how each spiritual tradition brings a special gift to the art of living a meaningful, spiritually aware life. A rich exploration of spirituality, Welcome to the Wisdom of the World addresses some of our most challenging issues ? ambition, security, romance, abandonment, failure, and more ? acknowledging the truth we can find in the wisdom of our human past and the connections we can make through our differences. This is a book for anyone who wants to grow spiritually and to become more fully human.

2017 Berea College Service Awards
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the speaker had to withdraw. An update will be posted as soon as it becomes available

If you are interested in Mrs. Woolfolk's work, you should explore these books that we have available for check-out, at the display near the cafe!

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr by Clayborne Carson

Call Number: 323.409 K53a

Publication Date: 1998

Celebrated Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson is the director and editor of the Martin Luther King Papers Project; with thousands of King's essays, notes, letters, speeches, and sermons at his disposal, Carson has organized King's writings into a posthumous autobiography. In an early student essay, King prophetically penned: "We cannot have an enlightened democracy with one great group living in ignorance.... We cannot have a nation orderly and sound with one group so ground down and thwarted that it is almost forced into unsocial attitudes and crime." Such statements, made throughout King's career, are skillfully woven together into a coherent narrative of the quest for social justice. The autobiography delves, for example, into the philosophical training King received at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University, where he consolidated the teachings of Afro-American theologian Benjamin Mays with the philosophies of Locke, Rousseau, Gandhi, and Thoreau. Through King's voice, the reader intimately shares in his trials and triumphs, including the Montgomery Boycott, the 1963 "I Have a Dream Speech," the Selma March, and the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. In one of his last speeches, King reminded his audience that "in the final analysis, God does not judge us by the separate incidents or the separate mistakes that we make, but by the total bent of our lives." Carson's skillful editing has created an original argument in King's favor that draws directly from the source, illuminating the circumstances of King's life without deifying his person. --Eugene Holley Jr.

 

The Rights Revolution by Samuel Walker

Call Number: 323.097 W184r

Publication Date: 1998

The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights, a veritable "rights revolution" that is perceived by both conservatives and liberals as a threat to traditional values and our sense of community. Is it possible that our pursuit of personal rights is driving our country toward moral collapse? In The Rights Revolution, Samuel Walker answers this question with an emphatic no. The "rights revolution," says Walker, is the embodiment of the American ideals of morality and community. He argues that the critics of personal rights--from conservatives such as Robert Bork to liberals such as Michael Sandel--often forget the blatant injustices perpetrated against minorities such as women, homosexuals, African-Americans, and mentally handicapped citizens before the civil ights movement. They attack "identity politics" policies such as affirmative action, but fail to offer any reasonable solution to the dilemma of how to overcome exclusion in a society with such a powerful legacy of discrimination. Communitarians, who offer the most comprehensive alternative to a rights-oriented society, rarely define what they mean by community. What happens when conflicts arise between different notions of community? Walker concedes that the expansion of individual rights does present problems, but insists that the gains far outweigh the losses. And he reminds us that the absolute protection of our individual rights is our best defense against discrimination and injustice. The Rights Revolution is an impassioned call to honor the personal rights of all American citizens, and to embrace an enriched sense of democracy, tolerance, and community in our nation.

 

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights by Michael K. Honey

Call Number: 331.639 H772s

Publication Date: 1993

This book chronicles the rarely studied southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the cold war, using the strategically located river city of Memphis as a case study. Honey analyzes the economic basis of segregation and the denial of fundamental human rights and civil liberties it entailed.

Attend Carlos Núñez's performance on

March 16, 2017, 8:00pm

Phelps-Stokes Auditorium

If you enjoyed Carlos Núñez's performance, then you'll love his CDs that we have available for check-out, on display near the cafe!

Discover by Carlos Núñez

Call Number: CD 782.421 N972d 2012 Discs 1-2

Publication Date: 2012

 

 

Inter-Celtic by Carlos Núñez

Call Number: CD 782.421 N972i 2014

Publication Date: 2014

 

 

Alborada Do Brasil by Carlos Núñez

Call Number: CD 782.421 N972a 2009

Publication Date: 2009

Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 by J. G. Gibson

Call Number: Ebook

Publication Date: 2000

"John Gibson pieces together the history of eighteenth-century West Highland pipers and piping and documents their changing social conditions after the suppression of the last Jacobite rebellion. Challenging the conventional view that the decline of piping was caused by the ban of Culloden pipes and pipers by the Disarming Act in 1746, Gibson reveals that traditional dance and bagpiping continued to exist in the Highlands until at least the mid-nineteenth century. He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of Gaelic piping." "Gibson follows the emigration of the Highland Scots from the Old World to the New - to where an echo of traditional Gaelic music can still be heard."

 

 

 

 

Hutchins Library is hosting an art exhibit of the Feminist Artists of Kentucky titled "Engaging communities to impact social justice." This art exhibit celebrates the Women's History Month and features pieces by 6 artists: Trish Ayers, Pat Cheshire Jennings, Jackie Pullum, Mary Ann Shupe, Patricia Watkins, and Valeria Watkins, as well as a guest artist Lynn Marrapodi. 

The exhibit is on display in the library's main floor. The exhibit may be viewed during library regular hours. It is free and open to the public.

The artists provided the following artist statement for the exhibit:

"We are six working artists who combine our efforts and talents to expand our creativity and create exhibitions that challenge the social norms. We are delighted to bring this exhibit to the Berea College Theatre Laboratory during its current production of plays written by Kentucky women playwrights. We support gender parity and equality in the art world, including theatre. 

If you wish to purchase our art, you may call 859-302-3709 and we will explain the details of your transaction and answer any other questions you may have. 

Thank you for coming and we hope you enjoy our exhibition."

Some artists' personal statements:

Valeria Watkins: "Women's History Month offers us all an opportunity to honor the work of women. It is a pure joy to work with my fellow artists  as Feminist Artists of Kentucky.."

Patricia Watkins: "My work as a feminist artist is most often inspired by women, their roles in our culture, and their legacies. Being in my seventh decade, I also am influenced by the body of work that I hope to leave behind..."