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NEWS AND EVENTS


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PBS Streaming Videos Now Available via NCLIVE's New Media Collection

NCLIVE logoThanks to NCLIVE's new Media Collection containing streaming videos from PBS, the Barton community now has access to some 370+ videos viewable on a computer screen. Series such as Ken Burns' "The Civil War," "Baseball," and "Jazz," as well as selected episodes from other PBS series such as "American Experience," "Frontline," "American Masters," "Empires," and "Scientific American Frontiers" are available, as well as episodes from the children's series "Cyberspace" and "Liberty's Kids."

Video titles are searchable by title, by series, and by subject from within our Hackney Library Catalog, and they are browseable by title, series, and subject from the NCLIVE Media Collection site. In order to view these videos on the computers in Hackney Library or at home (in one of two bandwidths--175 Kbps and 400 Kbps), you must have Flash Media Player 9.0 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps; it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet connection). From off campus, when you go to the Media Collection site either directly or from links in our catalog, you will be prompted for a Barton login in order to proceed.

24/7 Reference Service Now Available via NCKnows

NCLIVE logoNCknows is a service that allows North Carolina citizens to get help from librarians 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using their own library resources from their computer. By typing messages back and forth, you can communicate with a librarian from a participating library either within the state or across the country, browse web pages together, receive articles from NCLIVE, and get answers to questions every day, around the clock. To access NCknows from the library web page, go to the "Ask a Librarian" sidebar section on every page and click the NCknows link, or go to the Help page and do the same. NCknows is a joint project of the State Library of North Carolina and OCLC.


Events

"Late Night at the Library"--Library Hours Extended Until 2:00 AM on May 11

During final exam period on Sunday, May 11, the Library held its second "Late Night at the Library" event, staying open until 2:00 AM in the morning. In response to student requests for later hours during exams, Late Night debuted during the Fall 2007 semester, and thanks to its success, it was held again this spring. Reference and other services were limited from 11 pm to 2 am, but there was plenty of opportunity and space for students to prepare for final exams. Almost 50 students took advantage of the opportunity to study and relax in the library later into the night than usual.

The event was sponsored by the Friends of Hackney Library.

Book Signing: Jim Clark, author of Notions: A Jim Clark Miscellany: February 26, 2008

Image of author and musician Jim ClarkThe Friends of Hackney Library and the Barton College Department of English and Modern Languages sponsored a book signing and reception featuring Barton's own Dr. James A. (Jim) Clark, writer and musician. Jim is currently the Elizabeth H. Jordan Professor of Southern Literature and Writer-in-Residence at Barton College, where he is also Director of the Barton College Creative Writing Symposium. The event was held on Tuesday, February 26 from 5:00-7:00 pm in Hackney Library, with some 75 people in attendance.

A Tennessee native, Jim is the author of several works of prose and poetry, including his latest, Notions: A Jim Clark Miscellany, a collection of prose and poems from 1983-2006. Other works include two books of poems (Dancing on Canaan's Ruins and Handiwork) and a play, The Girl With the Faraway Eye. He has also served as editor of a poetry collection, Fable in the Blood: The Selected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece, and several literary journals, including The Denver Quarterly, The Greensboro Review, and The Vanderbilt Poetry Review.

Jim received his B.A. in English from Vanderbilt University, an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and his Ph.D. in modern literature and creative writing from the University of Denver.

In addition to communicating through the written word, Jim also communicates through music, including singing and playing guitar, banjo, mountain dulcimer, and autoharp. The event also featured a performance, including songs with bandmate Katy Adams from his group's (The Near Myths) latest CD, "Words to Burn," which was released on January 28. Other CDs include Wilson and Buried Land.

Copies of Notions, "Words to Burn," and other Jim Clark works were available for purchase and signing at the event.

Friends of Hackney Library Dinner / Lecture Series

Each year, the Friends organization hosts two signature dinners in its Friends of Hackney Library Dinner & Lecture Series at which well-known authors speak about or read from their works.

This year's programs are sponsored in part by BB&T.

Spring 2008 Program

Image of author John Hart The Spring 2008 program featured John Hart, author of two New York Times best-sellers: his debut novel, The King of Lies, as well as his second, Down River.

The event was held on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, in Hardy Alumni Hall on the Barton College campus. A book signing and wine reception began at 6 pm, followed by dinner and the program at 7 pm.

Author Pat Conroy says Hart's debut novel "moves and reads like a book on fire" and calls Hart "an amazing new talent." The New York Times's Janet Maslin calls King of Lies a "seething, roiling, boiling North Carolina murder story [that] crossbreeds enough Grisham-style intrigue and Turow-style brooding to make for a sulfurous mix." Entertainment Weekly says, "In a top-notch debut, Hart's prose is like Raymond Chandler's, angular and hard." And the St. Louis Post-Dispatch claims the novel "pulls off the almost impossible: It makes you like a lawyer."

King of Lies has been selected as an Editor’s Pick by the Mystery Guild and as a Featured Alternate by the Doubleday Book Club, the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and Smart Reader Rewards. The book, winner of the Gumshoe Award for Best First Novel and nominated for several other awards, is also being adapted as a feature film.

A native of Durham, North Carolina who later moved to Salisbury (the setting of the book), John Hart holds a bachelor's degree in French literature from Davidson College, a master's degree in accounting from UNC-Chapel Hill, and a law degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center. He has worked as a banker, a stockbroker, and an attorney, but took a year off to realize his only dream: "to write well and to be published well." As he describes on his web site, Hart "spent the better part of a year in a carrel at the Rowan County Public Library. The King of Lies is the result." After a brief stint with Merrill Lynch in Greensboro after the completion of King of Lies, Hart received an advance that allows him to work on his next two books full time.

His highly-anticipated second novel, Down River, was released October 2, 2007 and has garnered even more praise than his debut work. It has been chosen as a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and as a featured alternate for the Literary Guild, the Mystery Guild, and the Doubleday Book Club. Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal have all given Hart's second work of fiction starred reviews. The following summary of the novel, which is also set in Rowan County, appears on Hart's web site:

    "Adam Chase has a violent streak, and not without reason. His life was all but destroyed at an early age. As a grown man, he's passionate and misunderstood, a fighter. When narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, he disappears for five long years: not a clue, not a trace. Now, he's back and nobody knows why, not his family or the cops, not the woman he left behind. When bodies start turning up, Adam finds himself embroiled in the fight of his life, not just to prove his own innocence, but to reclaim what he lost so many years ago."

Hart has almost completed work on his third novel, tentatively titled Lightning Falls, which is slated for release in May 2009.

The Fall 2008 Friends of Hackney Library Dinner/Lecture (October 14, 2008) will feature David Payne, author of Back to Wando Passo, Gravesend Light, Ruin Creek, Early from the Dance, and Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.


Tickets are $30 for Friends members and faculty/staff and spouses, and $35 for all others, unless otherwise noted; they are available through the Friends of Hackney Library, Barton College, P.O. Box 5000, Wilson, NC 27893-7000; (252) 399-6503.

Last updated May 12, 2008
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