Posted on April 9th, 2010 by Brown Library Blogger
If not, here’s your chance! The VWCC Edible Book Festival is coming to the Brown Library, main floor, on April 13, 2010.
In celebration of National Library Week, April 11-17, Brown and students from the Culinary Arts program are participating in the International Edible Book Festival.
The Culinary Arts students will produce edible creations with … Read the rest
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Posted on March 30th, 2010 by Brown Library Blogger
Brown Library and Student Activities invite you to come express yourself at our Jazz Poetry Hour this Wednesday, March 31st, at 1pm in the Student Commons.
The Elmer Coles Quintet will play behind you as you share your spoken-word, poetry, or other *short* forms of writing based on themes from the Big Read book, A … Read the rest
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Posted on March 10th, 2010 by Brown Library Blogger
Congratulations to our very own Lynn Hurt, Interim Learning Resources Director, for winning the J. Andrew Archer Outstanding Faculty Award for 2009!
This honor is awarded annually at the Employee Recognition ceremony to acknowledge excellence in teaching and administration. These awards rotate among the academic divisions and counseling and the library. Recipients are selected by their peers.… Read the rest
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Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Brown Library Blogger
On Friday, February 12th, Virginia Western’s Brown Library hosted a kick-off event for The Big Read Roanoke Valley. Fifty copies for the Big Read book, A Lesson Before Dying, were given out FREE to the first fifty students who came by! To learn more about why you should participate in The Big Read, check out … Read the rest
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Posted on February 11th, 2010 by Brown Library Blogger
February 12th is the VWCC Kickoff, steps of the Brown Library, 10am-12noon!!
Come learn about Roanoke’s literary event, The Big Read, and what Virginia Western is doing to celebrate it! Free books to the first 50 students! Refreshments provided.
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The Big Read is a national reading program that is being billed as “The Roanoke Valley’s … Read the rest
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