Celebrate National Poetry Month

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? This is a great time to celebrate and appreciate poetry!

Here are some great ways to exercise your poetic muscles:

-Come to the Seminole Campus Poetry Open Mic on Wednesday, April 27th at 12:30 in UP 303. You can share your original poem or read one of your favorites. Special guest singer-poet Guianna Brantly will be performing some exciting selections.

-Explore Poets.org, the Academy of American Poets, official page for Poetry Month.

-Sign up for the National Poetry Month Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/POETSorg. Every day in April a guest poet is using the Twitter account to send out their thoughts and insights for the day.

-Check out a book of poetry at your campus library.

Some titles to try:

The Body Electric : America's Best Poetry from the American Poetry Review

The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

The Illustrated Library of World Poetry

Library Satisfaction Survey

Pick Next Year's Book for One Book, One College

The library is having a fun competition called, Last Book Standing, to pick the next title for the Library’s One Book, One College program.

You can write up why your title should win (200 words or less), upload a video to YouTube, call and leave a voice entry, or do another creative project, but hurry because the deadline is April 19th!

Follow this link to learn how to submit your entry: Last Book Standing

The competition is open to all SPC students, faculty and staff.

Voting for the winners will begin April 20th @ noon.

Free Online Discussion: You Are Not a Gadget

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 beginning at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 8:00 Central, 7:00 Mountain, and 6:00 Pacific:

Join a lively discussion of Jaron Lanier's self-proclaimed manifesto, You Are Not a Gadget. A group of graduate students -- definitely not gadgets -- from Lori Bell's course at the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University will join in. They'll also discuss how people are connecting online to discuss books, authors, genres, manifestos, broadsides, and more.

Host: Lori Bell, instructor at SJSU SLIS




Join Discussion: OPAL Auditorium
More information on Author: http://www.jaronlanier.com/

Last Lecture Series

The success of last semester's presentation by Jeffery Zaslow, co-author of the national bestselling book 'The Last Lecture', SPC's One Book One College program continues to inspire with its own Last Lecture Series.

Below are two lectures from Joe Leopold (Time: 00:00-24:03) and Earl Fratus (Time: 24:04-47:25):

uStream Video from Jazz in the Stacks

Below is the recorded uStream video from our annual 'Jazz in the Stacks' concert with the Helios Jazz Orchestra. It is always fun celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month in the Library with a sensational big-band! A hearty THANK YOU to everyone who came to the West Community Library at St. Petersburg College to support local jazz music.



To learn more about Jazz Appreciation Month visit the Smithsonian's website at: http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month at the Library!

In honor of Jazz Appreciation Month, St. Petersburg College will host Jazz in the Stacks, a free concert featuring the Helios Jazz Orchestra, on April 5, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. at its West St. Petersburg Community Library, 750 66^th Street North, St. Petersburg.

The Helios Jazz Orchestra, a 21-piece jazz big band that performs swing, bebop and Latin jazz, is led by Director David Manson and made up of some of the most talented musicians in the Tampa Bay area. 

Note: If you cannot attend the live concert event, it will be video-streamed at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jazz-in-the-stacks.

  

Date: Tuesday, April 5^th         

Time: 7:30pm

Location: West St. Petersburg Community Library, 750 66^th Street North, St. Petersburg          

Admission: free

Phone: 727-341-7984

 The M. M. Bennett Library of St. Petersburg College in its support of the philosophy and objectives of the College provides comprehensive library and information services to meet the curricular, research, cultural and recreational needs of the college community. For more information, visit www.spcollege.edu/central/libonline. 

Last Lecture Series

The success of last semester's presentation by Jeffery Zaslow, co-author of the national bestselling book 'The Last Lecture', SPC's One Book One College program continues to inspire with its own Last Lecture Series. Here are two lecture videos: 

Chris Nichol's Lecture
Kathleen Griffin's Lecture

Last Lecture given by Chris Nichol, Earth Science Professor of Natural Science, will be on March 21, 2011 at the Seminole Campus (UP303) from 1-2pm. Click here for more information.

For more information regarding SPC's One Book, One College program visit  http://spcollege.libguides.com/oboc.