Hoover Library: READ Poster Honors: 2021 Honorees &amp; Ceremony

Shortened 2021 READ Poster Reveal & Honoree Celebration

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2021 Honorees and Posters

Amanda Gelber

Director of Student Engagement

Reading: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In only a couple of years at McDaniel, Amanda has quickly become a major supporter and partner to Hoover Library. Her nominators describe her as an unabashed bookworm and voracious reader, and she has used that passion to establish and co-run the opt-in common reading/book club for first-year students this past fall and put on various Office of Student Engagement events with reading and writing themes that have important impacts on society such as the program “Let’s Talk About How to Be an Antiracist.” From the moment she stepped on campus, she was ready and excited to collaborate with Hoover Library on outreach and programming efforts, including for finals week and the McDaniel Votes campaign. Amanda demonstrated her advocacy for the library by making sure Hoover Library got its due credit for leading the McDaniel Votes campaign efforts in the lead-up to the 2020 Presidential Election. We are incredibly grateful to have Amanda as a partner and supporter and thank her for standing up and advocating on behalf of the library.

Classics Reimagined, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Alice Pattullo (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1631590766
Publication Date: 2015-10-01
Retold with illustrations by artist Alice Pattullo, this thoughtful edition of the Classics Reimagined series will solve the mystery of what to read.

Elva Joya

Psychology Major, Class of 2022

Reading: Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) by Gabriel García Márquez

As her nominators explain, Elva is an all-around fantastic contribution to the McDaniel community, especially the library. A Psychology major with minors in chemistry, biology, and Spanish, Elva is a Global Fellows and in the Honors program with great passion and enthusiasm for scholarship and knowledge. While working on her capstone, she connected with multiple librarians with thoughtful, engaging research and significantly used the library’s materials and resources. As President of the Hispano-Latinx Alliance, Elva has taken great strides to connect the student group with the library, including connecting the group’s Historian with the college archivist to ensure the voices of students are heard and preserved in College history. Lastly, Elva has been a regular attendee of library events and programming, even in the midst of COVID, and has enthusiastically voiced her support and appreciation for the library’s efforts. Students like Elva truly make our jobs so rewarding, and we are so pleased to recognize her with this honor.

Cien años de Soledad (50 Aniversario) by Gabriel García Márquez; Gabriel García Márquez
ISBN: 9780525562443
Publication Date: 2017-10-24
En ocasión del 50 aniversario de la publicación de Cien años de soledad, llega una edición con ilustraciones inéditas de la artista chilena Luisa Rivera y con una tipografía creada por el hijo del autor, Gonzalo García Barcha. Una edición conmemorativa de una novela clave en la historia de la literatura, una obra que todos deberíamos tener en nuestras estanterías. "Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo". Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a "boca a boca" --como gusta decir el escritor-- son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Commemorating the 50th anniversary since One Hundred Years of Solitude's first publication, this edition includes unpublished illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and a typeface created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. A commemorative edition of a fundamental novel in the history of literature, a work that we should all have on our bookshelves. This novel, now legendary in world literature records, is one of the most fascinating literary adventures of the twentieth century. Millions of copies of One Hundred Years of Solitude have been read in all languages and the Nobel Prize in Literature crowning a work that had made its way through word of mouth, are the most palpable demonstration that the fabulous adventure of the Buendía-Iguarán family, with its miracles, fantasies, obsessions, tragedies, incests, adulteries, rebellions, discoveries, and convictions, represented at the same time the myth and the history, as well as the tragedy and the love of the entire world.

Dr. Gretchen McKay

Professor of Art History, Faculty Athletic Representative

Reading: What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain

Dr. McKay is a Professor of Art History and the Faculty Athletic Representative to the NCAA, and she engages with the library on so many levels. She uses materials borrowed from the library to inspire students in her extremely popular classes and consistently encourages her students to do research using library materials, especially for her Reacting to the Past classes. She has also used various library materials and services as she works on her book about mentoring division III student athletes. Dr. McKay has brought her art history classes to the archives, connecting them with amazing primary source material they may have never known existed if not for her class. Gretchen is even a big supporter of the library on social media—regularly engaging with the library’s accounts and sharing how much she loves the library and its librarians. And we love her right back! Thank you, Gretchen, for being such an overall fantastic library supporter in so many ways.

What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
ISBN: 0674013255
Publication Date: 2004-04-30
What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out--but they also know how to engage and challenge students and to provoke impassioned responses. Most of all, they believe two things fervently: that teaching matters and that students can learn. In stories both humorous and touching, Bain describes examples of ingenuity and compassion, of students' discoveries of new ideas and the depth of their own potential. What the Best College Teachers Do is a treasure trove of insight and inspiration for first-year teachers and seasoned educators.

Suzanne Nida

Senior Lecturer of English, Director of College Writing & First Year Composition

Reading: Atonement by Ian McEwan

As a Senior Lecturer of English and the Director of College Writing and First Year Composition, Suzanne has worked extensively with the library over the years to incorporate information literacy into classes for first-year students. She acts as a liaison between the library and McDaniel’s composition instructors, highlighting the central importance of Hoover Library and its resources and services to newly hired instructors during their summer orientation. By doing so, Suzanne has influenced how our first-year students think about the library as a resource.

Suzanne has always been ready to step in and help the library as needed, including serving on the search committee for the previous Information Literacy Coordinator, providing feedback on library information literacy lessons, and helping design a new assignment calculator tool developed to help students manage their time best while working on research papers.

Suzanne has partnered with Hoover on major projects such as the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Sparks! Grant which led to grant-funded information literacy activities embedded into English 1002. She also assisted in Project Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (SAILS) to assess the information literacy acumen of McDaniel students. Suzanne also incorporates information literacy and library materials into her own composition classes and encourages her students to take advantage of the library’s resources. We are thrilled to finally bestow Suzanne with this honor and thank her for everything she has done to support Hoover Library.

Atonement by Ian McEwan
ISBN: 0385503954
Publication Date: 2002-03-12
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony’s sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl’s scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life. In each of his novels Ian McEwan has brilliantly drawn his reader into the intimate lives and situations of his characters. But never before has he worked with so large a canvas: In Atonement he takes the reader from a manor house in England in 1935 to the retreat from Dunkirk in 1941; from the London’s World War II military hospitals to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999. Atonement is Ian McEwan’s finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, the novel is at its center a profound–and profoundly moving–exploration of shame and forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.

Matt Pelletier

German Major, Class of 2021

Reading: Tintenherz (Inkheart) by Cornelia Funke

In addition to being a German major set to graduate this spring, Matt has been a Library Circulation Student Worker for 3 years, providing a friendly helping hand to everyone who stops by the Circulation Desk. Even with the weirdness brought by new policies in light of COVID-19, Matt has been an ever-reliable and hardworking person, always willing to step in and cover extra shifts when needed. Matt is also a frequent user of library materials and services and attends many of the library’s events and programs. We will certainly miss having Matt around, but we are happy to send him off towards graduation with this honor.

Tintenherz by Cornelia Funke
ISBN: 9783841500120
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.

Tom Phizacklea

Vice President for Administration & Finance

Reading: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Tom has been instrumental in helping the library make major improvements to the building, including the recent replacement of the chiller for the climate control system and a sorely-needed and long overdue roof replacement. He is always ready to work with the library to accomplish our goals and solve problems, and he is truly dedicated to making things better for the students at McDaniel. We are thankful we have this chance to thank Tom and present him with this honor before his well-deserved retirement!

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
ISBN: 0743270754
Publication Date: 2006-09-26
Winner of the Lincoln Prize Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war. We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.

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READ Poster Honors: 2021 Honorees & Ceremony

Shortened 2021 READ Poster Reveal & Honoree Celebration

2021 Honorees and Posters

Amanda Gelber

Director of Student Engagement

Elva Joya

Psychology Major, Class of 2022

Dr. Gretchen McKay

Professor of Art History, Faculty Athletic Representative

Suzanne Nida

Senior Lecturer of English, Director of College Writing & First Year Composition

Matt Pelletier

German Major, Class of 2021

Tom Phizacklea

Vice President for Administration & Finance

Full 2021 READ Poster Honors Ceremony

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