Below are some upcoming events through Hale you may be interested in!
Your Library: Beyond the Books (Workshop Series)
• FYI: Research Tips and Tricks from Students will be 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, in 501 Hale Library. Reserves? Citations? Bathroom locations? What do you really need to know about library research? Our student employees and K-State Libraries Student Ambassadors share their expertise. Come with questions and be prepared to try new things!
• Research without Borders: Life and Academics from an International Perspective will be 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26 in 501 Hale Library. What draws a global community of 2,300 international students, faculty and researchers to Manhattan? What is their academic experience like, and how do they adapt to a world of purple? An awesome panel of international K-Staters reflects on life and research at home and abroad.
• Too Many Fish: Finding Your Perfect Resource will be from 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, in 501 Hale Library. Have you been bumbling through your research and feel like you’re in a grind? Love K-State Libraries’ collections, but want to know what else is out there for you? We’ll put some tinder under your mental fire and help you find the resources of your academic dreams.
Learn more at Your Library: Beyond the Books Workshops http://www.lib.k-state.edu/your-library-beyond-books-workshops
Black American Western Experience Lecture:
Special Lecture by Professor Mike Searles (“Cowboy Mike”), emeritus professor of history at Augustana University
Cowboy Mike’s presentation, “Black Cowboys along the Chisholm Trail,” coincides with the end of the Morse Department of Special Collections’ exhibit, Chisholm Trail 150: History & Legacy.
Cowboy Mike Searles is an award-winning editor and writer and nationally-recognized lecturer who has contributed significantly to modern scholarship about black cowboys, Buffalo Soldiers, and black life and culture in the American West. Cowboy Mike’s lecture is done in authentic period costume and includes artifacts from the lives of real working cowboys.
The presentation is Thursday, September 28 at 3:00 pm in Hale Library’s Hemisphere Room on the Fifth Floor. Additional information about Cowboy Mike is available at https://cowboymike.com/