UPCOMING EVENTS
Noontime Jazz
February 21, 2012
12:00pm-1:00pm
Cook Lobby
The Civil War in Your Attic Scanning Event
March 10, 2012
10:00am-5:00pm
CK 3rd Floor
Noontime Jazz
March 13, 2012
12:00pm-1:00pm
Cook Lobby
School Reform
Book Panel
March 15, 2012
5:00pm-6:30pm
CK 507 (Towson Room)
An Evening of Poetry with Kathi Wolfe
March 27, 2012
7:00pm-8:30pm
CK 507 (Towson Room)
Guests of the Ayatollah Book Club
March 28, 2012
12:30pm-1:30pm
CK 507 (Towson Room)
Annual Book Sale
April 1, 2012
1:00pm-4:00pm
April 2-April 6, 2012
8:00am-4:00pm
CK 3rd Floor
Noontime Jazz
April 10, 2012
12:00pm-1:00pm
Cook Lobby
Mark Bowden
April 11, 2012
6:00pm-7:30pm
West Village Commons
Ballrooms 404-405
The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks
Book Club
April 19, 2012
12:30pm-1:30pm
CK 507 (Towson Room)
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LETTER FROM THE DEAN OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
In our first edition of Cook Notes for 2012, we highlight new resources, staff and exhibits,
upcoming events, and more. With spring semester well underway, librarians are immersed in
teaching information literacy customized for specific courses, including the new Towson Seminars.
Cook Library is filled with students, and the positive energy levels are inspiring! Our
spring calendar of events
is posted on the Cook Library website. Behind the scenes, staff space at the
east end of the third floor is under renovation, transforming a 1960s work area to a long overdue
21st century ergonomic, efficient, effective working environment for 22 people in our technical services,
acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, and research and instruction departments.
Very shortly we'll begin to review journal and database subscriptions as we make decisions for
Fiscal Year 2013 - you'll hear more about this process from your liaison librarians. In addition,
we continue our collaborative efforts within the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions
Library Consortium, as we investigate innovative technologies to provide you with easier access to electronic resources.
Please join me in congratulating several of our librarians who were recognized recently for their fine work:
Laksamee Putnam, Science Librarian, was named an Emerging Leader by the American Library Association and
Claire Holmes, Education Librarian was selected to participate in the Association of College and Research
Libraries' Information Literacy Immersion Project. Finally, I'm delighted to announce that Cook Library
is one of only five academic libraries in the nation to be awarded a grant to develop rubrics for assessing
information literacy outcomes this spring, and we are partnering with Towson Seminar faculty on this project.
I wish you an inspiring and successful spring semester. Cook Library is ready to support you!
Debbie Nolan
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current news
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 Bringing the Red, White, and Blue to You: Cook is Now a Federal Depository Library
Cook Library was recently honored to be designated as a Federal Depository Library and has joined
the ranks of 1,250 other Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) sites across the country. As a
result of this distinguished designation, Cook Library now provides the Towson community with free
access to over 53,000 government documents.
Read more
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 New Faces, New Roles at Cook Library
The new semester has brought some exciting staff changes to the library with the
Interlibrary Loan department welcoming Aimee Covel and Librarian David Dahl assuming a new role.
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 Special Collections Reaches Out through Digitization
Did you know that Cook Library's Special Collections and Archives has expanded their electronic
offerings for ease of use in the library and at home? Libraries with unique collections across
the globe are rapidly digitizing them in order to reach more communities and Cook Library has been
an active participant in this endeavor since 2008. Led by Nadia Nasr, University Archivist and
Digital Collections Librarian, the Special Collections and Archives (SCA) department has been
steadily increasing online access to its collections and extending its reach beyond the campus community.
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 Award-Winning Author Mark Bowden to Visit Towson University for National Library Week
Mark Bowden is best known for telling complex truths with the tools of fiction. Be it developing
character or parsing narrative lines, he takes often confusing public events and gives them clarity
by telling a compelling story.
Read more
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SPOTLIGHT
"In Good Company..." Display Highlights Three Alumnae Leaders
Until the end of February, Cook Library is showcasing the accomplishments of three alumnae
who have gone on to serve in the Towson presidency. The two displays in Cook Library's main
lobby include photographs and biographies of Sarah Richmond, M. Theresa Weidefeld, and Maravene Loeschke..
To learn more about the display, visit Special Collections' blog at
http://tuspcoll.blogspot.com/.
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