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11/20/2024
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We have a exhibition tonight in the library by Mexican Artist Hector Quintanar Pérez, “All Sun Between Shadows.”
It's from 5 - 7 pm tonight, more info about the exhibit and contact info can be found at the link below.

https://www.unk.edu/calendar/2024/11/exhibition-all-sunshine-between-shadows.php

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11/19/2024
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We've had a Bluesky account for a little while but feel it's time to let everyone know we have quit X and are now using Bluesky in it's place. 

@unklibrary.bsky.social

ctr library on Bluesky
11/06/2024
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One Day for UNK 2024 coming. Consider supporting the Calvin T. Ryan Library and help us continue providing valuable resources, study spaces, and services for all Lopers. Join us Nov. 13-14, and show your support at https://givingday.unk.edu/organizations/calvin-t-ryan-library

 

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Colleagues,
There has been an increase in flyering in the library over the last few weeks, many of which did not include the University's approval stamp. This is a reminder to review the University's posting policy and follow guidelines. 
University of Nebraska at Kearney affiliated individuals and organizations must abide by the University's "Policy on Posting Materials, Display of Signage on University Property."  The Calvin T. Ryan Library currently has a bulletin board near the circulation desk where material with UNK's approved "checkmark" stamp can be posted.  All postings for the library should be brought to the Office of the Dean of the Library for posting. 
Please be aware that flyers left on tables, counters, and other library furniture or in any spaces such as classrooms or study rooms, will be removed and discarded without notice.
Flyers for individual events should have the date of the event and may be removed by library staff at any time after the event is over. Flyers for ongoing events or events with no specific date (such as "every Friday of the month") will be removed by library staff after the end of the semester.
The University's full posting policy can be reviewed at this web link: https://www.unk.edu/about/files/unk-policy-on-posting-materials-on-university-property.pdf
10/16/2024

The Library will be closed this upcoming Saturday, 10/19 and Sunday, 10/20 for fall break. We will reopen on Monday, 10/21.

https://unk.libcal.com/hours/

 

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10/11/2024
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The second event of 10/10/24 was the Cumulate Art Installation created by Leslie Iwai.  You can find more info on her site about the project.  

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10/11/2024
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Yesterday we had a ribbon cutting for the official reopening of the library. Yes we've been open, but now we've had a nice shindig to celebrate.

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10/09/2024
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Cumulate is a new art installation in the Calvin T. Ryan Library created by Leslie Iwai, exploring the beauty and role of clouds in the Nebraska landscape. Suspended cloud sculptures are layered visually, audibly, and tangibly with the work of Nebraska poets, evoking the beauty of the Nebraska landscape and its people. Through this rich gathering of meaning, material, and content, Cumulate merges the physical, the digital, and the ephemeral.

Leslie Iwai Artist
Artis Leslie Iwai

About the Installation
Cumulate begins with a series of mobiles suspending sculptural clouds. Each cloud is folded and formed from thin aluminum sheet metal painted soft white on the outside with bright colors in the interior reflecting the vibrant spectrum of a Nebraska sunrise. The installation celebrates the timeless beauty of clouds and the important role they play in the Nebraska landscape—amassing and moving moisture, refreshing with rain and snow, filtering sunlight, and provoking our imagination.

Like precipitation from clouds, a poet’s distillation of words can reveal the color and life of a landscape and its people. From Willa Cather to Ted Kooser and Don Welch, Nebraska’s poets do so with refreshing insight and beauty. Cumulate houses the poetry—curated for themes of landscape and its relationship to human experience—of nine Nebraska poets, each poet represented by one of Cumulate’s sunrise-inspired colors.

https://www.artscouncil.nebraska.gov/cumulate/

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09/11/2024
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Senior Vice Chancellor Julie Shaffer

invites you to attend an evening reception for

CUMULATE (2024)

an artwork by Leslie Iwai

https://www.leslieiwai.com/events/2024/cumulate-reveal

University of Nebraska at Kearney

1% Artwork Dedication and Lecture

Thursday, October 10, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Calvin T. Ryan Library

University of Nebraska at Kearney campus

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09/11/2024
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Additional information can be found at the artists website

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