Baird Harper: Writing Short Stories
Featured Guest: Baird Harper Featured Topic: Writing Short Stories Date & Location: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:00 p.m. Richard Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor Lake Shore Campus 1032 West Sheridan Winner of Chicago Tribune‘s Nelson Algren Short Story Award, for “My Thoughts While Cooling on the Hotel Veranda”, Baird Harper will discuss his short stories […]
Lord of the Likes
This will be the final event where we hold a drawing for the coin hunt winner. We will provide food and laptops for students to like us on Facebook.
A Series of Fortunate Spins
Students who are fans of the Library on Facebook will get a spin on the prize wheel. We will provide laptops for students to like us or verify that they are already a fan. Prizes will include gift cards, library giveaways, and coupons.
Eat Pray Like
Stop by the first floor of the IC to grab a cookie and coffee to go! We will provide computers/iPads for students to sign in and like the Library on Facebook.
Library Speaker Series: Loyola in Fiction
MacArthur “genius” Stuart Dybek and critically acclaimed master of the short story, will present “Loyola in Fiction”. He will read a few passages from a few of his short stories, “Seiche” and “Lunch at the Loyola Arms” and talk about the sense of place and the role of autobiography in fiction. Q & A and […]
Library Speaker Series – Ellen Skerrett
Join social historian Ellen Skerrett for an illustrated slide lecture, as she highlights discoveries she made in researching and writing Loyola’s first published history. Born in Chicago: A History of Chicago’s Jesuit University reclaims Loyola’s urban roots and explores the evolution of the university from its beginnings in 1870 on the city’s Near West […]