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Get your Spartanburg County Public Library card

02/01/2023
profile-icon John Barnett
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On Thursday, February 2, representatives from the Spartanburg County Public Library (SCPL) will visit the USC Upstate Library to offer free library cards to county residents and "college cards" to Upstate students who reside outside of Spartanburg County. 

Be sure to stop by PerkUp, the Upstate Library's café/coffee shop, between 10 am and 2 pm to get your card. Spartanburg County Public Library staff will also share information about all the free resources and services that SCPL has to offer. These include the digital archive of the Spartanburg Herald Journal and downloadables such as Overdrive e-books and audiobooks, Kanopy streaming movies, and Freegal streaming music.

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Celebrating Women in the Natural Sciences and Technology
03/13/2024
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Image and biography of Marie Curie First Female Nobel Prize Winner WorldwideNow on view at the USC Upstate Library is a poster exhibit celebrating the accomplishments of women in the natural sciences and technology. The exhibit is brought to you by the USC Upstate Center for International Studies (CIS) and the Technische Hochschule (Technical University) in Lübeck, Germany.

The exhibit features profiles of 22 distinguished women, ranging from 17th-century astronomer Maria Cunitz to 20th-century mathematician and programming pioneer Grace Murray Hopper.

Other notable researchers, discoverers, and innovators featured in the exhibit include

  • Karoline Herschel, astronomer and discoverer of eight comets
  • Ellen Swallow Richards, chemist and the co-originator of ecology
  • Lise Meitner, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
  • Marie Curie, chemist and the first recipient of a Nobel Prize for a woman worldwide
  • Cécile Vogt, co-originator of modern brain research
  • Rosalind Elsie Franklin, physicist and DNA researcher
  • Gerty Theresa Cori, doctor and Nobel prize recipient in physiology and medicine
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist and recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics

The exhibit is on view through March in the library’s 1st floor gallery space, near the Perk Up café. You can view the exhibit whenever the library is open. View the library’s hours here.

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While in the library, you can also view Picturing Women Inventors, a series of eight posters that explores inventions by 19 highly accomplished American women, including astronauts, computer pioneers, businesswomen, athletes, engineers, and students.

Picturing American Women is organized by SITES, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in collaboration with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and was developed in collaboration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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Real People, Real Climate, Real Changes--Real Sad to Say Goodbye!
02/28/2024
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Mimi the Possum visits the libraryThursday, February 29, offers your final opportunity to view the exhibit, Real People, Real Climate, Real Changes. On Friday, March 1, we'll begin the process of packing the exhibit and shipping it to its next location.

Over the last two months, it's been a joy for the library to host the exhibit, on loan by its creators, the National Science Center (NSF) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Center for Science Education. Hosting the exhibit also offered us a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with the university's Watershed Ecology Center, the Pollinator Garden, and other campus sustainability initiatives in an exhibit open house. And let's not forget the cuddly fun of getting to meet and greet a "real live" Mimi the Possum, a resident of the Watershed Ecology Center!

Importantly, we've also enjoyed hearing your impressions about the exhibit and the issues and challenges raised. Many of you answered the weekly question on climate change--either with thoughtful words or creative drawings. We've saved your responses and will share those with NCAR/UCAR. It shows the impact that the exhibit has had on you, the viewers.

While the exhibit is exiting the building, Professor Jenny Bonner's painting, "Conserve (Footprint)," will continue to grace our gallery wall for the next few weeks. This work, especially created by Professor Bonner for the exhibit, will eventually be sent to its permanent home at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

The library is open on February 29 from 7:30 am to 12 midnight. We look forward to seeing you take one last look at Real People, Real Climate, Real Changes. 

 

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Now Viewing: "Righting a Wrong"
12/14/2022
profile-icon Virginia Alexander Cononie
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Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II 

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Viewing: September 6th - December 9th, 2022
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The USC Upstate Library is pleased to host the Smithsonian poster exhibition in collaboration with Preface, the USC Upstate first-year reading program. Preface introduces Upstate students to the joy of reading critically and using academic disciplines and methods to approach complex issues in our communities, nation, and world. In Fall 2022, first-year writing students are reading They Called Us Enemy by George Takei.

The exhibition examines the complicated history and impact of Executive Order 9066 that led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor. “Righting a Wrong” examines issues such as immigration, prejudice, civil rights, heroism, and what it means to be an American. The exhibition centers around eight core questions that encourage viewers to engage in a dialogue about how this happened and whether it could happen again. “Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II” was developed by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and adapted for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES). The traveling exhibition and poster exhibition are supported by a grant from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Terasaki Family Foundation, and C. L. Ehn & Ginger Lew.

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