Current Displays
Concourse Display Case
Read Award-Winning Books
This display shows a selection of award-winning books available for checkout at the UMD Library. Our library sponsors the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards each year, and those titles are often highlighted in our displays. However, we also purchase titles that win national book awards. While on winter break, why not read an award winner?
First Floor Interior Display Cases
Elections
At this time of year, many people become interested in elections and the processes and development of our democratic institutions. Books in this display examine many aspects of elections and the history of United States voting.
Weather & Climate
WEATHER is the condition of the atmosphere at a given place at a given time. CLIMATE is the measurement of the atmosphere in a given region over long periods.
One side of this display case contains books on weather and weather-related phenomena as well as weather in Minnesota. The other side of the case has books about climate and climate change.
The UMD Library is acquiring many, many books in electronic form, especially in the subjects of sciences and engineering. So we will have a number of books about weather and about climate that are available electronically and therefore not available on the shelves. Ask a Reference librarian on the second floor for assistance in accessing ebooks
35 Words
The Michael S. Berman Political Collection display case in the UMD Library lobby contains a new exhibit entitled "35 Words."
On January 21, 2013, President Barack Obama will be inaugurated for his second term in office. The exhibit features the 35 words comprising the oath of office as well as facts about past inaugural events. Also displayed are items selected from the Berman Collection, including tickets and invitations to inaugural dinners, parades, and balls.
Explanatory information about the Berman Collection as well as a biographical sketch of the collection’s donor, 1961 UMD graduate Michael S. Berman, are also presented. The UMD Archives and Special Collections unit installs the exhibits in the Berman display case.
Fourth Floor Display
Ramseyer-Northern Bible Society Collection
UMD Library Special Collections invites you to view a new exhibit from the Ramseyer Northern Bible Society Collection.
The year 2011 marked the 400th anniversary of the publication of what is now known as the “Authorized Version” or the “King James Bible,” the work of scholars and translators within the Church of England completed during the early years of the reign of King James I.
Libraries around the world commemorated the anniversary of this 1611 work produced by Robert Barker, the King’s Printer. “Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible” was a traveling exhibit organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D. C., and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The Manifold Greatness exhibit was at the University of Minnesota’s Wilson Library on the Twin Cities campus earlier this year.
Alan G. Thomas’s statement about the King James Bible noted its significance: “No book has had greater influence on the English language.” Linguistics scholar David Crystal’s 2010 book, Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language, investigated the Thomas comment by asking “Is it true?” He also asked the question, what do words like “influence” and “shaping” really mean? The UMD Library Special Collections exhibit selectively draws upon and highlights these questions.
How many common phrases that we use without even thinking about them come from the Bible? How much has the language of the Bible influenced modern English? How many expressions of biblical origin come specifically from the King James Bible?
Look at the exhibit, and decide for yourself.
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