Activities & Events :

• Friends of the Library Annual Meeting 2009
  
  Date : October 7, 2009 6:00-8:00pm,    Contact : Mary Murphy
  
  

  

  Doc (Jeff) Fletcher, EMU class of 1976, will be the featured speaker at the Friends of the Library Annual Meeting on October 7, 2009 at 7pm in room 300 Bruce T. Halle Library on the EMU campus.

  Doc will be discussing his books, Weekend Canoeing in Michigan: The Rivers, The Towns, The Taverns and Michigan Rivers Less Paddled: The Rivers, The Towns, The Taverns, as well as presenting a slideshow of his various adventures do ...

  
  

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• An Evening with NPR's Scott Simon
  
  Date : Sat., April 18, 2009 7:30pm,    Contact :
  
  

  

  In celebration of National Library Week, Ypsilanti District Library welcomes National Public Radio's Scott Simon, host of "Weekend Edition," broadcast on Michigan Radio 91.7 FM. An Emmy and Peabody Award winner, Simon will discuss his experiences reporting from all 50 states, 5 continents, and 10 wars, from El Salvador to Iraq and Afghanistan. He will sign copies of his books that chronicle characters in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy - including his latest work, ...

  
  

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• Dining with friends - April 2009
  
  Date : 12 -18 April 2009,    Contact : Elaine Logan
  
  

  

  Celebrate Library Week (April 12-18, 2009) and support EMU's Halle Library by dining out with your friends, family, colleagues and neighbors. The Friends of the EMU Library group is partnering with some outstanding area restaurants in a fund raiser supporting the Library. Enjoy a different restaurant each day and a portion of the proceeds from the featured restaurant will help fund collections and program ...

  
  

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• William Hanford - Book Signing and Lecture
  
  Date : Tuesday, March 31, 2009 @ 7pm,    Contact : Elaine Logan
  
  

  

  Join us as William Hanford, an EMU alumni (class of ‘47), speaks about Dangerous Assignment, a book based on his personal experiences in the Army during World War II .

  Location: Halle Library room 300

  
  
  
  
  
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• Friends of the EMU Library - 4th annual meeting
  
  Date : Nov. 16, 2008. 2-4pm,    Contact : Elaine Logan
  
  

  

  Author and EMU Alumni, Peter Leonard, will talk about his debut book, Quiver, a crime fiction novel about a fatal hunting accident that leaves the widow struggling with the suffocating guilt of her son for causing the accident, and her first love interest who is involved in crime.

  Books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Aunt Agatha's Mystery Books.

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• Alexander McCall Smith - Lecture, book signing and Q&A
  
  Date : Saturday, April 19, 2008 1pm,    Contact : In person at EMU Ticket Center, By phone at (734) 487-2282
  
  

  

  In recognition of National Library Week, 2008 the Ypsilanti District Library (with the support of the Ypsilanti office of the Bank of Ann Arbor, the Friends of the Ypsilanti District Library, Eastern Michigan University and the Friends of the Eastern Michigan University Library) presents Alexander McCall Smith, bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased in one of thre ...

  
  

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• The Tech Effect: Lying Low Tech In a High Tech World
  
  Date : October 26th, 6 - 8pm,    Contact : Rachel Cheng
  
  

  

  Please join Friends of the EMU Library at their third annual meeting with a presentation from Christina Wall, October 26th, 6 - 8pm, Halle Library, Room 300

  Christina Wall, an EMU graduate student, will talk about her experience going an entire month without using any technology invented after 1950. It is part of her master's degree project involving the impact of technology in modern life. What would you do if you can't ...
  
  

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• Literature for Young Adults These Days
  
  Date : Tuesday, October 2, 6-8pm,    Contact : 734-487-0020 X2200
  
  

  Join us for a presentation by Dr. Harry Eiss and Walter Hogan, Eastern Michigan University professors and authors about literature for young people on "Literature for Young Adults These Days: Is it Young? Is it Adult? Is it Literature?"
  
  Time: Tuesday, October 2, 6-8pm,
  Location: Room 300, EMU Library.
  Sponsored by Friends of the EMU Library.
  
  For more information call: 734-487-0020 X2200.
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• Ira Glass (Host & Producer of Public Radio's This American Life)
  
  Date : Sat. Mar. 24, 2007 7:30pm,    Contact : (734)487-2282
  
  

  

  Ira Glass is the host and producer of the public radio program This American Life. The show had its premiere on Chicago 's public radio station WBEZ in late 1995 and is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by over 1.7 million listeners. This American Life can be heard locally on WEMU 89.1 on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m.

  Under Glass's editorial direction, This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including the Peabody and DuPont-Columbia awards, ...

  
  

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• A tribute to Benjamin L. D’ooge
  
  Date : Oct. 20, 2006, 5:00-7:00pm,    Contact : Rosina Tammany
  
  

  

  Classics Scholar
  Head of the Latin Department
  from 1886 to 1937

  THE UNVEILING OF HIS RESTORED PORTRAIT PAINTED BY

  BERTHA GOODISON
  Art Instructor 1900-1917
  Head of Art Department 1918
  

  Portrait restored by Ken Katz and his staff at Museum & Conservation Services, Inc., Detroit Michigan

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  Friday, October 20, 2006 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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• Intersted in joining Friends of EMU library
  
  Date : Oct. 29 2006, Room 300,    Contact : Rosina Tammany
  
  

  

  What do Friends of EMU Library do?

  Come and meet some of the people active in the organization, learn what the friends are all about, and explore the intrigues of book preservation and restoration with guess speaker, Julia Miller.

  
  

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  Sunday, October 29, 2006
  2:00--4:00 p.m.
  Halle Library, room 300
  Eastern Michigan University
  Ypsilanti Michigan
  

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• An EMU Authors Presentation Series - Sponsored by the Friends of the EMU Library
  
  Date : Thur. March 16, 2006 5-7pm,    Contact : Rosina Tammany
  
  

  Location: Library Auditorium at ground floor.
  
  Presentations will be given by:
  
  Kevin Dole, the author of "tangerinephant"
  
  Dave Coverly, the author of "Speed Bump"
  
  

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• The Good, the Rare, and the Strange: Treasures and Ephemera from EMU Library's 40 Years as a Depository of U.S. Government Publications.
  
  Date : Oct. 9, 2005 2pm,    Contact : Rachel Cheng
  
  

  In conjunction with the first FOL annual membership meeting, we are celebrating the 40th Anniversary of EMU's participating as a depository of U.S. Government Publications.
  
  Michigan's Regional Depository Librarian Ann Sanders will entertain us with tales of the amazing variety of treasures and ephemera provided to federal depository libraries by the Government Printing Office.
  
  Following Ms. Sanders' presentation, members of the EMU Faculty will provide testimonials concerning the importance of government information in their research and teaching: