Magale Library Friends Events

2024

Magale Library Friends Luncheon – May 16, 2024 at 12 Noon We are excited to announce our plans for hosting the annual Friends Luncheon in May. We are scheduled to host Robbie Robinson from the Texarkana Beekeepers Association to share his experiences of working with bees in the region. Mr. Robinson will describe many aspects of beekeeping, including its importance in our ecosystem. We will send invitations for this event in April and hope you will plan to attend, but also bring a friend! Also, if you know of someone interested in making a difference in SAU students’ lives, please let us know. We would like to extend our invitation to welcome potential new Magale Library Friends. We plan to have catering from The Guilty Pig and many door prizes!

MAGALE MUSINGS Spring 2024

2023​

October 2023 Magale Library Join us as we celebrate Dr. Margaret Ruth Downing. Come see items that showcase her many different titles throughout the years. From Olympic Manager’s uniform, college regalia, trophies, and so much more, experience her lifetime of achievements!

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 12pm Magale Library Magale Library welcomes Amy Staten McNeil who will be delivering a presentation on artifacts collected by the South Arkansas Heritage Museum (SAHM) and their relevance to the area’s history. SAHM is a relatively new and unique museum for South Arkansas that opened in May of 2022 and is housed in the historical Dr. H. A. Longino House located on the corner of Main and Vine Streets.  The Museum’s “mission is to illustrate our past, which we believe gives meaning to our present and lights the path to our future. We want to educate and inspire our members, volunteers, donors, benefactors, and visitors.” To learn more about SAHM, visit their website at https://www.southarheritagemuseum.org/

2023 Fall Newsletter

2023 Spring Newsletter

2022

December 12th, 2022 at 11:00 AM Magale Library Dr. Watson is an Assistant Professor of Biology, a wildlife ecologist, and an ornithologist. Dr. Watson’s research focuses on the breeding and movement behaviors of birds, with a particular focus on raptorial species, such as hawks, falcons, and owls. She is interested in avian community dynamics, conservation, and climate change. Dr. Watson has training in broad wildlife management techniques, such as trapping, surveying, habitat management, GPS tracking, cartography, modeling, and statistics. To RSVP contact Anne Lewis at 870.235.4176 or alewis@saumag.edu Please RSVP by Nov. 28th, 2022

2022 Fall Newsletter

2022 Spring Newsletter

2021

Janis Faye Kearney grew up surrounded by dirt roads, bayous and cotton fields. Thanks to a father who moved her with stories, she fell in love with the sound and feel of words – the magic of stringing them together into stories.   The author and publisher wears her southern-ness on her sleeve and creates stories about hers and other southerners’ miraculous and banal lives through short stories, memoir, autobiography, biography and fiction.  Janis’s path has taken her many places, including her role as publisher of the AR State Press founded by civil rights legend Daisy Gatson Bates, and as Personal Diarist to America’s 42^nd President William J. Clinton. A more recent role that brings enormous joy and passion is founder and president of the Celebrate! Maya Project, a nonprofit she and a handful of women created after the death of the iconic Maya Angelou in 2014. What started out as a celebration of Maya Angelou’s life and legacy, has magically transformed into a bridge for young people seeking to find their own voices. Janis says, “We are a forum for young people to learn their own history and create their own stories, and in the process, discover their own voices through writing workshops, literary competitions, and public forums. We’re impacting children’s lives, and that is what Maya would expect of us.”

The Smithsonian Institution opened its newest museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture Sept. 24, 2016. The celebration continues and reaches beyond Washington, D.C., to Magnolia as Southern Arkansas University Magale Library presents “A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture.” The commemorative poster exhibition will be on view Spring Semester 2021.

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, “A Place for All People” highlights key artifacts that tell the rich and diverse story of the African American experience. From the child-size shackles of a slave and the clothing worn by Carolotta Walls on her first day at Little Rock Central High School to Chuck Berry’s Gibson guitar, “Maybellene,” and the track shoes worn by Olympian Carl Lewis, the exhibition presents a living history that reflects challenge, triumph, faith and hope.

The poster exhibition and related public programs are an opportunity for Southern Arkansas University Magale Library to showcase its work in sharing the many stories of African American and African diaspora people and their contributions to the local community and the American story.

The journey to establish this museum began a century ago with a call for a national memorial to honor the contributions of African American Civil War veterans. After decades of efforts by private citizens, organizations and members of Congress, federal legislation was passed in 2003 to create the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Since then, thousands of artifacts have been collected to fill the inspiring new building that has risen on the National Mall. Through its exhibitions and programs, the museum provides a shared lens to view the nation’s history and the possibility for hope and healing. It is a place where all can gather to remember, reflect and embrace America’s story: a place for all people. For more information, visit nmaahc.si.edu.

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