Scholarly Communications Forum - July 14, 2011

The forum Library Space: Evolving the Way We Use Physical and Virtual Spaces will be held on Thursday July 14, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. in the McMurty Auditorium, Duncan Hall at Rice University.

Keynote presentation: Forget About Green Features! What Makes a Library Truly Sustainable?  by Wendy Heger, AIA, LEED™ AP, Assistant Director for Planning & Facilities for the Houston Public Library.

Roundtable discussion topics include:

• Library remote storage
• Centralized service desk
• Electronic books
• Cloud computing

For more information about this free event and to register visit:

http://resource.library.tmc.edu/forum/index.php

---

Victorian Madness and Women Lecture



Helena Michie, PhD

Join us on June 15, 2011 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm at the Texas Medical Center Library for a lecture on Victorian Madness and Women by Helena Michie, PhD., Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor in Humanities at Rice University.

The author of numerous books, Dr. Michie has published articles on feminist theory and Victorian literature and has been an NEH and Guggenheim fellow. She is the co-editor, with Ronald Thomas, of the essay collection Nineteenth-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century (Rutgers UP 2002). Professor Michie teaches courses in feminist theory, literary theory, and Victorian literature and culture.

Professor Michie teaches courses in feminist theory, literary theory and Victorian literature and culture. She also holds classes and workshops on professional writing.

RSVP is required for this free event. Lunch will be provided.

To RSVP for the lecture, please go to: http://www.library.tmc.edu/exhibit/rsvp.php

---