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Total Solar Eclipse 2024: What to Know and How to Prepare
Our final Carlson Conversations Lecture this year is a deep dive into the upcoming
solar eclipse brought to you by Heidi Westrick on March 27 at 3 p.m. in the Carlson Library.
Heidi is the assistant director of Ritter planetarium. She has worked at Ritter for
over 9 years starting as a freshman Astrophysics major. Since then Heidi has earned
Bachelors degrees in Astrophysics and Geology and a Masters degree in Adolescent/Young
Adult Education. At the planetarium Heidi teaches groups ranging from preschoolers
to senior citizen about Astronomy and other science. For the past 18 months she has
been helping the community prepare for the upcoming eclipse.
The Carlson Conversations Lectures are a series of talks from local and university
experts on topics ranging from history to the paranormal to the natural sciences.
Stay tuned for an upcoming announcement of our expanded lecture series for the 2024-25
academic year.
19th Annual HSC Artist Showcase and Lecture
The annual Health Science Campus Artist Showcase opens February 19th at the Mulford
Library. This year’s show features 24 artists and over 50 works ranging from photography
to painting to papercraft.
The HSC Artist Showcase is an opportunity for faculty, staff, and students involved
in the health sciences at the University of Toledo to exhibit their talents outside
of their academic pursuits.
The HSC Artist Showcase will run from February 19 - April 1, 2024, and is located on the 4th floor of the Mulford Health Science Library.
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Women's History Month: The Cult of the True Woman
In celebration of Women's History Month, the University Libraries and the Canaday
Center for Special Collections, presents a collection of historic manner and etiquette
books, to look back at some of the societal pressures on women in the past.
Women began to enjoy more leisure time as the industrial revolution brought labor
saving devices into the home and took many of the arduous tasks that were formerly
considered by society to be “women’s work” out into the job market instead. With women
having more time on their hands, society began to form a new ideal of womanhood and
so the “true woman” became the standard.
Piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity were held in highest regard. A woman
had to be gentle and refined, sensitive and loving, a guardian of religion and spokesperson
for morality. A woman was expected to be the perfect moral match for her husband,
to guide him away from wrong thought and raise his children with proper ideals. To
help women learn to embody the idea of the “true woman” there existed a multitude
of books and pamphlets to teach them right from wrong.
This display shows the influence of the cult of the “true woman” and its effect on
society’s perception of women in public and private life. It is our hope that you
will pause, reflect, and consider where women have come from as well as how much farther
we have to go.
This exhibit can be viewed on the first floor of the Carlson Library across from the
Circulation Desk throughout the month of March.
The Heart of Any University:
50 Years of the William S. Carlson Library
The exhibition is divided into five chapters:
- An overview of the history of the University of Toledo Libraries;
- A look at the tenth university president, William S. Carlson, for whom the library was named;
- The path to development of what was the largest and most expensive building on main campus at the time;
- Commemoration of the men and women who have stepped in to lead the library since its inception in 1917; and
- An exploration of the work of the Friends of the Library group, which was to benefit
the library in any manner possible.
In addition, several cases will display selections of rare books, many of which were acquired through the help of the Friends.
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