Library Facelift

Following the construction of the new SILENT study rooms, the Library received a fresh coat of paint, upstairs and down, which provided an excellent opportunity to re-hang and re-display the Library's Student Art Collection:

New home for existing piece Incandescent.(above)

First Prize winner of the Student Photography Show, print, Untitled Collage.  (above, l-r)

Community College/ College Community PHT student project (views of the Alexandria campus, above)

2 new acquisitions, silent study room.

All art, in any medium, displayed in the Library is student work.

Cooking with the Library (Keys to Success)

On March 21, the Alexandria Campus Library (in partnership with Student Services) presented a Keys to Success workshop to introduce strategies for healthy eating on a student budget.

Over 30 students (as well as faculty and staff members) attended to discuss issues of food insecurity, food bank and community resources, best practices for cooking healthy food on a budget as well as related Library and campus resources.

 
Copies of Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day (TX714 B785 2015) were also distributed.

The cookbook is also available for download for free. 

Save the Bay

Once again, the Library is growing grass to save the Chesapeake Bay.

In partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Program the Alexandria Campus Library is nurturing aquatic grasses that will be transplanted into a tributary of the Chesapeake.

Underwater grasses—also known as submerged aquatic vegetation or SAV—are plants that grow in the shallow waters of the Chesapeake Bay and its streams, creeks and rivers. Underwater grasses are a critical part of the Bay ecosystem: they provide wildlife with food and habitat, add oxygen to the water, absorb nutrient pollution, trap sediment and reduce erosion. Like all plants, underwater grasses need sunlight to grow, which makes improving water clarity an important step in underwater grass restoration.

Check out the Libraries other aqua-culture efforts.