The library honored five professors who have received promotions or tenure during the past year by displaying their favorite books in the library lobby last week. Each faculty member was told to pick a book that’s content has been influential in some way to them. The books ranged from fiction books read during adolescence to textbooks read while working towards a doctorate degree. Each book, along with a brief description of both content and the professor’s reason for picking it, sat propped up for library patrons to leaf through or scan on a table near the entrance.
 The display was...

By Liz Core • October 13, 2013 • Features

A reception was held Sunday, Jan. 12 at the “Lion & Lamb” student art exhibit in the Good Library Gallery. The exhibit will remain on display until Feb. 1. and is free and open to the public.

By Ariel Ropp • January 17, 2013 • Arts

The stark contrast between lions and lambs is an easy metaphor, found in the Bible, on Twilight fan T-shirts and in the Library Basement Art Gallery.  The Lion and Lamb art exhibit co-sponsored by the Art Club and the Art Department will be on display until February 1st. This particular art exhibit is three years running, with each year sporting a different theme. The first theme was “Tolerance and the Other” and last year’s was “North and South.”  The exhibit is the brainchild of Randy Horst, Art Club faculty sponsor, and past Art Club president Jordan Kauffman. It was thought...

By Elizabeth Derstine • November 29, 2012 • Arts

For students ready for a break from back-breaking academic literature during finals week, some lighter literature will be available from students in the education department’s Children’s Literature course. On Tuesday from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in the Good Library’s Royer Reading Room, these students will read from the children’s books they wrote and designed as a final project for the class. The main audience will be children from the CCYC program and Parkside Elementary, but Lavonne Shetler, a junior [MAJOR?], urged college students to come as well, saying, “We want people to come look at our books because we've put...

By Matthew Amstutz • April 11, 2012 • News

Bird migration, lives spent between two cultures and the Occupy Wall Street movement are just some of the themes that Goshen College artists brought to pieces for the “North and South” exhibit currently on display in the Good Library gallery. This is the second year that the art department, along with the GC art club, organized a thematic exhibition of student work. Artists were given the open-ended theme “North and South” in the fall semester, and used various media to create work that related this theme to personal understanding or experience. Artists created a diversity of responses and also composed...

By Josh Yoder • January 12, 2012 • Arts

There are certainly more than just children’s books and movies tucked away in the Good Library basement. For one more month, the library is featuring the exhibit, “Brought Home: Objects and Stories from Mission and Service Workers,” containing various artifacts that past Mennonite mission workers returned with. Over 50 foreign countries are represented, with stories from at least 75 people. More than a mere collection of souvenirs, the collections and their stories represent what Mennonites have done on service, mission and relief work, often during times of war. Some objects were found, others purchased or made, while still were given...

By Kaeli Evans • October 12, 2011 • Features

A new exhibit has been opened in the Harold and Wilma Good Library Gallery. The exhibit is titled “Going to Church: Objects Representing Mennonite Congregations.” It was first revealed this past Sunday, January 23 with a public reception. On the wall of the entrance to “Going to Church,” a quote by the martyr Claes de Praet reads, “The earliest Anabaptists worshipped in boats, caves, behind hedges, in the woods, in the fields or mountains, on the seacoast, sometimes in houses.” When the political authorities began to allow for less secrecy, Anabaptists churches sprouted up around Europe. The new exhibit both...

By Maddie Ruth • February 5, 2011 • Arts

Rebecca Haarer, an art education alumna of Goshen College, will present her collection of Amish and Mennonite quilts in an exhibit in the Good Library Gallery, beginning this Sunday. Haarer owns an antiques shop in Shipshewana and buys and sells quilts. She has one of the largest collections of Amish folk arts. Entitled “Full Circle: Old and New Quilts and Quilters,” the exhibit will feature three categories of quilts and quilters that Haarer found in the community: the Elders, the Insiders and the Outsiders. The Elders are old Amish and Mennonite quilts that Haarer collected from the community since the...

By Alysha Landis • March 25, 2009 • Arts