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Check out a Living Library Book April 2nd-4th!
Date: Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM
Room: Holcombe Hall Living Room
Notes: Times:  April 2nd from 10:00 ? 2:00, April 3rd from 12:00 ? 5:00, and April 4th from 12:00 ? 4:00.

 How:  Please e-mail Melissa Hogan at: mhogan@uark.edu, or call Adrienne Gaines or Melissa at 575-7096, to reserve your 45 minute session with a Book.  You must reserve your book by 4:00 pm on Thursday, March 27th, to ensure your session.

Where: Your session with a Book at the Living Library will be held in the living room of Holcombe Hall, located at Garland and Maple:


"Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover"

 Students and employees are invited to participate in the University of Arkansas "Living Library".  A living library functions similarly to a regular library, however, the Books are real, diverse, human beings, who teach others about themselves and their experiences through interpersonal dialogue.  For students, this is an excellent opportunity to interview someone different from yourself, and may help you fulfill a diversity requirement for a class (please check with your instructor to be sure).  For employees, the time you spend having a dialogue with a new Book can count as one hour towards your UA diversity certificate.  Participants in the Professional Development Institute can receive credit towards your certificates.  For everyone, this is an opportunity to learn from, and better understand, each other and our cultures.

 

The following are a list of living Books that are available to be checked out, available at varying times (as listed for each), on April 2nd from 10:00 ? 2:00, April 3rd from 12:00 ? 5:00, and April 4th from 12:00 ? 4:00.  Please e-mail Melissa Hogan at: mhogan@uark.edu, or call Adrienne Gaines or Melissa at 575-7096, to reserve your 45 minute session with a Book.  You must reserve your book by 4:00 pm on Thursday, March 27th, to ensure your session.  Your session with a Book at the Living Library will be held in the living room of Holcombe Hall, located at Garland and Maple:

?Book?

Wed., April 2nd

Thurs., April 3rd

Fri., April 4th

A Non-Believer in Mormon-Land

10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 1:00

 

 

Behind the Oddball:  Stories of How Someone with an Affinity for Statistics Defied Them (multiracial, low SES, gay)

10:00, 11:00

2:00, 3:00

 

Civil Rights Activist

10:00, 11:00

 

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Unitarian Universalist Minister

10:00, 11:00

 

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Anti-war Activist (Viet Nam)

10:00, 11:00

 

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

A Person from Korea

10:00

 

 

A Lesbian

10:00

 

2:00, 3:00

VP for Visa & Avis in the 70?s

10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 1:00

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Single Working Parent

10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 1:00

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Global Business Executive

10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 1:00

 

 

Lived & Worked in Asia, Europe, & South America

10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 1:00

 

 

A Person from Japan Involved in Cultural Groups

12:30, 1:00

3:30, 4:00

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

A Person from Japan

 

1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00

 

The Myth about Africa

10:00

 

 

Indonesian Moslem

11:00

 

 

Citizen Advocacy & Attitudinal Change (worked with MADD)

 

3:00, 4:00

 

The Unspoken (Iraq Veteran)

 

1:00, 2:00

2:00, 3:00

The Freethinker (Religious Perspective)

 

2:00, 3:00, 4:00

3:15

Transgender Basics & Issues

 

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Do Not Quit:  You are part of a big picture

 

12:00

 

The Caribbean Student

 

12:00, 4:00

 

Professional Commercial Fisherman in Alaska

 

 

12:00, 1:00

Pet Nutritionist

 

 

1:00, 2:00, 3:00

New Yorker

 

 

1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Building a House from Scratch

 

 

1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Wife of Spouse with Multiple Sclerosis

 

 

1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Latin Teacher

 

 

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Faculty Wife

 

 

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Divorced Single Parent

 

 

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Full Time Parent

 

 

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Railroader

 

 

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Unitarian Universalist Minister

 

 

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

South American Student Studying & Working in the US

 

 

12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00

Lived & Taught in France & East Africa

 

 

1:00, 2:00, 3:00

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