New displays highlight upcoming campus events

Lynn Library has created two new displays highlighting upcoming events on campus.

Lynn University will celebrate Civility Week from October 5 – 9, 2009. The Civility Week display includes the following books:

The Character of Nations: how politics makes and breaks prosperity, family and civility by Angelo M. Codevilla

Standing for Something: 10 neglected virtues that will heal our hearts and homes by Gordon B. Hinckley

Culture Matters: how values shape human progress edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Harrington

The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society by Amitai Etzioni

Life’s Greatest lessons: 20 things that matter by Hal Urban

Chicken Soup for the College Soul: Inspiring and humorous stories about College

The Art of being Kind by Stefan Einhorn

Why manners matter: the case for civilized behavior in a barbarous world by Lucinda Holdforth

October is Disability Awareness Month.

Lynn University will hold several events throughout the month focusing on disability. The Disability Awareness Month display includes:

Disability at the dawn of the 21st Century and the state of States edited by David Braddock

Extraordinary bodies: figuring physical disability in American culture and literature by Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Children with disabilities in America: a historical handbook and guide edited by Phillip L. Safford and Elizabeth J. Safford

Special Siblings: growing up with someone with a disability by Mary McHugh

The new disability history: American perspectives edited by Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky

The Disability Rights Movement: from charity to confrontation by Doris Zames Fleischer and Freida Zames

The story of my life by Helen Keller