Not only is it OK, but it is encouraged to talk out loud, write on the walls (selectively) and do other things that were previously considered un-library-like in the renovated first floor of Ohio Northern University’s Heterick Memorial Library.
In fact, you can even check out a smoothie along with that reference material.
“In many ways, we are breaking the rules of traditional college libraries,” said Kathleen Baril, director of ONU’s Heterick Memorial Library. “Library research on a university campus is not what it used to be, and our new library space reflects that. The focus is on best utilizing the library space to meet the needs of today’s college students.”
The jazz group Parker and Parker Quartet will perform a concert at 8 p.m. on Oct. 3 in Presser Hall’s Snyder Recital Hall at Ohio Northern University. The concert, which is presented by the ONU Department of Music, is free and open to the public.
The Parker and Parker Quartet features father Gene Parker on reeds and son Ray Parker on bass. Gene Parker is a fixture in northwestern Ohio and Detroit, and Ray Parker is one of the leading bass players in New York City. The group also will include the young and talented Canadian drummer Jon Foster from Toronto and guitarist Mike Gabriel from Detroit.
Renowned artist Jay Ryan of The Bird Machine in Chicago will be at Ohio Northern working with printmaking students on Thursday, according to the ONU Department of Art and Design Facebook page.
He will also conduct a workshop and discuss his work while on campus.
Ryan learned about screenprinting from Steve Walters at Screwball Press in late 1995, where they worked together until 1999, at which point he started The Bird Machine print shop in the basement of his apartment building.
A gallery reception for artists in the current exhibit at Elzay Gallery, ONU, takes place at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 28. The show features works by The All Weather Gang, painters of western New York.
William Mancuso of the ONU art faculty describe the artists this way:
"The All Weather Gang is a group of diverse individuals – think aerospace
engineer and English teacher to graphic designer and owner of a construction company – from Western New York State who have met almost every Saturday for decades to go outdoors and paint in weather that at times would give even the U.S. Postal Service reason to reconsider.
The Ohio Northern University Department of Theatre Arts will present the Greek comedy “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes from Sept. 29 through Oct. 2 in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts.
Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 29, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, with matinee performances at 2 p.m. on Oct. 1 and Oct. 2.
The play pushes boundaries at every turn of the plot and speaks truths to the audience.
The clarinet duo Tosca Duo will present a recital at 8 p.m. on Sept. 26 in the Snyder Recital Hall in Presser Hall on the campus of Ohio Northern University in Ada. The concert is presented by the ONU Department of Music.
Tosca Duo was founded in 2007 and consists of Lynn Musco, currently in her 28th year as professor of clarinet and coordinator of woodwind studies at Stetson University in Florida, and Shawn L. Copeland, who joined the faculty of the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho in 2014 as the teacher of clarinet, Alexander technique and entrepreneurship.
