Library Book Festival - Day Four

"The Deck Chef" 

April 14, 2011

Author Kent Whitaker, "The Deck Chef", signs a copy of

his cookbook for Library Director Lydia Knight. 

 

Kent has written several cookbooks including the Georgia Hometown Cookbook, Smoke in the Mountains Cookbook, and has a new book coming out in June,  

The Meals of War: Feeding the Greats to 

Grunts in World War II. 

Library Book Festival - Day Three

Bark, Boulders, Books, Bytes: 

Methods of Exchanging Information 

Throughout History 

April 13,  2011

Cliff Landis, Web Services Librarian at Georgia State, spoke to students and also gave a book binding workshop.  Students wrote essays for the opportunity to attend the workshop with Cliff.

Lydia Knight, Library Director with Cliff Landis

Library Book Festival - Day Two

"Neuva Frontera" 

April 12, 2011

 

Many DSC students attended the presentation

Faculty authors Roschelle Bautista, Ken Ellinger, David Boyle

and Monte Salyer discuss their book,  

Nueva Fronter: Latino Immigration in Dalton, Georgia

Library Art Contest Winners

During the 2nd annual Dalton State Book Festival, Roberts Library sponsored an art contest for all DSC students.  To enter the contest, students were to submit an original piece of art depicting a literary work, character(s) from a literary work, or the Festival theme, Home Grown Authors.  Winners were announced April 14th and received gift certificates from the DSC book store. 

 

Art work on display in the Roberts Library 

Cynthia Allgood won first place with her entry "Red Riding Hood"

Jennifer Drye won second place for her mixed media "One Fish Two Fish"

Sherif Mohamed won third place for his painting "Poe's Raven"