Email Shake Library at libref@vinu.edu.
Call the Library Information Desk at 812-888-4165.
Learn More About the Services At the Learning Resource Center:
The Advanced Manufacturing Automation Technology Program will perform a demonstration of the Collaborative Robot, or Cobot. A Cobot is a robot that is designed to physically interact with humans in a shared workspace. Students of the Advanced Manufacturing Technician Internship program will be there to answer questions and demonstrate how the Cobot works.
Knox County Public Library & Vincennes University Shake Library host a conversation with Axton Betz-Hamilton
The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award honoree joins community as part of statewide speaker program
Axton Betz-Hamilton spoke virtually at Knox County Public Library and Shake Library on October 20, 2022 at 11:00am. The conversation with the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award honoree is part of the Indiana Authors Awards Speaker Program, powered by Indiana Humanities and made possible through the generosity of Glick Philanthropies.
Axton Betz-Hamilton is the author of The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity, which details her family’s struggle with identity theft and received the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime.
Betz-Hamilton earned a B.S. in agricultural economics and an M.S. in consumer sciences and retailing, both from Purdue University. She also earned a Ph.D. in human development and family studies from Iowa State University and a graduate certificate in family financial planning from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Currently, she is an assistant professor of consumer affairs at South Dakota State University.
About Indiana Authors Awards Speaker Program
Indiana Humanities awarded 30 nonprofit organizations (libraries, schools, museums, etc.) the opportunity to host an honoree of the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards. This program is powered by Indiana Humanities and made possible with the support of Glick Philanthropies.
About Indiana Authors Awards
The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards celebrate the best books by Indiana authors written in eight different categories and published during the previous two years. Winners receive a $5,000 prize, a physical award featuring Indiana limestone and the opportunity to make a $500 gift to an Indiana public library. Winning and shortlisted books were selected by panels of judges, including former winners, writers, educators, scholars, local bookstore owners and librarians.
About Indiana Humanities
Indiana Humanities connects people, opens minds and enriches lives by creating and facilitating programs that encourage Hoosiers to think, read and talk. Learn more at www.indianahumanities.org.
Wisconsin-based professional speaker Curt Strutz will be bringing his Visiting the Beyond paranormal/haunted property presentation. Strutz mixes original photography, history, stories, humor, and haunted happenings with audience involvement.
The Knowledge Market shares helpful campus academic resources to help with your studies at VU.
Shake Off Semester Stress with Shake Library & the Knowledge Market!
Banned Books Week (September 27 - October 3, 2020) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Click the banner above to learn more about Banned Books Week or watch the video below to discover the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2019. Below the video is a crossword you can play to learn more about some of the books that people have tried to challenge or ban in libraries across the country. You can also check out our map of books that have been banned or challenged in Indiana and Illinois. Celebrate Your Freedom to Read @ Shake Library.
This program is presented in partnership of the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial with the support from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and Hillenbrand Industries.
1002 North First Street; Vincennes, Indiana 47591
812-888-4165 | libref@vinu.edu
1002 North First Street; Vincennes, Indiana 47591