News & Events
News
Schusterman Library's 2025 Teddy Bear Drive
Our annual campus tradition, started by Janet Minnerath (late director of Schusterman Library) in 1992, is back for the 33rd year! Help bring joy to children who have experienced abuse or neglect by donating a new stuffed toy or a new blanket for Tulsa’s Child Advocacy Network. Each child helped by CAN will receive a stuffed toy and a blanket, and because CAN helps children of all ages from 0-18 they need a variety of stuffed toys and blankets!
Nonstop Coffee at the Library for Pre-finals & Finals
The library will be serving nonstop coffee during pre-finals and finals weeks, including the weekend between them. Stop by Monday, December 8th – Friday, December 19th during our regular hours of M-Th 8am-9pm, F 8am-6pm, and Sat-Sun 1pm-6pm to grab a free cup of coffee, study, and wrap up your semester's work.
Exhibits
Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America
Meals can tell us how power is exchanged between and among different peoples, races, genders, and classes. Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America looks at the Chesapeake region, during the early colonial era, where European settlers relied upon indentured servants, Native Americans, and African slave labor for life-saving knowledge of farming and food acquisition, and to gain economic prosperity. It is through the labor of slaves, like those at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, that we can learn about the ways that meals transcend taste and sustenance.
Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture
Under the leadership of Bruce Goff (1904-82), Herb Greene (b. 1929), Mendel Glickman (1895-1967), and many others, OU faculty developed a curriculum that emphasized individual creativity, organic forms, and experimentation. This radical approach to design drew students to Oklahoma from as far away as Japan and South America and later spread the American School influence to their practices in California, Hawaii, Japan, and beyond.