The library highlights events of local, national, or global importance with displays of materials from our various collections.  These are the displays we prepared during the Spring, 2003 semester:

• In January, we celebrated the success of Benedictine University alum and coach of the Oakland Raiders, Bill Callahan, when he lead his team to the Super Bowl.  To commemorate this event, we went into the University  archives and retrieved some photos of Coach Callahan from 1975-77 when he was a three-year starter quarterback at Benedictine (back when we were known as Illinois Benedictine College). We used the 4th floor display case to display these pictures along with recent national news articles written about Bill Callahan's days on the IBC football team.
 


• On February 1, the space shuttle Columbia was lost during its re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.  We mourned the loss of the seven crew members with a 4th floor display of  official NASA photos and reports  from our Federal Government Documents collection.
 

Our March display focused on the author, John Steinbeck.  February 27th would have been his 101st birthday.  This event gave us an opportunity to display  the library's Steinbeck manuscripts from our Special Collections.

• In celebration of National Library Week (April 6-12) faculty were asked to lend copies of books they had authored for the April display.  Twenty-four faculty authors were featured in the display.