*These are the events taking place at the library
during the Spring '25 semester*
Women's History Month Author Talk
Join us as we welcome Dr. Kathleen Sheppard, who will be discussing her new book, Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age.
Dr. Sheppard will be talking about the never-before-told story of the female Egyptologists who paved the way for exploration in Egypt and laid the groundwork for Egyptology, long before a man ever discovered King Tut's tomb.
The virtual talk will take place on Tuesday, March 18 @ 12:45pm.
Please click here to register (you must register to attend).
Dr. Kathleen Sheppard Bio
Dr. Kathleen Sheppard is a Professor in the History and Political Science department at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri. She earned her MA in Egyptian Archaeology at University College London in 2002, and her PhD in History of Science from the University of Oklahoma in 2010. Her first book was a scientific biography of Margaret Alice Murray (2013) that focused on Murray’s life and career, both in and out of Egyptology. She has spent her whole career telling the stories of women in Egyptology. Her most recent book, Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age (St. Martin’s Press, 2024) is a grand retelling of the history of Egyptology through the work that women did.
Holocaust Remembrance Talk
This year on January 27 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz- a Nazi concentration and extermination camp in Poland where more than a million people were murdered during the Holocaust.
Melvin Goldman was one of Auschwitz's survivors. Although his entire life in Poland had been destroyed during the Second World War, his family wiped out, and his health precarious because of the years he spent as a prisoner, in 1950 he immigrated to the United States to start anew, settling in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood where he eventually married and raised his daughter, Lee.
Lee Goldman Kikel, author of Perseverance: One Holocaust Survivor's Journey from Poland to America, will bring her father's incredible story to BC3. Join us in welcoming her to the college, hearing her father's amazing story, and supporting the continuation of Holocaust recognition and education.
Thursday, February 6 in Heaton 232 OR virtually via GoToMeeting.
Travel to Jordan with Julie
Did you know that Jordan is home to the Dead Sea, which is the lowest point on Earth?
Did you also know that Jordan is a Hollywood star, having been the filming location for numerous Hollywood movies?
Julie visited the Middle Eastern country in 2024 and will be sharing photos and anecdotes from her trip there.
Tuesday, April 1 @12:45PM in Heaton 232
OR virtually via GoToMeeting
Therapy Dogs
-Wednesday, April 30 from 11am-1pm
(upper level of the Heaton Family Learning Commons)
Black History Month Talk
In honor of Black History Month, BC3 history professor Deb Kruger will be giving a talk on Carl James Woods, a Butler County native and graduate of Mars High School. During World War II he served as a Tuskegee Airman who was killed in action. Join us as we learn about this local hero.
Tuesday, February 11 @ 12:45pm
in Heaton 232 OR virtually via GoToMeeting.