Belk Library

Award-winning author and public education reform advocate Jonathan Kozol visits Elon University on Sept. 23 for its 2008-09 Common Reading Lecture to share with college students the joys of serving impoverished children.

Two record books from the early years of the Christian Church are now available online through Elon University’s web site for researchers to access anywhere in the world.

A student scrapbook now on loan to Belk Library is offering the university a rare glimpse of campus life in the 1920s. The book, which belongs to a family with historic ties to Elon, includes letters, music programs – even photos taken inside the Old Main administration building just hours after a 1923 fire threatened the future of the school.

Students planning to enter the 12th Annual Philip L. Carret “Thomas Jefferson Essay Competition” now have another resource to use when conducting research for their work: past winning essays available on the Belk Library web site.

A generous gift from a former Elon music professor will help the Belk Library expand its book and score collection in classical music and opera. Wayne T. Moore, who would also teach for and later retire from Auburn University, presented the university librarian with a check for the collection on Nov. 30.