Author Archives: Gene Hyde

Library announces Book Collecting Contest

By Gene Hyde | October 14, 2009

Do you like to read?  Do you collect books?  Then the library’s Winesett Book Collecting Contest is for you!  Featuring a $200 First Prize and a $100 Second Prize, the contest encourages and celebrates reading and book collecting by Radford University students. Collections can be on any topic or theme.
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New Archives blog features Moving Day photos

By Gene Hyde | August 27, 2009

McConnell Library’s Archives and Special Collections has a new blog! We’re rolling out our new blog with some photos of previous Moving Days at Radford: Archives and Special Collections Blog.

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Library hosts Highland Summer Conference readings

By Gene Hyde | June 9, 2009

McConnell Library will host readings by four regional writers as part of the 32nd annual Highland Summer Conference.  All readings are free and open to the public.
Tuesday, June 9  –      Essayist and poet Jim Minick
Thursday, June 11 —     Fiction writer Crystal Wilkinson
Tuesday, June 16 —     Fiction writer Donald  Secreast
Thursday, June 18 — [...]

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Highland Summer Conference readings, June 5-14

By Gene Hyde | May 30, 2007

The Library will feature readings and receptions with authors from the 30th annual Highland Summer Conference from June 5-June 14. The readings will be held on Level 4 of the Library, in the future home of the Appalachian Collection, on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7:30-9:30. All readings are free and open to the public.
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