Third Annual Sweat Shirt Week Friday 2nd March – Thursday 8th March 2018.

First Annual Sweat Shirt Week (Blue) 2016

Come, celebrate Spring by wearing your favorite colorful attire to work

this Friday 2nd March through Thursday 8th March 2018.

Photo shoot at noon every day on Alderman steps  
Leave the winter doldrums behind. Colors and theme suggestions below #1. Just come! 
Do you remember? the First T-Shirt Week video?

2nd Annual Sweat Shirt Week 2017 Blue

1. Here are some completely optional basic suggestions of  daily colors and themes – NOT required, but some thoughts about them.

* 2nd March Friday. Green (sweat shirts, T-shirts, plain shirts, sweaters, ribbons, pin, etc).. Yes, St Pat’s is more than a week away, but we’re a  early. [This is also the day this year that the colorful Holi Festival is celebrated in India.]

* 5th March Bright Reds Celebrating the colorful Monday (or pinks or purples) Sports, T or Sweat shirts

* 6th March Tuesday. Its Spring Blues (blue sky, blue water, blues, blues), Schools / College T- or Sweat shirts

* 7th March Wedesday is a Dual day - Either A. black, browns, dullness, the earth.  Environment, nature, parks, beaches, places, locations. T- or Sweat shirts. Or B. Yellows, brighten up, sun, sun, sun o or Organizations such as ALA, Semester at Sea, Charlottesville, cities T- or Sweat shirts

* 8th March Thursday -  Whites! Cleanliness, celebration, pureness. Or your most favorite T- or Sweat shirt, whatever color or theme. Last day - thanks all. 

2. Right now (28 February or 1 March 2018), get ready for the Third Annual Sweat Shirt Week at the University of Virginia libraries, starting on this Friday 2nd March and running all work next week ending Thursday 8th March 2018. (This revised schedule is because of no-work day Friday the 9th March, and Spring Break all next week, so this year we go from Friday through Thursday)

3. Okay – we know it might be warmish weather so this Sweat Shirt Week will include the option of T-shirts and other shirts or attire, plus the usual sweat shirts.

4. Wear your favorite T- or Sweat shirts to work during the week – no, this is not a requirement, it is completely voluntary and in the spirit of fun.  Be creative and join in the spring celebrations.

5. Every day at noon for the photo shoot, we will gather at the steps of Alderman Library. Smile! Come on over from any of the libraries – SEL, Music, Fine Arts, Clemons, Special Collections, etc. or from anywhere (retirees are even welcome back). Join us. If you can’t make it, have someone take a photo of you in your T- or Sweat Shirt and get it to me. More photos the better.

Send us any suggestions or comments, which might improve this event. Looking forward to hearing from you - write us at pm9k@virginia.edu

      Bring along others and tell them to spread the news - publicize it among your friends and fellow workers. The more the merrier.

      Here’s photos of the First Annual Sweat Shirt Week at the University of Virginia March 17-25 2016

Now Read This - 2018 Februray South Asian news and bibliography

Holi. Neeti Nair. Mehr on Saqi. And Feb 2018 SA Bibliography

 

     Celebrate the Holi festival this Friday (2nd March 2018)

   All of Marg is now online! http://www.marg-art.org/ including the recent issue on Indian painting which we have the print copy in the Fine Arts library. 

 

     Neeti Nair led a discussion on the 20^th February 2018 at George Washington University on “Islam, Minorities, and the Making of a Democracy.”

     

 

     Mehr Farooqi has written an obituary article “The Road Is Hard’: Remembering Urdu Poet Saqi” in the online 2018 November 2018 issue of The Wire.

Women spraying Holi

     Have a look at the recently Bibliography of 24 South Asian new titles for February 2018 is available at https://asianstudies.github.io/area-studies/SouthAsia/New/2018FebruarySABibliography.html

with a WorldCat list at https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/uvalibrary/lists/3800496?view=&count=50

         Enjoy the freezing and sometimes warm Winter weather of 2018.

Middle East book titles - 2018 February Recently added

    Here are some Middle East books (mostly Arabic language) we recently (February 2018) 
added to our VIRGO library catalog.
       Click on this link - 24 Titles in Excel File with hot links
The Excel file has columns of
         LCCN, Call Number, VIRGO hot linked (click on any), and Titles (in Arabic mostly)