"Advancing Health Equity as a Human Right" is the topic of the Third Annual Reflection on Civil and Human Rights Lecture to be held on Tuesday, January 23, at 5:00 pm at Mervyn H. Sterne Library Room 174, as part of UAB Community Month 2018. Monica L. Baskin, Ph.D., Professor of Preventive Medicine and Vice Chair for Culture and Diversity in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine will discuss the significance of advancing health equity as a human right contextualized by the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama.

This event is sponsored by UAB Libraries, the UAB African American Faculty Association, and UAB African American Studies.

In this issue:

• Holiday Hours
• Image of the Month
• Toys for Fines Charity Drive
• LibQUAL+ Survey
• Faculty Publication Spotlight

Read the December 2017 issue

One of the greatest figures in modernist literature, Irish author James Joyce (1882-1941) used the avant-garde “stream of consciousness” method in such great literary works as Ulysses (1922), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), and Finnegan’s Wake (1939). Less known is that from his mid-20s on, Joyce also suffered grievously from eye disease and other ailments, the cause of which may have been either syphilis or some form of inflammatory rheumatic arthritis. An ongoing debate continues as scholars investigate Joyce’s medical history and pick apart Ulysses for references to venereal disease.

Read more …