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‘Americans and the Holocaust’ traveling exhibition coming to Troy University Library

The traveling exhibit will be on display in the Troy Campus Library from March 20 to April 24.

The traveling exhibit will be on display in the Troy Campus Library from March 20 to April 24.

Troy University’s Troy Campus Library is one of 50 U.S. libraries selected to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.

The touring library exhibition —…

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Shaffer receives SELA’s Outstanding Southeastern Author Award for ‘Moon Over Sasova’

Dr. Chris Shaffer (left) received the award during the joint Mississippi Library Association and Southeastern Library Association Conference.

Dr. Chris Shaffer (left) received the award during the joint Mississippi Library Association and Southeastern Library Association Conference.

Dr. Chris Shaffer, Dean of Library Services at Troy University, has received the Southeastern Library Association’s Outstanding Southeastern Author Award in the non-fiction category for his book “Moon Over Sasova: One American’s Experience Teaching in Post-Cold War Slovakia.”

This year’s award was presented at the Joint Mississippi Library Association and Southeastern Library Association Conference in…

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Teaching English in Slovakia laid foundation for Library dean’s new book “Moon Over Sasova”

Troy University Dean of Libraries Christopher Shaffer and his new book, “Moon Over Sasova,

Troy University Dean of Libraries Christopher Shaffer and his new book, “Moon Over Sasova," about his teaching experiences in Slovokia. (TROY photo)

Dr. Chris Shaffer, dean of library services at Troy University, has published a new book documenting his time teaching and traveling in post-communist Europe during the 1990s.

Shaffer began the journey he highlights in “Moon Over Sasova” in Mannheim, Germany through a study abroad program at Auburn University in 1991.

It was when Shaffer took…

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Orlofsky receives Troy University’s Book Token Award

Dr. Chris Shaffer, Dean of Libraries, (right) presents Professor Michael Orlofsky with the 2021 Book Token Award.

Dr. Chris Shaffer, Dean of Libraries, (right) presents Professor Michael Orlofsky with the 2021 Book Token Award.

Michael Orlofsky, Professor of English and director of Troy University’s Creative Writing program, has been honored with the University’s Book Token Award for the support he has demonstrated for the TROY Libraries.

Presented during a presentation on Tuesday at the Troy Campus Library, the award recognizes faculty who provide service to and support of Troy…

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