Since 1983, the LEH's adult reading and discussion series, RELIC, has enrolled nearly 85,000 readers in 62 parishes across Louisiana. These 6-week thematic series are led by university scholars, who introduce the books and lead group discussions.
Sessions are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Check out the RELIC schedule for a library near you. Advance registration at the host library is required, and participants check out the books used in each series. RELIC themes include:
- In the Cross Hairs: Louisiana’s Hurricane Experience
- The Louisiana Purchase: Impact and Legacy
- I'll be seeing you...America and World War II
- The Newest South: Contemporary Writers in a Traditional Society
- Folktales and Stories of the South and Louisiana
- The Native American World of the Southeastern US
- Encounter in Louisiana: Conflict and Confluence in Literary Currents
- Louisiana Characters: Biographies of the Bayou State
- Becoming American: The Literature of Immigration and Acculturation
- Louisiana History: Perspectives on the Pelican State
- The American West in Fact and Fiction
- Canada and Mexico: Old Borders, New Neighbors
- Elizabeth I of England and Her Times
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| Click here to view the Fall 2008 RELIC schedule! |
| Click here to view RELIC program descriptions! |
A new RELIC program, "Elizabeth I of England and Her Times," will be available in 2008. It will offer something for most readers: biography, military and diplomatic history, social history and a look into the English world as seen in Shakespeare’s mind.
| Elizabeth I of England and Her Times |
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The Life of Elizabeth I
by Alison Weir
The Armada
by Garrett Mattingly
Elizabeth’s London:
Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
by Liza Picard
Shakespeare Alive!
by Joseph Papp and Elizabeth Kirkland |
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