Saint Mary's College Library

Need a first day of school photo to send back home? The library has you covered! Come by this week to fill out the back to school board and snap a photo. Bring a friend or someone at the desk can be your photographer. Happy first day of school, undergrads!

Creating vision boards, origami, and coloring at our first Crafternoon of the year! Join us every Monday at 3-4 pm starting September 9. ✂️🎨🧶

Welcome to the new Biotech, Communication, Creative Writing, and Kinesiology grad students! Don’t forget to make use of your personal librarian while you’re here 😊

This little dude has taken up residence in the Library! We think he might be getting ready to battle Godzilla for the role of official library mascot.

That last pic tho 😅

Librarian Gina is getting in those virtual (and actual) miles for our Summer Reading “Road Trip” while in Tahoe! “I appreciate that ‘Make Time’ isn’t about answering more emails or clearing your to-do list: it’s about identifying what really matters to you (personally, professionally, or otherwise) and making sure you’re carving out time for it every day, rather than letting other people’s Slack messages or the “infinity pools” of social media and TV suck up your time and make the days blur together. And these authors should know: they are the product designers who helped build Gmail and YouTube.” And with that, I’m blocking Instagram and signing off for the weekend 😉👋

How are you doing on our summer reading challenge? It’s not too late to get your reading log — link in bio! 🔗

This is librarian Sarah’s pic of the book “Erasure” by Percival Everett, taken at the “Holy Wasting of Time” Cummins Retreat at the Russian River earlier this summer. Sarah writes: “‘Erasure’ was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film ‘American Fiction.’ It’s about a Black author and professor who wrote books no one reads, and then in anger wrote (with a pseudonym) a trashy book with terrible stereotypes that went on to earn him huge movie and critical acclaim. What made the book so different is that it felt like two books. Within the story of the author’s journey was 40 pages or so of the text of the book he wrote. It’s jarring! I picked up a total of 715 miles for the summer reading road trip with this pick! It was 265 pages but counted for three special categories (published 10 years ago, Black voices, made into a movie).”

Wishing all a fabulous reunion weekend of reliving fond memories and making new ones! Stop by the Library between 1-5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday to check out what has changed and what remains the same. Even after you graduate, the Library is here for you!

And the answer is… that giant book has 2220 pages. .aa had the closest guess in the reel comments with 2000.

Science librarian Margot has already gotten in gear for our Summer Reading “Road Trip”: Lasallian Style! 🚗🗺️Margot recommends “The City We Became,” by N. K. Jemisin:

👉 “I love N. K. Jemisin’s writing, so when I saw this new science fiction series I was excited! This first book builds the world of modern-day New York with an alternate multiverse layered over the top, and I look forward to reading the rest of the story that builds on these origins. We’ve got a world where cities are embodied in human form, and New York is the newest, burgeoning collection of people finding their place as representations of their boroughs. They have to defend from an onslaught of outside forces trying to overthrow their existence through fascism and hatred, and the battle ensues! Check it out!”

✏️ Log a mile for every page you read, and see if you can make it across the country to our fellow US Lasallian universities! Make sure to take advantage of “mileage multipliers”—this book gets 100 extra miles for the Black Voices category.

Shout-out to senior Kristen Dougherty, who has been the talent behind most of our content this year! As the Library’s outreach assistant, Kristen created social media content; filmed videos; coordinated events; represented the Library at fairs; provided invaluable insights into how to better reach SMC students; and created and taped up approximately a million posters. She has been reliable, efficient, creative, and a blast to work with. Our outreach program was more active this year than ever, in large part because of Kristen’s efforts behind the scenes. And she did all this while serving as the director of , wrapping up majors in Marketing and Digital Media, and landing a post-grad internship in marketing. Congratulations, Kristen; we’ll miss you!

We’re open through the summer!☀️🕶️

Check out our weekly summer hours, research assistance hours and holiday closures!

Here’s part 2 of our 2023-2024 event recap!

1. Wake Up Wednesday
2. Pause for Poetry at the student walkout
3. Lafayette Library field trip
4. Quiet Book Club in the MoA
5. High School Libraries Workshop
6. Crafternoons x STEM Center shrinks d**k making
7. Student Leadership Conference

That’s a wrap on the 2023-2024 academic year! Here’s a look back at some of the amazing events we hosted this year!

1. Fac Check with Margot Hanson and Kitty Luce
2. Student Research Conference
3. Black maternal health documentary screening
4. Wikipedia workshop
5. Book Publication Celebration with Yin Yuan and Sunayani Bhattacharya
6. Book talk with Helga Lenart-Cheng
7. Pause for Poetry

Graduating on Saturday?

Learn more how you can use the library as an alumni!

With super giant thanks to , we’ll have a third and final night of study snacks in the library Tuesday starting at 6pm until they run out. Study hard and fuel up!

SMC faculty: check your email for the link to register for our Brunch-and-Learn on Thursday to see a demo of Sage Research Methods before our trial is up! (Or DM us or email [email protected] for the link)

Fuel Up for Finals!!

The library will be giving out snacks Sunday-Tuesday at 6pm while supplies last!

Good luck to all the Gaels this finals week📚📖

This Friday at 1:30 in the Library Learning Lab join us for our final Quiet Book Club of the year! Bring anything you want to read or browse through our selections at the library!

Story Revolutions: Why do humans share stories?

Join us next Wednesday 5/15 at 4:30 in Hagerty Lounge for a faculty panel and open discussion!

There are lots of ways to get help with your research! Find them all at stmarys-ca.edu/library. Unfortunately, carrier pigeon isn’t one of them. And those of you who are getting research inspiration in a vision, perhaps you’ve got a career as a librarian ahead of you. 😉

SMC Library’s Summer Reading Challenge Coming Soon!!📚📍🗺️

⏸️Pause for Poetry⏸️

Join and Wednesday May 8th at 1:30 in the Library as we honor and celebrate Arab American Heritage Month and National Poetry Month

Attention SMC faculty members! Join us Wednesday May 1st at 1:30 pm for a Learn with the Library session all about AI-proofing your assignments! RSVP with the link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerO5gmQI6ZhsmDMpkdO7_MZwLO-wcYkq1mHY70nEaxgOuW2w/viewform

Come join Crafternoons on Monday April 29th as we open our inspirational rock garden! Create positive, uplifting images, leaves quotes or fun designs on rocks for others to enjoy! Meet outside the library from 3-4pm and be part of the Crafternoons community

Join the Library and for a screening of the documentary “Laboring with Hope,” followed by a student-led discussion about Black maternal health.

From the Network of the National Library of Medicine, which is sponsoring our access to the film: “Going through pregnancy and delivery should be a joyful time and a safe experience. However, for many women of color this is often not the case. Black women have higher rates of complications, and according to the CDC, are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women.

“Laboring with Hope is a 30-minute documentary on maternal morbidity and mortality among Black women. The film combines personal stories and expert perspectives to provide a call to action to implement, support, and uplift strategies to improve maternal health and birth outcomes.“

Join the SMC Library and Saint Luke’s Pre-Health Society next Monday April 29 at 5:30 pm for a special screen of Laboring with Hope”. A documentary shedding light on Black maternal health in the the US. Following the screening there will be a student lead discussion on the themes and topics of the film. Refreshments provided!

Quiet Book Club is back this Friday April 26 in the Museum of Art! Bring something fun to read and relax in the serene space of our campus museum📖🎨🖼️

BYO book to our Quiet Book Club! Everyone reads what they want, so bring a book, magazine, or manga of your choice, enjoy some snacks, and de-stress from the week with us! 🍪📚 See you at the Museum this Friday!

You did it!! 🎉 Thank you to all the library supporters out there, and we can’t wait to show you what your money goes towards to enhance the student experience and support the reading and research habits of the whole Saint Mary’s community. See you in the Library!