Events

Support & Solidarity Resources

November 9, 2016 by Amanda VerMeulen

Events Wednesday, November 9:

There will be a forum at 4:45 pm today in St. Mary’s Hall to give students an opportunity to share their thoughts.
The Multi-cultural Resource Room located inside the campus center leadership lab will be staffed by the MAPP navigators from 10:30 am to 8 pm.
The Rainbow Room located in the campus center will be staffed from 8:30-11:30 am, 2:30-4:30 pm, and 6-9 pm.
Aldom Lounge will also be available from 10 am to 3 pm supported by Student Affairs staff.
As always, walk in hours are available in the Wellness Center from 1-3 pm.
(Thanks to Leonard Brown Jr., VP for Student Affairs/Dean of Students and Michael Wick,
Provost/Dean of the Faculty for assembling this list.)

Additional Resources

Support & Solidarity for SMCM Students: Information and Resources
http://libguides.smcm.edu/support-and-solidarity
Library Comm[unity] Graduates
http://library.smcm.edu/2016/10/library-community-graduates/

Library Mini Golf Friday!

October 4, 2016 by Amanda VerMeulen

The class of 2019 is hosting MINI GOLF in the Library this Friday, October 7th!

TIME: 9 p.m.-12 p.m.

ADMISSION:$3 per person, group of 5 pay the admission price of 4.

Prizes:
1. A $40 Amazon gift card.
2. Portable Wireless Bluetooth Speaker.
3. Smart Fitness Tracker Wristband Bracelet.
4. A long sleeve Tee from the Campus store.
5. Burt’s Bees Hand Repair Gift Set.

BOOK SALE 2016!

September 25, 2016 by Amanda VerMeulen

Brace yourselves, the book sale is coming…

The annual library book sale is Tuesday and Wednesday, October 4 & 5.

We will be selling books from 9am-4pm, rain or shine outside the entrance to the library. We have books in a range of subjects, so come early and often to get your favs!

Book Prices are $0.50 for paperbacks and $1.00 for hardcovers. Cash only! Sorry no OneCard, debit or credit cards 🙁 [Thankfully there’s an ATM conveniently located in the library lobby. Coincidence or conspiracy????? You decide.]

Author Ram Devineni visits St. Mary’s Tues, April 12

April 11, 2016 by Amanda VerMeulen

Priya's Shakti panels installed in library

image: A. VerMeulen [CC BY-SA 4.0]

Author Ram Devineni, co-creator of the graphic novel Priya’s Shakti, will be speaking about the work on Tuesday, April 12 at 4:30 in Cole Cinema.

Priya’s Shakti is about a mortal woman and a goddess who fight gender-based sexual violence in India and around the world.

The college recently purchased panels of the comic which have been indefinitely installed on the second floor of the Library along the long wall with the window seat across from the last row of Stacks shelves.

Additionally, the comic is an open publication, available to read on the web and downloadable to a number of e-readers.

Book Sale Oct. 6 & 7!

September 29, 2015 by Amanda VerMeulen

Brace yourselves, the book sale is coming…

The annual library book sale is next Tuesday and Wednesday, October 6 & 7. We will be selling books from 9am-4pm, rain or shine outside the entrance to the library. We have books in a range of subjects, so come early and often to get your favs!

Get A Public Library Card at SMCM Library!

September 14, 2015 by Amanda VerMeulen

by Conrad Helms, Patron Services Librarian

September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month, and the SMCM Library has once again partnered with St. Mary’s County Public Library for our annual library card exchange!

Just stop by the front desk of the SMCM Library to fill out an application (students use your campus address). For that ~1 minute investment of your time, you’ll get access to all their online databases, including Mango Languages and a wide selection of e-books and audiobooks. Not to mention their great print collection, including DVD’s, Blu-Ray’s, and thousands of titles.

All of it is quickly and easily searchable via COSMOS – the online gateway to St. Mary’s County Public Libraries.

The exchange is running from September 14-30, but why wait? Stop by today and sign up!

Questions? Contact Conrad Helms or Pamela Mann! Or just give us a call at 240-895-4264.

Join Our Summer Reading Program

June 1, 2015 by Amanda VerMeulen

The St. Mary’s Libraries Adult Summer Reading Program starts June 1st and ends August 14th, 2015. This year St. Mary’s College Library is partnering with St. Mary’s County Library to bring you more prizes and new ways to participate. This year’s prizes include a Kindle, a Fit Bit and three $25 gift cards. We also have books, posters, magnets and bags of library swag to give away. This year there are two places to post reviews, on the summer reading blog and for the first time on Goodreads.

The Summer Reading program is open to all members of the St. Mary’s College community including students, staff, faculty, alumni and residents of the Tri-County area (St. Mary’s, Calvert and Charles counties.) Readers may read anything they like as long as a copy is available at St. Mary’s College Library, Southern Maryland libraries (COSMOS) or via USMAI. To earn points you must post a review on the blog or Goodreads Group. Use the comment box to post your review on the blog. Earn bonus points by participating in the Summer Reading Challenge.

You don’t need to check the book out of the library or be on campus to participate so no matter where you are you can read books and win prizes.

For more information visit the Summer Reading Blog.

Sámi Pathfinder Visits St. Mary’s

April 14, 2015 by Amanda VerMeulen

Yvonne-Marie Miniggio, Sámi Pathfinder

This Thursday, April 16 at 4:45pm in DPC, you have a truly unique opportunity to learn more about the Sámi people through a talk given by Sámi Pathfinder, Yvonne-Marie Miniggio.

Formerly known as Lapps, the Sámi people are the only European group categorized as indigenous peoples by the UN. The people of this distinct ethnic group live in the extreme north of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia’s Kola Peninsula. They have recently gained standing in Norway’s government through the formation of the Sámi parliament.

Come learn more about the fascinating Sámi culture and language from Yvonne-Marie Miniggio, one of four young people selected by the Norwegian government to promote Sámi history and culture, and raise awareness of modern Sámi society.

Her visit is a joint effort of the Center for the Study of Democracy and librarian Kent Randell.

Presidential Libraries: What presidents do to keep us from knowing what presidents do

March 11, 2015 by Amanda VerMeulen

Truman Presidential Museum and Library

In his upcoming book, The Last Campaign, Anthony Clark, former speechwriter and legislative director in the U.S. House of Representatives, argues that presidential libraries, which began as impartial archives of history, have become extravagant, politicized, legacy-building showplaces where the goals of former presidents, their families, financial donors and the national parties trump accuracy and the (often inconvenient) facts.

Clark will be at St. Mary’s on Wednesday, March 25th to speak at 4:45pm in the Daugherty Palmer Commons (DPC) about these uniquely American shrines and the past 10 years he spent researching and traveling to presidential libraries across the United States.

You can learn more about Clark and The Last Campaign by visiting his website. Join us for what promises to be a fascinating talk!

Celebrate Women’s History Month

March 1, 2015 by Amanda VerMeulen

Penn[sylvania] on the picket line– 1917. From the Records of the National Woman’s Party at the Library of Congress

Happy Women’s History Month! This March 2015 marks the 35th anniversary of Women’s History Month, and this year’s theme is Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives, a nod to the power of narrative and storytelling in American history and importance of the stories of individual women.

To celebrate this month, the St. Mary’s Library will be featuring different women’s history resources on the In the Collection portion of the Library’s website. We’ll also have a series of posts about research materials related to women’s history, as well as amazing information you can access online through various archival collections.

Hilda C. Landers Library & Archives