Events

Forget about Scholarly: An Information Literacy Brown Bag Discussion

Faculty and staff are invited to join us on Thursday, September 13 from 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM in the LMCVR for Forget about Scholarly: An Information Literacy Brown Bag Discussion.  Bring your lunch and join your librarian colleagues for a discussion about assigning and teaching scholarly sources.

Study Break – Monday, May 7th at 5pm

Join us for lemonade and sweet treats!  The library would like to invite you to enjoy some sweet treats and lemondae. Monday, May 7th starting at 5pm (while supplies last).  Take a break from studying to refuel.

Spring Book Sale

Come check out what is SPRINGing up at the library! SPRING BOOK SALE Get a recycled book to take out into the sunshine and read! Visit the book sale at the Calvin Coolidge Library at Castleton University April 30th –May 11th during regular library hours VHS tapes are 50¢ each Hardcover $1.00 Paperback 50¢ Kids 25¢Come see what is Springing up in the Calvin Coolidge Library at Castleton University! Our book sale will run from April 30, 2018 through May 11, 2018. We have a large variety of VHS tapes for sale this year, 50¢ each.
Hardcovers $1.00
Paperbacks 50¢
Children’s books 25¢
DVD $1.00
CDs 50¢

14 Days to Have Your Say is back!

Partnering with SGA, our Spring 2018 14 Days to Have Your Say will focus on library space.  Please provide us with your feedback from Monday, April 9 through Sunday, April 22 using the online survey at http://libguides.castleton.edu/14days or via comment cards available in the library.

14 Days to Have Your Say; Mon. April 9th - Sun. April 22nd; Share your comments and suggestions about the Calvin Coolidge Library's space.

 

 

Information Literacy Events

Faculty and staff are invited to three upcoming Information Literacy events:

Information Literacy Forum

Thursday March 15th at 12:30 pm in the Library Media Viewing Room &

Thursday April 19th at 12:30 pm in the Library Media Viewing Room

Join us to discuss and learn more about the ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and the 6 threshold concepts inspiring the Library’s new approach to information literacy instruction and support.

 Scaffolding for Successful Research Assignments Brown Bag

Thursday, April 26th at 12:30 pm in the Library Media Viewing Room

Professors Andy Alexander, Ana Alfaro-Alexander, and Adam Chill will share how they have used scaffolded research assignments to help students succeed.

Can’t wait to learn more?  Visit our Information Literacy and Library Instruction at http://libguides.castleton.edu/infolit

Blind Date with a Book

Come to the library in February to participate in Blind Date with a Book!

Blind Date With a Book

Just like going on a blind date, take a book home without knowing the title.  Each book features a few descriptive words to entice you into going home with it.  Stop by our Blind Date with a Book display and:

  1. Read the descriptions on the front of the package.
  2. Select the one you want to take home.
  3. Bring your chosen book to the Circulation Desk to be checked out.
  4. When you are ready to end the “date,” please take a few minutes to fill out the “Rate Your Date” card inside each book.

…..Who knows? You may just fall in love…..

VSC Reads: Brown Girl Dreaming

The VSC Libraries invite the VSC community to join together to read Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming in honor of Black History month.  Brown Girl Dreaming was the 2014 National Book Award winner for Young People’s Literature and was selected as the Vermont Reads book for 2017. Each VSC library will be hosting an event during February for students, staff and faculty to talk about the book – the Calvin Coolidge Library will be holding a reading and book discussion on Wednesday, February 28th from 5pm to 6pm in the Library Lounge.

Brown Girl Dreaming book cover

Brown Girl Dreaming tells the story of my childhood, in verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, I always felt halfway home in each place. In these poems, I share what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and my growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. It also reflects the joy of finding my voice through writing stories, despite the fact that I struggled with reading as a child. My love of stories inspired and stayed with me, creating the first sparks of the writer I was to become.”  Jacqueline Woodson

 

Copies of the book are available for checkout at the Calvin Coolidge Library – please ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.

Holiday Book Sale

Visit the Library from December 1, 2017 to December 22, 2017 for our Holiday Book Sale. Grab a last minute gift or treat yourself with a book for break! Hardcovers: $1.00; Paperbacks: .50; DVDs: $1.00; Children’s Books: .25

Stacks of books

Mini Golf!

As part of Homecoming and Family weekend, the library hosted Mini Golf on Friday, September 15th and Saturday, September 16th.  168 students, faculty, staff, families, and community members come through the library doors for this fun event!

3 students holding golf clubs during Mini Golf event in the Library

Book Reception

Please join us on Wednesday, April 26 from 4 – 5:15 pm in the Calvin Coolidge Library Lounge to celebrate recently published books by Castleton faculty, Melinda Mills and Joyce Thomas.