Free Film Screening- Border South
Border South Film Screening
This film will be available for 24 hours from September 24 at 4pm to September 25 at 4pm.
Join us for a free screening of Border South by director Raúl O. Paz Pastrana. This is part of a series of events that will take place as we prepare to host an installment of Hostile Terrain 94, a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project.
Visit this link tree for access to Spanish and English versions of the film, as well as a link to register for a live Q&A with director Raúl O. Paz Pastrana and anthropologist Jason de León on the 25th at 5pm.
We’re Here to Help! How the Library Can Help You Succeed
Every Thursday, 12p-12:30p
This semester is going to be different, but that doesn’t mean we’re going anywhere. Join us for a virtual event where you can meet library staff and learn how we can help you navigate this new digital college experience! Participants will be entered to win a $25 GrubHub gift card.
You can join at bit.ly/CookHello
New Jim Crow Community Book Series (Online)
Thursday, September 10, October 8, and November 12, 5-6pm
This community book series, hosted by Albert S. Cook Library Leadership Institute for Students (A-LIST), is a space to explore concrete ways to respond to Michelle Alexander’s call to dismantle they system of mass incarceration that has tainted the Black and African American community politically, legally, economically, culturally, and, morally. The goal is for readers to feel open in sharing their reactions and reflections in a brave and trusting community. With all this in mind, we hope people use this as a springboard to act for racial justice. The e-book version of the New Jim Crow is available through Cook Library. Visit this link or watch this video on how to access it.
Discussions will be held on Zoom and participants must register in advance.
September 10th, 5-6pm: Discuss Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2
October 8th, 5-6pm: Discuss Chapters 3 and 4
November 12th, 5-6pm: Discuss Chapters 5 and 6
Reimagining an Equitable Baltimore
Reimagining an Equitable Baltimore
Wednesday, April 29th
6:30pm-8:00pm
Virtual Event
Panelists and Baltimore organizers Eddie Conway, Adrianna Foster, Marvin Hayes, Eric Jackson, and Jamal Jones, will discuss organizing in a city where racial inequity, police violence, and hyper-segregation are prominent, how organizing in Baltimore has changed since the uprisings of 2015, how COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting those who are already the most marginalized and disenfranchised, and what organizing looks like in the face of this global pandemic. John Duda of Red Emma’s Bookstore and Coffeehouse will moderate the panel, which was organized by Nicole Fabricant and Sam Collins of Towson University.
For more information and to RSVP visit https://bit.ly/bmoreTU or https://redemmas.org/events/1528-online–divided-by-design-reimagining-an-equitable-baltimore
Getting to Know (and Use) OER
Getting to Know (and Use) OER
Thursday, March 5th
4:00pm-5:00pm
Cook Library, Room 526
As part of Cook Library’s observance of Open Education Week, join librarian Rick Davis for an introductory session on open educational resources (OER). Rick will provide a working definition of OER, distinguishing them from other free (but not open) educational resources and from reduced-cost options like the University Store’s Direct Access and Affordable Course Materials Initiative. He will also discuss the basics of open licenses so that you can be sure your use of OER complies with their terms of use. Finally, he’ll demonstrate how faculty can find relevant OER on some of the best-known and widely used OER repositories and referatories.
Poster Contest in Cook Library – Quiet Down!
Poster Contest in Cook Library – Quiet Down!
We’re asking for poster designs to update our “Quiet Study” signage. All media are welcome. Graphic design, illustration, infographics, photography, etc. – if it can be printed on 20” x 24” phototek paper, we want to see it!
The submission deadline is March 15th and all majors are welcome! 10 finalists will be selected for the TU community to vote on. Five winners will win a $25 Ustore gift card and will see their posters hung throughout quiet zones in the library.
Visit http://bit.ly/CookPosterContest for more information or email bsinnott@towson.edu with any questions.
Voices of Baltimore: Film Screening and Panel
Voices of Baltimore: Film Screening and Panel
Thursday, March 5th
7:00pm-9:00pm
West Village Commons, Ballroom A
Towson Education Professors Dr. Gary Homana and Dr. Morna McDermott McNulty present their 2017 film, Voices of Baltimore: Life Under Segregation. The film is an oral history centering the voices of African Americans subjected to segregation in the Jim Crow South and moved from all-black to previously white-only schools after Brown v. Board of Education. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with four of the film’s interviewees.
The event will be held in West Village Commons Ballrooms A&B
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
Wednesday, March 4th
12:30pm-6:00pm
Cook Library, Room 208
Join us for a do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others campaign that teaches people of all gender identities and expressions to edit Wikipedia to increase representation of cis and trans women, non-binary people, people of color, and Indigenous people and their artistic work on Wikipedia. Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female; more recent research puts that number at 16% globally and 23% in the United States.
Trainings will begin at 12:30pm, 2pm, and 3:30 PM in Cook Library Room 208
Tigers’ Humanitarian Map-a-thon
Tigers’ Humanitarian Map-a-thon
Tuesday, March 3rd
5:00pm-9:00pm
Cook Library, Room 526
Map-a-thon participants will receive a menu of mapping projects requested by the American Red Cross to contribute to on OpenStreetMap.org. Carl Olson, Librarian for Geography & Environmental Planning, and Clare Kuntz Balcer, Librarian for Outreach & Marketing, will assist participants in creating contributor accounts and adding map data to OpenStreetMap.
Noontime Jazz
Noontime Jazz
Tuesday, February 18th
12:00pm-1:00pm
Cook Library, 3rd Floor Lobby
Bring your lunch and listen to Towson student musicians play wonderful jazz music.
