VIRTUAL: NaNoWriMo Come Write In!
VIRTUAL: NaNoWriMo Come Write In!
Wednesday, November 18th
6:00pm-8:00pm
Online Event: Register at HERE
Join us for a virtual writing group! Whether you’re writing a novel or a term paper, it can be helpful to have moral support. We’re here for you!
VIRTUAL: NaNoWriMo Creative Writing Games
VIRTUAL: NaNoWriMo Creative Writing Games
Wednesday, November 4th
3:00pm-4:30pm
Online Event: Register at HERE
Spend the afternoon writing with us! We’ve prepared some fun prompts and creative writing games that we’re so excited to share with you.
Friendship and Mental Health in Times of Crisis
Friendship and Mental Health in the Times of Crisis
Tuesday, October 20th
12:00pm-1:00pm
Online Event: Register at http://bit.ly/CookFriendship
Join us for a conversation with the Counseling Center’s Dr. Elizabeth Cook, inspired by Lisa See’s Island of Sea Women, this year’s One Maryland, One Book. Dr. Cook will speak briefly about how you can take care of your self and your loved ones during this difficult time, then we will open up the floor for a Q&A.
Virtual Human Library
The events will take place on Tuesday, October 6, 3:30pm-5:50pm and Wednesday, October 7, 12:00pm-2:00pm via Zoom.
The Albert S. Cook Library and the Center for Student Diversity are excited to bring the Human Library to TU virtually this year!
The Human Library is a conversation event, where people act as books with titles like: Muslim, Gay, Republican, Alcoholic, Lesbian, ADHD, Lower income, Transgender, etc. Essentially, people become a library of human beings! Books are checked out by patrons who want to have a conversation. Ultimately, the event hopes to challenge societal prejudices and to bring a better understanding of community to everyone involved. We want to show the world, “don’t judge a book by its cover!”
Ready to participate in this year’s Human Library? Volunteer to be a book or register to be a reader.
Have questions? Contact Clare Kuntz Balcer at ckuntz@towson.edu and/or Saidat Adeleke at sadaleke@towson.edu.
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.
