The library has recently created a new comics and graphic novels collection located near the 4th floor atrium.
These materials have been selected with an eye toward pulling diverse perspectives into the library and collection while also bringing fun, new content for students to enjoy. Find titles like Persepolis, Watchmen, The Wicked + The Divine, Black Panther & Crew, and more!
GRAPHIC NOVEL READING CLUB
This book club hopes to promote reading for fun as a way for students to engage meaningfully with social issues while building empathy and community among its members and the campus.
Meetings will be held online via Zoom for the Spring semester. Participants will have the option to receive a hard copy of the graphic novel at no cost and will receive support to access the book online through their local public library. Participants will abide by a community agreement approved by the group's membership.
SPRING 2022 SELECTION
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
You can read the first part of Bingo Love for free!
MEETING SCHEDULE
Monday, 2/14/21 from 12noon - 2pm:
Optional drop in orientation.
Students should plan to attend the orientation for 10 to 15 minutes to receive an overview of the program, discuss the community agreement, receive technical help, and/or ask any questions they may have. Students may opt to receive their orientation materials via email if they are unable to attend the orientation session.
Tuesday, March 22nd
12noon - 1:30pm OR 6pm - 7:30pm:
Discussion sessions. Students may choose to attend the afternoon or evening discussion session as they prefer. Students will be asked to bring a discussion question or to share their favorite part of the selection.
Proposed Community Agreement:
- Time to speak, Time to listen – In discussion, every participant who wishes to speak should be given the opportunity to do so.
- Speakers should be mindful of time limitations in order to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to speak.
- Listeners should refrain from interrupting and any responses should be made in good faith.
- Assume best intentions. Have fun and be curious – if you stop enjoying it, let the discussion leader know.
- Zero tolerance for harassment or discrimination.
For more information on non-discrimination at Cleveland State, please review the CSU Student Code of Conduct.
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
by Michelle Dean
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Noon - 1:00 pm
Free and open to all
Lunch will be served for those attending in-person
Location: In-Person and virtual
Please register here for location and Zoom details and to provide a count for catering
The ten women―Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm―who are the focus of Sharp came from different backgrounds and had vastly divergent political and artistic opinions. But they all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America and ultimately changed the course of the twentieth century.
Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is the exhilarating story of ten brilliant women who used the power of their pens to carve out space for themselves in a world where men wrote the rules. It serves as an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world.
Richard Fox will lead the discussion during National Friends of the Library week in October.
Join us for a discussion of shared intellectual and cultural history - and enjoy lunch with Friends of the Library.
Registration link: https://forms.office.com/r/y56a5FxfF6