The Michael Schwartz Library will celebrate its Friends of the Library Group
the week of October 16-22
Join us for a book discussion and a huge 2-day book sale!
We'll be spending the week of October 16-22, 2022 celebrating our wonderful Friends of the Library group as part of the 17th annual celebration of National Friends of Libraries Week. Activities at the Library include a book discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer on October 19, 2022 and a 2-day Book Sale on Thursday, October 20 and Friday, October 21, 2022, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm each day. Details below.
We urge everyone on campus to join and support the Friends of the Library and to thank them for all they do to enrich our library and to enhance academic achievement.
Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library Book Discussion
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
October 19, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Rhodes Tower 502 (in the library)
Join us in person or via Zoom. Please register here to attend and receive updates.
About the book: As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
The Michael Schwartz Library will celebrate its Friends of the Library Group
the week of October 16-22
Join us for a book discussion and a huge 2-day book sale!
We'll be spending the week of October 16-22, 2022 celebrating our wonderful Friends of the Library group as part of the 17th annual celebration of National Friends of Libraries Week. Activities at the Library include a book discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer on October 19, 2022 and a 2-day Book Sale on Thursday, October 20 and Friday, October 21, 2022, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm each day. Details below.
We urge everyone on campus to join and support the Friends of the Library and to thank them for all they do to enrich our library and to enhance academic achievement.
Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library Book Discu
ssion
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
October 19, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Rhodes Tower 502 (in the library)
Join us in person or via Zoom. Please register here to attend and receive updates.
About the book: As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
Discussion Leader: Jen McMillin, Director, Campus Sustainability
Registration for book discussions https://forms.gle/Qa6KH5R2KuEjb9gc7
Friends of the Library 2-Day Book Sale
The Friends of the Library will hold a 2-day book sale
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Friday, October 21, 2022
10:00 am - 2:00 pm each day
Book Sale Prices:
$2 for hardcover; $1.00 for softcover
Media: $.50
Fill a paper bag provided by the Library: $5.00
Buy a book for a chance to win a $50 prize
Buy a book, get a free raffle ticket. The prize is a $50 gift card!
Winner need not be present and will be notified by email.