The Above Average Reading Challenge: Read 20 in 20

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Did you know that Americans read an average of 12 books per year?* Want to overachieve or just set a goal for yourself to be above average in 2020? Good news! The Â鶹ӰÊÓ Library is here to support your reading goals with the Above Average Reading Challenge: 20 Books in 2020. How to I participate? To participate, you just start reading! You don’t have to sign up and you can start and finish at any point in 2020. Twenty books is roughly one book every two weeks if you want to space this out

Reading All the Great Things in 2020: Challenge Yourself

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A new year, a new list of categories for the Â鶹ӰÊÓ Read Great Things Challenge! What is the Read Great Things Challenge? The Read Great Things Challenge is a personal reading challenge sponsored by the Â鶹ӰÊÓ Library that encourages folks to diversify and/or increase their reading goals by completing books throughout 2020 that fit into at least 10 of the following 12 categories: A book of short stories or essays Someone else’s favorite book A book recommended by a celebrity book club

New Books for Break

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There is still time to check out one (or two or three or four!) of these new books to read over Thanksgiving Break. Books are a great conversation started at dinner and a great way to get some peace amidst the hectic Thanksgiving hubbub. We have SO MANY great new books that I can't include all of them. Some of the books not pictured are written by or about such notable people as Jackie Chan, Stan Lee, Harvey Milk, Malcolm Gladwell, Lois Lowry, Dapper Dan, and Edward Snowden. So come grab a book!

What We're Reading: Dominicana by Angie Cruz

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This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian. Title: Dominicana Author: Angie Cruz Genre: Historical Fiction, Coming-of-age stories [a Bildungsroman] #ReadGreatThings2019 Category: A book about an immigrant or immigration Dominicana has been selected as Good Morning America's Cover to Cover book club's inaugural pick. Why did you choose to read this book? Well, I read a review of it and realized it would fit one of my remaining #ReadGreatThings2019 categories

Library Staff Picks!

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The end of 2019 is approaching so now is the time to look at what we've read and watched this year and determine the best of the best. We've chosen some of our favorite books and movies from our collection that we read or watched this year to highlight in a display inside the library. I'd like to give a shout out to one of my personal favorites from this year: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men By Caroline Criado Perez This book made me angry on every page and I'm so glad

November New Books!

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It's officially November! We've set our clocks back and retrieved our winter clothes from storage. Time to curl up with a book, a blanket, and your pet of choice. It's also eating season! Come by the library to see (and check out) all our beautiful cookbooks!

What We're Reading: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

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This book was read by Meredith Lewis, Orange County Campus Librarian. Title: The Nickel Boys Author: Colson Whitehead Genre: Historical Fiction #ReadGreatThings2019 Category: A book suggested by a Â鶹ӰÊÓ librarian Also Ekpe Udoh's October 2019 Book Club pick! Why did you chose to read this book? I read a Time Magazine interview with Colson Whitehead and had also read an article about the boy's school in Florida on which he based the book. The final quote from a man who had been there really

Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff-- Please do not bring your bag of snakes to the library. Thank you.

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It (probably?) should go without saying that snakes and other pets are not allowed in the Â鶹ӰÊÓ Library, but just in case you were wondering, based on a pretty popular news article going around lately, service animals must be approved as per college policy. Snakes are not approved service animals. If you want to know more about snakes and other animals, check out books in call letter S (for some specific domestic animals) and QL (for animals galore!), including some of the awesome picks

Notable News from the Library

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New APA citation manual coming soon! The 7th edition will bring exciting changes such as: Single-space after periods!* No running headers! Accessibility guidelines! Bias-free language guidelines! And much more! We know you're as excited as we are. Noted literary critic Harold Bloom has died. The Â鶹ӰÊÓ Libraries have over 350 titles in which he was a contributor, author, or editor. According to his NPR obituary, Bloom had a photographic memory, and claimed he could recite all of Shakespeare

New books about Immigration

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Are you participating in the library's Read Great Things Challenge 2019? Do you need suggestions for books about immigration? Here are some recent books, both nonfiction and fiction, that explore immigration and the immigrant and refugee experience. These are now available in the library collection.