Events

2nd Annual Campus-wide ANTIRACISM READING DAY

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On June 30th, please join the library in taking a pause…

 

As we consider and celebrate Progressive Pride Month month and Juneteenth, the UHMC library continues to support the last day in June (June 30th) as an annual, campus-wide Antiracism Reading Day — reading for antiracism reflection, education, and action.

 

This “event” originally began as the library’s response to the May 25th, 2020 murder of George Floyd that catalyzed world-wide protests, reflection, and expressions for change. Many of our institutional leaders and colleagues at UH published solidarity statements that called for continued change to the systems of racism (read more about this in our library blog post from 6/20/20).

 

Since his killing one year ago, George Floyd has become a symbol for racial reckoning in the U.S. At Maui College, we’ve been creating spaces to discuss issues of race, power, and equity in the context of Hawaiʻi and higher education.

 

The Reading Day Recommendations from last Summer (scroll down this post to read the recommendations) continue on as viable resources. The focus of the list is institutional and systemic racism, and highlights might be our collection of “classics” (such as the ebook, Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?) and Librarian Shavonn’s Books on Anti-Racism in Hawaiʻi with focus on Kānaka. Or, visit the library to explore Progressive Pride Month display (💗 this on our Facebook and IG pages).

 

We hope you find something of interest to read from the library (or anywhere!)for tomorrow’s 2nd Annual Campus-wide Antiracism Reading Day!

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(what is the meaning of the new progressive pride flag!?)

Student Art & Design Virtual Exhibition

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You are cordially invited to visit the Library’s virtual Art Gallery to explore this semester’s student art!

 

Spring art and design students have selected their favorite work to share with you!

Beyond the library’s Art Gallery, please feel free to explore the other rooms in this virtual space. If you’d like to share the link to the Maui College Virtual Library, it’s this: https://tinyurl.com/mauicollegevirtuallibrary

The library’s virtual doors are open to the world 24/7!

ENJOY!

⚡Power Up for Finals!⚡@ Your Library

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Support for students, by students!

Power Up booths for refreshments, supplies, de-stress activities, study advice, and encouragement!

Extended study hours at the Library!

Thanks to the Library Tech Tutors, Student Government, and various Student Club Officers for working, hosting and sponsoring this event!

May 3rd – 13th, 9am to 5pm
Library Building Main Entrance

power up at your library

Streaming Films for Black History Month

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Black History Month has become an international celebration intended to recognize the contributions and achievements of those with African or Caribbean heritage. It’s also an opportunity for people to learn more about the effects of racism and how to challenge negative stereotypes.
 
Please take a moment to consider the Black History Month films in the library-subscribed Feature Films for Education and Films on Demand streaming media collections.  
 
Log into the Feature Films for Education database to stream one or all of them (you can get a sneak peek of what’s in the collection with this PDF view of titles). 
 
NOTE: these films don’t stream too well on old or finicky browsers. Students can borrow a new Lenovo laptop from the library to stream these films effortlessly – please have your students visit the library’s Equipment Catalog to make the request). 
 
Sample titles in Feature Films for Education:
Black History Month film covers
 
And here’s a list of the titles that Films on Demand has identified for Black History Month:
  • The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross series
  • Ken Burns: Jazz series
  • Reconstruction: America After the Civil War series
  • Outlier: The Story of Katherine Johnson
  • Clementine Hunter’s World
  • Isaac Pope: The Spirit of an American Century 
  • Strange Fruit 
  • Charley Pride: I’m Just Me
  • The Apollo
  • For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots (University Edition) series
  • The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords 
  • The Civil Rights Movement
  • Let Freedom Ring: Moments from the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965
Please contact us for help accessing these resources. 

Let’s bury 2020!

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We are living through history right now ~ Let’s preserve it with a time capsule

This year the UHMC Library turned 50.

Originally we were planning a campus-wide event in the library to commemorate its opening in 1970. Considering our options, in this year like no other, we’ve decided to “re-bury” the library time capsule, instead (built in the 1980s near the elevator on the main floor) with artifacts, experiences and memories from 2020.

Nearly every week of 2020 has brought a development that, by itself, would have been a major substantive event in other times—the pandemic crisis, racial injustice issues, environmental tragedies and change, The Big Election… So, what could we pack up and bury that would represent our collective college experience of 2020? What would you like to share with our future academic community, 25 (or 50?) years in the future?

So far we have prepared for the vault a bottle of hand sanitizer, some PPE samples, an anti-racism bestseller, someone’s maiau t-shirt, and library-specific memorabilia. We’d love to include anything you’d like to add (the vault is pretty big). It would be great to share with the future a cache of student coursework or reflections. This New York Times article has some cool ideas for other types of artifacts to consider.

If you or your students would like to contribute to the library time capsule, please let me know (epeterso@hawaii.edu is best). We’d plan to bury it by the end of the year.

Thank you & Cheers,

/ellen

Celebrate Constitution Day with a Spotlight on Voter Rights and Electoral Advocacy

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For this election year’s Constitution Day (September 17), I’ve put together a library guide to help support U.S. Constitution education as well as voter rights and electoral advocacy. 
 
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I hope you’ll take a moment tomorrow (or sometime soon) to consider voter rights and the millions of Americans that have been intentionally and systematically kept out of the electoral process. 
 
These “low-propensity” voters—many of whom are people of color, younger, and from lower income brackets—face undue obstacles to voting. And now, in the midst of a global pandemic, the added health risk of voting in person makes for a devastating set of barriers to participation for these individuals.

There is hope that these people will vote at higher rates if we help make doing so more accessible for them. Please explore some of the resources on the library guide and beyond, if you are interested in this topic (and, I’m still collecting resources, if you’d like to send me additional links to share). 
~Librarian Ellen