Special Collections Study Breaks

Rare book and manuscript collections can be intimidating to undergraduate students, who often believe the materials are for the use of faculty or other serious scholars, To help dispel this perception, the College Class Librarians and the Special Collections Research Center created study breaks to introduce undergraduates these materials, but also to energize and encourage them to use these collections to puruse their own academic endeavors. Below are some of the past study breaks the Library has held.

• LOL@The Library
  February 2008
  Materials on humor and comedy.  Presentation from Off-Off Campus, a student improve group.

• Library Luau
  February 2007
  Materials about the tropics. 
  Included Marooned on a Desert Island, faculty picks for the book they want with them if they were exiled.
  
  
• Swing Into Spring
  May 2006
  Music and dance materials.

• Things That Go Bump in the Stacks
  October 2004 and 2010
  Halloween related materials.

• Love in the Stacks
  February 2004 and 2009
  Valentine's Day related materials.