September Displays

Ivy Reads Book Club at the Lawrence Campus

This is the beginning of the 5^th year for the Ivy Reads Book club.  We meet 7-8 times a year and read a variety of fiction, nonfiction, mystery, history, memoir, YA and poetry.  Visit the Book club libguide for past reads and more information, http://libguides.ivytech.edu/BookClub.   Book club meetings are the 2nd Friday of the month from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. in conference room F136.  This year we are opening participation to students also.  We request an r.s.v.p. via email to phearn@ivytech.edu and cap attendance at 15.

September 12 -Bring a favorite snack to share and a “foodie” book. It can be fiction or non-fiction.

 “I love a story with food in it! (From Disney’s Oliver and Company)

October 10, 2014 – Orphan Train by Christine Kline Baker

November 14 –All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

January 16 – Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

February 13 – Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell

March 20 – I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

April 10 – Poetry Celebration-Bring a poem to share.  Guest speaker tbd.

The club has not only given book lovers a forum to talk about books and ideas, but also has served as a way for faculty and staff to connect and collaborate.  Even though our main focus in an academic library is helping students with the assigned curriculum, it is still essential that we promote the library as the hub of learning, relating, and intellectual discussion.

Matthew Thomas, author of the recently released We are Not Ourselves, had this to say about libraries and librarians:

“I owe librarians a debt I can never repay.  We all do in America.  Thank you for providing us the hearth around which we gather, and thank you for keeping the flame of culture burning.  May you feel the warmth you’ve generated return to you a hundredfold and know that you are cherished indeed.”