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Join the duPont-Ball SF Book Club for Cultural Credit and a Free Book!

Announcements

This semester’s Speculative Fiction Book Club book will be Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell!

The book club meeting will be held in the library on Wednesday, February 26th at 6:30 PM, so please do not sign up if you will not be available to attend this event. The meeting will feature discussion, food, and cultural credit.

We have fifteen copies of the book to give out to the first fifteen applicants. All you have to do is email [email protected] with the subject line “Book Club” to sign up! You will then receive instructions on how to retrieve your book.

Cloud Atlas is a nesting-doll novel that blends adventure, romance, mystery, sci-fi and more in an intertwining epic that bounces from the South Pacific in 1849 to prewar Belgium to 70s California to present-day London to a futuristic South Korea to a post-apocalyptic Hawai’i… and then all the way back again, revealing along the way “how disparate people connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky”.

Vote on the Spring SF Book Club selection!

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This semester, the library will be running two book clubs – the Speculative Fiction Book Club meeting in late February, and the YA Book Club meeting in April. Now is your chance to vote on which book the SF club will read!

“Speculative Fiction” is a catch-all term referring to fiction that contains elements that do not or could not exist in the real world. It encompasses Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, and more besides – and many of the genre bending books on this shortlist include all those elements as well. Read the descriptions and place your votes now! Signups to join the club will open soon.

Spring Hours

Announcements

As the new semester starts up, the Library will return to its normal hours on January 11, with a slight bump on MLK Day.

Regular Spring Hours

Monday through Thursday, 8 am to 2 am
Friday, 8 am to 6 pm
Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm
Sunday, 11 am to 2 am

Special hours for spring are:

Date Special Hours
Saturday 11 January Resume Regular Spring Hours
Monday 20 January Martin Luther King Jr. Day
5 pm to 2 am
Saturday 29 February – Saturday 7 March Spring Break
Monday – Friday 8 am to 5 pm
Saturday – Sunday CLOSED
Sunday 8 March Resume Regular Spring Hours
Friday 10 April Good Friday Holiday
CLOSED
Wednesday 29 April – Tuesday 5 May Extended Finals Hours
Monday – Friday 7 am to 2 am
Saturday – Sunday 9 am to 2 am

For more details, see the Calendar & Hours page.

Get a FREE BOOK with the duPont-Ball Book Club! (UPDATE: Waitlist only)

Announcements

The people have spoken, and this semester’s Book Club book will be I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett!

The book club meeting will be held in the library on Monday, November 11th at 6:30 PM, so please do not sign up if you will not be available to attend this event. The meeting will feature discussion, food, and cultural credit.

We have fifteen copies of the book to give out to the first fifteen applicants. All you have to do is email [email protected] with the subject line “Book Club” to sign up! You will then receive instructions on how to retrieve your book.

I Shall Wear Midnight is a novel of Discworld. “As the witch of the Chalk, Tiffany Aching performs the distinctly unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someone—or something—is inciting fear, generating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Tiffany must find the source of unrest and defeat the evil at its root.”

Vote on the Fall duPont-Ball Book Club book!

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The duPont-Ball Book Club is returning this fall, and you get to decide what book we’ll read! Take a look at the descriptions in the poll, then vote for your favorite here. The winner with the most votes by this weekend will be available for free for the first 15 people to sign up for the book club, who will then come to the library to discuss it later in the semester!

If the poll doesn’t embed properly for you, you can also access it here. Voting ends Friday at midnight!