Featured in this issue:
The Newton Student Book Collection Competition deadline on Monday, Feb. 3.
Library streaming and other e-resources for Winter Break.
Exhibitions and events, including an exhibition by students in the Caste and Power class.
- Our Zine Kit (and ideas to make your own zines!).
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A. Edward Newton Student Book Collection Competition |
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The A. E. Newton Student Book Collection Competition is the longest-running undergraduate book collecting competition in the nation, and awards cash prizes to three Swarthmore students who submit outstanding essays about and annotated bibliographies of their book collections.
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Books don’t have to be pricey or rare – it’s more important that your collection has a unique, clear focus. The winners are also invited to install their collections in an exhibition and give a talk in McCabe Library. The deadline for submission is Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. Full contest rules are available on the Newton website. Contact Outreach Librarian Abbie Weil aweil1@swarthmore.edu with questions.
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- 1st Prize: $1,500
- 2nd Prize: $1,200
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3rd Prize: $1,000
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Have Fun this Winter Break! |
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This Winter Break, escape by watching popular films in one of our many streaming video collections. Check out our Streaming Video guide and explore art house movies and great documentaries on Kanopy or Swank and blockbusters on Feature Films for Education.
Want to spend your break diving into a new book? Check out Overdrive where you can get ebooks of some of the latest publications, like Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize-winning sci-fi novel, Orbital, and the latest Sally Rooney, Intermezzo, or find audiobooks, like Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book of essays, The Message.
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Send a postcard to your friends and family anywhere in the world on us. Stop by McCabe, Cornell, or Underhill Library to write a postcard and drop it in one of our mailboxes. We'll add postage and send it.
Until Friday, Dec. 20,
McCabe, Cornell, Underhill Libraries
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| Exhibition: Towards a Casteless Future
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Towards a Casteless Future, designed by the students of CLST 030 Caste and Power taught by Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics and Asian Studies Varun Khanna, seeks to imagine a future without the hierarchical system of caste. The exhibition represents a critical review of the past and present of caste apartheid in the South Asian and diasporic contexts, and an informed but hopeful imagination of a future world without caste.
Image: B. R. Ambedkar, a visionary and pivotal figure in the movement to fight caste apartheid.
Saturday, Dec. 7–Tuesday, Feb. 11, McCabe Library LibLab Hallway (1st floor)
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Trail to Wellness is Swarthmore’s biannual wellness fair aimed at supporting student well-being in the days leading up to finals. Stop by for information, giveaways, and staff support from your friends in departments like Athletics and Recreation, the Scott Arboretum, and, of course, the Libraries.
Friday, Dec. 13, 1-3 p.m. McCabe Library (1st floor)
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Exhibition: In Sight – New Works from the 2024 Codex Book Fair
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This exhibition features new acquisitions to the Book Arts and Private Press Collection selected at last year's international Codex Book Fair. Artists and presses include Sam Winston, Radha Pandey, Irene Chan, Islam Aly, Anne Covell, Macy Chadwick, Denise Bookwalter, Ellen Knudson, Servane Briand, Animales de Lorca, Rhiannon Alpers, Barbara Tetenbaum, and Walter Tisdale.
On display through Sunday, Jan. 12, McCabe Library Cratsley Lounge (2nd floor)
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McCabe Library is home to a growing collection of zines — self-published and often handmade magazines. We now have materials to support you in making your own. Check out the new McCabe zine kit from Reserves for up to a week; it includes supplies like glitter pens, bone folders, thread snips, and more. Check out our guide to learn more about the wonderful world of zines.
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