Emailed this to colleagues

    Load Up with books for the Summer:
     a reason for faculty participation

            My guess is that you are a life-long learner - just like we expect our students to be. I also guess that you continually challenge yourself, within your discipline and without, with reading widely and deeply - especially during the Summer when short-term freedom from routine and long-term guilt over reading-procrastination is ripest.

    So along with the Summer books that you intend to buy or borrow or download from your usual sources, I invite you to borrow or download some from the MS/HS Library. Whether you are delightfully surprised or disappointed-as-expected by our holdings, it would be a powerful incentive to our students next Fall when you casually mention in a class discussion having “read something about that this Summer from a book I borrowed from the ACS Library. You should check it out, too.”

    Although you and I may be day-in/day-out near-strangers, I am, like all librarians everywhere, delighted and non-judgmental when a new face appears to borrow a book. Whether it’s a bucket-list classic, a binge-read of a favorite series, sci-fi or science essays, historical perspectives in fiction or in fact, new Young Adult fiction to help you better inhabit the teenage experiences of gender issues, multi-culturalism, and family problems, or titles for your own children to enjoy…the MS/HS Library has something for you.

    I would be glad to curate a list of books for you to choose from based on your interests, or, by all means, stop by to browse the table-top displays in the library foyer or explore the stacks.

    Being explicit about the fact that we read on our own for meaning and for recreation is part of “walking the walk” as we raise that expectation for our students. Being seen in the MS/Library, or letting it be known that you are reading a book or ebook from our collection is a concrete way to mentor that life-long discipline.

    Thanks for your help,