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The Library Cafe turns into the HSU Fencing Cafe on Saturdays from 11am-2pm, with bagels, cream cheese, and coffee provided by the HSU Fencing Club!

Come find out about this fun club and enjoy some refreshments!

Your Library and campus partners offer 50-minute FREE workshops in various categories to introduce and develop skills in important areas for student success.  Go to the SkillShops calendar to see what's there and take advantage of this great opportunity!

Tim Miller's How to Design: Create Buttons with Inkscape is the 100th SkillShop submitted this semester but it's not the last to be offered so check the calendar often.  Upcoming SkillShops include numerous Peer Health Education subjects like Making Friends, dealing with stress, sex ed, healthy eating on a budget, and more.  ACAC offers help with resumes, interviews, and job searching.  CAPS offers numerous ways to handle anxiety, conflicts, and finding focus. Librarians are offering help with research skills, building a time budget, questioning authority, and understanding financial credit.

There is a SkillShop for everyone and they are only 50 minutes and free!  Read more about SkillShops, including how to become a Skilled Learner and earn a certificate.

Thanks to the outstanding work of Access Services, students shopping at the campus bookstore can check to see if the Library carries their textbooks on reserve before making a purchase. Students will see a QR code attached to textbooks that the Library carries. Students can use their smartphone to scan the QR code to see a list of all of the textbooks available on reserve at the HSU Library.

Textbooks on Reserve is a program that allows HSU students to borrow a textbook from the Library for two hours at a time. The students can complete the necessary reading and then return the book at no charge. This enables students to complete their assigned readings without encumbering expensive textbook costs.

To see if your textbooks are on reserve at the Library, visit the Course Reserves page to see a list of the courses for which the Library carries the course materials.  

Do you have a ground-breaking research project that the campus should know about? Do you want to impress your peers? Submit a proposal for HSU ideaFest, an all-day showcase of student, faculty, and staff research at Humboldt State University.

To submit a proposal, visit the ideaFest website. You can submit as an individual or with a group. The deadline to submit is Monday, March 26.

Need help making your poster? There will be two 50-minute Skillshops dedicated to poster making for ideaFest: Friday, March 23 @ 3pm and Thursday, March 29 @ 4pm. Sign up now and learn how to get it printed for free!

This annual event brings the campus together for a celebration. Join us on Thursday, April 19 with a reception and presentations from 3pm to 5pm. In addition to this celebration of research and creativity at HSU students can submit their poster to Humboldt Digital Scholar and propose a paper for inclusion in ideaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Humboldt State.

To Catch the Rain by Lonny Grafman will be the next release from HSU Press. The work chronicles communities around the world that have utilized local resources to harvest rain water. The book includes instructions and illustrations on how you too can become a rain harvester.

Lonny Grafman is a lecturer in the HSU Environmental Resources & Engineering Department. He describes To Catch the Rain on his Kickstarter page as, “a book for people looking to build a future together.”

Sign up now for the last SkillShop being offered this fall and learn how to navigate the complicated application process of federal jobs and internships.  Join Kristina Hunt from ACAC in Library 114 from 4-4:50pm on Thursday, December 14.

HSU will observe the annual Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution with a documentary film OF CIVIL WRONGS & RIGHTS. The screening will be followed by a facilitated discussion of the history of Japanese American World War II internment camps by Prof. Christina Accomando and Prof. Michihiro Clark Sugata on Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 5pm in Library's Fishbowl.

The public is invited. Fred Korematsu was an average 23-year-old California native working as a shipyard welder. But when he refused to obey Executive Order 9066, which sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into internment campus, he became something extraordinary -- a civil rights champion. This film follows Korematsu's story from the moment he first resisted confinement to the hard-won victory he finally achieved 39 years later, with the help of a new generation of Japanese-American activists seeking vindication and the assurance that such a terrible injustice would never occur again. This observance marks the state of California's decision in 2010 to designate January 30 as the annual anniversary honoring Korematsu for his lifelong fight for civil rights. In the years before Korematsu's death in 2005, he served on the Constitution Project's bipartisan Liberty and Security Committee. The project is a think tank that advocates rule of law and criminal justice programs.

Meet the teams from Therapy Dogs International bringing their wonderful dogs to campus for your enjoyment.  Take a break from studying or reward yourself after your final to relax with a retreiver, love a lab, hug a husky, or pet a pug.  They are here for you to enjoy!  Come to the Library Lobby on Monday, December 11 from 1-2:30pm or Tuesday, December 12 from 6:30-8pm.

Come see what interesting research the senior wildlife students conducted!  Posters will be displayed outside the Fishbowl on the 2nd floor from 4-6pm on Thursday, December 7th.  Cookies and refreshments will be served.