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10/26/2026

WHAT HIDDEN HAUNTS LIVE IN THE F&M ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS? 👻
Come find out on Friday 10/30....Drop by Martin Library ANYTIME between 3 and 5pm. All members of the F&M and Lancaster community are welcome!

🪦Journey through years of history:
- true crime stories from F&M and Lancaster
- local ritual healing practices from the Pennsylvania Dutch community
- F&M student "cremation ceremony" traditions from over a century ago
- a graveyard of old technology
- Victorian mourning curios
- classic spooky novels and horror pulp comics from F&M Archives and Special Collections and guest-curated faculty collections! 📕

🍬 Treats, trinkets, and DIY bookmark printing on our mini book-press await those brave enough to enter.

🎃 COSTUMES HIGHLY ENCOURAGED

10/09/2026

🍂Fall Break-time to relax and refocus!🍂

✨Online resources available 24/7✨

10/07/2026

Banned Books week is happening all week! Stop by Shad to challenge yourself to some trivia, grab a sticker, and embrace this year’s theme: Protect the Freedom to Read.

Pictured is the trivia bulletin board at Shad with a basket of stickers, and the American Library Association’s Top 10 Challenged Books of 2025 handout.

Have you read a challenged or banned book? Let us know in the comments!! 📚
Banned Books Week

10/05/2026

Fall break is HERE! Grab a NYT best seller from the browsing area, or maybe a top 50 thriller that’s on display is more your speed. Get your “game on” and check out a fun game while you are here. Relax and recharge.
Fall break hours are in our !

10/01/2026

Happy American Archives Month, F&M! 📂
We wanted to kick off the month by shouting out some of the great folks who make the wheels run smoothly in the F&M College Archives & Special Collections.

1️⃣: Our summer intern, Jonah Feeley '27, spent hours sorting through hundreds of campus event posters. His efforts have already helped us answer some tough research questions about some of the incredible musical acts that have performed on campus. 🎵 Thank you, Jonah! ☺️

2️⃣: You might know Diana from the Library Interlibrary Loan department, but we're lucky enough to have her help with archives digitization projects. Have you ever browsed the historic yearbooks and catalogs at digital.fandm.edu? You can thank Diana for a lot of that work! Here she is reviewing historic photos of the F&M wrestling team so we can develop our digital archive. 📸

Drop your questions about archives below!

09/02/2026

You: What do library staff even do all day? 🤔
Us: *gestures wildly*
Here’s a peek into a typical day for Ryan, Louise, and Aidan at Shad and Martin Libraries. 🤳 Not pictured: all the smiling student faces we see everyday 🙂🙂
TOP ROW Ryan, Student Success Librarian / MIDDLE ROW Louise, Digital & Special Collections Librarian / BOTTOM ROW Aidan, Circulation Supervisor

08/24/2026

Welcome back to a new school year! Our libraries have plenty of resources to help new and returning students succeed in their classes. Stop by either Martin and Shad, our staff is eager to help!

07/31/2026

Hey, friends! Librarian Louise, here 👋 I just got back from a very bookish trip to York (UK, not PA!) where I took a class on the Rise of Periodical Print Culture through Rare Book School! Or as I like to say, “librarian summer camp.” I thought I’d share some photos from my week at the University of York, York Minster, and hanging out with Paddington in between hours of diving into print runs of 18th century periodicals like the Lady’s Magazine ✨ I also got a glimpse of home from an issue of the Gentleman’s Mag from August, 1776. Do you see it? 👀

05/25/2026

Find all of our hours for the summer here: https://libcal.fandm.edu/hours/

05/22/2026

Not reading a book on a rainy day...think of all the poor books.

Need a book to read? We've got you covered.

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