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10/26/2026

Need help writing a research paper? Check out the (Re)search Lab at the library! Get research help from a librarian and use the computer and study space. We even have snacks!

10/24/2026

🚩 Save the Date for the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers’ Series with Poet and Photographer Adam O. Davis
Wednesday, October 28, Leon Williams Room (LL430), 7 - 8 p.m.
Free and open to the public

Adam O. Davis will share selections from his most recent book of poetry, Pyrrhic Symphony. Davis has been celebrated as a writer who, “…writes with elegance and grace, as if he, too, is surprised by what his unfettered mind conjures.”

Davis is the author of Pyrrhic Symphony (University of Nebraska Press, 2026), winner of the Raz/Shumaker Book Prize from Prairie Schooner, and Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande Books, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize and finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of the 2022 Poetry International Prize and the 2016 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, he has received grants and fellowships from The Bishop's School, Columbia University, the New Literary Project, the Prague Summer program for writers, and Vermont Studio Center. He is also the co-creator & host of the Poetry Goes to the Movies podcast with Colin Waters. His work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, including The Believer, The Best American Poetry, Boston Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Paris Review, the Poetry Review, and zyzzyva.

This event is co-sponsored by the Instructionally Related Activities Fund.

10/22/2026

🚩 Save the Date - Living Writers’ Series with Poet and Photographer Adam O. Davis
Wednesday, October 28, Leon Williams Room (LL430), 7 - 8 p.m.
Free and open to the public

Adam O. Davis will share selections from his most recent book of poetry, Pyrrhic Symphony. Davis has been celebrated as a writer who, “…writes with elegance and grace, as if he, too, is surprised by what his unfettered mind conjures.”

Davis is the author of Pyrrhic Symphony (University of Nebraska Press, 2026), winner of the Raz/Shumaker Book Prize from Prairie Schooner, and Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande Books, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize and finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of the 2022 Poetry International Prize and the 2016 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, he has received grants and fellowships from The Bishop's School, Columbia University, the New Literary Project, the Prague Summer program for writers, and Vermont Studio Center. He is also the co-creator & host of the Poetry Goes to the Movies podcast with Colin Waters. His work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, including The Believer, The Best American Poetry, Boston Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Paris Review, the Poetry Review, and zyzzyva.

This event is co-sponsored by the Instructionally Related Activities Fund.

10/21/2026

Know your ballot, win prizes and meet fellow Aztecs.
Join SDSU Library for Social Jeopardy Night on Thursday, Oct. 22, from 5:30-7 p.m. at Broken Yolk Cafe, 5120 College Ave.

Come solo or bring friends. Scan the QR code on the flyer to RSVP. 🗳️🎃

10/20/2026

This afternoon - Feminist on Cellblock Y film screening and discussion

The Feminist on Cellblock Y is an American documentary directed by Contessa Gayles and co-produced with Emma Lacey-Bordeaux for CNN. The titular subject is Richie Reseda, an inmate at a prison in California who studies and organizes around feminism and toxic masculinity with his fellow inmates.

10/19/2026

One week left to help with the Library Feedback Survey

We need your help! Please take a minute right now to complete our Library User Feedback Survey and tell us how we can improve your library experience. Share your ideas so we can help you succeed. Enter to win a $25 gift card to the SDSU Bookstore! *

* Entry for the opportunity drawing will be open from October 12, 2026 to October 23, 2026. Four winners will be chosen at random and notified via the email provided by the end of business on Monday, October 26, 2026. Winners can collect their bookstore gift card at the library information desk as early as the next day, Tuesday, October 27, 2026. All emails collected in this survey will be kept separately from survey responses and deleted once the drawing has been completed.

10/16/2026

🚩 Save the Date - Living Writers’ Series with Poet Emma Trelles
Wednesday, October 21, Virtual Event
Register in advance for this event:
https://SDSU.zoom.us/meeting/register/B1vwv-v0TuG49YflQATj_A
Free and open to the public

Emma Trelles will share from her most recent works and answer questions from attendees. Her poetry has been celebrated as “…luxurious and scrumptious, socially relevant, with oomph and sizzle.”

Trelles is the daughter of Cuban immigrants and author of Tropicalia (University of Notre Dame Press), winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize; her current manuscript, Courage and the Clock, was a finalist for the 2026 Louise Bogan Award for poetry & shortlisted for the 2025 Donald Hall Prize. She is the 9th Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, California, and the recipient of an Established Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council and a Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. A graduate CantoMundo fellow, her translations were longlisted in the Best Literary Translations 2027 anthology, and her work recently appears in Poetry International; New England Review; Poetry; and the Academy’s Poem-A-Day series. She is series editor of the Alta California Chapbook Prize, open to Latine poets in the U.S. and published in bilingual editions by Gunpowder Press.

10/14/2026

Tomorrow! Stop by the library for information about voting! Our librarians are ready to answer questions about registration, voting, and how to find reliable sources of information about candidates and issues.

10/13/2026

Tomorrow! Stop by our "Talk to a Librarian" table and chat about frequently challenged or banned books. Discuss a favorite with the librarian or get a recommendation for a new read. Learn more about book banning, why it is so dangerous, and what you can do to stop it.

10/12/2026

Please Help with the Library Feedback Survey

We need your help! Please take a minute to complete our Library User Feedback Survey and tell us how we can improve your library experience. Share your ideas so we can help you succeed. Enter to win a $25 gift card to the SDSU Bookstore! *

* Entry for the opportunity drawing will be open from October 12, 2026 to October 23, 2026. Four winners will be chosen at random and notified via the email provided by the end of business on Monday, October 26, 2026. Winners can collect their bookstore gift card at the library information desk as early as the next day, Tuesday, October 27, 2026. All emails collected in this survey will be kept separately from survey responses and deleted once the drawing has been completed.

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