February 4th
Library Olympics Book Cover Match-Up: All day event
Pick up a worksheet at the Research Help Desk and try and match book covers to their titles. Drop off your entry before the library closes on the 4th. Three winners will be chosen at random.
February 10th
Library Olympics “Find the Book” Team Relay: 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Team Event-Check in at the Nebula Gallery on the 3rd floor. Teams will send one team member at a time to the stacks to locate randomly chosen books. Teams with the fastest times will be contacted the next day.
February 12th
Say it with Flowers Table Event: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Join Special Collections and Archives in the McDermott Lobby to learn a bit about our Belsterling Botanical Collection and floriography, the Victorian way of assigning meanings to flowers. Take home a floriography tarot card and see what your flower future holds.
February 19th
Race to Order Challenge: 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Solo Event- Participants will meet in the McDermott Library lobby and will be timed placing books in the correct call number order. Winners will be contacted the next day.
Hosted by Special Collections
February 25th
Ye Olde Book Club-The Forgotten Botanist, by Wynne Brown: 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
Join us for our inaugural book club meeting in Special Collections and Archives. Our first selection is The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art by Wynne L. Brown. This biography tells the story of Sara Plummer Lemmon, a 19th-century botanist and botanical illustrator whose scientific and artistic contributions were long overlooked. The book explores her work in plant discovery, her collaborations, and the challenges she faced as a woman in science, highlighting the close relationship between botany, art, and exploration in the Victorian era.
We’ll discuss the book from 3–4 pm, followed by a visit to the Reading Room from 4–430 pm to view related materials from our collections. Didn’t get a chance to read the book? You’re still welcome to join us during the second half to see what we have on display. Open to students, staff, and faculty.
Please RSVP to reserve your spot. Ye Olde Book Club in Special Collections and Archives RSVP – Fill out form
Scan the QR Code to visit the McDermott Library catalog to check out your copy of the book.