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Snowman decoration with top hat, scarf, smiling face, and buttons. Text: "Finals Fun Fall 2025. Button Making December 10-11 W. E. B. Du Bois Library, RECESS: 2-4 p.m. Science and Engineering Library: 4-6 p.m. Free Coffee & Cookies December 10-12, approx. 2 p.m. Both Libraries Passive Programming (Coloring, LEGOs, etc.) December 11-17 Both Libraries." UMass Amherst Libraries logo.
Autumn leaves around black square border with text inside: "Holiday Hours: Wednesday, Nov. 26 Du Bois: Closes early at 7 p.m. SEL and Mount Ida: Close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 27 All Libraries closed Friday, Nov. 28 Du Bois and SEL: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mount Ida: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29 Du Bois: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., limited services SEL and Mount Ida: Closed"
Black and white photo of Heitor Guimarães. Text over a magenta banner at the bottom: "Heitor Guimarães. Visiting Scholar, Dept. Afro-American Studies. Thursday, December 4. Noon-1 p.m. W. E. B. Du Bois Library, Du Bois Center. Dark Labor in the Amazon: a Du Boisian Analysis of Modern Slavery Under Volkswagen in Brazil (1974-1986). RSVP: bit.ly/guimaraes25." QR Code. UMass Amherst Libraries and Du Bois Center logos.
Green leafy upside-down semicircle with text "Undergraduate Sustainability Research Award." Bubbles with photos of leafy plants and trees. Text: "$1,000-$2,500 scholarships! Multiple scholarships available, funded by the award-winning UMass Amherst Libraries’ Sustainability Fund. January 29, 2026: Submissions Open January 29 - March 13, 2026." QR code with link "bit.ly/usraguide." Green leaf decorations. UMass Amherst Libraries logo.
Students wearing VR headsets playing a zombie virtual reality game in the Digital Media Lab.
L to R: Geoff Muldaur, Caitlin von Schmidt, Tom Rush, Chris Smither sitting onstage, performing. All but Caitlin are playing guitars.
Rows of tables in a Library room where staff and librarians were showcasing and selling baked goods, knit items, and artwork.
Rainbow abstract background with text/logo "GIS Day. Wed. Nov 19. 2025." Schedule text: "Daytime events: Morrill 245 + Zoom. Mappy Hour: Hangar Pub & Grill. 11 a.m.: Keynote: Garrett Dash Nelson. 12 p.m.: Free lunch! 1 p.m.: Faculty Slam. 2 p.m.: Silly Map Competition. 3 p.m.: Humanitarian Mapathon. 4 p.m.: ESRI YPN Crash Course. 5:30 p.m.: Mappy Hour + Trivia." Text: "More info: tinyurl.com/magisday2025." QR code. Text: "Hosted by the UMass Amherst Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences and the UMass Amherst Libraries."
L to R: Mrs. Maritza Reyes, Chancellor Javier Reyes, Archivist Kirstin Kay, Dean of Libraries Curtis Brundy
Fall leaves background. Text: "Libraries Outreach Series Family Weekend A Cappella Concert. Vocal Suspects, Duly Noted, Doo Wop Shop. October 18, 2025. 3-4 p.m. Student Union Ballroom."
Large fluffy white Samoyed.
Brown background with pawprints and a photo of a golden retriever in a therapy dog vest. Text: "Paws Event. Wednesday, October 15th. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Locations: Campus Center Auditorium; W. E. B. Du Bois Library; Science & Engineering Library." Logo for Peer Health Education.
Kimberly Ann Harris.
Black background. Text: "Censorship is so 1984." The word "censorship" is crossed out with a red line. Line of rainbow stars underneath that text. More text: "Read for your rights. October 5-11, 2025. BannedBooksWeek.org." Banned Books Week logo of a red book wrapped in yellow caution tape that says "Banned Books Week."
Tom Ricardi holding a large golden eagle on his glove.
Tan background with staff of music notes running across it and black and white photos of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and W. E. B. Du Bois. Text: "An Evening with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and W. E. B. Du Bois. October 9, 2025. 7-9 p.m. Bezanson Recital Hall. Bromery Center for the Arts - East Wing." QR code with text: "Registration required: bit.ly/sctconcert25." UMass Amherst Libraries logo.
Photo of Tom Ricardi holding a peregrine falcon. Text: "Tom Ricardi's Birds of Prey. Friday, October 3, 1-2 p.m., Du Bois Library, Lower Level."
Handmade book that “explodes” into a series of blue, orange, and green square and triangular pages when opened. Also in picture: other types of design books called spider book, piano hinge book, and an unnamed one in the corner.
Blurred background photo of cover of "Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory." 3 circles with photos of Rose Miron, Vice President, Research and Education, Newberry Library; Sabra Thorner, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College; and Christine DeLucia, Associate Professor, History, Williams College. Text: "Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory. September 25, 2025 5-7 :30 p.m. Amherst College, Keefe Campus Center, Friedmann Room." QR code with text: "RSVP: bit.ly/mirontalk25." Logos for UMass Amherst Libraries and Amherst College.
Light green background with darker green wavy borders on the upper left and right corners. Illustration of a woman sitting in a meditative pose in front of greenery surrounded by coffee cup, clock, laptop, and phone. Text: "Wellness Kits. September 29, 3-5 p.m. Science and Engineering Library, Learning Studio."
Drawings of butterfly, skull, plant, butterfly, and beetle hanging up on clothesline with clothespins.
Maroon background with book cover of "Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory," by Rose Miron. Text: "Who has the right to represent Native history?"
Aged yellow paper background with illustrated patent for a thermos off to the right-hand side. Text: "Mass Produced: A Century of Patents and Trademarks from Western Mass. Sept 1 - Dec 19. Science & Engineering Library. Opening Reception Sept 17, 4-6 p.m.." UMass Amherst Libraries and Patent and Trademark Research Center logos at bottom.
Yellow background with bingo balls and sheets. Text: "Libraries Outreach Series. Bingo! Thursday, Sept. 4, 7-8 p.m. Du Bois Library, Fl. 2, RECESS." UMass Amherst Libraries logo.
Adult male peregrine falcon standing in the doorway of the nest box Photoshopped to be wearing a UMass branded hat. Chalkboard Photoshopped near his feet says "First Day of School" with maroon balloons Photoshopped behind it.
Four students playing foosball.
Purple and white poster with party banner, internet symbol, snack and drink icons, VR headset icon, and music notes. Text: "Libapalooza! Music; free food; tours; Eduroam/printing; Digital Media Lab & more! Aug 28-29. 1-4 p.m. Du Bois Library & Science and Engineering Library." UMass Amherst Libraries logo.
Brother David Steindl-Rast in a panel onstage during the symposium.
L-R:  Dean of Libraries Curtis Brundy, W. E. B. Du Bois Center Director Whitney Battle-Baptiste, and UMASS Chancellor Javier Reyes.
Aerial view of UMass Amherst, including W. E. B. Du Bois Library and Lederle GRC Lowrise, where the Science and Engineering Library is located. Text: "Facilities Update: The Libraries will be closed Friday, July 4 through Sunday, July 6, reopening Monday, July 7."
Du Bois Library in background. Foreground has white flowering and red flowering bushes from the Courtyard.
Aerial view of UMass Amherst, including Du Bois Library and Lederle GRC Lowrise, where the Science and Engineering Library is located. Text overlay: "Facilities Update."
Illustration of peregrine falcon holding a paintbrush painting a rainbow. Below, colorful photo of books leaning against each other with gold background. Logos of UMass Amherst Libraries and UMass Amherst Undergraduate Student Success Center. Text: "Color Our World. #UMassReads 2025."
Illustration of peregrine falcon holding a paintbrush painting a rainbow. Below, colorful photo of books leaning against each other with gold background. Logos of UMass Amherst Libraries and UMass Amherst Undergraduate Student Success Center. Text: "Color Our World. #UMassReads 2025."
Yellow-rumped warbler mid-dive.
Students filling out postcards at a table in the Du Bois Library lobby.
UMass Amherst Libraries logo. UMassGives logo. Text: "Support what you love. April 29-30."
Blurred black and white picture of a young girl. Text: "In 2013 the RCMP reported that since 1980 there were 1181 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and girls (MMIWG). 1017 Homicides. 164 Missing. 224 Cases Unsolved. Current estimates are over 4000. These are a few of their stories. 1200+. A film about #MMIWG. Monday, May 5. 5:00 p.m. Reception. 6:00 p.m. Film Screening. 7:30 p.m. Panel Discussion. Old Chapel. Presented by the University Libraries in partnership with the Center for Multicultural Advancement & Student Success, Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, Office of Equity and Inclusion, Center for Women and Community, and the departments of Film Studies, Anthropology and Communication." QR code. UMass Amherst Libraries logo.
Watercolor illustration of a tree with 3 red dresses hanging from it. Text: "MXCC, LACC, YKCC, and JWECC [Josephine White Eagle Cultural Center] presents A Red Dress Display."
Six students playing saxophone in the Du Bois Library Courtyard.
Photo of mailbox with postcards flying out of it. Text over a postcard background: "Send a postcard home! Free postcards and stamps. April 30th, 1-3 p.m. W. E. B. Du Bois and Science and Engineering Library lobby." UMass Amherst Libraries logo.
Left: Text: "Awards Ceremony. Thursday, April 24. 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Join us in honoring the five recipients of the 2025 Undergraduate Sustainability Research Awards. Food and drinks provided." UMass Amherst Libraries logo. Right: Illustration of earth surrounded by green illustrations of a bush, a house, a horse, a tree, a cat, a bird on a nest, and 2 stick figure people. Text: "UMass Amherst Libraries' Annual Undergraduate Sustainability Research Awards."
Daniel Abdalla.
Black and white photograph of people living on a commune in the 60s.
Blurred black and white picture of a young girl. Text: "In 2013 the RCMP reported that since 1980 there were 1181 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and girls (MMIWG). 1017 Homicides. 164 Missing. 224 Cases Unsolved. Current estimates are over 4000. These are a few of their stories. 1200+. A film about #MMIWG. Monday, May 5. 5:00 p.m. Reception. 6:00 p.m. Film Screening. 7:30 p.m. Panel Discussion. Old Chapel. Presented by the University Libraries in partnership with the Center for Multicultural Advancement & Student Success, Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, Office of Equity and Inclusion, Center for Women and Community, and the departments of Film Studies, Anthropology and Communication." QR code. UMass Amherst Libraries logo.
Building picture in background. Text: "City Nature Challenge: Western Mass. Join people around the world observing wildlife! April 25-April 28: Collect observations. April 29-May 4: ID species. Find wildlife. Take a picture. Share! QR code with link "guides.library.umass.edu/CNC". City Nature Challenge 10 year anniversary logo. "City Nature Challenge is organized by the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Locally sponsored by UMass Amherst Libraries."
Black and white photographs of W. E. B. Du Bois and documents from the archives. Text: "In Battle for Peace: W. E. B. Du Bois vs. the US Justice Department. A lecture on the peace activism and subsequent persecution of W. E. B. Du Bois in the early 1950s. Today 6-7 p.m. Zoom webinar." QR registration code.
Student doing zine-making at the Graphic Novels and Comics Pop-Up Library in the Du Bois Library Lobby.
Adult male peregrine falcon Photoshopped to be wearing glasses, a moustache, and a propeller hat. Text: "April Fools Day. This Library is for the birds! 3D-printed falcons hidden in Du Bois!"
Edible Book Festival entry based on "The Scarlet Pimpernel." Pretzel guillotine with decorated pieces of pumpernickel that look like the red flowers on the cover of the book. Text on the board: "The Scarlet Pumpernickel." Loaf of pumpernickel bread behind it.
Edible Book Festival entry based on Richard Scarry's "Busy Busy Cars and Trucks." 3D sculpture of Lowly Worm in his apple car.
Edible Book Festival entry based on "Let the Right One In." Tray of pate a choux with little eyes and faces, including one angry one with fangs, in front of a cutout of a blue house with a red door and roof and a cat peering out the window.
Edible Book Festival entry based on "The Odyssey." Bread slices shaped to look like Polyphemus the Cyclops with feta cheese as a loincloth and shredded cheese as hair. Egg eye stabbed with a red piece of what looks like licorice.
Edible Book Festival entry based on "Moby Dick." 3D edible sculpture of the sailing ship on a stormy sea with the tail of the white whale and a broken dinghy.
Edible Book Festival entry based on "Confessions of an English Opium Eater." Cake with cupcakes on top in the shape of a red poppy.
Edible Book Festival entry based on the Elephant and Piggy book, "I Broke My Trunk!" 3D edible cake sculptures of Elephant and Piggy. Elephant has a long hollow pastry for his trunk that looks like a cast.
Edible Book Festival entry based on "A Wrinkle in Time." 1 layer cake with green "fault line" down the middle and a side dish of jam.
Edible Book Festival entry based on "Greenglass House." 3D cookie house with green sugar stained glass windows. Edible snow and pine trees around it.
Edible Book Festival entry based on "The Giving Tree." Wooden board with large 3D Giving Tree sculpture handing apple to sculpture of the boy. Plates of apple-, leaf- and branch-shaped cookies in front.
Spring background of blue with green and pink flowers and a robin on a cherry blossom branch. Text: "Graphic Novels & Comics Pop-Up Library. Join us for...A showcase of graphic novels & comics from the Libraries' collections! Guided zine-making and embroidery activities! April 3, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. W. E. B. Du Bois Library Lobby." UMass Amherst Libraries logo.