Winter at SPCL!

And like that it's already December! Where did the time go! Most of this newsletter will recap a brief history of our fall and look ahead to the new year which is around the corner!

We kicked off the year with library orientations and making sure everyone knew Mina, our campus librarian. That's me. I'm talking about me in the third person.

September 15 - October 15 was our celebration of Hispanic / Latine Heritage month. We celebrated this year by giving away homemade pins with slogans in Spanish!

We restocked our copies of pocket Constitutions because it looks like we might need to know the law a little better with this administration!

We also started teaching a 3D Design and Printing Class through a partnership with the tech company monday.com so we can learn how to make our own 3D designs!

We also inaugurated a new class of 22 interns who serve the library throughout the day as part of a credited internship.

We also hosted author Jeff Chang and the launch of his book Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America.

This one was hosted on the roof with our community partners Yu&Me Books and Design Your Future.

We also hosted the book launch of Souvankham Thammavongsa's Pick a Color.

We also had the special treat of hosting YA author Marie Lu with the publication of her first adult novel, Red City.

She even signed our copies of her YA novels which are now available for checkout!

We hosted a Halloween photo Boooooooth.

And made masks for coloring amongst the many things we have to color in our library.

We recommended books to read, like Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents.

Hip Hop Re:education continues to teach our sound production and music production electives.

We've already recorded an entire class's podcast project.

Students printed their first 3D designs.

Classes met in the library for independent reading and study.

We hosted community organizations who ran programming for students.

Dear Stranger set up a station in our library which has received much love.

We love when teachers visit us! Visit our website to see our calendar so you know when it's best to bring your students.

Our library interns got to attend the Teens Read: National Book Awards this year and get their copy of (S)kin by Ibi Zoboi signed by the author! This novel in verse is currently available for check out in our library!

Huge shout out to Hip Hop Re:Ed for hosting three Good Vibes Cafes in our library featuring musicians living out their craft. Here students heard from DJ Rochelle at the Chinatown Records Project and our music and sound production teacher Jay King!

Thanks to a grant from The Billion Oyster Project, we will be growing our very own oysters for New York Harbor! The interns have been working hard to prep the tanks for their arrival. Reach out if you would like to be involved!

Finally, stay tuned for our upcoming collaboration with City Lore, an organization in the Lower East Side which seeks to preserve the cultural history of New York City. We will be working with actor and storyteller Rawya El Chab to map out our own version of the Lower East Side and explore what space and place means to us.

Winter at SPCL!

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We've been busy and continue to be as winter arrives at SPCL! We've been busy and continue to be as winter arrives at SPCL!

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