SDSU Library

In honor of Memorial Day and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, the SDSU Library will be closed today. As always, all our digital resources and the 24/7 chat is available.

This month's featured books from the Gateway Recreational Reading Collection - Biography and Memoir! Away from campus but still want to explore the collection for summer reading ideas? Check out the QR code.

Congratulations to all the graduates! Remember you are always welcome in the library, and Aztec for Life alumni members can check out materials. Or find new resources in your local public library.

TODAY! Stop by the Study Break Table (1st floor of the Dome) between noon and 1 p.m. to visit with the every-adorable Lune, one of SDSU's therapy dogs. She likes to chase her ball, do tricks-for-treats and get lots of pets. While you are there, stop by the Well-Being and Health Promotion table!

Remember to take care of yourself during this stressful finals week! Here are 10 self-care tips to get you started. If you are in the library, head to the Study Break Table (1st floor of the Dome) for a snack, game, a calming coloring project, or to pick up a fidget.

TODAY! Come meet Kuma, SDSU's newest therapy dog. He will visit the library for playtime and pets from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 6. Can't be there today? Stop by on Monday to spend time with the ever-lovable Luna.

Need a place to study for finals? Even at 2 in the morning? The entire SDSU Library will be open around-the-clock from today through May 13. Everyone at the library wishes you the best for this finals period!

This Thursday!

Discover a variety of citizen science projects you can participate in anytime, anywhere. Discover Open Science with SciStarter.

🌿 Contribute to real research
🔍 Explore local ecosystems
🌎 Celebrate Earth Month with the Library Green Team

This Wednesday!

Come hear award-winning Poet, Editor, and Translator Blas Falconer.

Blas Falconer will share poems from his newest book, “Rara Avis.” Of the collection, Oliver de la Paz raves, “Falconer’s tender and wise poems are gentle reminders that we move forward because we are called to those we love. We move forward because we see in the periphery, the past still holds us in its care.”

Blas Falconer is the author of “Rara Avis” (Four Way Books 2024), winner of the Thom Gunn Award; “Forgive the Body This Failure” (Four Way Books, 2018); “The Foundling Wheel” (Four Way Books, 2012); “A Question of Gravity and Light” (University of Arizona Press, 2007); and “The Perfect Hour” (Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press, 2006). He is also a co-editor for “The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity” (University of Arizona Press, 2011) and “Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets” (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). Falconer’s awards include a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, a Tennessee Individual Artist Grant, the New Delta Review Eyster Prize for Poetry, and the Barthelme Fellowship. He teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University, where he serves as the editor-in-chief of Poetry International Online.

🚩 Save the date for Award-winning Poet-Translator Piotr Florczyk
Wednesday, April 15

Piotr Florczyk will share selections of his most recent poetry and work in translation.
Florczyk’s writing has been celebrated as “…ruminative, bold, personal, vision-changing.”

Piotr Florczyk is an award-winning author/editor/translator of nearly thirty books in English and in
Polish, including, most recently, Dialogue and Influence: Essays on Polish and American Poets
(Academic Studies Press, 2025). He teaches global literary studies at UW-Seattle, and lives with his
family in Los Angeles. For more info, please visit www.piotrflorczyk.com

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