John Carroll University Library

Grasselli Library and Breen Learning Center at John Carroll University, including Learning Commons, and Special Collections and Archives.

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Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on this holiday. If you're volunteering, enjoying free admission to museums in #TheLand, or honoring the memory of Dr. King in your own way, be safe and stay warm, #BlueStreaks.
Resources at #YourJCULibrary👉 https://t.co/InDCQEPCNl #MLKDay

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Can you believe it? It's a new semester already!
Welcome back, #BlueStreaks⚡! We look forward to seeing you in the stacks (and the Help Desk, and the lounge areas, and the study rooms)!
#YourJCULibrary

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📣 save the date, @johncarrollu!
Grasselli Library and Breen Learning Center is hosting #TowerTime on 1/15!
It's a new year, a new semester, and we've got new spaces we can't wait to share with you.

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✨ #HappyNewYear, #JCUFamily!✨
Hope you had a safe and festive celebration. We're back open tomorrow at 🕗 8 AM for all your bookish, quiet, printing, meeting, focusing, and curious needs!

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Taking a look back at our year-end IG, we would like to say thank you, #JCUFamily! Thanks for the inspiration, love, and visits to Grasselli Library and Breen Learning Center, and the Learning Commons this year. Here's to 2025!
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#TopNine2024 #YourJCULibrary #ItsACarrollThing

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We join our @johncarrollu and @JCUalumni community in mourning Charles F. Dolan ('52), innovator and namesake of the Dolan Center for Science and Technology. The Dolans spoke at JCU Commencement in 1996. Read the program from Carroll Collected at 👉
https://t.co/lhw0zm8WWA

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2024 is almost one for the books! From all of us here at Grasselli Library and Breen Learning Center, we wish you a Happy Book Year for 2025. May your next year be a Year for Curiosity!
#JCUFamily #YourJCULibrary #AYearForCuriosity #HappyBookYear

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We made this book available 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 @ #YourJCULibrary, so you can check out the recipes for yourself. Let us know if you made something (Jollof rice?) for Karamu, and how you're observing Kwanzaa with your friends and family! Check it out! 👇 https://t.co/jeEDSobOvM

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December 26 marks the first night of #Kwanzaa, the traditional African-American celebration of culture, heritage, and history. In The Complete Kwanzaa, author Dorothy Winbush Riley details the seven principles of the holiday... and provides recipes (😋!)!

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It's the first night of #Hanukkah! 🕎

This classic children's book tells the story of Hershel of Ostropol, as he defeats goblins over the eight nights of Hanukkah. His final showdown: taking on the King of Goblins!
Chanukah Sameach, #JCUFamily!
https://t.co/J9l13xR3GC

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"Marley was dead: to begin with."💀
—And so begins the holiday classic, #AChristmasCarol! On this #ChristmasEve, we're snuggled in with that classic story. What are you reading? 🎄

Enjoy a 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 bonus detail of the book cloth up close!
https://t.co/h3jzfcw4tO

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Happy Holidays, #JCUFamily! We're closed until January 2, but we'll still bring you the library social media-goodness you've come to expect, while we're away. #HappySolstice #MerryChristmas🎄 #HappyHanukkah🕎 #JoyousKwanzaa #SeeYouNextYear😆

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Is it just us, or did the big light downstairs seem like a spaceship before the furniture was installed?
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📷: @jcu_facilities, 🧙: @the_lib

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At the end of the semester, Emma will be writing a “process paper” about her project and publishing her research on the library’s website – be on the lookout on the Special Collections subject guide! (7/7)

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📚 Published by Dodd, Mead & Company in 1901, Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Candle-Lightin’ Time is a collection of poetry written primarily in an African-American vernacular. The poems are about various subjects, including young love, daily rituals, and the Civil War. (1/7)

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In the course of her research, Emma has gotten an opportunity to work with Diane Dias De Fazio, JCU’s Special Collections Associate(who edited this thread), where she has learned about bookbinding methods, early photography, and book history. (6/7)