Library extended and overnight hours begin April 20

04/09/2025

John Barnett

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Graphic of owl on a tree branch with a crescent moon in the background and the words "Overnight Hours Begin April 20"over the pages

On Easter Sunday, April 20, the USC Upstate Library will begin its overnight and extended hours schedule for the end of spring term and final exams. The library will be open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, to accommodate your study, research, and computing needs. The library will also have extended hours on select Friday evenings and will be open its regular hours on Saturdays as well.

Here’s the end-of-semester schedule:

Sunday, April 20: Library opens at 2 pm and remains open continuously until Friday, April 25, at 12 midnight (24-hour schedule)
Saturday, April 26: Library is open from 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday, April 27: Library opens at 2 pm and remains open continuously until Friday, May 2, at 12 midnight (24-hour schedule)
Saturday, May 3: Library is open from 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday, May 4: Library opens at 2 pm and remains open continuously until Tuesday, May 6, at 12 midnight (24-hour schedule)

This schedule is based on available staffing and therefore is subject to change.

When the library is closed, students can get research help through the Ask a Librarian chat service. This service is staffed by real people (not bots!) and is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

For more information about library hours, including schedule changes, visit the Library Calendar; the library’s website; or check out the library’s social media presence on Facebook and Instagram.

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10/05/2023

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Let Freedom Read - Banned Books Week 2023 During the week of October 1 through 7, 2023, the American library world commemorates Banned Books Week, a national effort to celebrate the freedom to read and the freedom to view while drawing attention to the hundreds of challenges that libraries and schools face each year to censor and remove books and other materials from their collections.

Book challenges and bans are happening ... a lot

As the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom notes, "In a time of intense political polarization, library staff in every state are facing an unprecedented number of attempts to ban books." In 2022, the American Library Association (ALA) documented 1,269 requests to ban library books and resources, the highest number of attempts since ALA began keeping track more than 20 years ago.

An attempt to ban library materials often impacts numerous titles. In 2022, the 1,269 documented demands to remove materials from libraries targeted 2,571 titles. While no one person, group, or type of library material is immune from censorship, such efforts inordinately target works "by or about LGBTQIA+ persons and Black, Indigenous, and people of color."

In the effort to censor library materials, school and public libraries bear the brunt of the challenges while college and university libraries account for only 1% of all would-be censors' demands. A survey commissioned by ALA in 2022 "confirmed national, bipartisan support for the freedom to read" finding that 7 out of 10 American voters "oppose efforts to remove books from public libraries, including majorities of voters across party lines." Nevertheless, censorship has the potential to impact entire communities, age groups, and audiences. Some 82% of challenges in 2022 targeted books, graphic novels, and textbooks, but films, displays, exhibits, programs, and meeting rooms are also targeted.

Here's how to help

There are ways you can get involved, to voice your concerns about censorship, celebrate free expression, and show the importance of intellectual freedom. The ALA Banned and Challenged Books website provides guidance on what you can do to resist censorship and "let freedom read." The Advocacy Committee of the South Carolina Library Association (SCLA) offers another way to stay informed, show support, and get involved, as does the South Carolina Association of School Librarians (SCASL).

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Eyewitness to the Movement: Author Talk and Book Signing with Sarah Collins Rudolph

05/26/2023

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The USC Upstate Library is honored to host a reception, author talk, and book-signing with Mrs. Sarah Collins Rudolph, a survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, which occurred in Birmingham, Alabama, in September 1963. This terrorist bombing by white supremacists caused the death of four girls and the injury of nearly two dozen more individuals. This horrific event marked a turning point in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by the U.S. Congress.

Mrs. Rudolph will visit the library on Thursday, June 1, from 6 to 8 pm. Copies of Mrs. Rudolph's memoir, The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, will be available for purchase at the event. Tours of the exhibition, Justice for All: South Carolina and the American Civil Rights Movement, will be offered by staff from the USC Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

This event is free and open to all. Light refreshments will be served.

Please join us in welcoming Mrs. Rudolph to USC Upstate.

You can find out more about this and other Justice for All events and activities by visiting the Justice for All website.

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Celebrating Black History Month

02/07/2023

John Barnett

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Update: The posters will remain on view through the remainder of spring semester 2023.

The USC Upstate Library celebrates Black History Month 2023 with an exhibit of posters of highly regarded African American and Black historical figures, civil rights activists, and cultural leaders. These posters are on view from February 7 through early March on the 1st floor of the library near the PerkUp! coffeeshop/café.

Three of the posters commemorate "Black Resistance," this year's Black History Month theme as designated by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the organization that founded this annual celebration.

Additional posters are reproductions of colorful portraits originally created by Mr. Johnson Paints. Arranged alphabetically from left to right on the café walls, the following portraits are featured:

Stacey Abrams, American politician, attorney, businesswoman, writer, and voting rights advocate
Muhammad Ali, heavyweight champion boxer and civil rights activist
Maya Angelou, poet, writer, performer, professor, and civil rights activist; author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Jean-Michel Basquiat, graffiti artist and painter
Chadwick Boseman, actor and playwright, well-known for his role as Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe; a native of Anderson, South Carolina
Ruby Bridges (as a child), civil rights activist and philanthropist, who at age 6 became one of the first Black children to integrate the New Orleans all-White public school system
Ketanji Brown Jackson, attorney and jurist, now serving as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist who became the first National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States in 2017; she presented her poem, "The Hill We Climb," at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden
Fannie Lou Hamer, voting, civil, and women's rights activist; in collaboration with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), she organized Mississippi's Freedom Summer
Katherine Johnson, mathematician for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) whose calculations of orbital mechanics are viewed as foundational to the success of the first and subsequent space flights by U.S. astronauts
Marsha P. Johnson, a key figure of the 1960s LGBTQ+ rights movement in the U.S., AIDS activist, and performer
Martin Luther King, Jr., minister and civil rights leader; winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for combating racism through nonviolent protest and civil disobedience
John Lewis, American civil rights leader and U.S. Congressman; he was one of 13 original Freedom Riders and served as Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Barack Obama, attorney, U.S. Congressman, writer, and 44th President of the United States
Michelle Obama, attorney, writer, and former First Lady of the United States
Rosa Parks, long-time civil rights activist, well-known for her pivotal role in the 1955-56 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott
Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor

Who did we miss? Thousands! There are so many important people and events in Black and African American history and culture. These posters offer only a sampling of the rich tapestry of Black and African American resistance, persistence, and success.

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