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Walt's Waltz and the USC Upstate Library are excited to present a painting and mental health workshop for Upstate students. A hand shown painting the logo for Walt's Waltz, a butterfly

The workshop will be offered on both Wednesday, September 11, and Thursday, September 12, in the library's PerkUp cafe area, located on the 1st floor. The workshops will be held from 12:45 to 1:45 pm each day.

No reservations are required. Attendance is “first-come, first-served.”

Join us in painting the Walt's Waltz mascot and discussing mental health issues. Walt's Waltz is a Greenville, S.C.-based organization dedicated to revolutionizing the way mental health is viewed and treated. This grassroots organization is dedicated to a 3-step action plan in discussing and addressing mental health: education, equity, and stigma-free.

Walt's Waltz is named in memory of Walt Crooks. The organization aims to broaden Walt's mission to reduce suffering in our world; share his teachings on compassion, humility, courage, empathy, and fair-mindedness; stand up for those without a voice; and help those in need.

Find more resources that support student mental health and well-being by visiting the library's Wellness Resource Guide. In addition to providing information on depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, self-care, and how they affect different populations, the guide highlights books in the library's Wellness Collection. These books are located in a special display area of the 1st floor stacks (near Room 118) and are available for checkout by the USC Upstate community. All check-outs are confidential.

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.

Now on view on the USC Upstate Library terrace is Sounds of Religion, a Smithsonian poster exhibit that explores the diversity of American religious life through image and sound.

Choirs singing. Monks chanting. The reading of religious texts. These are religious sounds. But so are the creaking of church pews and the clanking of pots during the preparation of a communal meal. Sounds of Religion explores how rituals and gatherings of religious communities create a complex and varied soundtrack of religion in the United States.

Many of the posters in the exhibit features QR codes, which, through the use of a smart phone, allow exhibit viewers to listen to contemporary recordings representative of America's varied and distinct religious life. Americans practice many different systems of belief--Christianity; Judaism; Islam; Hinduism; Buddhism; Sikhism; Wicca; and Native American, African, African American, and New Age traditions. Every tradition creates its own unique blend of music, prayer, voices, and silence, which together help define the beliefs and practices shared by the members of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, and other places of spiritual devotion.

Sounds of Religion is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES) in cooperation with the American Religious Sounds Project of The Ohio State University and Michigan State University. The exhibit is made possible through the generous support of The Henry Luce Foundation.

The exhibit will remain on view at USC Upstate through Ramadan, Easter, and Passover 2025.

Special Hours - November & December
The Library is open special hours during the Thanksgiving Holiday and Fall Exams. Please see the calendar below for Service and Building Hours. Scroll to see both November & December.

Visit LibCal for day by day.

Accessing the Library during non-service times:

USC Upstate ID for required for entry
Security personnel onsite, camera surveillance active
Ask a librarian chat available 24/7

Painting and Mental Health Workshop

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