Copley Connects _ Spring 2023

Celebrates Ten Years

Copley Tradition to Honor Graduates

By Christopher Marcum, Head of Access and Outreach Services, and Catherine Paolillo, Visiting Evening Access Librarian Copley Library employs over twenty student assistants each year across the Collections, Access, and Discovery and Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives units. Their contributions help make our library run smoothly, and make this space welcoming for all our visitors. 2023 marks the ten year anniversary of honoring our graduating student assistants with a bookplate in the front end-paper of a book of their choice. Over the last decade we have recognized the contributions of more than 60 graduating Copley student assistants in this way. The inscription on each bookplate reads, "In Recognition of Outstanding Service to Copley Library," and features the students' names and graduation year. The

2023 GRADUATING STUDENT ASSISTANTS AND THEIR BOOK SELECTIONS 2023 graduate Faith Osei-Tutu selected Brittany Cooper’s Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers her Superpower : “In 2020, a time when I was frustrated and wrestling with the feelings induced by the way society viewed and treated Black people, this book described the same rage I was feeling. This book taught me how to turn my rage into a beautiful superpower that will conquer every experience that lies ahead.” 2023 graduate James Carroll said of his choice, “ Six Characters in Search of an Author is near-perfect. It hasn’t been matched since. Pirandello was the king of Absurdism, a true bard.” 2023 graduate Eliza Bocksch hopes her selection, James Redfield’s The Celestine Prophecy: an Adventure , will inspire future USD students: “I read this book during my semester abroad and felt that it had a significant effect on how I moved forward at USD. I feel that this book came into my life at just the right time and helped me understand my purpose as a student and in life and I hope it can be experienced by future USD students.” Citizen: an American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, chosen by Bianca Salazar Frida Kahlo: the Paintings by Hayden Herrera, chosen by Wisdom Choice I’m Glad my Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, chosen by Abigail Hynes The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, chosen by Amara Brooks The Power of Habit: Why we do What we do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg, chosen by Lia Tabatabaei The Silent World by J. Y. Cousteau, with Frédéric Dumas, chosen by Michael Mack The Stranger by Albert Camus, chosen by Regina Czerewko Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, chosen by Ximena Moreno Jose Who Moved my Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson, chosen by Raul Flores Torres Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

presentation of the bookplates has become the highlight of Copley’s bi-annual Student Appreciation Luncheon held in December and May each year to celebrate all of our student assistants. Much laughter and a few tears have followed the students willing to share why they selected the book or audio-visual resource they did, and several students have returned to Copley Library over the years with family and friends to show off the titles plated in their honor.

Among the more academic selections since we started this tradition 10 years ago are books such as Latina/o sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies; 100 Years of Fashion Illustrations; Yayoi Kusama: Give me Love; and The New School: How the Information Age will Save American Education from Itself. Literary classics remain favorite choices of our graduates too, including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Brave New World, and The Kite Runner. We have also had lighthearted choices over the years including films like Top Gun and Singin’ in the Rain . A favorite outlier from a 2014 graduate is The Complete Second Season of The Office . Still others have selected titles that take them back to childhood like Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree or C.S Lewis’s classic, Narnia: The Last Battle . Although we have added several elements to our Student Assistant Program since 2013 to help retain and recognize our student assistants, plating books in their honor remains a cornerstone of our efforts and a cherished tradition. We look forward to honoring our graduates with bookplates for many years to come.

by Trevor Noah, chosen by Izabella Garfias The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey, chosen by Scarlett Cai

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