Copley Connects Spring/Summer 2025

SOUTHERN CROSS NEWSPAPER p. 4

ROY AND MARIAN HOLLEMAN COPLEY LIBRARY STUDENT ASSISTANT SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS p. 6

AI COMES FOR DIGITAL USD p. 7

PONTEM PARTNERSHIP MARKS FIVE YEARS p. 8

COPLEY CONNECTS COPLEY LIBRARY EXPLORE | DISCOVER | SUCCEED VOL. 11, ISSUE 5, Spring/Summer 2025

Message from the Dean

Table of Contents Message From the Dean Research and Scholarship Recognition Featured Collection: Southern Cross 2025 Holleman Scholarship Winners

Copley At Work AI is the new buzzword. Copley Library accepted the AI challenge by agreeing to be a part of eight libraries nationally to beta test JSTOR’s AI Odyssey Product (now renamed JSTOR Seeklight ). Odyssey’s goal is to streamline the processing of descriptive metadata for digital products, which can be a tedious task. You can learn more about the outcome of this AI-generated metadata platform on page 7. In 2019-2020, the State Library awarded Copley Library a California Revealed grant to digitize the Southern Cross, an independent Roman Catholic newspaper of the Diocese of San Diego, from 1958 to 1989. This Catholic newspaper is spotlighted on page 4. Work-study students are vital to our library, and we take pride in our 98% retention rate. Occasionally, a large group graduates together; for example, 14 students graduated in May 2025. To honor graduating seniors, each selected a book to have a commemorative bookplate, recognizing their contributions. See page 11 for their book choices. An asterisk marks those who worked for five semesters in Copley. Building on our commitment to support students, on page 6, you will be introduced to Copley’s signature scholarship program. Every Spring semester, Copley holds the Roy and Marian Holleman Copley Library Student Assistant Scholarship essay contest. Meet this year’s five Federal Work Study students who were the recipients of the $1,000 scholarship. In May, the library sponsored the Pontem Path research initiative for students from the Catholic Diocese of San Diego. It is a wonderful partnership between the library and the community, and it is featured on page 8. In this issue, we highlight Copley’s very own Jordan Kobayashi, Continuing Resources and Licensing Assistant, who received the university’s Diversity and Inclusion Impact Award. In related news, we also welcomed

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AI Comes for Digital USD

Pontem Partnership Marks Five Years

Spotlight Jordan Kobayashi

New Faculty at Copley

ACRL Conference in Minneapolis 10 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference 10 Copley Recognizes Graduating Seniors with Bookplates 11 Top 10 Digital USD Downloads for the 2024–2025 Academic Year 12 New Resources for Fall 2025 13 Seguimos Creando Enlaces Conference 13 Copley Reads 14 Building Community Connections 15 Student Success Symposium 16

Social Media Published twice a year by: Copley Library University of San Diego 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, CA 92110 Copley Connects is also available on our website at www.sandiego.edu/library. Dr. Theresa S. Byrd Dean of the University Library tsbyrd@sandiego.edu Copley Connects Review Committee: Martha Adkins

Research & Instruction Librarian, Editor Research & Instruction Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction and Undergraduate Learning

Hugh Burkhart

Michael Conlee Cindy Espineli Jordan Kobayashi Michael Massaro

Archives/Digital Initiatives Assistant

Executive Assistant

Continuing Resources and Licensing Assistant Engineering and Computer Science Librarian Acquisitions and Electronic Collections Management Assistant

William Tran

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Research and Scholarship Recognition By Martha Adkins , Research and Instruction Librarian In April, for the third time, Copley Library hosted the Research and Scholarship Recognition Celebration. This annual event is a partnership between the office of the Senior Vice President and Provost, the Office of Sponsored Programs, and Copley Library to honor the achievements of faculty and staff who have secured external grant funding or published their research. This year, we gathered with colleagues on campus, as well as Provost Gail Baker and Associate Provost Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, in the Mother Rosalie Hill Reading Room, amid a virtual sea of research and scholarship. In the months leading up to this event, Copley librarians compiled the bibliography of scholarship that accompanied this event, meticulously collecting the scholarship and creative work of our colleagues in the disciplines. In total, we identified approximately 450 research outputs, including journal articles, books and book chapters, conference papers, and more. At the event, we displayed a sample of these items — 21 books, 32 book chapters, and posters made from the first page of 174 journal articles, creating a striking visual of the University’s intellectual output. Approximately one hundred faculty from across campus attended the event, and the final bibliography, organized by school, has been deposited in the University’s open access repository, Digital USD (https://digital. sandiego.edu/bibliography-scholarship/), providing a permanent record that is openly available for anyone to view. At the event, faculty and staff from all over campus mingled, enjoyed refreshments, perused the items on display, and celebrated the scholarly achievements of one another.

home Catherine Paolillo as the new Head of Access and Outreach Services. Due to our strong relationship with the San Diego Public Library (SDPL), Ady Huertas, chair of the Seguimos Creando Enlaces Conference and SDPL Youth, Family, & Equity Program Manager, asked us to host this binational conference, which took place in the Mother Rosalie Hill Reading Room during spring break. If you are interested in faculty and student research, be sure to check out the Top 10 Digital USD downloads for the 2024 2025 academic year. Finally, two of Copley’s new faculty members, Amy Pham, Senior Electronic and Open Content Librarian, and Michael Massaro, the Engineering and Computer Science Librarian, share what they have been doing on page 10. As we concluded these many activities, the semester ended with the library operating 24/7 for two and a half weeks. I am deeply grateful to our exceptional staff who provided the tremendous service of keeping the building open for around-the-clock study during finals.

Dr. Theresa S. Byrd DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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By Martha Adkins , Research and Instruction Librarian From its inception as an independent San Diego Catholic newspaper in 1912 to its establishment in 1937 as the official newspaper of the Diocese of San Diego, The Southern Cross documents the history of the Roman Catholic Church in the San Diego area. Along with local news, The Southern Cross also delivers a Catholic perspective on the national and international news of the day. We have digitized issues of this newspaper from 1958 to 1989, presenting the news of the diocese as it occurred during the second half of the 20th century. See more of The Southern Cross in DigitalUSD: https://digital.sandiego.edu/southern-cross/

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2025 Winners of the Roy and Marian Holleman Copley Library Student Assistant Scholarship By Jasmin De Unamuno , Budget and Operations Manager The Roy and Marian Holleman Copley Library Student Assistant Scholarship is a $1,000 scholarship awarded annually to five Copley Library Federal Work Study students. Qualified candidates must be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student, worked at least one semester for Copley Library, have committed to work at least one semester the next academic year for Copley Library, and have an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher. For 2024-2025, the scholarship selection committee members were Jasmin de Unamuno, Jordan Kobayashi, Catherine Paolillo, and Gabrielle Wood. The scholarship selection process is based on a student’s essay, GPA, and performance evaluation. This year’s essay prompt was: If you were tasked with developing an outreach or promotional campaign for Copley Library, please describe your approach. Which library services and materials would you consider important to highlight?

The winners and the titles of their essays:

Keana-Leoni Balalio To Buy or to Borrow

Nathalie Diazgranados Outreach/Promotional Library Campaign

Garrett Lindaman Copley Library Book Writing Competition Prototype

Kylie Reyes Connecting Students to Copley Library: A Focused Outreach Strategy

Grace Szpila Sharing the Benefits of Copley Library

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AI Comes for Digital USD By Amanda Makula , Digital Initiatives Librarian Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) is finding its way into many aspects of higher education and academic library work, and at Copley Library, the Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives department is no exception. In early 2025, we had the opportunity to participate in the beta program for Odyssey (now renamed JSTOR Seeklight ), a software platform made by the nonprofit organization ITHAKA, designed to employ Gen AI to speed the creation and processing of descriptive metadata for digital collections. For example, when it first premiered, ITHAKA teased that a task taking 250 hours of manual human work could be accomplished in under three hours with JSTOR Seeklight 1 . Hearing that, we were eager to put it to the test! The University of San Diego was one of eight colleges/ universities that participated in the beta program, alongside participants from places such as the University of Chicago, St. Lawrence University, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The first stage of the program was the Qualitative Review. We provided 100 items – a mix of files from the USD Magazine collection: (https://digital.sandiego.edu/usdmagazine/) and the Southern Cross newspaper (https://digital. sandiego.edu/southern-cross/) — to feed through the platform so that the AI could generate metadata for

We compared the metadata assigned to the Southern Cross newspaper by JSTOR Seeklight with our own manual descriptions.

(“inches”). Some title records would include an issue number, and others would not. Moreover, some important fields such as Copyright Statement, Language, File Size, and File Type were missing altogether. Perhaps most concerning of all, we discovered some errors that were strikingly inaccurate, and rather baffling. For example, the Southern Cross , the official newspaper of the Diocese of San Diego, was at times tagged by JSTOR Seeklight as a “Latter Day Saint press,” a “Southern Africa newspaper,” a “Gay press publication” and “Women’s periodicals, Mexican.” Based on these results, we quickly learned that we could not rely on the tool without investing time and attention to closely scrutinize its outputs. Despite these shortcomings, at a closing round table discussion, participants noted strengths of the platform such as generating general descriptions of handwritten documents, creating base-level metadata that can be edited rather than manually starting from scratch, and helping to process large volumes of documents more efficiently. Overall, we felt that the tool was most useful when utilized for descriptive information — telling us what is included — rather than to evaluate, or make decisions or judgments about the content. If JSTOR Seeklight is any indication, AI-generated metadata platforms have a long way to go, but we look forward to following the developments and, hopefully, one day utilizing them in future workflows.

each one. Then we analyzed the results, noting where the tool performed well — and where it did not. One of the biggest issues that we noticed was a lack of consistency in outputs and formatting. Within a single field, such as the Format field, sometimes the tool would specify one type of measurement

(“centimeters”) and other times, something else

The Fall 2015 issue of USD Magazine was one of 100 items fed into JSTOR Seeklight for AI generated metadata.

1 https://about.jstor.org/blog/embarking-on-project-odyssey-a-journey-to-transform-digital-collection-stewardship/

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Pontem Partnership Marks Five Years By Hugh Burkhart , Coordinator of Instruction and Undergraduate Learning Copley Library’s partnership with the Pontem Path college readiness program marked a milestone on May 17 with its fifth event for students from Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego middle schools. While their parents attended a talk by Assistant Director of Multicultural Recruitment Dulce Garcia about undergraduate admissions and financial aid, nine students from Our Lady’s School and St. Rita’s School engaged with Copley librarians to learn how to formulate a research question and begin the research process. They later presented their work in the library’s Mother Rosalie Hill Reading Room. Following their presentations, graduating USD senior Guilio Fernandes spoke to the audience of students, parents, educators, and librarians about his journey as a McNair Scholar and student athlete. In what the organizers hope will become a tradition, for the second year in a row Pontem Path alumnus and USD sophomore Jeremias Zuniga assisted the librarians in their work by answering student questions. Four current Pontem Path students from St. Augustine High School were also on hand to help out. We are grateful for the participation of Dr. Michael Lovette-Colyer, Vice President of Mission Integration, for the inspiring words during his opening prayer and address, as well as the participation of Leticia Oseguera, Superintendent of Schools for the Diocese of San Diego, who also shared her journey as a first generation college student and education professional. We look forward to ensuring this event remains an integral part of the library’s outreach efforts, just as we look forward to learning about the successes of our Pontem Path Scholars!

Dean Theresa Byrd and Superintendent of Schools for the Diocese of San Diego Leticia Oseguera

Vice President Michael Lovette-Colyer and Superintendent of Schools Leticia Oseguera

Librarian Steve Staninger leads part of the instruction session

From left to right: Research and Instruction Librarian, Steve Staninger; Dean of the University Library, Dr. Theresa Byrd; Assistant Dean for Innovation and Community Engagement Director, Dr. Sean Green; Vice President of Mission Integration, Dr. Michael Lovette-Colyer; Coordinator of Instruction and Undergraduate Learning, Hugh Burkhart

Students select titles from the books made available to them from Copley Library as part of the program

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New Faculty at Copley Catherine Paolillo is Copley Library’s Head of Access and Outreach Services Librarian. She previously served as Copley Library’s Visiting Evening Access Librarian from 2018 to 2023. She rejoined us in March after spending two years as the Outreach and Engagement Librarian at California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI). She is thrilled to be back at the University of San Diego (USD) in her new role, in which she is responsible for circulation, interlibrary loan, course reserves, building management, and many outreach, engagement, and marketing initiatives. Catherine also oversees the department’s Student Assistant program which provides 35 Federal Work Study and ROTC students the opportunity to gain transferable job skills and professional development for any major or career. Outside of Copley Library, Catherine is an active member of the campus-wide First Generation Action Team where she works to support first-generation students through proactive programming, partnerships, and outreach. Catherine is a first-generation college graduate originally from Lake Tahoe, California. She earned a Masters in Library and Information Science and a Masters in the History of Art, Architecture, and Design from the Pratt Institute in New York, NY. In addition to USD and CSUCI, Catherine has held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and University of California San Diego. Her primary research interests include library leadership and management, and library outreach and marketing. She is also interested in investigating job satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, mental well being, and joy in academic libraries.

Staff Spotlight: Jordan Kobayashi How long have you worked at Copley? Tell us a little about what you do. I’ve been working at the library for a little over 21 years now. My current title is the Continuing Resources and Licensing Assistant and I am in the Technical Services department. My primary responsibilities include receiving, processing and managing all of Copley Library’s print journals and other standing orders and helping the Senior Electronic and Open Content Librarian review any new license agreements. I am also one of the Federal Work Study supervisors for my department where I train and lead four student employees. You recently received a Diversity and Inclusion Impact Award from the university. Can you tell us about your work that was recognized with this award? On top of my regular responsibilities, I am currently part of seven different committees in Copley Library. As a member of the Building Community Connections Committee, I have helped plan our monthly game nights that focuses on creating a safe space where our students are able to meet new people and create new friendships. I was previously on the Library Retreat Committee for many years where I helped organize the annual library retreat for the library faculty and staff. Some of the topics covered social justice, student loneliness, and discussions about minority student populations and how the library can assist them properly. What’s something our readers might be surprised to learn about you? I am the “unofficial” photographer for the library. I have taken many photos of events and exhibits in the library. Many of the photos have been included in the previous newsletters.

L to R, President James T. Harris, Jordan Kobayashi, and Vice Provost for Academic Excellence, Regina Dixon-Reeves

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ACRL Conference in Minneapolis By Amy Pham , Senior Electronic and Open Content Librarian In April, I presented “Who’s asking?: Gender, race, and negotiation outcomes” at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference. As the lead higher education association for academic and research librarians, ACRL’s biennial conference showcases original and emerging research focused on academic librarianship. My research was published as a contributed paper in the ACRL 2025 Conference Proceedings and addressed the experiences of academic librarians in library-vendor negotiations. As libraries confront unsustainable inflationary costs for collection resources, the paper recognized negotiation as a necessary skill for librarians. Building on previously established research on gender, race, and negotiation in the adjacent fields of business and communications, I developed new findings

through an interview study examining qualitative, individual negotiation experiences of academic librarians. Contrary to previous studies that found women were at a disadvantage in negotiations, both in their approach to negotiations and their experienced outcomes, I found that female librarians negotiating for academic electronic resources are data-driven, communicative, and experience success, regardless of gender or race. However, while negotiation outcomes may be unaffected by gender or race, librarians experience a range of uncomfortable and, sometimes, discriminatory behavior during negotiations. I called for further study of negotiation interactions to identify and address problematic behavior and provide solutions for improving negotiation interactions. You can read my study at https://digital.sandiego.edu/library_facpub/33/. The ACRL Conference is highly selective, with a proposal acceptance rate of 20-30%. implementing them extensively. The “Librarians Engineering Our Way to Good Peer Review Feedback” presentation, which opened with an acknowledgement from Copley’s V Dozier’s influential work “Existing on Erasure’s Edge: BIPOC Treatment in Peer Review,” offered valuable strategies for improving scholarly communication. At the Texas A&M session, I had the opportunity to discuss the impact of embedded engineering librarianship compared to my experience as a STEM reference librarian at Prairie View A&M University. Additionally, I attended USD faculty presentations, including Susan Lord’s talk on pedagogy in her engineering circuits course, which deepened my understanding of their teaching methods and projects. The conference also provided excellent opportunities to engage with the Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) and explore options for committee involvement in national service. It was great to put a face to people I’ve seen online in the ASEE community.

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference By Michael Massaro , Engineering and Computer Science Librarian

The 2025 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference in Montreal proved to be an enriching experience filled with professional connections, collaborative opportunities, and insights into

engineering education. One of the conference highlights was reconnecting with Haoyong Lan, Carnegie Mellon’s STEM Librarian, who I first met in 2019 when we were both Graduate Assistants at Grainger Engineering Library at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign (UIUC). I also met Zach Lannes, Stanford’s Engineering Librarian, and we’re now collaborating on a project together to reinvigorate the West Coast Science Boot Camp. The conference featured compelling presentations that showcased innovative approaches to engineering librarianship. A session on citation analysis with AI demonstrated how accurate these tools have become, with UIUC already

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Copley Recognizes Graduating Seniors With Bookplates Graduating Copley student assistants are given the opportunity to choose a book in which to place a bookplate honoring their time working for Copley. The bookplates read, “In recognition of Outstanding Service to Copley Library, Student Assistant …, University of San Diego Class of 2025”

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Sherry Khalil * With Open Hands

Cecelia Baker * The Encyclopedia of Shells by Kenneth R. Wye

Hailey Solley Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom

Text by Henri J. M. Nouwen. Photography by Ron P. van den Bosch and Theo Robert

Chantelle Tiya * Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Andrea Rangel The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson

Cynthia Gonzalez-Millan * A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking

Thanya Hawkins * The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Mayte Guzman * Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age As a Mexican American Woma n by Frances Esquibel Tywoniak and Mario T. García

Lily Daniels-Diehl The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Maria F. Perez * Memoirs of a Geisha: A Nove l by Arthur Golden

Rebeca Sanchez Solana Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Carlie Hall Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-5 by the American Psychiatric Association

Danielle DePinto Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

*Indicates students who worked for Copley for more than 5 semesters

Gunner Zoch * The lightning thief by Rick Riordan

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Top 10 Digital USD Downloads for the 2024–2025 Academic Year By Amanda Makula , Digital Initiatives Librarian The top ten Digital USD downloads out of 33,349 digital items: • From the Nonprofit Institute: Advisory Board Invitation Letter/Email • From Copley Library’s Southern Asia Postcard Collection: Tombs Inside the Taj Mahal • From SOLES Masters Theses in Leadership Studies: Leadership Cultural Values of United Arab Emirates: The Case of United Arab Emirates University • From the San Diego Law Journal: Fourth and Fifth Generation Warfare: Technology and Perceptions • From Copley Library’s Undergraduate Research Awards: “Torture the Women”: A Gaze at the Misogynistic Machinery of Scary Cinema

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Tombs

• From the Undergraduate Honors Theses Collection: Twelve-Tone Serialism: Exploring the Works of Anton Webern • From The College of Arts and Sciences Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Scholarship: Dying, Death, and Afterlife from a Buddhist Perspective • From the Institute on Law and Philosophy: • The Hollowness of the Harm Principle • Montesquieu’s Mistakes and the True Meaning of Separation • From The College of Arts and Sciences Department of Ethnic Studies: Chicano Park 2015 Murals Documentation Project: Guide to the Murals of Chicano Park

Map illustrating the number of Digital USD items downloaded from all over the world.

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New Resources for Fall 2025 By Amy Pham , Senior Electronic and Open Content Librarian, and Millie Fullmer , Acquisitions and Cataloging Librarian What’s helpful to know for the fall semester? • LibKey is now integrated into our systems. This tool allows you to download PDFs when available in one click from the results page, as well as be alerted of retractions and second order retractions. • Online research journals are now easier to browse with BrowZine in Copley’s Journals A-Z. • A Faculty Guide to Course Reserves is now available on the Copyright LibGuide. What resources are new for the fall semester? New or newly accessible journals: • Yellow Medicine Review (catalog link) • New England Journal of Medicine (catalog link) New database updates: • Wall Street Journal (See WSJ LibGuide) — We now have direct WSJ access!

New e-book package purchases: 55 new ebooks purchased for the JSTOR and ProQuest platforms New streaming media updates: • 6,000+ Kanopy titles renewed, including the Criterion Collection • 165 Spanish Language films also added with new supplier Pragda New physical/print books: • 50+ USD Faculty authored books added 1000+ Franciscan School of Theology donated titles cataloged • 2,000+ Hoehn Print Reading Room book titles have been unsuppressed from the catalog after an inventory project was completed this summer New open access publishing updates: • Copley Library joined the Open Library of Humanities to provide publishing opportunities for the humanities free of article processing charges (APCs) (LibGuide link) • APC waivers or discounts are now available for Emerald journals (LibGuide link) If you would like further information, please reach out to your subject liaison librarian (https://libguides.sandiego. edu/specialists/) or contact the Research Assistance Desk (https://libanswers.sandiego.edu/)

• GenderWatch (Databases A-Z link) • Alt-PressWatch (Databases A-Z link)

• Trip Pro Medical Database (Databases A-Z link) • SDC Mergers & Acquisitions dataset via WRDS (Databases A-Z link) • OECD Publications are now open access (Databases A-Z link)

Seguimos Creando Enlaces Conference By Dr. Regina Gong , Associate Dean for Student Success and Strategic Initiatives This year, I had the honor of delivering the keynote address at the 12th Seguimos Creando Enlaces (We Continue Creating Connections) Binational Conference, held during spring break in Copley Library’s Mother Rosalie Hill Reading Room. For the first time since its inception, the conference took place in an academic library, making it an honor for Copley to serve as the host. This year’s theme, “Unidos en la Diversidad: Embracing all Voices,” brought together around 125 librarians and library workers from public, academic, and special libraries on both sides of the U.S.– México border. Participants shared literacy initiatives and explored ways to build meaningful connections through inclusion, play, and community support. My presentation, “Building Connections, Inspiring Partnerships, and Uplifting Communities: The Enduring

Regina Gong with Ady Huertas, Chair of the Creando Enlaces Conference and SDPL Youth, Family, & Equity Program Manager

Mission of Libraries,” affirmed the vital role libraries play as bridges, catalysts for collaboration, and agents of empowerment. The sessions were presented in both English and Spanish and included live translation. The connection with Seguimos Creando Enlaces comes from Copley’s partnership with the San Diego Public Library.

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The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon & A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich By Sally Bradley

diary into a broader tapestry, revealing an absorbing picture of the social, political, economic, medical, and religious practices of the post-revolutionary era. Furthermore, we are introduced to the Kennebec Valley community of Maine and the residents with whom Martha interacted. Using excerpts from the diary in each chapter combined with extensive research through historical documents and records Ulrich immerses us in the living experiences of these individuals — from the mundane to the scandalous. Lastly, we are gifted with an intimate portrait and legacy of one woman and the impact she made within her family and community. I, personally, am grateful to the generations of family members that preserved and passed down Martha’s diary and for the creative hand in which these two authors were inspired to breathe life (fact and fiction) into one woman’s chronicle. These books are genuine treasures for lovers of history. Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

Part Time Weekend Supervisor The Frozen River is a riveting and tender historical fiction that follows the life of Martha Ballard, a real midwife and healer living in Maine in the late 1700s. I loved Martha so much and became engrossed reading about her fascinating life as a midwife, mother, friend, and feminist. She revealed herself as a true heroine for her time in my eyes. The storyline is a “slice of life” meets mystery meets revenge/justice. Themes of family love and loyalty, oppression and raw human experiences arise as we glimpse into a community — all within the framework of Martha’s insightful observations and courageous actions.

by John Green By Vincent Dang Access Services Night Manager Renowned educator John Green (of Crash Course fame) takes us through the interesting and terrible history of Tuberculosis, aka TB, Consumption, Phthisis, etc. Tuberculosis has been around for thousands of years and, despite now being treatable, has killed more people every year than every other disease

Just as captivating was the author’s note at the end of the story in which Lawhon explains how she is “a collector of people....in the same way that others collect rocks or stamps or coins,” whom she “finds in libraries, newspapers and strange corners of the internet.” How she found and was inspired by Martha is a moving account in itself that truly struck a chord in my soul. Delving further, if you read and love The Frozen River as much as I did, I highly recommend picking up a copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, A Midwife’s Tale , by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (a copy of which I found here in our own Copley Library). Here we meet Martha Ballard yet again. This biography, written in 1991, was one of the inspirations that set into motion the storyline of The Frozen River . Both books draw from the diary of Martha, in which she documented her daily life for nearly three decades. Ulrich does a brilliant job gleaning from and weaving the details of Martha’s

(with the exception of Covid in 2020). Because it has been around for so long, TB has shaped our culture for generations, even so far as to become trendy and desirable. Green’s book is a journey, and his writing oozes with comedy, sadness, sarcasm, and hard truths. It is at once a historical overview and a personal narrative. The story told is both enjoyable and powerful. I highly recommend it.

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All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby By Hugh Burkhart Coordinator of Instruction and Undergraduate Learning S.A. Cosby’s fourth book

Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora By Catherine Paolillo Head of Access and Outreach Services Librarian

Zamora’s memoir tells his story of traveling from a small rural town in El Salvador to the United States to reconnect with his parents at just nine years old. At first accompanied by his grandfather, Zamora is later forced to complete the journey on his own — relying on strangers for protection and comfort. While reading,

continues his streak of gripping crime novels in the “Southern noir” tradition. His protagonist here is Titus Crown, the first Black sheriff in seemingly sleepy Charon County, Virginia. Back home after years working in the FBI, Titus finds himself embroiled in a complex and

dangerous case when the shooting of a local teacher leads to an investigation into a serial killer in the community’s midst. Like all good fictional detectives, Titus has personal and professional demons to work through as he races to uncover the truth. The investigation not only reveals a series of unspeakable crimes but secrets related to race and politics in the South as well. Winner of an Anthony Award and an International Thriller Writers Award, the novel was shortlisted for a number of other awards in 2024, including the Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America. Fans of his other work such as Razorblade Tears will find Cosby in top form here as a thriller writer with a literary flare. His highly-anticipated next novel, King of Ashes , is due out this summer.

I kept having to remind myself that he wrote the book, which meant he survived the harrowing and heartbreaking journey. I recommend Solito to anyone who wants a glimpse into the Central American migrant experience, or those who may be looking for a story that mirrors their lived experiences. Having both read and listened to the Solito audiobook, I prefer the audiobook version narrated by the author. Listening to Zamora tell his own story offered a much deeper connection to the language (English mixed with both Salvadoran and Mexican Spanish) and his emotional arc.

Building Community Connections In Spring 2025, the Building Community Connections Committee sponsored three game nights. These events were theme-based and featured classic board games, Bingo night, and puzzles. Each game night was well-attended, with attendance averaging 15 students.

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