Copley Library Annual Report 2022-2023

Outreach and Engagement

One Book One San Diego For its tenth year of participation, Copley launched an inaugural partnership with The Center for Educational Excellence and the Center for Inclusion and Diversity to encourage USD students, faculty and staff to participate in San Diego County’s annual premier

Winning Student Video for Promoting Renovated Library Ximena Morena Jose (Class of 2023) was the grand prize winner of Copley Library’s student video contest to capture the excitement and grandeur of the renovated library. As the winner, she was awarded $750 at an unveiling of the video prior to the Alumni Works 2022 evening reception on December 1, 2022.

community reading program, One Book One San Diego (OBOSD). The program encourages partnerships between local public media station KPBS and over 80 public libraries, service organizations, universities, and other educational institutions. The library gave away over 70 copies of the 2022 OBOSD

selection, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. Shea Salamack, winner of the USD Student Graphic Design contest to market the program (pictured at left), and a variety of faculty reading assignments

From left: Chris Marcum, Head of Access and Outreach Services; Dr. Theresa Byrd, Dean of the University Library; Ximena Morena Jose (Class of 2023); Catherine Paolillo, former Evening Access Services Librarian.

Programming Partnerships with the USD Department of History Veterans Day 2022 Programming

boosted the visibility and impact of the book. USD programming culminated in a community reading circle at Copley Library on November 15, 2022.

Copley Library collaborated once again with the USD Department of History and the San Diego County Veterans for Peace to host a Veterans Day event, entitled Veterans Day and Historical Memory , on November 10, 2022 at the library. More than 60 members of the USD and San Diego community attended the event to hear four local veterans reflect on what Veterans Day means to them. The library partnered with the Department of History again in Spring Semester on April 27, 2023 for an evening with acclaimed author and founder of @ theglobalvillagefoundation, Le Ly Hayslip. Hayslip shared passages from her memoir, “When Heaven and Earth Changed Places” that detail her experiences during the Vietnam Wars as well as clips from the Oliver Stone film inspired by her writing, “Heaven and Earth”.

Copley Library’s first 10 years of participation in OBOSD included the following OBOSD titles, which are also available in the library’s catalog: Titles: Caleb’s Crossing (2013) Monstress (2014) Shadow of the Wind (2015) Waiting for Snow in Havana (2016)

Sandcastle Girls (2017) March: Book One (2018) The Great Believers (2019) They Called Us Enemy (2020) Being Heumann (2021) The Vanishing Half (2022)

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Le Ly Hayslip (center) and Dr. Kathryn Statler, USD History Professor (far right), join local veterans at the V eterans Day and Historical Memory event in Copley Library.

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