Monthly Archives: September 2015

Are You a Science Fiction Fan? The Kickoff Meeting of the Dystopian Fiction Book Club is on Oct. 5th. Join Us To Help Us Plan the Year and While We’re At It, We’ll Discuss “Ender’s Game.” Your thoughts?

Dystopia UMassD - Join the Club ... the book clubAre you a science fiction fan? Love The Hunger Games series? Enjoy squeezing in some fun reading in between textbook chapters?

The odds are in your favor that the Dystopian Fiction Book Club is for you!

We’ll be meeting again this academic year for monthly book discussions.

Our first meeting will take place on Monday, October 5th at 2pm in Library 314. We’ll be having a general kickoff, talking about the upcoming year and possible book choices.

We’ll also be discussing Ender’s Game, the fantastic novel by Orson Scott Card. If you’ve seen the movie, you only know half the story, so you’ll definitely want to read this one! Copies of Ender’s Game will be available at the library’s circulation desk, and can be checked out for 3 days at a time. We hope that will give everyone plenty of time to read it by October 5th.

Even if you don’t have a chance to finish Ender’s Game, come to the meeting anyway! We want to hear your thoughts about what the book club should be like this year, and what you want to read!

Questions?
Contact Hilary Kraus ( hkraus@umassd.edu / 508-999-8681 )

Library Game Night – We would LOVE your donations!

Carney Library Game NightThe Carney Library is organizing several game nights in the library Living Room this semester starting Sept. 24th. Big thank you to the members of the UMass Dartmouth community who have already given us several games to use, but we are still looking for more sets from all the categories below to make sure we have enough.

If you have board games that you would like to donate…We would LOVE to have them!

We are organizing some potential themes:

  • Monopoly (Monopoly – Classic or if possible themed sets would be great)
  • Word Games (Scrabble, Word up, Boggle, Bananagrams, etc.)
  • Kiddie Games (Candy Land, Mousetrap, Trouble, Chutes and Ladders, Hungry Hungry Hippo, Sorry, Operation, Connect Four, Life, etc.)
  • Build It Games (Legos (loose fine, sets if complete, Lincoln Logs, Jenga, Tinker Toys, etc)
  • Trivia Night (Trivial Pursuit, Worst Case Scenerio, Cranium, Scene It, Don’t Quote Me, etc.)
  • Act It Out (Pictionary, Charades, Taboo, Scattergories, Balderdash, Twister etc.)
  • Strategic Games (Stratego, Risk, Battleship, Rummikub, Dominos, Triominos, Clue)
  • Card games (UNO, Phase 10, Old Maid, Yahtzee, etc.)

So if you have any of these games, or similar ones, we would love to have your donations! We prefer games/sets with all their pieces, but even those that are missing some can be useful as we anticipate having to replace lost pieces eventually.

Donation collection will be at the Carney Library Circulation desk and if you have any questions, please contact Kari Mofford, kmofford@umassd.edu