Sojourner Truth Library Opening Events

The Library Is Open! – A Semester-Long Celebration

People from every part of our community have come together to help celebrate the reopening of the Library’s beautiful new main floor! Events center on two themes:

Life and Impact of Sojourner Truth: former enslaved person, African descended resident of Ulster County, advocate for Women’s Rights, abolitionist
Value of Libraries: as places for creativity, conversation, community, scholarship, research

Date	Place	Event
Jan 25 – Feb 9	STL Display Cases	“Display on Sojourner Truth”
Jan 25 – Feb 28	STL Front Desk – Stop in and get yours today!	STL Button Distribution
Jan 28	LC 104	“STL Film Screening and Panel“
Feb 4	Planetarium	“Follow The Drinking Gourd” Planetarium Show
Feb 9-27	STL Display	“History of the Black Studies Department“
Feb 10	STL Entry Lobby	Panel by BSSO
Feb 17	STL Entry Lobby	“Structural Violence: Inequality, Race, Poverty and Medical Education in the 19th Century”
Feb 28-March 25	STL Display	“Women’s History Month”
March 6	STL Information Commons Time: 11 am – 4 pm	“Art+Feminism’s second annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon”
March 15	Old Main Room 1907 Time: 4:30 pm	“Panel – Historic Record: Underrepresented Groups”
March 28-April 1	STL Display cases	“The Design Process Made Visible: Poster Exhibition”
April 5	STL Conference Room Time: 4 pm (4:30 remarks) – 5:30 pm	“Celebration of Faculty Authors”
April 8	STL	"A Queer Art InfoSHOW, hosted by the New Paltz Queens and Kings, The Rivera House"
April 10-30	STL Display Cases	“EOP”
April 21	STL Main Lobby & Gallery	Sojourner Truth Library Ceremonial Re-Opening Celebration
April 21	STL Main Lobby Time: TBD	“Performance: Urban Lyrics, poss. In honor of Margaret Wade-Lewis”
April 25-27	STL	“Friends of the Library Used Book Sale”
April 29	STL Main Floor Information Commons	Undergraduate Student Research Poster Session
April	Several sites	“Poem in Pocket Event”
May 1 – 8	STL Display Cases	“Visual Thinking”