Congratulations to all the graduates! Remember you are always welcome in the library, and Aztec for Life alumni members can check out materials. Or find new resources in your local public library.
TODAY! Stop by the Study Break Table (1st floor of the Dome) between noon and 1 p.m. to visit with the every-adorable Lune, one of SDSU's therapy dogs. She likes to chase her ball, do tricks-for-treats and get lots of pets. While you are there, stop by the Well-Being and Health Promotion table for tips on having a healthy finals week and give-aways!
Remember to take care of yourself during this stressful finals week! Here are 10 self-care tips to get you started. If you are in the library, head to the Study Break Table (1st floor of the Dome) for a snack, game, a calming coloring project, or to pick up a fidget.
TODAY! Come meet Kuma, SDSU's newest therapy dog. He will visit the library for playtime and pets from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 6. Can't be there today? Stop by on Monday to spend time with the ever-lovable Luna.
Looking to get the most out of your studying for finals? Drop by the library for 24-hour access through May 13 and give yourself a break by visiting Kuma & Luna the Therapy Dogs! 🐶 ❤️📚📑
Check out these upcoming events hosted by @sdsulibrary
This Thursday!
Discover a variety of citizen science projects you can participate in anytime, anywhere. Discover Open Science with SciStarter.
🌿 Contribute to real research
🔍 Explore local ecosystems
🌎 Celebrate Earth Month with the Library Green Team
Need a place to study for finals? Even at 2 in the morning? The entire SDSU Library will be open around-the-clock from today through May 13. Everyone at the library wishes you the best for this finals period!
This Wednesday!
Come hear award-winning Poet, Editor, and Translator Blas Falconer.
Blas Falconer will share poems from his newest book, “Rara Avis.” Of the collection, Oliver de la Paz raves, “Falconer’s tender and wise poems are gentle reminders that we move forward because we are called to those we love. We move forward because we see in the periphery, the past still holds us in its care.”
Blas Falconer is the author of “Rara Avis” (Four Way Books 2024), winner of the Thom Gunn Award; “Forgive the Body This Failure” (Four Way Books, 2018); “The Foundling Wheel” (Four Way Books, 2012); “A Question of Gravity and Light” (University of Arizona Press, 2007); and “The Perfect Hour” (Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press, 2006). He is also a co-editor for “The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity” (University of Arizona Press, 2011) and “Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets” (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). Falconer’s awards include a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, a Tennessee Individual Artist Grant, the New Delta Review Eyster Prize for Poetry, and the Barthelme Fellowship. He teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University, where he serves as the editor-in-chief of Poetry International Online.
We are hosting our second book packaging event!
Come out and help us send books to incarcerated folks and learn a little bit more about the program.
April 30, 2-4 PM
Library Addition Basement
LA 78
🌈 You’re Invited: Pride Symposium 2026 🌈
Join us for a day of powerful conversations, research, and creative work exploring LGBTQ+ experiences, identities, and futures.
📅 Friday, April 17, 2026
⏰ 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 Love Library 430
Attend the full symposium or drop in for panels that interest you!
✨ Symposium Schedule ✨
11:00 – 11:15: Opening Remarks
11:15 – 12:30: 🎓 Undergraduate Panel
• Birdy Wilbon — The Voice of Disability: How Still/Here by Bill T. Jones Reveals the Exclusion of Disability in Art and the Intertwinement of Disability and Queer History
• Andrea Suhyoun — Indoor Tanning Intentions in Sexual Minority Men: The Influence of Affect Regulation, Appearance Motives, and Race/Ethnicity
• Spencer Pilz — “Speak or Die: A Scenic Design Concept”
• Carissa Clarke — “Undead Bodies: Disembodied Gender, Queerness, and Vampirism”
12:30 – 12:45: Break
12:45 – 2:00: 🌟 Keynote: Toby Beauchamp
2:00 – 2:15: Break
2:15 – 3:45: 🎓 Graduate Panel
• Jada Reed — “Coloniality of Birth”
• Jimena Majica-Camarena — “Traversing the Borderlands”
• Lalo Rivera — “What the Desert Witnessed: A Rural Queer Borderlands Remembering”
3:45 – 4:00: Closing Remarks
Come build community, learn, and celebrate queer scholarship and creativity. All are welcome 💖
🚩 Save the date for Award-winning Poet-Translator Piotr Florczyk
Wednesday, April 15
Piotr Florczyk will share selections of his most recent poetry and work in translation.
Florczyk’s writing has been celebrated as “…ruminative, bold, personal, vision-changing.”
Piotr Florczyk is an award-winning author/editor/translator of nearly thirty books in English and in
Polish, including, most recently, Dialogue and Influence: Essays on Polish and American Poets
(Academic Studies Press, 2025). He teaches global literary studies at UW-Seattle, and lives with his
family in Los Angeles. For more info, please visit
This event is co-sponsored by the Instructionally Related Activities Fund.
Poetry, Community, and Conversation: An En Confianza Session with Dra. Hortencia Jimenez
Join us Tuesday April 14, 1:30-3:30pm in the Chicana/o Collection Area of SDSU Library!
