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Academic Engagement Dashboard: Book Displays

Book Displays - Plans/Dates to Share and Negotiate with Colleagues

Please add notes about upcoming plans for book displays so we can share work in a coordinated fashion on dates and avoid overlaps. 

Please provide a list of the titles in your display to Brenda Schippers.

2025-26 Displays

  • August/September - Shelf Care (Kate Johnson)
  • October - Dark Academic & Gothic Fiction (Kate Johnson)
  • November - Nature Writing (Olivia Bishop - grad student employee supervised by Jenay)
  • December/January - eBooks (Katie DeVries)
  • February - TBD
  • March - TBD
  • April - National Poetry Month (Brett Cloyd)

2024 Displays

  • August/September 15th - Pages & Podcasts
  • October 21th to Novemrber  8 - Dia De Los Muertos
  • September 19th thru October 19th - Celebrating the authors of LaNA3 (Latino/Native American) Alumni Alliance - (Rachel Garza Carreón/Elizabeth Riordan)
  • June/July 2024 - Olympics/Paris
  • March 2024 - What's Your Roman Empire - (Janalyn Moss)

2023 Displays

  • December 2023 - The Book is Better than the Movie - (Janalyn Moss)
  • November 2023 -  National Native American Heritage Month (Jenay Solomon) First Gen College Celebration (Nov 6-10) (Andrea Anderson)
  • October 2023 - I Read Banned Books (Janalyn Moss/Rita Soenksen)
  • September 2023 -  What You Want (until Sept. 15)/In a Time of Witness w/Stanley Museum (Kathryn Reuter)
  • August - What You Want, Baby, I Got It - genre display (Janalyn Moss)
  • July 2023 - Ebooks (Katie Hassman)
  • June 2023 - Ebooks (Katie Hassman)
  • May 2023 -  
  • April 2023 - Poetry (Lisa Gardinier, Hannah, Rita Soenksen)
  • March 2023 - 10th Anniversary of Spanish MFA (Lisa Gardinier)
  • February 2023 - Black Joy/Creativity (Rita Soenksen)

2022 Displays

  • December 2022/January 2023 - Cozy reads (Jenay Dougherty)
  • November 2022 - Student picks (Mykle Clark and Kelly Hangauer)
  • September 18-24, 2022 - Banned Books Week (Rita Soenksen) [New Books, one shelving unit]
  • September until November 2022 - Latinx Heritage Month (Rachel Garza Carreón) 
  • August 2022 - Young Adult Books (Janalyn Moss)
  • June 2022- Pride Month (Rita Soenksen) - up through July
  • May 2022 - Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Rita Soenksen)
  • April 2022 - National Poetry Month (Rita Soenksen)
  • March 2022 - Literature, Culture, and History of Russia and Ukraine (Janalyn Moss and Lisa Gardinier)
  • February 2022 - Black Authors at Iowa

2021 Displays

  • September 2021 - Black Excellence at University of Iowa (Katie Hassman and Rita Soenksen)

2019 Displays

  • April 2019 - Sexual Assault Awareness Month - Cathy Cranston in collaboration with RVAP; ordered branded SAAM swag from National Sexual Violence Resource Center

 

2024

  • January 2024 - Warm Welcome Back - tropical and travel (Rita Soenksen)
  • February 2024 - 
  • March 2024 - Developmental Disabilities (Rita Soenksen)
  • April 2024 - Poetry (Rita Soenksen)
  • May 2024 - 

 

 

2023

  • February 2023 - Star Wars (Janalyn Moss)
  • March 2023 - Star Wars (Janalyn Moss)
  • April 2023 - Earth Day (Brett Cloyd)
  • May 2023 - Spies and surveillance (Rita Soenksen)
  • June 2023 - Spies and surveillance (Rita Soenksen)
  • July 2023 - Spies and surveillance (Rita Soenksen)
  • August 2023 - 50 Years of Hip Hop (Rita Soenksen)
  • September 2023 - 
  • October 2023 - Monsters (Tsuyoshi Harada)
  • November 2023 - 
  • December 2023 - 

 

Recurring Displays

  • International Writing Program welcome displays in the New Books area coincide with the first week of the residency -- newest available material, original language or English, with displayable covers, by/about IWP alumni from the same countries in the incoming residency (Lisa)
  • Banned Books week

2023

2022

  • September 18 - 24, 2022 - Banned Books Week (Rita Soenksen and Janalyn Moss) On one shelving unit only
  • August 22-27ish, 2022 -  IWP welcome display (Lisa Gardinier)
  • March 2022 - IWP Welcome (new books area (Lisa Gardinier)

2021

  • October 2021 - IWP Welcome (Lisa Gardinier)