There are 41 upcoming classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/09/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/10/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/11/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/12/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/13/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/14/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Rainbow Pride (ages 8-11) TK
Date: 06/14/23Time: 2:00pm - 2:45pm
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Ages 8-11; 30 - 45 min. Ticket Required.
Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride month with some wonderful related reads, activities, and a rainbow craft!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/15/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Rainbow Pride (ages 8-11) TK
Date: 06/15/23Time: 2:00pm - 2:45pm
Branch: Elkridge Branch
Age group: Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Ages 8-11; 30 - 45 min. Ticket Required.
Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride month with some wonderful related reads, activities, and a rainbow craft!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/16/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/17/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Pride Button Making
Date: 06/17/23Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Branch: Savage Branch
Age group: Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride month by creating your own rainbow or pronoun buttons to wear or share. In this class, you will learn about the different types of pride flags, learn about pronouns, and make a rainbow or pronoun button.
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Author Works: Tonee Moll: You Cannot Save Here
Date: 06/17/23Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Branch: Savage Branch
Age group: Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Winner of the 2022 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House, You Cannot Save Here is a collection of poems about how we live when each day feels like the world is ending. The poems ask what we do with the small moments that matter when so much around us—climate disaster, gun violence, pandemics, wars—makes these days feel apocalyptic. The book is a bit speculative and a bit confessional. It's queer, punk, and woven tightly with cultural allusion—from visual art to video games, pop culture to counterculture.
Tonee Moll is an award winning queer writer and educator. They hold an MFA in creative writing and publishing arts, are finishing their dissertation for a PhD in English, and are an assistant professor of English at a Maryland community college. Tonee’s poetry has received the Adele V. Holden award for creative excellence and the Bill Knott Poetry Prize.
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/18/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/19/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/20/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/21/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Rainbow Pride (ages 8-11) TK
Date: 06/21/23Time: 2:00pm - 2:45pm
Branch: Savage Branch
Age group: Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Ages 8-11; 30 - 45 min. Ticket Required.
Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride month with some wonderful related reads, activities, and a rainbow craft!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/22/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Reads of Acceptance (Online)
Date: 06/22/23Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Discuss LGBTQ-related books and make new friends in a queer- & trans-affirming group setting. All identities and all ages (18+) are welcome.
Registration is recommended so you can be kept updated on any changes to the meeting location.
Copies of the discussion title are available for pick-up from the Central Branch; ask for a copy at the Customer Service desk.
This month's book will be The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
"In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic John Singer, draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a doctor, a widowed café owner, and a young girl. Each yearns for escape from small town life, but the young girl, Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music.
"Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated—and, through Mick, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty." - Publisher
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/23/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/24/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Author Works: Alexandra Petri - US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)
Date: 06/24/23Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Branch: Miller Branch
Age group: Ages 14 - 18 (High School), Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
The Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri
“Petri’s writing is consistently witty and erudite without the slightest hint of pretentiousness… If you can make the 19th-century debate over monetary policy funny, you’re clearly on to something.”—Matthew Cantor, The Guardian
“Brilliantly bananas…. Petri’s latest book demonstrates primarily two things: One, she is a genius; and two, no, she really is…. Satire at the highest level. …[A] godsend of a book.”—Amy Fusselman, The Washington Post
If you’re going to lie about the past, you might as well make up lies that are fun!
Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri is perhaps America’s most beloved political satirist. Her new, side-splitting work of historical humor uses imagined documents to create a laugh-out-loud, irreverent takedown of our nation’s complicated past. “From Aaron Sorkin’s version of the Gettysburg Address (‘Walk with me over this battlefield, Stacy’) to John and Abigail Adams’s frustrated attempt at sexting via transatlantic letter (‘I am removing my thick woolen greatcoat of sound construction’) Petri leaves few milestones of U.S. culture and politics un-lampooned,” notes Publishers Weekly.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alexandra Petri is a humorist and columnist for the Washington Post and author of Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, a Thurber Prize finalist. Her satire has also appeared in McSweeney’s and the New Yorker’s Daily Shouts and Murmurs. She lives in Washington, DC.
Education: Harvard College, BA in English, Classics Secondary Field
Honors and Awards: National Press Club Angele Gingras Award for Humor Writing 2016, Shorty Award 2016, Forbes 30 Under 30, Fifty Funniest People Right Now (Rolling Stone)
This class is part of our Summer Reading Adventures series! Visit hclibrary.org/summer to learn more!
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/25/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/26/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Asian American Literature Book Club (Online)
Date: 06/26/23Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Join our monthly discussion of Asian American literary titles.
- Mar 20 2023 Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Sutanto
- Apr 17 2023 All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
- May 15 2023 Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
- June 26 2023 (June 19 holiday) The Swimmer by Julie Otsuka
- July 17 2023 How High We Go in Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
- Aug 21 2023 The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/27/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Reading Human Rights: Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Date: 06/27/23Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Branch: East Columbia Branch
Age group: Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Reading Human Rights is a monthly book discussion hosted by the Howard County Office of Human Rights & Equity and Howard County Library System. We read books that promote cultural awareness, diversity, equity.
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • Cosmopolitan • Marie Claire • Bloomberg • Parade • “Untamed will liberate women—emotionally, spiritually, and physically. It is phenomenal.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love
This is how you find yourself.
Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. It is the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family depends not on its structure but on each member’s ability to bring her full self to the table. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is.
Author, activist, founder of Together Rising, and host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast Glennon Doyle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed, a Reese’s Book Club selection, which has sold over two million copies. She is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior, an Oprah’s Book Club selection, and Carry On, Warrior. An activist and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People), Glennon hosts the We Can Do Hard Things podcast. She is the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women-led nonprofit organization that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropy—raising over $30 million for women, families, and children in crisis. Glennon lives in Florida with her wife and three children.
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. Please note that your email may be shared with Howard County Office of Human Rights & Equity for communication related to this event.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
Additional Room for Critical Race Theory
Date: 06/27/23Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Miller Branch
Age group: Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Business Roundtable
Date: 06/27/23Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 14 - 18 (High School), Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Each month HCLS co-hosts an online Roundtable focusing on a local business owned by a Person of Color in Howard County. The owner shares the experiences and challenges they face as a local business owner. Learn what it takes to start your own successful business. Ask questions of people who own a local business. Maybe it will inspire you to start your own!
The discussion is moderated by Nat Alston, Chair and Founder of the Ujamaa Business Roundtable. Jinal Contractor, Small and Minority Business Development Officer, Howard County Economic Development Authority (HCEDA) will also join the Roundtable to share the many internal and external resources that Howard County offers to small and minority entrepreneurs. The Business Roundtable normally meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month. Includes time for Q&A.
Our Business Roundtable guest for June will be announced soon.
In partnership with Ujamaa Business Roundtable, a roundtable of African-American business owners from the counties of Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's, Baltimore and Baltimore City.
If you have questions or if you are business owner that would like to be featured at one of our monthly Roundtable discussions, please email us: [email protected]
Understanding Critical Race Theory - In person
Date: 06/27/23Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Miller Branch
Age group: Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
This past year, everyone has begun talking about Critical Race Theory, a set of premises developed by legal scholars decades ago to interpret America’s institutions in the context of race and civil rights.
In recent months, legislators in many states have rushed to pass laws to ban the teaching of CRT from K-12 classroom across the country. Yet what exactly is CRT? It can be hard to know. There’s no manifesto or mission statement. That’s made Critical Race Theory a bit of a moving target.
This talk has three quite different goals. The first objective is to locate the origins of CRT, establish its core premises, describe the recent controversy, and interrogate the stakes of it all. The second objective is to show CRT in action—to narrate the histories of voting rights and of crime and punishment in the United States through the lens of Critical Race Theory. The third is to introduce participants to a list of practices that CRT scholars believe all of us can adopt to mitigate the worst legacies of slavery in our current world.
About the presenter:
Richard Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of the book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize.
He is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2021-2023) and has held research fellowships at more than two dozen libraries and institutes including residencies at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance at Yale University and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His work has also been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dr. Bell serves as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a trustee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture, an elected member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and as a board member of the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System Foundation.
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
World Languages Cafe @ East Columbia Branch Library
Date: 06/27/23Time: 7:00pm - 8:45pm
Branch: East Columbia Branch
Age group: Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
In collaboration with the Columbia Association, the World Language Cafe is now expanded to Howard County Library System East Columbia Branch Library. It will be held simultaneously at the Senior Center on the 4th Tuesday of the month from 7-8:45pm.
Established by the Columbia Association’s International Exchange & Multicultural Program 10 years ago, the World Languages Café (WLC) provides a venue where people meet to practice a world language with fellow community members, facilitated by a native or fluent speaker of that language. Over the years, the WLC has featured languages including Arabic, American Sign Language, *Chinese, *Catonese, Dutch, *French, Hebrew, Irish Gaelic, *Italian, *Japanese, *Korean, Portuguese, and *Spanish. (*Currently available at East Columbia Branch Library and the Senior Center)
4th Tuesday, 7 - 8:45 pm.
The World Languages Café is free, and registration is preferred, but not required. Please indicate in the registration comments field the language you would like to practice. Ages 13+.
Newly added in Feb. 2023 at the Miller Branch Library: American Sign Language practice table. The World Language Cafe @ Miller Branch Library meets on the 2nd. Thursday of each month.
We are also seeking language table hosts. If you are interested in connecting with community members by volunteering to host a table in the language of your choice at HCLS Miller Branch, or East Columbia Branch, please email [email protected] or call 410-924-2226, or [email protected] or call 410-715-3178
Author Works: Sara Novic & "True Biz" (Online)
Date: 06/28/23Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
June 28, 2023 8 - 9pm ET
Acclaimed author and Deaf Rights activist Sara Novic discusses her novel True Biz in a special conversation with Dr. Julie Rems-Smario.
True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk
True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they’ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress, a CODA (child of deaf adult(s)) who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another—and changed forever.
This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.
Voice interpretation and CART provided. Q&A follows the conversation.
This event is a partnership between Howard County Association of the Deaf, Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library, and Howard County Library System. Book sales provided by The Last Word.
Borrow True Biz from HCLS, or purchase a copy from our community bookstore partner, The Last Word.
About Sara Novic
Sara is the author of the instant NYT Bestseller True Biz, as well as the books Girl at War and America is Immigrants.She holds an MFA in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University, and is an instructor of Deaf studies and creative writing. She lives in Philadelphia with her family.
You can find her on Twitter + Instagram.
Author Photo: © Zach Stone
About Dr. Julie Rems-Smario
Dr. Julie Rems-Smario works as Early Language and Education Programs Consultant at the CORE Division, a California School for the Deaf program. As part of California's LEAD-K Family Services, Julie is one of California’s two statewide coordinators of California’s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs. During her tenure at the California Department of Education 2018-2021, Julie directed California’s Newborn Hearing Screening Project, supervised SB 210 data (LEAD-K law), developed resources for families of Deaf children, supported/trained Early Start teachers, and provided technical assistance to K-12 Deaf education teachers. In 2020, Julie graduated from California State University, East Bay with her Ed.D. in educational leadership and social justice.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/29/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Teen Action Board (TAB) Meeting
Date: 06/29/23Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Branch: Miller Branch
Age group: Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Fun! Friends! Community! Culture! Social Justice!
Are you a passionate and creative teen (ages 11-18) eager to make a difference and be a voice for your generation? If so, we have an exciting opportunity just for you!
Join Miller’s Teen Action Board or TAB and help shape the future of YOUR Library!
We're searching for talented, motivated, and forward-thinking teens like you to join our team to transform our library into an epicenter of inspiration, knowledge, and fun!
What is the Teen Action Board?
It’s a unique and influential group that collaborates with our library staff to shape programs, services, and events catered specifically to our amazing teen community. Meetings are mediated by a library staff member, but they consist of and are led by teens who provide input, give advice, share ideas, and brainstorm together about what teens are interested in and how to enhance the library’s teen programs — as well as assist with planning and producing events for teens.
From games to service projects to networking to socializing - Cultivate essential skills in team building, creativity, and leadership!
The Teen Action Board (TAB) empowers teens to make their voices heard and to make change in the library and, through the library, in the community. TAB members can advise the library on its services, policies, and collection. They can create, plan, and run the library programs or services that they want to see offered to the community. They can also initiate and carry out projects for the library.
As a member of this esteemed board, you will have the chance to:
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Influence library policies and decisions, ensuring that the voices of teens are heard and represented
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Help design and plan exciting events, workshops, and activities tailored to teen interests
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Collaborate with fellow board members to create innovative initiatives that promote literacy, diversity, and inclusion
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Assist in developing a strong Teen and YA collection
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Discover and recommend the latest books, movies, and digital resources to your peers
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Expand your network by connecting with like-minded teens, librarians, and professionals in various fields
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Develop leadership, teamwork, and communication skills through meaningful projects and collaborations
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Enhance your college applications and career resume with a standout extracurricular experience
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Earn volunteer service hours
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Make new friendships and create memories that will last a lifetime.
So, if you're between the ages of 11-18 and want to make a difference, we invite you to join our Teen Action Board. Don't miss out on the chance to make a difference in your community and have a blast doing it. So, turn off the TV or video games, put on your shoes, and get to the Library!
TAB meets monthly. Register here, drop-ins welcome.
SAM: Summer At Miller
LGBTQIA+ 101 (Online)
Date: 06/29/23Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 14 - 18 (High School), Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Why is June “Pride Month?” What do all the letters in “LGBTQIA+” even stand for? And what is the truth about transgender people and drag performers? Learn this and more as we break down foundational concepts and terminology related to gender identity, gender expression, and sexual/romantic orientations.
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
Children's Scavenger Hunt - Pride Month
Date: 06/30/23Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Branch: Central Branch
Age group: Ages 0 - 5 (Infant/Toddler/ Preschool/Kindergarten), Ages 6 - 11 (Grades 1-6), Ages 11-13 (Middle School), Ages 14 - 18 (High School), All Ages / Families
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Families, all ages. Allow 15-20 minutes. Drop-in and self-directed.
Search the Central Children's Department for scavenger hunt clues and win a sticker!
HCLS is celebrating Pride Month! Please visit bit.ly/hclspride23 to find more classes.
World Languages Cafe
Date: 07/13/23Time: 7:00pm - 8:45pm
Branch: Miller Branch
Age group: Ages 14 - 18 (High School), Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
In collaboration with Columbia Association, Howard County Library System's Miller Branch will host a monthly World Languages Café, beginning in September on the 2nd Thursday evening, from 7 - 8:45 pm.
Established by the Columbia Association’s International Exchange & Multicultural Program 10 years ago, the World Languages Café (WLC) provides a venue where people meet to practice a world language with fellow community members, facilitated by a native or fluent speaker of that language. Over the years, the WLC has featured languages including *Arabic, *American Sign Language, *Chinese, Dutch, *French, Hebrew, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Japanese, *Korean, Portuguese, and *Spanish. (*Currently available at Miller Branch Library location)
Second Thursdays, 7 - 8:45 pm
The World Languages Café is free, and registration is preferred, but not required. Please indicate in the registration comments field the language you would like to practice. Ages 13+.
Newly added in Feb. 2023 at the Miller Branch Library: American Sign Language practice table.
We are also seeking language table hosts. If you are interested in connecting with community members by volunteering to host a table in the language of your choice at HCLS Miller Branch, please email email [email protected] or call 410-924-2226, or [email protected] or call 410-715-3178
Reading Human Rights: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of A Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
Date: 07/25/23Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Branch: East Columbia Branch
Age group: Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Reading Human Rights is a monthly book discussion hosted by the Howard County Office of Human Rights & Equity and Howard County Library System. We read books that promote cultural awareness, diversity, equity.
"A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal
"Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
J.D. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served in Iraq. A graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he has contributed to the National Review and is a principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm. Vance lives in San Francisco with his wife and two dogs.
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. Please note that your email may be shared with Howard County Office of Human Rights & Equity for communication related to this event.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
World Languages Cafe @ East Columbia Branch Library
Date: 07/25/23Time: 7:00pm - 8:45pm
Branch: East Columbia Branch
Age group: Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
In collaboration with the Columbia Association, the World Language Cafe is now expanded to Howard County Library System East Columbia Branch Library. It will be held simultaneously at the Senior Center on the 4th Tuesday of the month from 7-8:45pm.
Established by the Columbia Association’s International Exchange & Multicultural Program 10 years ago, the World Languages Café (WLC) provides a venue where people meet to practice a world language with fellow community members, facilitated by a native or fluent speaker of that language. Over the years, the WLC has featured languages including Arabic, American Sign Language, *Chinese, *Catonese, Dutch, *French, Hebrew, Irish Gaelic, *Italian, *Japanese, *Korean, Portuguese, and *Spanish. (*Currently available at East Columbia Branch Library and the Senior Center)
4th Tuesday, 7 - 8:45 pm.
The World Languages Café is free, and registration is preferred, but not required. Please indicate in the registration comments field the language you would like to practice. Ages 13+.
Newly added in Feb. 2023 at the Miller Branch Library: American Sign Language practice table. The World Language Cafe @ Miller Branch Library meets on the 2nd. Thursday of each month.
We are also seeking language table hosts. If you are interested in connecting with community members by volunteering to host a table in the language of your choice at HCLS Miller Branch, or East Columbia Branch, please email [email protected] or call 410-924-2226, or [email protected] or call 410-715-3178
Reads of Acceptance (Online)
Date: 07/27/23Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 19+ (Adults)
Program type: Race, Equity & Inclusion
Description:
Discuss LGBTQ-related books and make new friends in a queer- & trans-affirming group setting. All identities and all ages (18+) are welcome.
Registration is recommended so you can be kept updated on any changes to the meeting location.
Copies of the discussion title are available for pick-up from the Central Branch; ask for a copy at the Customer Service desk.
This month's book will be Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride.
"Informative, heartbreaking, and profoundly empowering, Tomorrow Will Be Different is McBride’s story of love and loss and a powerful entry point into the LGBTQ community’s battle for equal rights and what it means to be openly transgender. From issues like bathroom access to health care to gender in America, McBride weaves the important political and cultural milestones into a personal journey that will open hearts and change minds." - Publisher
