nightbrary

NIGHTBRARY > Art, Games, Music!

SUMMER 2025 EDITION!

WEDNESDAYS @ SLM Library | 5 - 7 P.M.

MAY 14 - AUG 6

Nightbrary is a unique student engagement extravaganza featuring art, games, and music at SLM Library.

Come to the library every Wednesday from 5 - 7 p.m. this SUMMER and get engaged with SSC students, faculty, and staff.

Play Xbox Series S with game pass, hit the ping pong table, enter the world of Dungeons and Dragons, or compete against students in the SLM Chess Club.

Sing a karaoke solo on stage or belt out a group song with your friends or student life club members.

Make art in the student art area with acrylic paint and watercolors, or take it back to the old school with markers, crayons, or colored pencils.

Librarians are available to assist with reference or research questions and help with citations for college assignments.

Oh, we also serve snacks and sodas, and everyone gets First-Year Experience (FYE) credit for the IDS1107 Flightpath Class.

Your Library. Your Nightbrary!

NIGHTBRARY FINALS PARTY

Dozens of students and more friends from the greater Sanford/Lake Mary community came to SLM Library to enjoy the 5-HOUR Nightbrary Finals Party that closed out the Spring 2025 semester on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at Seminole State College of Florida.

A marvelous collection of students who met and became friends at Nightbrary earlier in the term formed a band and performed LIVE!  The entire live stream is on the Seminole State Library's YouTube page.

The library bought Publix subs for dinner and dished up cookies and coffee for dessert.  A new Chess Club tournament champion was crowned, and two graduating students received commemorative mugs, personalized with their names, and were celebrated as Library Lifers.

Pictured is the crew on stage in the Cozy Cozy performance section of the SLM Library.

LUNCHBRARY

Summer 2025 Edition!

MAY 14 - AUG 6
11:30 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Every Wednesday

@ SLM Library

Come to YOUR library and experience Lunchbrary every Wednesday @ SLM Library.

Engage with library staff and learn with librarians while playing games, making art, and creating new knowledge with the SSC Community.

Check the calendar each week for different events, ranging from chess tournaments and paint parties to financial literacy workshops and spotlights on library services, resources, and collections!

Attend any Lunchbrary event, grab free snacks, and earn attendance credit for your first-year experience (FYE) IDS1107 course.

Your Library.  Your Lunchbrary!

Lunchbrary is back this Spring with another exciting term of student engagement events, Wednesdays @ SLM Library.

Program collabs with two different stages - area one for departments across the college and area two is for student life organizations.

Congratulations to the Chess Club @ Seminole State College of Florida! 

Club of the Year at the Sanford/Lake Mary (SLM) campus for 2024-2025. 

DJ, Sam, Quinn, and Dani collected the prize at the annual Student Life Awards on April 16, 2025. 

Students from the SLM Library formed the SLM Chess Club during Lunchbrary and Nightbrary.  

The library serves as club headquarters with numerous chess boards in the Game Gallery section at SLM. 

Students hold club meetings and host tournaments during Lunchbrary and Nightbrary. 

I proudly serve as the faculty advisor for the SLM Chess Club.  Congrats!

Participated in Seminole State's Campus READ-Aloud event.

Spring 2025 Campus READ book =

The Midnight Library 

by author Matt Haig. 

Live streamed a reading of 

pages 160-184. 

Access the video on the

 SSC Library YouTube channel.

Served in my 4th year as an official volunteer with the Foundation of Seminole State College for the school's annual Dream Gala fundraising event, where a whopping $630,000 was raised to supper student scholarships and faculty programs.

2025 Dream Gala Total Raised = $630,000
2024 Dream Gala Total Raised = $609,000
2023 Dream Gala Total Raised = $590,000
2022 Dream Gala Total Raised = $550,000

Created a free, drop-in improv workshop series with faculty Theatre Professor Niki Salamon in the Seminole State College black box space - Le Petit Théâtre, where we teach college students the fundamentals of performing improvisational theater.

Participated in the 2nd Annual "Back To School 5K" to benefit the Seminole State Men and Women's Cross Country teams.

Presenting with a panel of academic librarian colleagues from Florida State College and University libraries on student engagement in the academic library at the Florida Library Association (FLA) pre-conference session on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.

This 3-hour panel discussion and break-out experiential learning session is a pre-conference event (Extra ticket required $40) event the day before the 2025 FLA Conference.

Academic Librarian Speakers:

Sarah Hammill, FIU

Jason Anfinsen, SSC

Nicole Sotak, SSC

Jasmine George, UCF

Jasmine Simmons, UF

Leah Plocharczyk, FAU

Traveled as a faculty chaperone with students from the Grindle Honors Institute at Seminole State to the Southern Regional Honors Council (SRHC) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, March 27-29.

Excellent professional development experience!

Attended the 17th Annual Academic Excellence Symposium @ Daytona State College and supported two librarian colleagues, Nicole Sotak and Elena Soltau (and Biology Professor Simone Nelson), who presented on emerging technologies in library instruction & a.i. in higher education, respectively. 

Selected to serve on the Raiders Lifelong Learning & Leadership (Raiders 3L) as a graduate of the Seminole State College Leadership Academy Class 15.

3L is a program designed specifically for Leadership Academy graduates to build upon their Leadership Academy experience and apply their leadership skills and abilities through leadership programming.