Mark your calendars! The Saint Mary's College Library will be hosting a special Crafternoon workshop on Monday, November 4 between 3-5 in the Library Learning Lab. We'll be learning how to Zentangle from Debbie Thompson, a Certified Zentangle Teacher (also, fun fact: Debbie is married to Roger Thompson, our SMC President).
Zentangle is an easy-to-learn, relaxing and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. A Zentangle design can look intricate but with one stroke at a time the complicated becomes simple.
All are welcome! Wheelchair accessible. Supplies are provided.
Questions? Contact Margot Hanson: mdh15@stmarys-ca.edu
Wikipedia is everywhere! But do you know what it is and how it works?
Quiet Book Club is a time and space for us to sit quietly and read our own thing...together!
Challenge your wits with a variety of mind-bending puzzles and games that will test your problem-solving skills.
Let's celebrate a semester of Crafternoons! Show off your crafting or upcycling skills and bring a small handcrafted, free, or found gift, wrapped and ready to swap. 
Join us for some hand sewing! You can come up with your own project or try one of our suggestions: passport holders, small pouches, and triangle bookmarks. We have a variety of fabric remnants for you to choose from for your projects, as well as sewing needles and thread (but we don't have sewing machines).
As the weather cools and the sweaters, hats, and scarves come out, join us at this week's Crafternoon on the Library balcony (2nd floor, quad side) to work on a knit or crochet project, or learn how to knit or crochet.
Come participate in a special Veterans Week-themed Crafternoon on the lawn outside the Library and make cards and posters for our SMC Veterans. Once we finish our crafting, the completed cards and banners will go up in the SMC Veterans Lounge.
We have a special Crafternoon planned for this coming Monday, 10/23, in collaboration with the Mission & Ministry Center - Our Lady of Guadalupe program. Join us in the Library Learning Lab on the first floor between 3-4:30 (an extra half hour!) to do crafting in preparation for Dia de los Muertos.
Want to learn about the many library perks for SMC staff? Pop by our staff library crawl!
Monday, October 2, 3-4pm on the Library balcony!
The 100 days of summer are almost upon us. Rest, recharge and live longer* (!?) by reading a book! Join our summer reading challenge: download a reading log, and if you read 15 minutes per day, log it.
Every 10 days earns you one entry into our raffle for awesome library swag, including this cool Carhartt cooler that keeps beverages and snacks icy cold on those hot Moraga days:
Grab a book from our popular reading collection or check out our database NoveList Plus to find your next best read to suit whatever mood you’re in. Try out NoveList’s super fun appeal generator!
Instructions:
⬇️ Download a reading log (or pick one up in the library)
🖍 Color in a box on the log for every day you read or listened to a book for 15 minutes or more (May 24-Sept 3, 2025).
📷 Submit a photo of your log to bit.ly/smclsr2025
🏆 Get 1 prize raffle entry for every 10 days you read. Receive 5 bonus entries for reading all 100 days!
* According to Bavishi et al. (2016), adult book readers lived, on average, almost two years longer than those who didn't read books.
Bavishi, A., Slade, M. D., & Levy, B. R. (2016). A chapter a day: Association of book reading with longevity. Social Science & Medicine, 164, 44-48. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953616303689
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