Library Closed Labor Day Weekend

 

The Library will be closed Saturday, September 5th, through Monday, September 7th, and will resume regular hours on Tuesday the 8th. Have a safe and happy holiday weekend!

Semester Hours

Reeves Memorial Library Semester Hours:

Monday - Thursday, 8:00 a.m. - 9:50 p.m.

Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.

Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.

Sunday, 1:00 p.m. - 9:50 p.m.

Exception dates available on the library's home page: https://setonhill.libguides.com/library

Friday Reads: Olga Dies Dreaming

Happy first Friday of the Fall 2026 semester! We all deserve a break after making it through the first week of classes. Library Director Adam Pellman is here to tell us about a book from our fiction collection (yes, we have "fun books," too!), Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez.

This is a novel from our fiction collection that I’ve been meaning to read for a few years, and now I’ve made it a priority because the TV series adaptation will be hitting small screens soon, starring the incomparable Aubrey Plaza in the title role. Set in 2017, with snippets of letters written in years past to help fill in the characters’ history, the story centers on Nuyorican siblings Olga and Prieto Acevedo, who were abandoned by their mother decades ago when she migrated to Puerto Rico in support of a radical political cause. Olga is a successful wedding planner for Manhattan’s upper crust, while Prieto is a well-known congressman who splits his time between Washington D.C. and the Brooklyn neighborhood he represents. Their mother, Blanca, has kept tabs on them over the years, writing them letters but never attempting face-to-face contact. That is, until now, when Hurricane Maria’s catastrophic landfall in Puerto Rico has led Blanca back into her children’s lives.


The author is a Brooklyn native, and writes with equal parts affection and concern for her gentrifying hometown. The novel is brisk and full of humor, and even a little romance, all while tackling serious issues like class, injustice, corruption, race, identity, and colonialism. The Acevedos are an endearing bunch, even the complicated Blanca, whose hard choices hammer home the idea that the love of one’s family is foundational, but a life spent helping the oppressed is an expression of love, too.

First Week Library Hours

WELCOME TO FALL! We have adjusted hours for the first week as our student aides finalize their schedules. 

Monday 8/24 - Thursday 8/27: 8:00 a.m. - 7:50 p.m.
Friday 8/28: 8:00 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.
Saturday 8/29: 9:00 a.m. - 2:50 p.m.
Sunday 8/30: 1:00 p.m. - 6:50 p.m. 

Fall 2026 Library Newsletter

  The Fall 2026 Library Newsletter is out! Take a look at what's going on in the library:

 In This Issue...

• New Resource: Global Newsstream
• AI for Research Guide
• Now Streaming: Hamilton!
• New to SHU?
• Meet YOUR Librarian
• Archives News: Eva Fleischner Collection & SHU Historic Films Digitization Projects 

Friday Reads - Run, Rose, Run

 Our Friday Reads are pretty sporadic these days, but Public Services Librarian Kelly Clever has a summer read to share: Run, Rose, Run by... Dolly Parton and James Patterson?!

 

My family visited Dollywood on our summer vacation, and while I've always considered myself a Dolly Parton fan, even I didn't realize that she had written a suspense novel with James Patterson! The public library had the novel and the companion music CD, so I checked out both. 

The novel follows the path of AnnieLee Keyes, a young woman who hitches her way to Nashville with nothing but a sleeping bag, a Colt revolver, and dreams of making it big as a country music star. She's definitely running from something or someone, but her past is mysterious. Another major player in the book is a "retired" country superstar, who shares more than a few characteristics with the great Dolly Parton, herself. 

Dolly's deep knowledge of the music industry and the dark undercurrents running beneath the spotlights is evident throughout the novel, and the album is a great pairing with the book. The tracks appear in the story as songs written by AnnieLee and those she meets, and it's a treat to get to hear them performed rather than having to just imagine them from type on a page.

Summer 2026 Newsletter

 

The Summer 2026 newsletter is out! Catch up on the latest with the library: https://mailchi.mp/7c495090febb/library-newsletter-summer-10612545