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Meriam Library is celebrating National Nutrition Month during the month of March! National Nutrition Month is an annual nutrition education and information campaign created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This campaign focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. Some key messages from this campaign are:

Discover the benefits of a healthy eating style.

Choose foods and drinks that are good for your health.

Select healthier options when eating away from home.

At the Janet Turner Print Museum a collection of rare books selected from the Meriam Library Special Collections and University Archives are currently on exhibit.

Renaissanced was curated by History Professor Jason Nice and students in Renaissance Civilization: 1300-1550, students explore prints in the Turner Collection to analyze and complicate the enduring themes of the Renaissance.

Visit the fourth floor of Meriam Library and peek at the spooky display of books, DVDs, and decorations!

The OneCard program, a partnership between Butte County Public Library and the Meriam Library is officially launching in October. All CSU students and employees will receive an email about the program. This email will include your Library Barcode number and your PIN number to use the Butte County Public Library.

This program allows all CSU Chico students and employees access to the electronic resources at Butte County Public Library. For more information about this program, please see: https://library.csuchico.edu/onecard.

Celebrate Banned Books Week: September 22-September 28, 2019 at Meriam Library.

In an exciting new twist Meriam Library has begun obtaining textbooks for student use. With funding from a Student Learning Fee Grant, Meriam Library is providing textbooks for student use through Course Reserve. Textbooks can be checked out at four hour intervals. Because of the vast amount courses offered at CSU, Chico, textbooks could not be obtained for all of them. Using the criteria of high enrollment and high drop/fail/withdraw rates, Meriam Library decided on 40 courses to which they would obtain textbooks (textbook availability was also a factor, along with online access codes).

Finals have you stressed? We got you! Meriam Library will once again offer Destress Fest to help you relax and recharge during the last weeks of the semester. Our goal is to offer a welcome diversion, allowing you to chill, take a break and disengage from studying for a few minutes.

There will be a variety of fun activities including puzzles, stickers, crafts, buttons, crayons and coloring pages as well as study supplies, and snacks, while supplies last.

This week, the Meriam Library joins libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating the dynamic changes that are happening in today’s libraries. April 7-13 is National Library Week a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and library workers, and to promote library use and support The National Library Week 2019 celebration will mark the 61st anniversary of the first event, sponsored in 1958.

Over the last year, StoryCenter and the California State Library worked with public libraries around the State in eight counties (Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Santa Barbara, Sonoma, Shasta, Ventura, and Yolo) in collecting personal reflections and stories for the California Wildfire Story Project, as part of their larger California Listens story effort.