Save the Date and Spread the Word: BookFest '26

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:20:54 -0400

Dear all,

I've created the BookFest event in our myUMBC group (I think the flyer was acting glitchy, but there is an attachment you can download). Please share the flyer and initial BookFest info with your colleagues and collaborators across campus. Here is a blurb you can use as well as the poster, created by UMBC student Sonia Pivovarov. We will have an event calendar shortly and will begin a print advertising campaign soon; for now, though, please share widely!

Save the date for UMBC BookFest '26! Celebrate all things books--making them, reading them, preserving them, donating them, advocating for them--across campus during National Library Week on April 21 & 23. Events will include BookMarkIt on the Library Plaza, featuring letterpress printing, zinemaking and swaps, a book drive, giveaways, and more! In collaboration with Maryland Humanities' One Maryland, One Book program, we'll welcome Lawrence Burney, author of the 2026 OMOB selection No Sense in Wishing and in partnership with the Maryland State Library Agency, we'll learn from the Maryland state librarian, Morgan Miller, how to protect the freedom to read. Stay tuned for a full schedule of events!