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General Collection: We are eliminating overdue fines on general collection materials. General materials include items in the main stakes, media browsing, closed stacks and storage, and the recreational reading collection. Fines will remain on ILL, reserves, equipment, and recalls.

Equipment: Overdue fines on circulating equipment have also been reduced. Information for laptops and equipment loans is available in the borrowing section of the Library website.

Amnesty: We have moved to a new amnesty model that gives borrowers one waiver per semester.

Food for Fines: In addition to the changes outlined above, the Library has partnered with the Brandeis Food Pantry to establish a new Food for Fines program. Patrons can now pay their overdue fines with a donation of non-perishable food or hygiene items that will go to the Brandeis Food Pantry. Each item donated is worth $5 toward Library fines.

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Missing Book Returns to Brandeis Library After More Than 40 Years

Sometimes, missing things find their way home.

Bruce Davidson’s East 100th Street disappeared from the Brandeis Library in 1973. It would not return for several decades. Presumed gone forever, the book was eventually replaced with another copy, and students and faculty continued to have access to the photographer’s striking black-and-white photography of a poverty-stricken block in East Harlem.

Then one day in 2015, the book arrived back at the Library with a note from the former student who had held onto it for 42 years.

“I am returning to you a book that I have had since 1973. While I have come across the book amongst my things many times, I have thought about it differently at different points in my life. As it lay carelessly strewn on a coffee table throughout the 70s, I’m pretty sure any inclination to return it was met with a misguided need to be an outlaw…to give expression to a rebellious impulse buried deep in my otherwise overly obedient, somewhat depressed, young self. In later years, coming across it would bring up feelings of guilt, followed by the decision to return it, followed by distraction and inaction. Now coming across the book, I feel shame and sadness. I see that it was given to the library as a gift in memory of a friend. I see that the images are powerful and could have influenced the perspective of the next person to pick it up off the library shelf. I see that books are precious, especially in the age of e-books and i-everything, and I did not keep this one in the best condition. I see that I had no business keeping it at all.

“I am returning this book with apologies to the folks who gave it to the library, to the man in whose name it was given, to the people whose images are in the pages, to the students who didn’t get to see it while it was missing, and to the University.”

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The Brandeis Library is building a non-English recreational reading collection!

Available across from the Information & Borrowing Desk in the Goldfarb Library, the collection features about 50 titles in Hindi and Chinese.

The Library is continuously working to be a place where the entire Brandeis community can feel welcome. When international students walk through the doors, they will now have more opportunities to see material in their native language.

You can help us grow the recreational reading collection! If you would like to suggest a title or a non-English language we should include, please email libacq@brandeis.edu .

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We know finals are crazy and stressful, but we've got you covered. Check out our destress stations (Lego, origami, coloring, and puzzles) and come hang with some therapy dogs on Friday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday afternoons on Farber Mezz and a petting zoo at the Usdan entrance on Monday from 11-1! #brandeis #finals #finalsweek #brandeislibrary #brandeisfinals #destress #lego #puzzles #coloring #therapydogs #pettingzoo #origami #librarydestress (at The Goldfarb Library)

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Huge thanks to @brandeis_dining for their stunning cake featuring famous blond authors and delectable flowers! Thank you for all you do! Today is the Brandeis #ediblebookfestival! Take a look at our entries and come to the first floor of #Goldfarb #Library now to vote and at 2pm for eating! (at The Goldfarb Library)

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Today is the Brandeis #ediblebookfestival! Take a look at our entries and come to the first floor of #Goldfarb #Library now to vote and at 2pm for eating! (at The Goldfarb Library)

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Today is the Brandeis #ediblebookfestival! Take a look at our entries and come to the first floor of #Goldfarb #Library now to vote and at 2pm for eating! (at The Goldfarb Library)

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Today is the Brandeis #ediblebookfestival! Take a look at our entries and come to the first floor of #Goldfarb #Library now to vote and at 2pm for eating! (at The Goldfarb Library)

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Today is the Brandeis #ediblebookfestival! Take a look at our entries and come to the first floor of #Goldfarb #Library now to vote and at 2pm for eating! (at The Goldfarb Library)

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Today is the Brandeis #ediblebookfestival! Take a look at our entries and come to the first floor of #Goldfarb #Library now to vote and at 2pm for eating! (at The Goldfarb Library)

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Today is the Brandeis #ediblebookfestival! Take a look at our entries and come to the first floor of #Goldfarb #Library now to vote and at 2pm for eating! (at The Goldfarb Library)

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No long awkward pauses, no worries about splitting the check. During February, come check out a Blind Date With A Book @ Info and Borrowing and you won't have to judge by the cover! 📚#brandeislibrary #brandeis #library #blinddatewithabook (at The Goldfarb Library)

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We loved seeing everyone at the Registration Celebration! Check the link in our profile if you weren't able to make it or if you have questions about voting in MA or any other state or territory! We'll be hosting an Absentee Jamboree on Oct. 21, so come with your ballots and get them witness, notarized, and mailed! #getoutthevote #getoutthevote2016 #registertovote #voterregistration #brandrislibrary #brandeisuniversity #

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September’s Spotlight shines on a wonderful new acquisition: an inscribed, first edition of Jonah’s Gourd Vine by author, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. This copy of Hurston’s debut novel is a stunning artifact of the art, literature, and society of the Harlem Renaissance, and fits well with several other Special Collections holdings related to Hurston’s contemporaries (including Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten, and Fannie Hurst). See the Spotlight for details, written by Matthew Chernick, Masters Student in Comparative Humanities and Archives & Special Collections assistant. ---------Special Collections Spotlight provides a close online look at rare and fascinating items from the special collections of Brandeis Libraries, including unique manuscripts, rare books, and unusual ephemera. Click on the link from the Archives and Special Collections home page, or go directly to brandeisspecialcollections.blogspot.com.

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Color, fold, build!  Brandeis students do amazing work even on their study breaks!

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Finals fuel available on Goldfarb 1!  Beginning tonight, we are providing all the major food groups - chewy, chocolately, salty, crunchy, and fruity - on the Info Commons.  Goodies available until we run out.

Take a break, stretch your legs, grab some snacks!