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Celebration of the Powell Society 2022 Digital Care Package

Thank you for your generous support of the UCLA Library. Our Stressbusters program provides Bruins with in person and online stress-relieving activities during finals. Inspired by this, we’ve made a virtual care package just for you, our donors! Scroll down to enjoy words of thanks from Library staff, a cheerful video from UCLA Health’s therapy animals, book and movie recommendations, concert recordings, and much more. Thank you for all you do!

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UCLA Powell Library

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A Letter from the Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian

Dear Friends of the UCLA Library,

More than two years after the pandemic shuttered campus buildings, the jacaranda trees are blossoming, a marker of spring at UCLA. Displays of these glorious flowers – purple-blue panicles – are abundant alongside the Charles E. Young Research Library in the adjacent Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden.

We know the pandemic, inflation and other factors will continue to have an impact on Library operations. A lot more work is going to be done remotely, even on a campus like UCLA’s that is about the in-person experience. Looking ahead, UCLA Library will be guided by lessons learned during the pandemic, evolving people-centered services and technologies to empower communities of scholars to create and share knowledge, wherever they are.

As we stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us, we are thankful that, with your partnership, we will continue to move knowledge forward, building a library for the future – online and in-person.

We hope you enjoy this digital care package that was put together by our student workers and library staff. Thank you again and we hope to see you in-person very soon

With warm regards,

Ginny Steel

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Thank you for attending Powell Society 2022!

It is was our honor to host our annual Powell Society event at the Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL) as we slowly transition back to in person events at UCLA Library. We hope you enjoyed your time at the Library!

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Powell Cat Stickers and Buttons

🐾 Meet Powell Cat 🐾

History of Powell Cat

Powell Cat is our adorable campus cat that resides outside of Kaufman Hall on Wilson Plaza. Powell Cat first appeared in the summer of 2015 at Powell Library. As a campus celebrity, Powell Cat is taken care of and loved by students and staff members. Powell Cat has received all his vaccinations and is fed appropriately by students and staff members.

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Thank you from our UCLA Librarians and Staff 📝

Thank you for your gift to the UCLA Library. You make it possible for UCLA students, faculty, and researchers to access the Library’s world-class collections, innovative spaces, and essential instruction services. With your contributions, the UCLA Library maintains a collection of over twelve million print and electronic volumes, provides countless hours of writing and research training, employs hundreds of student workers, and much more.

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People-Animal Connection (PAC)

Therapy Pets

🐾 Watch Adorable Therapy Pets 🐾

UCLA People-Animal Connection (PAC)

UCLA People-Animal Connection is one of the most comprehensive Animal-Assisted Therapy and Activity (AAT/A) programs in the nation. PAC volunteer teams (consisting of the canine and his/her human partner) offer companionship and warmth to more than 1,000 critically ill children and adults per month. PAC is an active partner of the Stressbusters program. Therapy pets are hosted every quarter at Powell Library to provide stress relief for students during finals week.

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Watch Virtual Events from our YouTube Channel 💻

Donor Exclusive Virtual Events

We would love to present to you our UCLA Library virtual events

Our Library staff worked diligently to give you an amazing virtual experience from the comfort of your home during the pandemic. We hope you enjoy hearing from our special guests on extraordinary topics!

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Sit Back and Enjoy a Fun Read 📚

Book Recommendations from Students!

You're Kind of a Big Deal: Level Up by Unlocking Your Audacity by Erin King

While big dreams and confidence might get you started, they won’t fuel you throughout the marathon and over the finish line. In order to keep going through thick and thin, you need audacity. You’re Kind of a Big Deal provides the strategies, tools, and inspiration you need to power up your potential, break free from limiting beliefs, and make your biggest dreams a reality.

Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook: by Sonya Renee Taylor

Taylor writes. “I encourage you to release the need to be ‘good' at what you are doing and instead strive to be authentic. Perfection is the enemy of radical self-love because it is an impossible illusion. When the voice of perfectionism chimes in, take a deep breath, remember that the work is about the process, not about the product, and give yourself permission to be fabulously unapologetically imperfect.”

You Don't Owe Anyone: Free Yourself from the Weight of Expectations by Caroline Garnet McGraw

You Don't Owe Anyone is for perfectionists, workaholics, people pleasers, and strivers who feel stuck in the try-hard cycle. These personal stories serve as a compassionate witness, a reflection of our own perfectionistic tendencies. They also are a wakeup call jolting us out of our martyr mentality and inspiring us to move in new, positive directions.

The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All: Southern Recipes, Sweet Remembrances, and a Little Rambunctious Behavior by Mary Martha Greene

So many stories could be written about Greene's Aunt Mimi's cheese biscuits—the countries they visited, and the lies, half-truths, cheating, and conniving of small children (not to mention grown adults) to get them. For Greene, who inherited the title of Cheese Biscuit Queen—and the recipe—from her aunt, making the biscuits and continuing to share Aunt Mimi's recipe keeps her love and legacy alive.

Life Will See You Now: Quit Waiting for the Light at the End of the Tunnel by Gavin Oattes

A personal development title with a difference - there's no step-by-step guide and no map to change your life - instead, it provides you with hilarious, real life inspiration, motivation and energy to figure it out for yourself and rediscover that wee piece of magic you had when you were just five years old.

How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, one of Rome's greatest politicians, speakers, and lawyers. Cicero was also reputedly one of antiquity's funniest people. How to Tell a Joke provides a lively new translation of Cicero's essential writing on humor. The result is a timeless practical guide to how a well-timed joke can win over any audience

Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations by Ned Sherrin

Quips come from classic humorists such as Wilde Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx and the nouveaux droles, including Stephen Fry, P.J. O'Rourke, Douglas Adams, Graham Norton and Meera Syal.

Once in a Blue Moon Lodge by Lorna Landvik

Set adrift when her mother sells the salon that has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences, and her getaway turns out to be more of a retreat from her daily life than she ever imagined.

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🎵 Music to Relax, Dance, and Energize 🎵

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🎥 Watch trending and inspiring films students are watching! 🎬

Movies to Watch 📺

King Richard

A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.

Turning Red

Mei Lee is a 13-year-old girl who is torn between being her mother's obedient daughter and the chaos of her youth. As if that were not enough, when she gets too excited, she turns into a big red panda.

Encanto

The Madrigals are an extraordinary family who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia in a charmed place called the Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift -- every child except Mirabel. However, she soon may be the Madrigals last hope when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is now in danger.

The Lost Daughter

A college professor confronts her unsettling past after meeting a woman and her young daughter while on vacation in Italy. Her obsession with the woman and her daughter prompts memories of her early motherhood.

October Sky

The 1950s space race inspires four West Virginia teens to begin creating their own rockets in the hopes of getting out of their coal-mining town.

The Great British Baking Show

Bakers attempt three challenges each week trying to impress the judges enough to go through to the next round and eventually are crowned Britain's best amateur baker. A group of British home bakers are convened for a baking competition.

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Powell Society 2019 Throwback!

Powell Society 2019
See our collection of memorable moments during Powell Society 2019. We hope this sparks joyful memories of your participation. We hope to plan more in-person events in the future!

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Powell Library Illustration

Thank you so much for continuing to support the UCLA Library!