The Cayuga Community College Faculty Association Professional Growth Committee and Cayuga Community College Library present the Faculty Enrichment Seminar:

"The Nap by the Waterfall,"

featuring CCC Professor of English Howard Nelson, reading from his new book of poems.

The event will take place at the Norman F. Bourke Memorial Library on Friday, March 12th, from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

All faculty, staff and students are welcome.

Refreshments will be served.

The Norman F. Bourke Memorial Library, in collaboration with the Community Wide Dialogue to End Racism, presents

"When Gwendolyn Brooks Came to Auburn," a poetry reading and talk by CCC Professor of English Howard Nelson.

The free public event will take place on Thursday, February 11th, 2010, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Library.

Please join us in exploring the life and works of Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

The Norman F. Bourke Memorial Library will hold its 2nd Annual Paperback Book Exchange event on Friday, December 4, 2009 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the library.

Bring in your used, no-longer wanted paperbacks to exchange them for others from our free book collection. Refreshments will be served.

The Cayuga Reads book selection for Fall 2009 is Pay It Forward, by Catherine Ryan Hyde. Pay It Forward is a novel about a 12-year-old boy who comes up with an extraordinarily altruistic response to an extra-credit assignment in Social Studies: "Think of an idea for world change, and put it into action." His idea is to do a good deed for three people, and in exchange, ask each of them to "pay it forward" to three more, with no expectation of reward. Despite the serious challenges in his own life and in the lives of the damaged people he affects, his acts of kindness bear unexpected fruit, and soon an entire movement is underway and spreading across America.

Copies of the book are available at both the Auburn and Fulton campus libraries.

Cayuga Reads is a community reading program that encourages people from all walks of life to read a single book, then come together to discuss it. Its goal is to promote reading, encourage conversation, and strengthen community ties. Cayuga Reads is sponsored by the Auburn Enlarged City School District, Cayuga Community College, Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES and Seymour Library.

During the month of October 2009, a series of book discussions will be held at the Norman F. Bourke Memorial Library on the Auburn campus and in the Learning Commons on the Fulton campus of Cayuga Community College. In addition, a showing of the 2000 feature film, Pay It Forward, will be presented in the Bisgrove Community Theater at CCC. Event dates and times are posted on the Calendar of Events on the CCC website, and at the Information Desk in the Library. All Cayuga Reads events are free and open to the public.

For more information, check the Cayuga Reads Web Site.