Free your creativity by following some rules! Join Jenna Goldsmith, Rockford Poet Laureate, for a workshop celebrating National Poetry Month. We’ll discover Oulipo, Oulipians and the connection between poetry and mathematics! Jenna will be available for book signing after the workshop!

In this presentation, Dr. Amira Millicent Davis will guide you through the Chicago Black Renaissance from the early to mid-20th century. Presented by the Clarence Mitchell Library.

What information about you can be kept private, and what cannot? What are careful digital privacy practices we could consider adopting? Join HCC librarians Michael Skwara and Laura Watson for a 50-minute hands-on workshop exploring the answers to these questions. Register for the workshop here.  

What information about you can be kept private, and what cannot? What are careful digital privacy practices we could consider adopting? Join HCC librarians Michael Skwara and Laura Watson for a 50-minute hands-on workshop exploring the answers to these questions. Register for the workshop here.  

As we kick off a semester of learning more about mis and disinformation, get your critical evaluation game on! For our first One Book One Highland event, Highland's own Adam Moderow will lead a fast-paced mystery scavenger hunt that you and your friends can solve together! Members of the winning team (up to 3 participants […]

What information about you can be kept private, and what cannot? What are careful digital privacy practices we could consider adopting? Join HCC librarians Michael Skwara and Laura Watson for a 50-minute hands-on workshop exploring the answers to these questions. Register for the workshop here.  

As the effectiveness of search engines is noticeably diminished due to algorithmic manipulation of search results, and the questionable quality of an increasing number of AI generated results, the world seems more and more like The Library of Babel! Depicted in short story form by Argentine author and librarian, Jorge Luis Borges and first published […]

Readers and listeners are invited to join the Clarence Mitchell Library for a One Book One Highland read out and discussion of Jorge Luis Borges' classic short story, The Library of Babel. Though it was first published in 1941, it is relevant reading in today’s bewildering information environment.