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05/26/2026

What are you reading this summer? Here’s some of our faves 🤗 Don’t forget to log each day you read on your summer reading game board!

05/25/2026

🔦 Special Collections Spotlight! 🔦

Title: Shadow Play
Book Artist: Ann Kresge

The six shadow puppets are on sticks and fastened to the inside of the four-flap portfolio with velcro. The stage, fastened to the base of the portfolio, is a tunnel book made with translucent paper. The accompanying accordion-style booklet describes the puppets and encourages play.
"Produced by the artist in her studio, Mossybrook Press, in High Falls, N.Y., and at WSW in Rosendale, N.Y. The poems are by Melinda Kennedy and the other text was collaboratively written."
An edition of 125.

Books in Decker Library’s Special Collections can be viewed by appointment only. Email [email protected] to schedule a time to look at the collection!

05/20/2026

🔦 Special Collections Spotlight! 🔦

Title: E Unum Pluribus
Book Artist: Slavko Djuric

"E unum pluribus (Many within One) is a set of unbound prints composed from 20 linocuts overprinted in numerous press runs. While their visual likeness suggests interconnectedness, each print exists as a part of an undefinable whole. The viewer is invited to explore these connections by assembling them in any desired order."

Books in Decker Library’s Special Collections can be viewed by appointment only. Email [email protected] to schedule a time to view special collections!

05/07/2026

Decker Library Summer Hours!

The library is open this Saturday May 9th from 1-4pm for returns.

From May 11th to July 10th the library will be Monday through Friday 12-4pm.
From July 12th to August 21st the library will be open Monday through Thursday 10am-5pm and Fridays 10am-4pm.

Semester hours will commence Monday August 24th, first day of Fall classes.

05/01/2026

Decker Library Summer Reading is here! Every day you read 15 mins or more, advance a space of your game board. Reading includes, books, articles, poems, short stories, or audio books!

Miss a day? No worries! You can complete side quests to fill in a space and catch up. Win a prize when you make it to the halfway point, marked by the star, and another when you read your way to the finish line. If all 100 days are completed, you will also enter a raffle for a special prize 🏆

Stop by the library to pick up your summer reading zine and game board today! 😎

04/27/2026

Special Collections Spotlight! 🔦

Title: Biobay Crankie
Book Artist: Jessica White

"This is a hand-printed scroll housed in a wooden box with a hand-cranking mechanism, all individually made. This crankie is about kayaking through Biobay in Puerto Rico, where bioluminescent bacteria glow as you make your way through the mangrove forest into the open bay. They speckled as small dots and made me feel like I could hold the stars. Linoleum cut printed on Japanese Kozo paper, printed in an edition of 30. The text is letterpress printed from metal type. It measures approximately 7" high by 9" wide by 3" deep." -- Artist's website.

Books in Decker Library’s Special Collections can be viewed by appointment only.

04/22/2026

Coming soon... 100 Days of Summer! Decker Library’s NEW Summer Reading Challenge.

Read, explore, unplug, and win prizes! Pick up your game board starting April 29th. 📖📚️🗺️🌴🎁

04/13/2026

Happy National Student Employment Week!
Shout-out to the incredible student workers who make Decker Library what it is! Our student workers help you at the circulation desk, get everything back on the shelf, process new materials, pack up all your Interlibrary Loans, and fill the library with their art, pins, and good humor. Thank you for everything you do!!!

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Image 1: A scattering of thank you cards, with one centered. It reads “Thank you! From Decker Library!” alongside a drawing of a wizard standing on a stack of books.

Image 2: Drawing on a white board. The words “EARTH DAY” surround a drawing of the Earth, with a flowering vine border.

Image 3: Two sketches of faces on sticky notes

Image 4: A library display. Whiteboard in the back, reading “Decker Library’s Most Beloved Movies” with a drawing of a wizard hugging DVD cases. DVDs in the foreground, labeled with pink hearts.

Image 5: 5 DIY pins: Cherry blossoms in DC, The Kiss by Gustav Klimt, an illustration of a fountain, the character Yotsuba Koiwai, a shiba inu with a cherry blossom background

Image 6: A drawing on a white box of a wizard and creatures eating a book. It says “I love books!”

04/10/2026

Special Collections Spotlight! 🔦

Title: Transpose/Tahawool/تحول
Book Artist: Islam Aly

"'Transpose' is a bilingual book in English and Arabic that investigates talismanic shirts. A worn textile that was believed to offer protection and guidance to the carrier. Historically there were various uses for the talismanic shirts; they could be worn as a shield in battles, during illness, used as protective amulets, and produced for ceremonial purposes. They would have a distinctive vocabulary, a mixture of religious texts, sacred invocations, symbols, magic squares, and seal markings. In 'Transpose', seven pamphlets taking the shapes of shirts are designed and enclosed in the box. Each invokes a different wish: Power, Celebration, Magic, Prosperity, Affection, Peace, and Health. 'Transpose' reveals how garments embed our backgrounds, experiences, decisions, and memories allowing us to live through each garment. The book challenges the notion of power and privilege. Traditionally, these shirts were dedicated to the elite and kept protected in drawers and boxes. Transpose makes these wishes unrestricted for viewers to be rearranged and reordered in various ways according to their preference. After taking away all the pamphlets, the viewer can read a quote on the inner side of the box, emphasizing a greater meaning to each shirt." - Artist’s statement.

Books in Decker Library’s Special Collections can be viewed by appointment only. Scheduling link in bio.

03/27/2026

Congrats to our winners this year!

1. Funniest/Punniest goes to “A Wrinkle in Time” by Mary Alessi
2. Least Edible went to “The Years of Rice and Salt” by Debby Viles
3. Most School Spirit for “1300 Mt. Royal, Senior Edition: 1955” by Nicole O’Hara
4. Most Interactive goes to “Odesa” by Amy Kozak
5. Most Appetizing for “Egg & Nest” by Jen Ditkoff
6. And last but not least, Most Creative went to “The Hobbit” by Ellen Lupton

Thank you to all who participated and came out to support this creative culinary experience. We had a blast! See you next year!

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1401 W Mount Royal Avenue
Baltimore, MD
21217

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 6pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 6pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 6pm
Thursday	8:30am - 6pm
Friday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday	1pm - 5pm
Sunday	1pm - 5pm

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+14102252273

Website

http://www.mica.edu/library

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