Sacramento City College Library

10/01/2026

🥦 OUR PICKS

This week’s pick is How Not to Die by Michael Greger, M.D., with Gene Stone.

The book explores the relationship between food, nutrition, and long-term health, making the case for a predominantly whole-food, plant-based diet and examining research on some of the most common chronic diseases.

Interested in nutrition, public health, or just curious about the arguments behind plant-based eating? Add this one to your reading list. 📚🍎

Find it on our Our Picks display and check it out from the SCC Library!

💡 Have a book or movie you think we should feature next? Send us your recommendation!

09/29/2026

📚 OUR PICKS

This week’s pick is Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism by Kathleen Stock.

In Material Girls, philosopher Kathleen Stock examines debates about s*x, gender, gender identity, and how these concepts intersect with feminism, law, and public policy. Whether you agree with her arguments or want to engage critically with them, it’s a book built around questions that continue to generate a lot of discussion.

Find it on our Our Picks display and check it out from the SCC Library! 📖

💡 Have a book or movie you think should be featured next? We want to hear your recommendations!

09/28/2026

🚀 OUR PICKS

This week’s pick is An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon.

Aster lives aboard the HSS Matilda, a generation ship carrying the last survivors of humanity toward a promised new home. But life aboard the ship is deeply unequal, with its rigid social structure recreating many of the injustices of the world its passengers left behind.

Part science fiction, part mystery, and part exploration of race, gender, power, and resistance, An Unkindness of Ghosts is a great pick if you like your sci-fi with something to say. 📚✨

Find it on our Our Picks display and check it out from the SCC Library!

💡 Have a book or movie you think we should feature next? Send us your recommendation!

09/24/2026

🎬 OUR PICKS

Looking for something a little strange for movie night? 👀

This week’s pick is The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers’ atmospheric 2019 film starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. Two lighthouse keepers, a remote island, increasingly questionable sanity...and one very memorable seagull. 🌊🐦

You can check out the DVD from the SCC Library. And no DVD player? No problem! We check out portable DVD players, too. 💿

Stop by and ask us about either one!

💡 Have a book or movie you think we should feature next? Send us your recommendation!

09/23/2026

📚 OUR PICKS

This week’s pick is Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King.

Set in 1938 during the Japanese colonial period, the novel follows a Japanese writer traveling through Taiwan with a young Taiwanese interpreter. Food, language, friendship, and the complicated relationship between colonizer and colonized all become part of their journey. 🍚📖

Taiwan Travelogue won the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

Find it at the SCC Library and check it out!

💡 Have a book or movie you think we should feature? We want your picks, too!

09/16/2026

📚 Looking for something good to read (or watch)?

Check out Our Picks, our newly refreshed collection of book and video recommendations from SCC students, faculty, and staff!

Each pick includes a recommendation from someone in our campus community explaining why they think it's worth your time—from novels and mysteries to nonfiction, philosophy, film, and more.

See something that looks good? You can check it out! 🙌

Stop by the library and find your next read—or scan the QR codes to learn more.

Have a book or movie you think belongs on the display? Let us know! 👀

09/14/2026

🌱 Our latest library display is growing! 🌱

Stop by and check out our collection of books about plants, gardening, food, sustainability, nature, and more. 📚🌿

And occasionally, the display has something you don't have to return to the library: free plants to adopt! 🪴

Plants are available while supplies last (and they tend to go quickly!), but keep checking back—we may have more throughout the semester.

Come browse the display and maybe find something new to grow—or read. 🌱📖

04/02/2026

04/02/2026

We loved hosting the Puente/RAZA Student Silkscreen Print Exhibit on March 26! Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the incredible creativity and voices of our students.

Missed it? You’re in luck. The artwork has moved upstairs and is now on display on the 3rd floor of the library. Stop by and take some time with these powerful, vibrant prints.

10/29/2025

Come to the LRC second floor on Thursday, October 30, for a town hall on current events. From the organizers: "it's a Town Hall for students to share their perspectives, questions, concerns, and even anger, thus offering a listening session for colleagues and college employees with curiosity, belonging, and collective sense-making. Whether you need to voice your concerns, ask questions, or simply be in community with others navigating these times, you belong here."

This is a Town Hall for students to share their perspectives, questions, concerns, and even anger, thus offering a listening session for colleagues and college employees with curiosity, belonging, and collective sense-making.