Old Main building at Gustavus Adolphus College during sunrise.

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  • Tea Tuesdays

    Starting this November, the Library will be offering Tea Tuesdays. Students, faculty and staff can come in and enjoy a hot cup of tea while de-stressing or…


  • Open Access Week – Take Action

    It’s time to celebrate the movement to free scholarly research and make it available to all. The Open Access Week website has some suggestions for…


  • Student Appreciation Event

    Students! We know you love the library as a place to study, conduct research, wrestle with ideas, and meet up with friends. You make the library…


  • Literary and Historical Award Display

    Check out our new display featuring some of the newest literary and historical award winning books. We order award winning books annually that have been…


  • Zines? What are they?

      Simple Definition of zine : a small magazine that is written by people who are not professional writers and that usually has stories about…


  • Indigenous Peoples Day

    photo of Dakota 38 Plus 2 Riders in Mankato, 2012, courtesy of The Uptake The library is observing Indigenous Peoples’ Day with an online resource…


  • Vote 2016

    We hear there’s something about an upcoming election this November….? We’re guess you have, too! While we’re not going to tell you who to vote…


  • Nobel Conference Resources

     A reminder that the Gustavus Library has both in person and online resources related to this year’s Nobel Conference! Books by our Nobel speakers are on a…


  • Banned Books Week

    Wait, people still ban books? Even in this day and age? Unfortunately yes, which is why we celebrate Banned Books Week every year. We celebrate our…


  • Cookies and Constitutions

    This Friday, September 16th, between 1 and 4 pm the library will celebrate Constitution Day, with frost-your-own cookies and pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution that…