Current Selection

Campus Read 2024-25: “Poverty, by America” by Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond is Lake Land College’s 2024-25 Campus Read. Check this page often to learn more about how you can participate, and be sure to pick up your free copy of the book at the Student Success Center or the Student Life offices.

Take a look at our Campus Read Guide webpage, presented by the Lake Land College Library, to check out the many fantastic resources available for this book.

Past Selections

Campus Read 2023-24: Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong

“To my younger self and all the disabled kids today who can’t imagine their futures. The world is ours, and this is for all of us.” – Alice Wong

What is a disability? What does having a disability mean to the one in five people in the United States who have one or several?

The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life’s ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, its wisdom, passion, and joy.

The accounts in this collection ask readers to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be “fixed,” but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. They offer diverse perspectives that speak to past, present, and future generations. It is essential reading for all.

Take a look at our Campus Read Guide webpage, presented by the Lake Land College Library, to check out the many fantastic resources available for this book, or download the discussion guide to get started.

Campus Read 2022-23: “So You Want to Talk About Race,” by Ijeoma Oluo

You may have noticed available copies of the book “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo at several recent events.

We as a College feel that the content of this book is important because we understand that many people have questions. Many of these questions feel difficult to ask, and it is very easy to feel that you are getting the conversation “wrong.” In this book, the author addresses many of these questions as well as many that she said she wishes more people would ask.

Issues such as intersectionality, micro-aggressions and many other situations people of color face on a regular basis are explored in this book, with the author sharing personal experiences about living life as a black woman.

We understand that some of the concepts and topics explored in these pages can be difficult to read or may make you uncomfortable. As Ijeoma says in the introduction to the book, “I hope that if parts of this book make you uncomfortable, you can sit with that discomfort for a while, to see if it has anything else to offer you.”

We hope you will take a book to read and we look forward to sharing discussions with you on this important topic.

Visit the Library Website to learn more!