Santa Rosa Junior College Libraries

Time to Vote!! Today (11/3/26) is Election Day for the California General Election. Check out SRJC Libraries Elections 2026 guide for state-wide and local voting information resources.

https://libguides.santarosa.edu/elections2026

Stop by and check out the Día de Mu***os altars and decorations that will be on display in SRJC Libraries through November 5th! 💀🌼

At Doyle Library, the decorations were created and arranged by the High School Equivalency Program (HEP). Thank you to HEP for sharing your creativity and family histories with our library community!

At Mahoney Library, you can find several altars, including the Latinas Petaluma Altar, EOPS Petaluma Altar, Art 4 Altar, and Petaluma Pets Community Altar. Thank you to all who have contributed!

For information on SRJC’s other Día de Mu***os celebrations and displays visit: https://intercultural.santarosa.edu/ddm

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🎃 A little Halloween fun at Doyle Library! 👻

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Halloween events! SRJC Libraries was happy to be part of both the Parenting Scholars/CalWORKs Trick-or-Treat on Campus event and the Classified Senate Halloween celebration.

For the CalWORKs event, Doyle Library staff dressed as witches to welcome student parents and their families for campus trick-or-treating. For the Classified Senate celebration, staff dressed up as book characters to join in the interdepartmental trick-or-treat festivities!

We’re grateful for the opportunity to connect with our campus community, celebrate together, and share a little spooky fun along the way. Thanks to all the participants and organizers who made these events special!

Happy Halloween from SRJC Libraries! 🎃

Looking for your next spooky-season read? Doyle Library's 2nd floor book displays celebrate the eerie, the uncanny, and the enchanting with three themed collections:

🎬 "Screams and Screens" — Explore the chilling world of horror films.

🕯️ "Macabre Meanderings" — Delve into the dark, mysterious, and atmospheric world of Gothic literature.

🧙 "Enchanted Histories" — Discover the history, practice, and cultural significance of witchcraft.

There's still time to explore! Our spooky-season displays and decorations will be up for one more week, so stop by, browse the collections, and find a read that captures the Halloween spirit.

Happy haunting, and happy reading! 👻

Herold Mahoney Library is open special hours tomorrow to take part in LumaFest!

Saturday, October 24, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
Parking is free.

LumaFest is the annual educational open house for SRJC Petaluma and a celebrarion of Dia de los Mu***os. Mahoney Library will feature altas for Dia de los Mu***os created by the the SRJC Petaluma campus community that are on view through Nov. 5. Come experience these beautiful colorful remembrances that honor our dearly departed, enjoy the festivities of LumaFest, and learn more about resources and community of SRJC Petaluma and the Herold Mahoney Library.

https://lumafest.santarosa.edu/

The Meaningless Monster
Forrest Lounibos, 2026 TRASH Artist

"During my first day scavenging at the Recology Recycling Center, another artist spotted a broken skateboard and gave it to me for my art project. Looking closely at the graphic, I recognized it as the exact one a friend used to have. I jokingly texted him a photo of it along with, “You broke your board?” I was shocked to find out it actually was his—stolen from him three weeks earlier while it was still practically brand new.

The pile at the Materials Recovery Facility is massive and is constantly shifted and cleared throughout the day. So, finding it was wild--it was like finding a needle in haystack. We were in the right place at precisely the right moment. Now, it's being given away again as the "The Meaningless Monster.”

The sculpture of a monster giving away his prized possession, a skateboard that is a reflection of himself, shows that items that are damaged like the skateboard with a crack through it are considered useless in society when actually they have value. Though there’s an idea that broken or discarded things don't have value, it merely depends on how a person perceives the item. Every discarded piece of trash has worth, even though it seems ruined. Though the monster is made of trash, it has value in its new form--regardless of how it looks."

Beautiful TRASH
The Beautiful TRASH exhibit features amazing artworks from six students who participated in a seven-week art residency program.

On view through December 11, 2026
Herold Mahoney Library Gallery
SRJC Petaluma: 680 Sonoma Mtn. Parkway, Petaluma

For more information about the Herold Mahoney Library Gallery, visit: https://libraries.santarosa.edu/mahoney_gallery

📚 Banned Books Week 2026 | October 4th–10th 📚

Come check out our Banned Books Week displays on the 4th floor of Doyle Library and the 1st floor of Mahoney Library!

This Banned Books Week, we join libraries, educators, and readers in recognizing the value of free and open access to information. This year’s theme, “Let Books Be. Protect the Freedom to Read,” calls attention to efforts to remove or restrict access to books and the importance of preserving access to a wide range of voices and perspectives.

Want to learn more about Banned Books Week? Follow the and visit: https://bannedbooksweek.org/ and https://www.ala.org/bbooks