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Spooky season wouldn’t be complete without watching a classic campy sci-fi show. This October, the local community can enjoy one of the 1950s B-movie bests for free while enjoying the fall weather.

UGA’s Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collections, one of the largest publicly accessibly media archives in the country, will host a screening of “The Brain from Planet Arous” on the lawn outside of the Special Collections Libraries. The event is scheduled to kickoff at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, with the film starting at 7 p.m.

Attendees are invited to bring picnic blankets and lawn chairs for the event, which will move indoors if the weather isn’t ideal. Whether outdoors or in, free popcorn will be provided for free. The event is open to anyone from the UGA and Athens community.

An upcoming University of Georgia Libraries event aims to nourish minds and help fill a local food pantry.

UGA’s Russell Library for Political Research and Studies has partnered with Campus Kitchen to host the annual Food, Power, and Politics Lecture, featuring a discussion on the increasing global need for food banks with expert and author Daniel Warshawsky.

The event is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10 at the UGA Special Collections Libraries. Attendees are encouraged to bring donations for Campus Kitchen’s annual "Turkey Palooza" Thanksgiving Food Drive, which aims to help provide Thanksgiving meals for families experiencing food insecurity in the Athens community.

The University of Georgia Libraries and the Center for Teaching and Learning invite full-time UGA faculty from all disciplines to apply

UPDATE: UGA Libraries will resume normal operational schedules at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28. The Miller Learning Center, Main Library, and McBay Science Library will reopen at that time, and other facilities will reopen on their normal schedules. For full hours visit libs.uga.edu/all-hours. 

Previously: All University of Georgia Libraries facilities will be closed Thursday, Sept. 26, and Friday, Sept. 27, in accordance with the campus closure due to inclement weather.

The Miller Learning Center and Main and McBay Libraries will close at midnight Wednesday night and, as of now, plan to reopen on Saturday. All events currently scheduled for Thursday and Friday have been canceled, including the Special Collections Libraries' Georgia Writers Hall of Fame event featuring Barbara Brown Taylor and John Bell.

UPDATE: This has been postponed. Information will be posted when it is rescheduled.

Newspaper accounts of key moments in Athens and University of Georgia history are available freely online as part of the Georgia Historic Newspapers database, thanks to a Digital Library of Georgia effort to digitize issues of the Athens Banner-Herald from 1928 to 1965.

Established in 1974, the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia will mark its 50^th anniversary this fall as the only archive in the state dedicated exclusively to documenting politics, policymaking, and public life. 

In celebration of this milestone, the Russell Library will host a pair of public events on Tuesday, Oct. 22, engaging several of the top political thought leaders on national security and international relations issues. The anniversary events will begin with a morning conversation with former U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss and retired Maj. General Arnold L. Punaro, followed by an afternoon discussion with internationally renowned UGA political science emeriti professors Gary Bertsch and Loch K. Johnson. 

During a two week stretch this September, University of Georgia Libraries will host three acclaimed authors (and some notable musicians) for fun, free events open to the community, as well as UGA students, faculty, and staff.

The first event celebrates Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Brandon Som and acclaimed Jordanian writer Siwar Masannat to campus to celebrate their recent publications with the Georgia Review Books, an imprint by the Georgia Review with the University of Georgia Press. Som's book Tripas was a finalist for the National Book Award before winning the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Masannat's book cue was released in the spring of 2024.