August 25 Library Newsletter

 In this edition:

⏲️ Fall Hours
📚 Summer Reading
📚 Digital Book Club
📙 We Want YOU on Display
🐶 Therapy Dogs
💀 NEW - Anatomy Model Study Room
🛋️ NEW - Comfortable Seating
🖍️ NEW - Whiteboards

Fall 2026 Library Hours
The library is here for you evenings and Sundays! We are open Monday - Thursday, 8am - 8pm; Friday, 8am - 3pm, and Sunday, 1pm - 5pm.

Who Says There's a Literacy Crisis?
After a gorgeous summer of reading together, the first annual KLIC Summer Reading Challenge has come to an end! Faculty, staff, and a few brave students participated, and our total number of titles read was a whopping 231! Though everyone could be counted a winner, only a few could take home the prizes:

Most Titles Read and Most Points Earned - Marie Cullis
Most Challenges Completed - Mindy Griffin

Congratulations, Marie & Mindy! Want to keep reading together? Our new book club starts soon!

Digital Book Club Starting September 1
We are so excited to launch a new monthly book club for faculty, staff, and students, starting September 1. Though this club focuses on our digital collection, you are welcome to read a print copy of the selected title each month. Sometimes, however, getting your hands on a copy is an obstacle, so this book club is designed to make sure you have access! Each month, we will have access to UNLIMITED digital copies of the selected title through the Libby app. The first three months feature writers with ties to Tennessee, starting with the great Ann Patchett.

September - Whistler by Ann Patchett
October - Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
November - The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke

The club is very informal and mostly asynchronous. We will have two ways to participate in virtual discussion: Fable and Padlet. Fable is a reading tracker app with private Book Club options. Padlet is browser-based and will allow you to post to a shared board. For those who want to meet in-person, we will have an informal gathering in the library on the last Friday of each month at noon. Bring your lunch!

Please use the form to indicate your interest in participating: KLIC Monthly Book Club Interest – Fill out form. 

We want YOU on Display!
The Library invites you and your students to showcase your hard work, creativity, and accomplishments through our display initiative to highlight the intersection of academic affairs and student life. Our goal is to celebrate and promote the vibrant intellectual and creative community at Chattanooga State.  

We would love to feature content from across campus, such as: 

Student projects and creative work 
Staff or faculty book recommendations by department or division 
Student organization highlights, including their mission or reading lists 
Interdisciplinary reading themes 
Complementary/supplementary course materials   

This list is just a starting point—we welcome your ideas and would be happy to collaborate. 

Feel free to contact me directly via the information listed below or contact your library liaison.  

Therapy Dog Schedule
The Library's therapy dog schedule for fall has arrived! Get some much-needed stress relief with our rotation of therapy dog visits. 

August 2026                            
8/25 11am - 2pm                       
                                       
September 2026                                           
9/1, 1pm - 2pm
9/8, 11am - 2pm
9/9, 11am - 12pm
9/15, 1pm - 2pm
9/22, 11am - 2pm

October 2026
10/13, 11am - 2pm
10/14, 11am - 12pm
10/20, 1pm - 2pm
10/27, 11am - 2pm

November 2026
11/3, 1pm - 2pm
11/10, 11am - 2pm
11/11, 11am - 12pm
11/17, 1pm - 2pm

December 2026
12/1, 1pm - 2pm 

Anatomy Model Study Room
You asked, we listened! The library now has a dedicated anatomy model study room for all A&P students including all of our A&P models, study tables, computers, whiteboards, and a projector. The room is open to use and does not require booking. 

Comfortable Seating
You asked, we listened again! The library now has 20 bean bag lounge and dorm chairs to use at our low seating tables or anywhere you can find a comfy spot. For library use only! 

Whiteboards Everywhere!
three whiteboards with erasers on rolling wheels
The library has SIX new whiteboards for your use! Use them anywhere in the library - ask for markers at the desk! 

Come see us at the library!

A&P anatomy models find a new home!

After being removed from the old staff meeting room for the new Family Study Room, the A&P anatomy models were placed out in an open area for about a year. 

The old library instruction room was repurposed into the A&P anatomy model rooms. Not only is there the usual set-up from before -- model cabinets and a staff computer check out area -- but there is now more!

Students can use the model room to collaborate and to use the whiteboards to take down notes! 

The new repurposed space has drawn campus kudos and welcomed by students.

 

Parks and Recreation Month: Bike Trails

Tennessee Riverpark

A new page on the Parks and Recreation Month guide is Bike Trails. This page leads to many local options for bicycling trails. 

And did you know that there are three rails-to-trails within an hour drive of Chattanooga? They are Eureka Trail in Athens, TN; Mountain Goal Trail in Sewanee; and Silver Comet Trail in Cobb County, GA. All three use former railway tracks for a bicycle trail. Find more about these trails on the Bike Trails page.

Here are some local bike trails that can be found on the Bike Trails page.

Aetna Mountain Trails
The first 4 miles of trails brought to you by the Tennessee River Gorge Trust is the newest addition to the Chattanooga trail scene. Parking can be found off of River Gorge Drive after you drive through the Black Creek subdivision.

Booker T. Washington Biking
Situated on the shores of Chickamauga Lake and not far from downtown Chattanooga is the 353-acre Booker T. Washington State Park. Booker T. Washington offers a single-track bike trail on a six-mile loop. The trail features some long uphill climbs with rewarding, but very fast, downhills. Parking lots with the most convenient trail access are either the upper lot (first one on your right, near the pool) or at the lower lot by the pavilion and restrooms.

Enterprise South Nature Park
Enterprise South is one of the most popular trail systems in the Chattanooga area. Popular for it's beginner-friendly flowing trails, park facilities, and the security of a ranger staff. Ample parking at the ranger station. The amenities at the Ranger Station include restrooms and information kiosk.

Raccoon Mountain
Raccoon Mountain is made up of several trails that circle the TVA Raccoon Mountain pumped storage facility. The trails present a variety of riding environments that are for intermediate and advanced riders. There are several parking areas.

Stringer's Ridge
Stringer’s Ridge is a 92 acre pocket wilderness park in Chattanooga’s urban core. Located on the Northshore, there are 7 miles of multi-use trail for hikers, bikers and trail runners to share. There is a small parking lot at the End of Spears Avenue. 

Tennessee Riverpark
The Tennessee Riverpark is a 13-mile paved, urban greenway that connects downtown Chattanooga to Chickamauga Dam, 8 miles to the east, and to the Historic St. Elmo neighborhood 4 miles to the south. It is opened to cyclists, runners, skaters and walkers and is popularly named “Riverwalk."

The Riverpark can be accessed from various parking areas and trailheads from Chickamauga Dam to St. Elmo. The Riverwalk connects to the South Chickamauga Creek Greenway at Riverpoint off Lost Mound Drive to add an additional 3 miles out to Sterchi Farm Park.

Parks and Recreation Month: Staff pictures

This year, a college professor joined the Library Staff for staff submitted pictures!  This is for many a favorite part for the library staff to show we have fun outside of the library. Thank you to Professor Chris Willis for submitting pictures in a collaborative effort with the library staff.

Find the page for staff submitted pictures at  library.chattanoogastate.edu/parks2026/staff

Find the guide for the 2026 version of Parks and Recreation Month at library.chattanoogastate.edu/parks2026

Let's see some selected pictures from the staff submissions!

 

 

 

 

See more pictures on the staff pictures page of the Parks and Recreation Guide!