Middle Georgia State University Library

The shadows gather at 2 PM for The Haunted South: Shadow, Soil & Story with Dr. Monica Miller! 🥀 Come explore the ghosts, decay, and dark beauty of Southern Gothic literature with the MGA University Library. 👻📚

⏰ Today · 2 PM
💻 Microsoft Teams (link below, or scan the QR code on the flyer)

No ticket required. Just bring your curiosity and maybe a flashlight. 🔦 We'll leave a light on for you.

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/4jt8apux

🌹🕯️ Something's stirring in the South… 🕯️🌹

Crumbling plantations, family secrets, Spanish moss, and ghosts that refuse to stay buried. The MGA University Library invites you into the shadows for The Haunted South: Shadow, Soil & Story, a journey through the eerie, gorgeous, and gloriously strange world of Southern Gothic literature. 👻📚

🎙️ Speaker: Dr. Monica Miller
📅 When: Thursday, October 8 · 2 PM
💻 Where: Microsoft Teams (scan the QR code on the flyer or use the link below!)

Grab your sweet tea, dim the lights, and join us. Just don't look behind you. 🥀

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/4jt8apux

🚨 It's game day! 🎲

Coffee & Conversation with Dr. Susan Asbury happens TODAY — don't miss it!

☕ Family Game Night: Board Games from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties
🗓️ Today, September 30
⏰ 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
📍 Macon Campus Library, 2nd Floor

Grab a coffee and join us for a fun look back at parlor games through history. See you in a few hours! ♠️♦️

Want a shorter version for a quick last-minute post, or one that works for an event-day email reminder instead?

🦇🌹 Step into The Haunted South: Shadow, Soil & Story 🌹🦇

This October, the MGA University Library explores the darkness, decay, and fierce beauty of the Southern Gothic. Join us online, in person, or both!

👻 The Haunted South, with Dr. Monica Miller
📅 Oct 8, 2 pm | 💻 Online via Microsoft Teams

🩸 Sinners: Let Me In, with Dr. LaRonda Sanders-Senu, Dr. Rhonda Crombie & Dr. Storm Murray
📅 Oct 13, 1 pm | 💻 Online via Microsoft Teams

🔪 Night of the Hunter, with Dr. Patrick Brennan & Dr. Matt Jennings
📅 Oct 15, 3 pm | 📍 In person, Macon Campus Library, Lab 2

🍬 Trick-or-Treating
📅 Oct 27, while supplies last | 📍 In person at all campus libraries

🎲 Games, with Dr. Jeffrey Wiles
📅 Oct 27, 2 pm | 📍 In person, Macon Campus Library, Second Floor

🎬 Horror Film Viewing Party
📅 Oct 29, 3 pm | 📍💻 Join us in the Library or on Teams! Details to come!

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." — William Faulkner

Wherever you're haunting from this fall, there's a seat saved for you. 🕯️

☕📖 Coffee & Conversation is back!

Roll the dice on a fascinating look into game night history! Join us for coffee and conversation with Dr. Susan Asbury as she shares her new book, tracing the rise of the American parlor game — from Victorian card parties to the fast-paced tabletop fads of the Roaring Twenties.

🎲 Family Game Night: Board Games from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties

🗓️ Wednesday, September 30, 2026
⏰ 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
📍 Macon Campus Library, 2nd Floor

Grab a cup of coffee and settle in for a fun, fact-filled hour — we'll see you there! ♦️♠️

📚 Craving more fiction than the campus stacks can offer? Here's your fix!

MGA Library has teamed up with Middle Georgia Regional Library to help YOU snag a public library card — no more waiting on that next novel or wishing the shelves went deeper into your favorite genres. A public library card = a whole new world of fiction, series, and page-turners right at your fingertips.

🗓️ Wednesday, September 16
⏰ Noon – 2PM
📍 Macon Campus Library, 2nd Floor

Stop by, sign up, and expand your reading list beyond the syllabus. See you there! 🐾📖

👻 THE LEGEND IS OVERDUE 👻

Every community has a story that gets passed around in whispers... now it's time to film it.

MGA Library is hosting the 2nd Annual 2-minute horror film contest — and the theme is urban legends and folklore. Got a local legend, a family ghost story, or a classic like the vanishing hitchhiker? Track it down, shoot it on anything (phone, camcorder, whatever you've got), and bring it back to the stacks.

🎬 Theme: Urban legends & folklore
⏱️ Runtime: 2 minutes, hard limit
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Who: Currently enrolled MGA students, groups of up to 4
📅 Submit by: Friday, October 16, 2026 — midnight
🍿 Screening: Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Practical scares encouraged. Jump scares optional. Overdue fees not included.

📲 Scan the QR code on the flyer to enter, or email [email protected] with questions.

📚 Holiday Closure Notice

MGA Libraries will be closed for Labor Day starting Saturday, September 5 through Monday, September 7. We'll reopen with regular hours on Tuesday, September 8.

Enjoy the long weekend — see you back on the shelves soon! 🎉

♟️ Knights Unplugged: Tech-Free Fun at the Library!

It starts TODAY — Wednesday, August 26! Put the phone down, pick up a pawn! Take a break from screens and join us for an hour of old-fashioned, hands-on fun — no Wi-Fi required.

🎲 Board Games
🃏 Card Games
🎨 Crafts
🧩 Puzzles

📍 Roberts Memorial Library — TODAY from 12:30–1:30 PM, then every Wednesday
📍 Macon Campus Library — TODAY from 12:30–1:30 PM, then every other Wednesday

Drop in whenever you can — no sign-up needed! ⚔️

♟️ Knights Unplugged: Tech-Free Fun at the Library!

Put the phone down, pick up a pawn! Take a break from screens and join us for an hour of old-fashioned, hands-on fun — no Wi-Fi required.

🎲 Board Games
🃏 Card Games
🎨 Crafts
🧩 Puzzles

📍 Roberts Memorial Library — Every Wednesday, 12:30–1:30 PM, starting Wednesday, August 26
📍 Macon Campus Library — Every other Wednesday, 12:30–1:30 PM, starting Wednesday, August 26

Drop in whenever you can — no sign-up needed! ⚔️