Current Students and Staff

Book Club: The Girl Who Smiled Beads

• 5 June 2024
• 12.30pm-1.30pm
• AST Office, Level 3, Pilkington Library and online via Microsoft Teams
• Event website

About this event

Join staff from Pilkington Library for the University Book Club's discussion of Clemantine Wamariya’s memoir about her experience as a childhood refugee from Rwanda, written alongside Elizabeth Weil.

Content note: this book contains themes of war, violence and trauma. (Please note that content notes are based on information available online.)

Access to the book

The Library has a subscription to Libby, the leisure reading app widely used by public libraries. To get started, simply download the Libby app and sign in using your University credentials.

The app can be downloaded from the App Store, or from a link on the Libby homepage. You can also access Libby on your computer’s web browser. When first setting up your account you will need to be on campus or on the VPN.

Through Libby, the Library have purchased an ebook of 'The Girl Who Smiled Beads', though, unfortunately due to licencing restrictions, it’s one user at a time only. An audiobook has also been purchased with one user at a time access.

About Book Club

The University Book Club is run by staff from Pilkington Library and is open to all current and former students and staff of Loughborough University. It meets in person in the Library but the meetings can also be accessed remotely via Teams.

To join the Book Club, please subscribe to the mailing list (which uses JISC-mail). You can also join the Book Club on Microsoft Teams.

Once you have signed up to the mailing list, you will receive email confirmation of your subscription with further information. From then on you will receive all emails sent to the group, including dates of future meetings, book choices and login details if you wish to join via Teams. Please join the mailing list at least 48 hours prior to the meeting date to make sure you receive the login details in time.