{"id":16020,"date":"2021-08-17T17:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T22:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/?p=16020"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:35:45","slug":"2021-2022-rambler-read-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2021\/08\/17\/2021-2022-rambler-read-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-2022 Rambler Read Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To support Loyola&#8217;s <em>Rambler Read<\/em> program for this academic year, the University Libraries developed a toolkit to facilitate teaching and research related to <strong><em>Thick: And Other Essays<\/em><\/strong> by Tressie McMillan Cottom. Check it out here:  <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.luc.edu\/thick\"><strong>libguides.luc.edu\/thick<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guide includes:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow\">\n<ul><li>An<a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.luc.edu\/thick\/home\">&nbsp;overview<\/a>&nbsp;of the collection of essays and the author<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.luc.edu\/thick\/teaching\">Teaching resources<\/a>&nbsp;including the publisher-provided discussion guide, Loyola contributed discussion questions, a research topic development activity, and a section on how university students approach the issues<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.luc.edu\/thick\/multimedia\">Multimedia resources<\/a>&nbsp;such as interviews, videos, articles, book reviews, podcasts, and additional readings<\/li><li>Resources to <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.luc.edu\/thick\/dive\">dive deeper <\/a>into the issues such as information on racism and discrimination at Loyola, supplemental research, and scholarship addressing the topics<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.luc.edu\/thick\/involve\">Organizations<\/a> at Loyola and in the Chicagoland area to discover&nbsp;<\/li><li>Ways to contribute and <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.luc.edu\/thick\/help\">get help<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to contribute feedback about the toolkit and to provide additional resources, please <a href=\"http:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/Cs41YkcvsD\"><strong>use this form<\/strong><\/a>.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2021\/08\/thick_book_cover-1-671x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom (book cover)\" class=\"wp-image-16036\" width=\"247\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2021\/08\/thick_book_cover-1-671x1024.jpeg 671w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2021\/08\/thick_book_cover-1-196x300.jpeg 196w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2021\/08\/thick_book_cover-1-768x1173.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2021\/08\/thick_book_cover-1-600x916.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2021\/08\/thick_book_cover-1.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To support Loyola&#8217;s Rambler Read program for this academic year, the University Libraries developed a toolkit to facilitate teaching and research related to Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom. Check it out here: libguides.luc.edu\/thick The guide includes:&nbsp; An&nbsp;overview&nbsp;of the collection of essays and the author Teaching resources&nbsp;including the publisher-provided discussion guide, Loyola contributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":16036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16020"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16038,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions\/16038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}