Lending Library

Lending Library Check-In & Check-Out Instructions

If you would like to check out or check in one of our books, please do the following:

  • Come into the center and pick a book
  • Scan the Lending Library QR Code & follow the instructions to fill out the form
  • Once you have completed the form, find a Pro-staff or student staff to sign-of

ALL BOOKS ARE DUE TWO WEEKS FROM THE CHECK-OUT DATE!!!

UCI Campus Assault Resources & Education (CARE) Office Lending Library

The CARE Office houses a healing library of books, films, resource guides, fact sheets, and other tools that are available for checkout by members of the UCI community. A list of some books by Black authors that are available to check out is below.

The CARE Office is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday – Friday (except for University holidays), and is located on the 3rd floor of the UCI Student Center in suite G320 (Maps and directions). We are located above the Student Center Terrace, across from the ATMs. Come in during business hours to check out any books. If you have any questions, call 949-824-7273 or email care@uci.edu.

  • Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab 
  • Set Boundaries, Find Peace Workbook by Nedra Glover Tawwab
  • The Body is Not an Apology (Second Edition) by Sonya Renee Taylor 
  • Your Body is Not an Apology Workbook by Sonya Renee Taylor 
  • My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem 
  • Nobody Know the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women by Inger Burnett-Ziegler, PhD
  • The Mental Health Mixtape for Black Men: Workbook and Journal by Stress Less Press 
  • Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke 
  • Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
  • Homecoming by Dr. Thema Bryant
  • The State of Black Girls by Marline Francois-Madden, LCSW
  • Maya Angelou The Complete Poetry
  • Memphis by Tara Stringfellow (this one will actually arrive in March)

UCI Libraries E-books + Resources

UCI Libraries has a lot of E-books available to borrow via Overdrive. Click the link below to see their library. 

https://ucirvinemain.overdrive.com/browse

They have an Understanding & Combatting Racism booklist, with many popular texts available now for rental.

https://ucirvinemain.overdrive.com/

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