Alfred R. Goldstein Library at Ringling College of Art & Design

Alfred R. Goldstein Library Summer Hours and Closings 📚🌞

Beginning Wednesday, May 6, the Library will adopt the following Summer schedule:

Monday - Friday: 8:30a.m. - 4:30p.m.

Closed Weekends

In addition, all Ringling offices (including the Library) are closed on

May 11, May 25, June 19, and July 3.

Questions? Please contact us at [email protected] or 941-359-7587.

Have an incredible summer! 🍉 Floating Remy designed by Finn Herrera. 🌊

Hey Juniors and Faculty! (Rising Seniors!) ➡️ Did you know you’re allowed to check out up to five books from the Goldstein Library to read over the summer and bring back in the Fall! Everyone else: don’t forget to return your library materials before you go home for the semester! 📚🌞Happy Reading!

It’s our last Wonderful Wednesday of the Spring ‘26 semester and we’re outside of Cunniffe Commons with some faculty and alumni books (that are always available for checkout from the library), one of which happens to be Professor ’s new book Lys which found themselves in! ✨😻What an exciting last week, good luck with finals everyone!

Swipe through to see our top five most circulated manga series titles! 💯Leave a comment of any manga you’re surprised didn’t make the top five, and let us know if we don’t own a manga you love and we will add it to our collection! 🧡

Happy Friday! Today we're highlighting some of the selections on our Black History Month display, which you can check out on the first floor of the library!

1. Virgil Abloh: "Figures of Speech" by Virgil Abloh
Virgil Abloh was an American fashion designer, artist, and entrepreneur, founding companies such as Off-White, Pyrex Vision, and serving as the creative director of Louis Vuitton Menswear. Abloh significantly impacted fashion by blurring the boundary between streetwear and high fashion. The book “Figures of Speech” acts as a “user manual” for his career. It features essays, interviews, and over 1,800 images from Abloh’s personal archives, covering his work from his time in fashion, including Off-White and Louis Vuitton, as well as collaborations with artists such as Takashi Murakami. Additionally, it explores his work as an art director and designer, alongside numerous musicians.

2. “Back to Fort Scott” by Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker. He rose to prominence in the 1940s and 1970s for his photojournalism, the first Black photographer to work for Life magazine. He covered Black American life, the civil rights movement, race relations, and poverty. Back to Fort Scott is a photo essay that follows Gordon Park as he goes back to his hometown, Fort Scott, Kansas. “Back to Fort Scott” was one of Park’s early photo assignments at Life magazine, as Kansas was in the middle of the debate of segregated education after the passing of Brown V Board of Education. His subject matter for this book was his old classmates who went to his all-Black Plaza school, and their friends and family.

3. Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Brazil
Kehinde Wiley is a New York-based artist, known for his large-scale portraits of Black people inspired by the painting style of the Old Masters. In painting everyday Black subjects in the style of the Old Masters, with heroic poses and grand backgrounds, he aimed to portray black people in a setting they hadn't seen before in classical art. This book features 22 portraits of young Black and Afro-Brazilian males from the Rio de Janeiro favelas, depicted in poses inspired by Brazilian public monuments. “If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.” -Kehinde Wiley.

4.“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker. Their Eyes Were Watching God is a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, an intellectual and artistic movement of African-American music, dance, art, literature, theatre, and politics. Their Eyes Were Watching God, set in Florida in the early twentieth century, follows Jane Crawford, an African American woman in her forties, as she recounts her journey to self-discovery and empowerment through her experiences with love and life’s joys and tragedies.

Last semester, Student Research Consultant Destini Brown took Romance Writing with Professor Glenn Schudel, and it inspired her to write this blog for the library on the concept of the meet-cute! 💋 one of the films she mentions, 500 Days of Summer, is available for free to stream online in our database Feature Films for Education or check out on DVD from the Goldstein Library! Don’t forget, you can also rent our dvd players that hook up right to your laptop! 💌 read the blog post at the link in our bio or in our stories!

Did you catch director RaMell Ross on campus this past Monday? What better way to spend Black History Month is there besides reading the book that inspired the film, The Nickel Boys? Check out the book on our BHM display, along with many more curated titles selected by Student Research Consultant Destini Brown on the first floor of the library!

Happy holidays, Ringling! The Goldstein Library building and service hours will be adjusted for Winter Break ❄️

December 14, 2025 - January 11, 2026 as follows:

Sunday, December 14: CLOSED

Monday - Friday (December 15 - 19): 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

December 20 - January 4: CLOSED

Monday - Friday (January 5 - 9): 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, January 10: CLOSED

Sunday, January 11: 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Normal Spring Semester operating hours will begin on Monday, January 12, 2026.

Happy December 1st! We hope you had a restorative Thanksgiving break, but if you’re already ready for the holidays we will have some holiday buttons designed by Library Research Consultant Anna Herrera at upcoming outreach events (like this Wonderful Wednesday!) ✨🎁

It’s Banned Books Week, and we have a new display of banned books up alongside our zines about banned books: Radical Reading by Mili Walton, and Bite Back Book Bans, an action guide to fighting back bans by librarian Kelly! 🔥Mili also just wrote a blog on zines, you can read it at the link in our bio or at https://ringling.libguides.com/blogs/goldsteinlibrary/all-about-zines!