

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 7th Annual Augusta Baker Lecture featuring author Emely Rumble
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Author Emely Rumble, LICSW, will discuss her book "Bibliotherapy in the Bronx," a groundbreaking exploration of the healing power of literature in the lives of marginalized communities. Drawing from her personal and professional experiences, Rumble masterfully intertwines storytelling with therapeutic insights to reveal how reading can be a potent tool for self-discovery, emotional transformation, and social change.

"To keynote the Augusta Baker Lecture is to stand in a lineage of Black librarians who believed stories could liberate, heal, and tell the truth about our lives. As a Black and Puerto Rican bibliotherapist, my work—Bibliotherapy in the Bronx, is rooted in honoring visionaries like Augusta Baker, whose devotion to children, storytelling, and justice made space for generations of readers to see themselves and survive." 
- Emely Rumble 

Professor Nicole A. Cooke is the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair in USC's School of Information Science.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/columbia/7th-annual-augusta-baker-lecture-featuring-author-emely-rumble/200029691621837
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 43

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Columbia
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Richland Library
- **lat**: 34.00395
- **long**: -81.03763
- **full address**: Richland Library, 1431 Assembly St, Columbia, SC 29201-3101, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: University of South Carolina School of Information Science (https://allevents.in/org/university-of-south-carolina-school-of-information-science/25509537)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Richland Library, 1431 Assembly St, Columbia, SC 29201-3101, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** University of South Carolina School of Information Science
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, fine-arts, storytelling
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about 7th Annual Augusta Baker Lecture featuring author Emely Rumble ?
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