Please see the latest spreadsheet of Library discards and contact Naomi if you’d like any of them. Most of these are children’s books that were donated to the Library.
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National Bullying Prevention Month
October is National Bullying Prevention Month and October 23rd is Unity Day. Wear orange to show your support for kindness, acceptance, and inclusion. According to StopBullying.gov, kids who are bullied are more likely to experience depression and anxiety, health complaints, and decreased academic achievement. Learn how to recognize and prevent bullying with books, ebooks, and videos from our collection.Check out these sites for more information:
- Cyberbullying Research Center
- Minnesota Department of Human Rights – Preventing School Bullying
- Opposing Viewpoints – Bullying
- PACER – National Bullying Prevention Center
- StopBullying.gov
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National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. According to the National Cancer Institute, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. Learn more about the disease, its prevention, and treatment with books, ebooks, and videos from our collection.Check out these sites for more information:
- American Cancer Society – Breast Cancer
- CDC – Breast Cancer
- MedlinePlus – Breast Cancer
- National Breast Cancer Foundation – Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- National Cancer Institute – Breast Cancer
And take a look at these videos from Films On Demand:
- Young Women and Breast Cancer
- 5 Easy Ways to Cut Breast Cancer Risk
- Breast Cancer Vaccine Personalized
- Breast Cancer: New Reasons for Hope series
- The Girlfriend’s Guide to Breast Cancer series
- 3D Mammograms with C-View
- Pieces of Me: The Preemptive Mastectomy Dilemma
- Axel Ullrich (DE): Stopping Cancer at the Root
- Beauty & the Breast
- Mondays at Racine
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Opposing Viewpoints update
Opposing Viewpoints is constantly adding and updating coverage of current events and social issues, perfect for students writing argument papers. Here are some new and recently updated topics:- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
- School Start Times
- Separation of Government Powers
- Sexual Abuse in Religious Institutions
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Black Lives Matter
- Capital Punishment
- Children of Divorced Parents
- E-Cigarettes and Vapor Products
- Food Waste
- Human Rights
- Music Streaming
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Recycling
- Road Rage
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Films On Demand update
Films On Demand added 296 new videos in September, including the new Ken Burns documentary on country music. Take a look!
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AccessScience update
AccessScience added lots of new content in August. New briefings include:- Charm quark decays break charge-parity symmetry
- Eastern equine encephalitis virus detected in Florida
- Hydrogen fuel cell-powered marine vessels
- July 2019 was the hottest moth on record
- Potential use of psychedelic drugs to treat psychiatric disorders
- Star’s orbit of a supermassive black hole supports theory of relativity
Updated articles include:
New videos and animations include:
- Could CBD Make You Fail a Drug Test?
- The Chemical History of Gunpowder
- The Scent of Freshly Cut Grass May Be a Distress Signal
- What Causes Auroras?
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Free books
Please see the latest spreadsheet of Library discards and contact Naomi if you’d like any of them for your department. These include books on Minnesota statutes, medicine, Adobe software, and electrical code.
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Banned Books Week 2019
“Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.” —Article 3, Library Bill of Rights
Did you know there are hundreds of attempts to remove books from libraries and classrooms every year? Please join us in celebrating this year’s Banned Books Week (September 22-28) and our freedom to read. Take a look at the American Library Association’s lists of Frequently Challenged Books and check one out from our collection:
- The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- 1984, by George Orwell
- The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
- The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
- The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
- The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
- Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
- The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
- The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling
- The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein
- And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Check one out and exercise your First Amendment rights!
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International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Ahoy! Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Belay yer carousin’ and get to Mango Languages’ Pirate Language Course smartly!
After ye be speakin’ like a true gentleman of fortune, haul wind to Mango Languages, where ye will find more than 70 foreign language and ESL courses! Don’t be a monolingual scallywag!
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
Just a reminder that the Library provides access to The Chronicle of Higher Education. This includes all of the premium content available exclusively to online subscribers, including:
- articles from every issue since 1989
- data and analysis on the latest higher education trends, statistics, and salaries
- special issues such as Diversity in Academe and the Almanac of Higher Education
- Chronicle Focus collections of news, commentary, and advice
By creating a free personal account, you can subscribe to a number of newsletters. Check out The Chronicle today!
