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• Banned Books Week 2016

  

  “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 25 – October 1) 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 Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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!

  September 26, 2016 • Uncategorized • Views: 1985

• Banned Books Week 2015

  

  “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 27 – October 3) 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 Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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!

  September 28, 2015 • Uncategorized • Views: 1815

• Banned Books Week 2014

  

  “Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.” —Article 3, Library Bill of Rights

  Banned Books Week doesn’t officially start until September 21st but we feel so strongly about the freedom to read, we’re going to celebrate all month. Did you know there are hundreds of attempts to remove books from libraries and classrooms every year? Take a look at the American Library Association’s lists of Frequently Challenged Books and check one out from our collection:

  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
  • Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
  • 1984, by George Orwell
  • The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • 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
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
  • Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
  • The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein
  • And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

  

  Check one out and celebrate your First Amendment rights!

  September 5, 2014 • Uncategorized • Views: 1751

• Banned Books Week

  

  “Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.” —Article 3, Library Bill of Rights

  September 22-28 is Banned Books Week, an annual event sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) celebrating the freedom to read. Each year there are hundreds of attempts to have books removed from libraries and classrooms. ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom maintains lists of Frequently Challenged Books. Here are some of the titles you’ll find in the DCTC Library:

  • Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
  • Animal Farm, by George Orwell
  • 1984, by George Orwell
  • The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
  • An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
  • 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
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
  • Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
  • The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein
  • And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

  Check one out and celebrate your First Amendment rights this week – and every week!

  September 23, 2013 • Uncategorized • Views: 1630

• Summer reading suggestions

  Everything from “click lit” to politics! Here’s a super compilation of great summer ’09 reading lists for adults, teens and children. Lists come from from NPR, the New York Times, Oprah, various libraries, the American Library Association and myriad newspapers, radio stations, and other sources.

  It’s called Rebecca’s Pocket, and comes from a long-time book blogger.

  (Thanks to Librarians’ Internet Index for this great suggestion.)

  July 1, 2009 • Uncategorized • Views: 1470

• Barack Obama’s favorite reads

  Our new president loves to read, and his eloquence as a speaker reflects his love of words. Obama wrote this about an important realization he had in college: “With the right words everything could change -— South Africa, the lives of ghetto kids just a few miles away, my own tenuous place in the world.”

  Here are some of President Obama’s favorite books, as compiled by Hennepin County Library from various sources.

  http://www.hclib.org/pub/bookspace/booklistaction.cfm?list_num=968

  January 22, 2009 • Uncategorized • Views: 1729