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A school library in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Posted in school library, tagged , on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We recently received an email from Clelia Ines who works at Coronel Jose Felix Bogado school library in Campana, Buenos Aires, Argentina. We are excited to welcome Clelia and the students she works with to the September Project.
She wrote:
Me gustaria participar del proyecto. Estoy trabajando en una escuela rural de doble jornada en el paraje [...]

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Gear up early for Banned Books Week

Posted in banned books on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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

It’s difficult to imagine a world without F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye or John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. These classics have several things in [...]

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firsts

Posted in new hampshire, tagged on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Each year, right around late spring and early summer, we hear from a librarian, eager to see her or his library on our map. We relish these communications, energized by the excitement jumping off of our monitors as we read on.
This year’s first email to us was from Sandy Whipple, Adult Services/Outreach Coordinator at Goffstown [...]

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The September Project 2009!

Posted in welcome, tagged on June 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »

It’s that time of year again, the time we get to say, with much excitement, WELCOME TO THE SEPTEMBER PROJECT 2009! This year will be the 6th annual September Project and we hope all of you will be part of it.
You can expect many more blog posts and announcements as the summer progresses but for [...]

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smart program idea for teens

Posted in cool project, teens on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This week, Darren Thompson at the Blue Island Public Library in Illinois posted on pub-lib about a teen program he runs at the library:
“We host a program called ‘Passport to ____,’ where the teens pick a different country each month and we visit that country using Google Earth, offer dishes from that country (cooked either [...]

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first September Project meeting of the year!

Posted in the september project, tagged on June 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Each summer brings new excitement around the Fall’s installment of September Project activities, and this year we injected a bit more energy into the project in the form of three whip-smart Research Assistants.

Teresa, Sam, and Laura convened recently with David and me to dream big about the project this year. Sam had ideas about using [...]

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