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Archive for September, 2010

Last week, The September Project received a nice write-up in American Libraries, the magazine of the American Library Association (ALA). The article’s author, Greg Landgraf, did an excellent job highlighting the diversity of September Project events. To show the range of events, Landgraf mentions an academic library (O’Grady Library at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, [...]

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Form a reading chain across Indian Country!

I absolutely love learning about all of the creative Banned Book events going on across the country. I heard of this one from the most excellent ARSL listserv. What a terrific Banned Book Week event, organized by a particularly inspired librarian. Join Loriene and her students! Friends and colleagues, Banned Books Week (BBW) will take [...]

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Welcome back, UT Tyler! What an impressive slate of events they have planned. Read on… The UT Tyler Robert R. Muntz Library is announcing the following events in observance of the International September Project. This is our third year participating in the September Project. Since 2004, libraries around the world have organized events about freedom [...]

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Very cool banned books kickoff event at the California State Library. If you’re in the area, listen to folks read from banned books every 15 minutes. What a great idea! Banned Books to Be Read Aloud by Local Celebrities Sacramento – Excerpts from banned books will be read aloud at the California State Library for [...]

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It’s always a joy to hear from Sandy Whipple of the Goffstown Public Library in Goffstown, NH. She recently shared a description of the events from this past weekend and of those that are scheduled throughout September at her library. We’re always thrilled to get a peek at the events that happen around the globe, [...]

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From the organizers: The Clairemont Library in San Diego, CA will honor September 11th by hosting a presentation by Colonial Educators called “Overview of Early Years of Colonial America”. This program also fits into the National Endowment for the Humanities bookshelf grant that we received called “A More Perfect Union”. We will have programs through [...]

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Celebrate the right to read and think freely! This inspired (and fun!) all-day event is organized by faculty and staff at the University of Toledo. Open to the public, it features 20-minute presentations about the right to read and think freely, punctuated by song, poems, doughnuts, and door prizes. When has a vigil sounded so [...]

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