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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Robert R. Muntz Library at UT Tyler (TX) participating
Posted in academic library, banned books, banned books week, constitution day, discussion, film screening, public library on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Listen to banned books at CA State Library
Posted in banned books, banned books week, public library, public performance, reading on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
University of Toledo organizes a banned books vigil
Posted in academic library, banned books week, reading on September 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
banned books and an introduction
Posted in banned books, banned books week on September 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As many of you know, David and I have been preoccupied with things a bit more cute and cuddly than the September Project… the birth of our daughter. While I haven’t had time to blog on the site, I have had time to reflect upon all of the incredible work libraries do each day in [...]
An exploration of local history at the Mildred Johnson Library (ND)
Posted in academic library, art exhibit, banned books week, book display, tagged bus, display, museum, north dakota on September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Karen M. Chobot, the Director of the Mildred Johnson Library at the North Dakota State College of Science recently shared her library’s event on our project listserv. Her event was a powerful–and painful–learning experience that will undoubtedly remain with her students for some time. We’re pleased and honored that the Mildred Johnson Library is participating [...]
September Project events at Campbell County (VA) Public Library System
Posted in banned books week, book exhibit, essay contest, public library, rural libraries, voter education, tagged banned books week, book exhibit, essay contest, Long Island Coalition Against Censorship, public library, rural libraries, voter education on July 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This morning, Nan Carmack, Director of the Campbell County Public Library System, posted to the September Project listserv to share her library’s events: Campbell Co. Public Library System, in rural Virginia, will be participating by displaying feature titles as well as the Banned Books Exhibit from the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship (in conjunction with [...]