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 Pretoria Library’s September Project
Posted in academic library, banned books on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We recently received an email from Fatima Darries, Faculty Library Leader of Economic and Management Science at Merensky Library at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Fatima writes: Dear Colleagues, Rather late than never, I would like to tell you about the Library of the University of Pretoria’s September Project. September is heritage month [...]
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 [...]
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 common: [...]
combining events at mildred johnson library
Posted in academic library, banned books, constitution day, displays, north dakota on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
we recently heard from karen chobot, director of mildred johnson library at north dakota state college of science. they are smartly combining three events into one big september project. from karen: “Just wanted to let you know what we have been doing here in Wahpeton. We are a small staff at a small school, and [...]