Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week - 2012

Please join the Libraries@Trocaire in celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week serves to shine a spotlight on attempts to censor or remove books from the shelves of Libraries across the country.  

The Libraries@Trocaire uphold the American Library Association's Freedom to Read statement and will continue to ensure that our Trocaire community has an open access to information.

As part of our activities for the week, we will be holding a Battle of the Banneds.  We are asking all faculty, staff and students to let us know what their favorite classic and current "banneds" are and why.  One lucky winner will be drawn at random to receive a $25 iTunes gift card.

We will also have mini give-aways, but you have to stop by and see us for those.  We've decked out the Libraries and have banned books on display that can be checked out for 28 days with your Trocaire College ID.

More information on Banned Books Week can be found here and here. 

Free Your Mind - Read a Banned Book Today!!

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Welcome to the Libraries@Trocaire blog!!  We know, we know...a bit late on this one but, better late than never.  Rather than blitzing you with emails you never read and taking down forests with sign making, we hope that you stop by and visit us here to see what interesting things we have in store for you.
  

Things that you will find here:

We will continue to send faculty and staff new book and media listings by email, but we will also make that information available here for those who are just done with the email thing.  Anyone interested can always look at our Goodreads account found here.  You navigate by month or by subject department to see what is there.  We delete the previous semester when we start the new one, so Spring 2011 books will go away in January.   Browsing Collection and Banned Book are always current and are not deleted from the collection.

We will list full details of any announcements for events, workshops or new databases and trials.  While we will also have that information on our website and in Moodle, we can get into things a bit more here and also get some feedback from you.  Speaking of which...

Comments are welcome, but we ask for people to be respectful.  Yes, the Internet is an anonymous place, but let's be adults here as much as possible.  We will remove inappropriate comments as we find them and don't want a few trolls to ruin it for everyone.  Stay under the bridge if you can't handle it.