Banned Books Week: Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2006

Banned Books Week 2007 is now underway! To start things off, here is the list of top ten most frequently challenged books of 2006, as compiled by the American Library Association:

And Tango Makes Three by Justic Richardson and Peter Parnell. Challenged for homosexuality, “anti-family” content, and being unsuitable for age group.
Gossip Girls series by Cecily [...]

No cookies in the library.

A little bit of fun (and a whole lot of childhood regression) for your Thursday night – Cookie Monster goes to the library. Antics ensue.

Update on Digital Commons, Bryant’s Institutional Repository

Library staff have started to add letters, complete with transcriptions, from the U.S. Women and World War II Letter Writing Project to Bryant’s institutional repository, Digital Commons. In the late 1980’s, Bryant University Professor Judy Barrett Litoff launched a nationwide search for letters written by civilian and military women during World War II. That search [...]

PROQUEST Update

Some changes have been made to our Proquest subscriptions.  The following databases are still available via Proquest:

ABI/INFORM Dateline
ABI/INFORM Global
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
Asian Business
Banking Info Source
Computing
Historical Wall Street Journal
Historical New York Times
Newstand (includes The Providence Journal)

If you had been using Proquest’s Research Library, please now use EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier.

Banned Books Week just a few days away.

Remember, Banned Books Week begins this Saturday, September 29th.
And just in time for this year’s event, a group of Chicago parents are trying to ban The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier.  Cormier’s book is often a target foe such attempts, as we’ll show you next week.
Exercise your freedom and read a banned book!