Banned Books Week 2010

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read, is September 25 - October 2, 2010.

"Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States." - ALABanned Books Week

The Office For Intellectual Freedom created a video for their YouTube channel that features the Top Ten Banned and Challenged Books of 2009 and reasons for challenges and bans. Included in the top ten list are classics; The Chocolate War, The Color Purple, The Catcher in Rye, and To Kill a Mocking Bird; and children and young adult titles; The Earth, My Butt, And Other Big Round Things, And Tango Makes Three, and Twilight.

For more information: Internet Resources

• ALA Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read
• ALA Frequently Challenged Books
• ALA Banned and Challenged Classics
• OIF Blog
• Huffington Post: 10 Graphic Novels And The Shocking Reasons They Frequently Come Under Fire
• Banned Books Week 2010: Which Books Drew the Most Fire Last Year?
• Banned Books Week: Ten Flashlight Worthy Books People Most Wanted Banned
• Banned Books Week 2010: 15 Iconic Movies Based on Banned Books
• 10 Banned Books You Might Not Expect
• Banned Books Week: Q & A How Books Get Banned

For More Information: AU Library collection

• Robert Cormier: Banned, Challenged and Censored
  PS3553.O653 Z615 2008
• Teaching Banned Books: 12 Guides for Young Readers
  Z1019 .S33 2001
• Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
  PZ5 .P6635 1999
• Art Speigelman: Conversations
  NC1429.S5687 A35 2007

Visit the IRC News blog for a different look at Banned Books Week provided by The Puppet Book Banners.

Update: Library Walkway & Sidewalk

The library is open!

Demolition continues on the sidewalk and walkway outside the library main entrance. In order to safely remove concrete up to the library display windows, there will be rotating closures for the main entrance and exit doors.

• Enter and exit the library using the patio doors.
• Enter the library using the main doors, exit the patio doors.

Weather permitting, plans are in place to pour new concrete the end of this week. Thank you for your continued patience.

IRC Hours Update

The Instructional Resource Center will be closed this weekend, Saturday 9/25 and Sunday 9/26. Computers and regular printing remain available on the second floor, as do general second floor collection items.

Color printing, laminating, the Ellison Machine, and other services offered inside the IRC will not be available. We will re-open on Monday following regular hours.

Need to color print? There is a color printer available in Patterson.

IRC News: Big Books

Have you ever searched for a big book in the library juvenile collection? Located on the second floor, big books were crowded into two rolling carts.


Not anymore! Each big book has been placed in large hanging media bag and the entire big book collection relocated next to the book kits. Hanging bags will make it easier to transport big books to and from the library and provide protection for the book during inclement weather.


Looking for a specific big book? Call numbers are located at the top left / bottom left side next to the spine of each book. The collection now has added functionality and browse-ability. Stop in and see the new big book area the next time you are in the library.

Library Walkway & Sidewalk

Yes, the library is open!

Please excuse the noise and dust. The walkway and sidewalk outside the library main entrance are being replaced. During construction, we recommend using the patio entrance on the north side of the building for easy access. Thank you for your patience.

LIC: Accent on Success

Accent on Success library instruction sessions meet in the LIC, or Library Instruction Classroom located on the ground floor of Ashland University Library. After entering the library, use the elevator directly across from the circulation desk, or the stairs, to the ground floor (G). The LIC is the large classroom located in the center of the ground floor with doors to the right, left, and around the back (across from the restrooms).

The following Accent on Success sessions scheduled are scheduled this week.

Monday, September 20th

• Walters (Section A) 8:00 am
• Herin (Section D) Noon
• Moretz (Section O) 9:00 am
• McDonald (Section X) 6:30 pm
• Brohm (Nursing) 2:00 pm
• Brohm (Nursing) 3:00 pm

Tuesday, September 21st

• Metzger (Section C) 9:25 am
• Stofer (Section H) 3:00 pm
• Rosler (Section K) 12:15 pm
• Kaskey (Section N) 10:50 am
• Ajwa (Section R) 1:40 pm
• Gorrecki (Section XX) 6:30 pm

Wednesday, September 22nd

• Broda (Section F) 2:00 pm
• Kaufman (Section G) 3:00 pm
• Villareal (Section I) 11:00 am
• Harkness (Section J) Noon
• Garlock (Section M) 10:00 am
• Fox (Section Q) 1:00 pm

Thursday, September 23rd

• Walley (Section E) 8:00 am
• Aune (Section L) 12:15 pm
• Stratton (Section P) 9:25 am

Friday, September 24th

• Heimann (Section B) Noon

Library instruction sessions for Accent on Success are conducted by AU reference librarians Craig Gable (cgable@ashland.edu), Jeff Pinkham (jpinkham@ashland.edu), and Kathryn Venditti (kvenditt@ashland.edu).

LIC: Accent on Success

Accent on Success library instruction sessions meet in the LIC, or Library Instruction Classroom located on the ground floor of Ashland University Library. After entering the library, use the elevator directly across from the circulation desk, or the stairs, to the ground floor (G). The LIC is the large classroom located in the center of the ground floor with doors to the right, left, and around the back (across from the restrooms).

The following Accent on Success sessions scheduled are scheduled this week.

Monday, September 13th

• Walters (Section A) 8:00 am
• Herin (Section D) Noon
• Moretz (Section O) 9:00 am
• McDonald (Section X) 6:30 pm
• Brohm (Nursing) 2:00 pm
• Brohm (Nursing) 3:00 pm

Tuesday, September 14th

• Metzger (Section C) 9:25 am
• Stofer (Section H) 3:05 pm
• Rosler (Section K) 12:15 pm
• Kaskey (Section N) 10:50 am
• Ajwa (Section R) 1:40 pm
• Gorrecki (Section XX) 6:30 pm

Wednesday, September 15th

• Heimann (Section B) Noon
• Broda (Section F) 2:00 pm
• Kaufman (Section G) 3:00 pm
• Villareal (Section I) 11:00 am
• Garlock (Section M) 10:00 am
• Fox (Section Q) 1:00 pm

Thursday, September 16th

• Walley (Section E) 8:00 am
• Aune (Section L) 12:15 pm
• Stratton (Section P) 9:25 am

Friday, September 17th

• Harkness (Section J) Noon

Library instruction sessions for Accent on Success are conducted by AU reference librarians Craig Gable (cgable@ashland.edu), Jeff Pinkham (jpinkham@ashland.edu), and Kathryn Venditti (kvenditt@ashland.edu).

Library Spotlight: Juvenile Books

AU library adds new books to its collection throughout the academic year. New books added to the juvenile collection are featured on the new book shelves on the library second floor, outside the Instructional Resource Center and adjacent to the juvenile stacks. The following juvenile and YA fiction titles have been added to the collection:

• Ship Breaker
  PZ7.B1335 Sh 2010
• The Secret to Lying
  PZ7.M6957 Sec 2010
• Legacies
  PZ7.L13543 Le 2010
• Take Me There
  PZ7.D3508 Tak 2010
• Change of Heart
  PZ7.M4458 Ch 2010
• Heart of a Samurai: Based on the True Story of Nakahama Manjjiro
  PZ7.P9243 He 2010
• The Deadly Sister
  PZ7.S3784 De 2010
• The Fat BoyChronicles: Inspired by a True Story
  PZ7.L264 Fat 2010
• Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trial
  PZ7.5.H44 Wi 2010
• Freak Magnet
  PZ7.A9194 Fr 2010
• The View From the Top
  PZ7.F8493 Vie 2010
• The Summer of Moonlight
  PZ7.H31363 Su 2010
• The Lighter Side of Life and Death
  PZ7.M3648 Lig 2010

The Instructional Resource Center Blog routinely provides information regarding new additions to the IRC, juvenile, and education collections.

* This booklist was originally posted on the IRC News blog, Juvenile Books: Fiction, 9/8/10

Library Hours: Labor Day

The library is open this weekend & Labor Day!

Following the University Labor Day holiday schedule, the library is open regular hours this weekend: Saturday (9/4) from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Sunday (9/5) 1:00 pm to midnight, and Monday (9/5) 7:45 am to midnight. Updates to regular hours are posted on the library web site. IRC hours updates on available the IRC web site and IRC news blog.