Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read
September 26−October 3, 2009
Source: ala.org
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.
Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week. BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them.
The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bannings. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections. Imagine how many more books might be challenged—and possibly banned or restricted—if librarians, teachers, and booksellers across the country did not use Banned Books Week each year to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society.
Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association; American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; the American Library Association; American Society of Journalists and Authors; Association of American Publishers; and the National Association of College Stores. It is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Library Services for all WCC Employees
Free Research Service to all WCC Employees
Searching for information on a new course, curriculum or research project?
Working on your doctoral dissertation or master thesis?
Making a speech or presentation of any kind?
Publishing?
Free Interlibrary Loan Service to all WCC employees.
Resources that are not available at the WCC Library can be requested through this nationwide online service
Both services can be accessed online through the Library homepage at www.sunywcc.edu/library
Or Contact
Una Shih
Professor/Librarian
Research and Interlibrary Loan
Harold L. Drimmer Library, Room 207
Westchester Community College
75 Grasslands Road
Valhalla, New York 10595
(914) 606-6573
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Check Out the Library's Electronic Databases
Not sure which one to use? Wave your mouse over the title for a description.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
NEW MLA UPDATE 2009
The Modern Language Association has introduced the new seventh edition of its MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 
The Drimmer Library's new MLA 2009 Guideline resources have been updated, and are available online at the library website: http://sunywcc.edu/library under the tab CITATION.
The guidelines are also available in the Library at our Reference and Circulation desks.
Five Easy Steps to Embed a Librarian
...must be done each semester...
1. Add a librarian to your course as a TA: Blackboard userid: sches.
(Go to "Teach"> "Grade Book"> "Enroll Members" Type userid > "Enroll')
2. Create a discussion forum limited to library questions.
3. Add a Library link to your course: www.sunywcc.edu/library
4. Inform the librarian of special requirements, if any.
5. Introduce the librarian to students. (librarian can provide introduction)
YOUR Embedded Librarian will take it from there!!
Thank You!
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