The Instructional Resource Center will be open 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm on Friday, September 30th. A complete listing of IRC hours and updates is available on the IRC web site.
September 29, 2016
IRC Hours Update
The Instructional Resource Center will be open 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm on Friday, September 30th. A complete listing of IRC hours and updates is available on the IRC web site.
September 28, 2016
Banned Books Week: 2015 Book Challenges
"Free Downloads", American Library Association, January 3, 2013. http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbooksweek/ideasandresources/freedownloads (Accessed September 8, 2016)
September 27, 2016
Banned Books Week: 2015 Top 10 Challenges
Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2015 from ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom:
- Looking for Alaska, by John Green
- Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James
- I Am Jazz, by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
- Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, by Susan Kuklin
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
- The Holy Bible
- Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
- Habibi, by Craig Thompson
- Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan, by Jeanette Winter
- Two Boys Kissing, by David Levithan
Interested in learning more?
Visit Banned and Challenged Books on ALA's Banned Books Week Web site.
September 26, 2016
Banned Books Week: Getting Social
The IRC Pinterest site features a Banned Books Week board with additional resources.
Follow IRC's board Banned Books Week on Pinterest.
Get involved by sharing your Banned Books Week story on Twitter using the hash tag #bannedbooksweek, following Banned Books Week on Facebook, enjoying a variety of Read Outs on the Banned Books Week YouTube Channel, and find great display ideas from the Banned Books Week Pinterest page.
Get involved by sharing your Banned Books Week story on Twitter using the hash tag #bannedbooksweek, following Banned Books Week on Facebook, enjoying a variety of Read Outs on the Banned Books Week YouTube Channel, and find great display ideas from the Banned Books Week Pinterest page.
September 25, 2016
Banned Books Week: September 25 - October 1
It's time to celebrate Banned Books Week; "Stand Up for Your Right to Read."
Interested in learning more about Banned Books Week? There's a Banned Books Week LibGuide for that! The library guide presents an overview of Banned Books Week history and challenged books, Library Resources and Internet Resources for celebrating Banned Books Week, links to frequently banned and challenged books for the last ten years - and - challenged classics, and an interactive timeline highlighting 30 Years of Challenged Literature.
"Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular." -- ALA Banned Books Week
Interested in learning more about Banned Books Week? There's a Banned Books Week LibGuide for that! The library guide presents an overview of Banned Books Week history and challenged books, Library Resources and Internet Resources for celebrating Banned Books Week, links to frequently banned and challenged books for the last ten years - and - challenged classics, and an interactive timeline highlighting 30 Years of Challenged Literature.
September 22, 2016
Juvenile Books: Picture Books
The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, or in their regular location within the juvenile collection.
- Bear & Hare Share!
PZ7.G7427 Be 2016 - Quit Calling Me a Monster
PZ7.J6242 Qi 2016 - Return
PZ7.B3812 Re 2016 - Uncorker of Ocean Bottles
PZ7.C8926 Un 2016 - Good-Gye Summer, Hello Autumn
PZ7.P172 Go 2016 - Hocus Pocus, It's Fall
PZ8.3.O236 ho 2016 - Eddie the Bully
PZ7.C67345 Ed 2016
September 19, 2016
AU Library: Wireless / Cloud Printing
AU Library is one of several places on campus offering wireless, or Google Cloud printing. Once printer set up is complete, work anywhere in the building and print from your laptop or mobile device to print stations on the main floor.
We've collected a few FAQs to help you get started, scroll through the list and view items of interest, or visit AU Library FAQs for details and additional resources. And, as always, you can ask in the IRC for help setting up library cloud printing.
- Cloud printing works with your Ashland University Google Account.
- Cloud printing is part of the AU print quota system.
- Cloud printing is possible from laptops and mobile devices.
We've collected a few FAQs to help you get started, scroll through the list and view items of interest, or visit AU Library FAQs for details and additional resources. And, as always, you can ask in the IRC for help setting up library cloud printing.
September 15, 2016
IRC Hours Update
The Instructional Resource Center will be open 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm on Friday, September 16th. A complete listing of IRC hours and updates is available on the IRC web site.
September 14, 2016
Juvenile Books: Picture Books
The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, or in their regular location within the juvenile collection.
- Clara
PZ7.M478415 Cl 2016 - Daytime Visions: An Alphabet
PZ7.1833 Day 2016 - Rules of the House
PZ7.B2662 Rul 2016 - Steamboat School
PZ7.778125 Su 2016 - Lion Lessons
PZ7.A266 Lg 2016 - Douglas, You Need Glasses
PZ7.A2315 Do 2016 - When Penny Met POTUS
PZ7.R8867 Wh 2017 - Now You See Me, Now You Don't
PZ7.B6479 No 2016 - School's First Day of School
PZ7.R328 Sc 2016 - Not So Quiet Library
PZ7.O414 Np 2016
September 13, 2016
Juvenile Books: Young Adult
The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, or in their regular location within the juvenile collection.
- Iron Tomb
PZ7.V4866 Ir 2016 - Whatever
PZ7.G678 Wh 2016 - Small Madness
PZ7.T6242 Sm 2016 - Lucky Few
PZ7.O637 OU 2016 - Places No One Knows
PZ7.Y888 Pl 2016 - My Lady Jane
PZ7.H1917 My 2016
September 12, 2016
Main Collection: General
The following books have been added to the library's circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the main floor of the library or in the regular location.
- Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art
N8660.B38 S74 2016 - Cyberspies: The Secret History of Survelliance, hacking, and Digital Espionage
HV6773.C68 2016 - Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
E185.615 T76 2016 - Cousin Joseph: A Graphic Novel
PN6727.F4 .C68 2016 - Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
PS591.N4 .O33 2016
September 8, 2016
Main Collection: Education
The following books have been added to the library's main general (circulating) collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the main floor of the library or in the regular location.
- Preparing Educators of Online Learning: A Careful Look at the Components and How to Assess Their Value
LB1707.P728 2016 - Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching
LC1090.L57 2016 - Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything guide to Developing Skilled Readers
LB1050.S42 2015 - Neuroscience of Learning and Development: Enhancing Creativity, Compassion, Critical Thinking, and Peace in Higher Education
LB1062.N48 2016 - Young Adult Nonfiction: Gateway to the Common Core
PN1008.8.Y685 2015 - Of Education, Fishbowls, and Rabbit Holes: Rethinking Teaching and Liberal Education for an Interconnected World
LB2322.2.F74 2016 - Building Academic Literacy: Engaging All Learners in Every Classroom
LB1576.A625 2016 - Hostile Environment: Students Who Bully in School
LB3013.3.C378 2015 - Toward a More Perfect University
LA.174.A98 2016 - Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
LA227.4.C643 2016
September 7, 2016
Juvenile Books: Picture Books
The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, or in their regular location within the juvenile collection.
- One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree
PZ8.3.B4587 On 2016 - Me and Annie McPhee
PZ8.3.D929 Me 2016 - Beauty and the Beast
PZ8.C84453 Be 2016 - There's a Bear on My Chair
PZ8.3.C686 Th 2016
Juvenile Books: Nonfiction
The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, or in their regular location within the juvenile collection.
- Chile
F3058.5.B87 2016 - Nigeria
DT515.22.R65 2016 - Niger
DT547.22 S66 2016 - Mongolia
DS798.B54 2016 - Tibet
DS786.S667 2016 - Switzerland
DQ17.R64 2017 - Inside Your Insides: A Guide to the Microbes that Call You Home
QR57.E26 2016
September 2, 2016
IRC Hours: Labor Day
The IRC will be closed Saturday, September 3rd and Sunday September 4th for the Labor Day Holiday. We will be open 6:00 to 10:00 pm on Monday, September 5th. A complete listing of IRC hours and updates is available on the IRC website.
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