Rebel Readers: There's still time!

Are you participating in the #RebelReader Twitter tournament during #BannedBooksWeek?


Follow ALA OIF on Twitter, they will "announce the winners of the Rebel Reader Twitter Tournament! One winner will be chosen on every day of Banned Books Week 2017 at 4 p.m. Central."

Banned Books Week: Pinterest

IRC @ AU Library on Pinterest site features two boards, Banned Books Week and Banned and Challenged Books, filled with great resources for before, during, and after Banned Books Week.

Banned Books Week: Book Challenges

IRC Hours Update

The Instructional Resource Center will be closed from 11:50 am until 1:00 pm on Thursday, September 28th. Regular Thursday hours resume at 1:00 pm.  A complete listing of IRC hours and updates, including holiday hours, is available on our web site: IRC Hours & Updates.

Banned Books Week: Intellectual Freedom

Intellectual Freedom

"Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. it provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored" - ALA Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week: Censorship

Censorship

"Censorship is the suppression of ideas and information that certain persons-individuals, groups, or government officials - find objectionable or dangerous. Censors pressure public institutions, like libraries, to suppress and remove from public access information they judge inappropriate or dangerous, so that no one else has the chance to read or view the material and make up their own minds about it. The censor wnats to prejudge materials for everyone." - ALA Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week: Challenge or Banned?

Challenged or Banned?

"A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials. Challenges do no simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove materials from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access of others. Due to the commitment of librarians, teachers, parenets, students, and other concerned citizens, most challenges ore unsuccessful and most materials are retained in the school curriculum or library collection." - ALA Banned Books Week

Top 10 Challenged Books of 2016

Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2016 according to ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom are presented below.  We have six in our juvenile / YA collection.

1. This One Summer: by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
2. Drama: by Raina Telgemeier
3. George: by Alex Gino 
4. I Am Jazz: by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas
5. Two Boys Kissing: by David Levithan 
6. Looking for Alaska: by John Green
7. Big Hard Sex Criminals: by Matt Fraction and illustrated by Chip Zdarsky 
8. Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread: by Chuck Palahniuk 
9. Little Bill (series): by Bill Cosby and illustrated by Varnette P. Honeywood 
10. Eleanor & Park: by Rainbow Rowell 

Banned Books Week: #RebelReader

Words Have Power

Join us and participate in the #BannedBooksWeek #RebelReader Twitter Tournament challenge sponsored by The American Library Association and ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom.

"The American Library Association invites you to speak out against censorship this Banned Books Week. Join the Rebel Reader Twitter Tournament and challenge yourself to complete action items on Twitter to be entered into a drawing for fantastic literary prizes. Similar to the Triwizard Tournament in the banned and challenged Harry Potter series, these tasks will test your creativity and knowledge." - ALA Rebel Reader

Getting Started

Need a few hints to get started with the twitter tournament?

• Swag Photo: Stop in the library and pick up a new Banned Books Week button; the IRC display has button and magnets available (we have two new styles featuring the #WordsHavePower logo).  
• Banned or Challenged Book Selfie: Our Banned Books Week library guide has a page devoted to Banned and Challenged Books (complete with lists!).
• Coloring Sheet Photo: Pick up a Banned Books Week #WordsHavePower coloring sheet on the main floor or second floor coloring table - OR - print your own copy here.

Read more about the Twitter Tournament, including how to enter, on ALA's Rebel Reader Twitter Tournament site.

Good luck to everyone participating in the tournament!

Banned Books Week: September 24-30, 2017

Today is the first day of Banned Books Week. What is Banned Books Week?

"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? There's a Banned Books Week LibGuide for that! It features an overview of  Banned Books Week history and challenged books, Library Resources and Internet & Infographic Resources for celebrating Banned Books Week, links to frequently banned and challenged books for the last ten years, challenged classics,  and an interactive timeline highlighting 30 Years of Challenged Literature.

Banned Books Week: Are You Ready

Are you ready for #BannedBooksWeek?

We are! We've partnered with @ALALibrary and are participating in the national #RebelReader tournament and invite you to join us.

This year our #BannedBooksWeek free swag includes new limited edition buttons, magnets, bookmarks, a foldable paper fortune teller, and coloring pages. Items will be available at the circulation desk, magnets are available on the IRC display board. Follow us here and on Twitter @IRCaulibrary

Coming Soon: Banned Books Week

It's almost time!

Next week, September 24th - 30th is Banned Books week. We started celebrating a bit early with a new display featuring the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2016.

"Of the 323 challenges recorded by the American Library Association in 2016, the top ten challenged books are" ...

Visit our display outside the IRC on the second floor, or the Banned Books Week LibGuide to learn more.

#BannedBooksWeek
#WordsHavePower

Main Collection: Education & General

The following books have been added to the library's main circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the main floor of the library or in the regular location.

• Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Policy and Infrastructure
  Z675.U5 O647 2016
• Learner-Centered Pedagogy: Principles and Practice
  Z682.4 .I57 K58 2017
• Data Visualization: A Guide to Visual Storytelling for Libraries
  Z678.93.G73 D38 2016
• Enhancing Children's Cognition with Physical Activity Games
  GV443.T64 2015
• Essentials of Learning Disabilities and Other Developmental Disorders
  RJ496.L4 T43 2016
• Practising Spirituality: Reflections on Meaning-Making in Personal and Professional
  BL624.B462 2017
• Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian Amerian Youth After 9/11
  E184.P33 A28 2015
• Case for the Humanities: Pedagogy, Policy, Interdisciplinarity
  AZ103.T68 2016
• Pyrrhic Victory: The cost of Integration
  LC2717.U74 2016
• Media Exposure During Infancy and Early Childhood: The Effects of Content and Context on Learning and Development
  HQ784.M3 M43 2017

Main Collection: Education

The following books have been added to the library's main circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the main floor of the library or in the regular location.

• Real School Safety Problem: The Long-Term Consequences of Harsh School Punishment
  LB2866.K86 2016
• Can I Teach That? Negotiating Taboo Language and Controversial Topics in the Language Arts Classroom
  LB1631.C365 2016
• Working in Class: Recognizing How Social Class Shapes our Academic Work
  LC191.94 .W67 2016
• Facillitating Evidence-Based, Data-Driven School Counseling: A Manual for Practice
  LB1027.5.Z97 2016
• We are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination
  LC2741.R54 2016
• Perfect Assessment System
  LB3051.S8538 2017
• Peer Feedback in the Classroom: Empowering Students to Be the Experts
  LB1031.5.S24 2017

Welcome: Phonics Scavenger Hunt

It's phonics scavenger hunt time!
Working on your scavenger hunt project?
Having trouble finding some of the items?

We are here to help.  Ask in the IRC, AU Library 2nd floor, for assistance locating any items on your assignment. We also have a small token to give you after signing your completed worksheet.

When is the IRC open? IRC hours for this weekend are:

• Friday: 8 am to 5 pm
• Saturday: closed
• Sunday: 1 pm to 6 pm
• Monday: 8 am to 10 pm

See you soon! 

Main Collection: Education

The following books have been added to the library's main circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the main floor of the library or in the regular location. Subject areas are updated resources for titles weeded from the collection during summer session.

• School Health Education in Changing Times: Curriculum, Pedagogies, and Partnerships
  LB3405.L43 2016
• Feeding the Future: The Emergence of School Lunch Programs as Global Social Policy
  LB3475.R88 2016
• Teaching Controversial Issues: The Case for Critical Thinking an Moral Commitment in the Classroom
  LB1590.3.N64 2016
• Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings
  LC3993.F56 2015
• Genius Hour: Passion Projects That Ignite Innovation and Student Inquiry
  LB1027.25.M37 2017
• Exploring Giftedness and autism: A Study of A Differentiated Educational Program for Autistic Savants
  LC4717.C527 2016
• Teaching Online: A Practical Guide
  LB2395.7.K67 2017

Main Collection: Education

The following books have been added to the library's main circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the main floor of the library or in the regular location. Subject areas are updated resources for titles weeded from the collection during summer session.

• Early Childhood Education Management: Insights into Business Practice and Leadership
  LB2822.7.M65 2017
• Economization of Education: Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skill-Based Schooling
  LC65.S66 2015
• E-Learning in the 21st Century: A community of inquiry and Framework for Research and Practice
  LB2395.7.G37 2017
• Youth in Education: The Necessity of Valuing Ethnocultural Diversity
  LC191.Y68 2016
• Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism: A True Psychology of African American Students
  LC2731.C65 2015
• Black Intellectual Thought in Education: The Missing Traditions of Anna Julia Cooper, Carter G. Woodson, and alain Leroy Locke
  LC2717.G72 2016

IRC Hours: Labor Day

The Instructional Resource Center will be closed Saturday, September 2nd and Sunday, September 3rd, Labor Day weekend.

We will be open 6 pm to 10 pm on Monday, September 4th. Regular fall hours resume on Tuesday, September 5th. A complete listing of hours and updates is available on our web site.