Keith Leftwich Memorial Library at OCCC

We were picked as the “Banned Books Week Display Pic of the Day” by the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association!

Woo-hoo! and thank you all for helping us make this a great week!!
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Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Chapel Hill, NC (2003):  Criticized by Republican state legislators as the book chosen for the University of North Carolina summer reading program, citing a “pattern” of the university being anti-Christian.  Earlier, three students had sued the university for choosing “Approaching the [...]

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Want to find out more? Click on the “Banned Books!” tab up above or visit the 1st floor browsing table in the Library.

Hover your cursor over the book covers below to learn of instances when these titles were banned.

Autobiography of Malcolm X
BP223 .Z8 L57 1999

The Diary of Anne Frank : The Critical Edition
DS135 .N6 F73313 [...]

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From the Banned Books Week website:
There are hundreds of challenges to books in schools and libraries in the United States every year. According to the American Library Association (ALA), there were at least 460 in 2009; the ALA estimates that 70 to 80 percent are never reported.
This map is drawn from cases documented by ALA [...]

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Come get your…
“filthy,”
“smutty,”
“offensive,”
“pornographic,”
“obscene,” “illicit”…
BOOKS!
Mark your calendars, smartphones and palms!
When: Monday, September 27th through Saturday, October 2nd (normal operating library hours)
Where: The Library, 1st Floor Browsing Table
What: Come read, ogle and check out what some have deemed so “naughty” that others have been denied access to.
Why?
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people [...]

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Semester already stressing you out? Wish you could go back to simpler times?
Well, you can. Sort-of.
Relive your times of yore by picking up one of these timeless “youth” classics.
(simply click on the cover to be taken to the item’s information page)

And, of course… There’s always more, here, at the Library.
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By now, you’ve probably seen the advertising around campus for the upcoming LifeSaver 5K/1Mile Fun Run sponsored by the OCCC Nursing Student Association.
If not, the event will take place of September 25th at 8am.
For more information or to register, visit www.occc.edu/lifesaver.
So, if you’re gearing up for this 5k, another 5k or maybe, even, a marathon! [...]

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The Library will be closed this Labor Day weekend (Saturday, Sunday and Monday) and will re-open on Tuesday, September 7th at 7:30AM.
While you can’t get your Library fix this weekend, please remember that the Arts Festival will start Saturday morning at 10AM on the OCCC Campus.
For more information about the Arts Festival, please see: http://www.occc.edu/afo/
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