Check It Out! -- 9-27-10

Banned Books Week, September 25 - October 2, 2010

For each day of Banned Books Week, the IHCC Library Blog is featuring a different title from the American Library Association's list of challenged and/or banned books, along with an explanation of the documented challenge. We have selected titles from the list that are available in the IHCC library. Today's banned/challenged feature is Hills Like White Elephants: A Short Story: The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway.
The reason this appears on the list:

Pulled from a Litchfield, N.H. Campbell High School elective course classroom (2009) after parents voiced their concerns about a short-stories unit
called “Love/Gender/Family Unit” that dealt with
subject matters including abortion, cannibalism,
homosexuality, and drug use. The parents said
the stories promoted bad behavior and a “political
agenda” and they shouldn't be incorporated into
classroom teachings. The Campbell High School
English curriculum adviser eventually resigned.
Source: Sept. 2009, p. 154.

For more information on how the list is compiled, stop into the library and view Robert P. Doyle's guide, Banned Books: Challenging our Freedom to Read, or check out the ALA website:
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/aboutbannedbooks/index.cfm

Banned Books Week Challenge

Test your knowledge with our daily banned book quiz. Each day, the first fifteen respondents to get the correct answer will win a prize. Stop by the reference desk in the library to collect. Be the first person to answer the bonus question and win an even bigger prize!! Run, don't walk, to the library...

Quiz question #1
What is the popular book in many high school English classes by Harper Lee that has been banned or challenged?

Bonus question #1
Which author/poet said "Every burned book enlightens the world"?

*Present your answers to the librarian at the reference desk to collect your prize!!