Check It Out! -- IHCC Celebrates 40 Years!

In honor of the 40th Anniversary of IHCC, copies of The Forum, the IHCC student newspaper from 1970 - 2007, are on display in the library. Check out what campus life was like at IHCC during the 1970s -- cheerleaders, parking woes, and all. Here is a sampling...


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Check It Out! -- 10-4-10

New in the Library!

This week's feature is Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less by Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin. These two University of Chicago undergraduates summarize literary classics with "tweets".

On Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka:

. . . Typing feels weird today.
. . . I seem to have transformed into a large bug. Has
this ever happened to any of you? No solution on Web MD.
. . . Sister very timid and confused - what's up with that? - but still leaving me food.
. . . That's it. I'm going out there. Wish me luck.
. . . OMFG, my father totally threw an apple into my back.
. . . If I die, my family may be able to move on. I curse the day I inexplicably transformed into a gigantic, six-legged
metaphor! p.7

Available in the library: http://plus.mnpals.net/vufind/Record/007161987/Holdings

Check It Out! -- 10-1-10

Friday's Challenged Title:

Reason this was banned:

Challenged at the Easton, Penn. School District
(2010), but retained despite a parent’s claim the
book promotes “economic fallacies” and socialist
ideas, as well as advocating the use of illegal drugs
and belittling Christians. Source: May 2010, p. 107.

Banned Books Week Daily Challenge (Friday)

Quiz Question #5

What novel, written by the author of Fight Club, features a main character who devises an elaborate scam to pay for his mother's nursing home costs?

Bonus Question #5

What D.H. Lawrence novel was banned in 1929 by the U.S. Customs/U.S. Postal Service? (The ban was overturned in 1960 by the U.S. Court of Appeals.)

Thanks to all who have participated this week. This is your last day to collect a prize -- stop by the reference desk in the library.

Check It Out! -- 9-30-10

Today's Challenged Title:

Reason this title was challenged:

Boyle, T. Coraghessan
The Tortilla Curtain
Viking
Challenged on the Santa Rosa, Calif. High
School reading list (2010). A review committee
approved the continued use of the book with the
following guidelines: “The teacher must appropriately
prepare students for parts of the book that may be
considered provocative; limit the book to juniors and
seniors; should a parent object to the book, board
policy is currently in place that allows a student to
be excused from the book assignment, and provides
for an alternative assignment without penalty to the
student.” Source: Mar. 2010, pp. 55–56.

Banned Books Week Daily Challenge (Thursday)

Wednesday's answers: First Ammendment and Kurt Cobain

Quiz question #4

What recent book series that takes place in rainy Washington state has been banned from all primary schools in Australia?

Bonus question #4

The concept of the waterbed was introduced in this 1961 science fiction cult classic.

Check It Out! -- 9-29-10

Wednesday's Featured Banned Book:

Reason this was banned:


Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Merriam-Webster Collegiate
Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
Pulled from the Menifee, Calif. Union School District
(2010) because a parent complained when a child
came across the term “oral sex.” Offi cials said
the district is forming a committee to consider
a permanent classroom ban of the dictionary.
Source: Mar. 2010, p. 55.

Banned Books Week Challenge (Wednesday)

The first fifteen respondents to get the correct answer will win a prize; you must stop by the reference desk in the library to collect. Be the first person to answer the daily bonus question and win an even bigger prize!! Run, don't walk, to the library...

Tuesday's answers: Diary of Anne Frank and Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People

Quiz question #3

What is the part of the Bill of Rights that guarantees the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition?

Bonus question #3

What rock star's biography was removed from all Farmington, MN elementary and middle school libraries in 2009 because it was "...very dark and violent and made references to the use of Ritalin as being a precursor to the use of illicit drugs. It also covered topics such as mental illness and suicide."

Check It Out! 9-28-10

Tuesday's Featured Banned Book:

The reason this title appears on the list:

Removed from all school libraries (1978) in Gardner KS due to a sexually
explicit section; challenged at the Ogden School District (1979), Ogden, UT, and placed in a restricted circulation category; removed from all elementary and middle school libraries (1980) in Clinton NC due to "objectionable" language, challenged in the Gwinnett County public schools (1986) because of "obscene language."

Banned Books Week Challenge (Tuesday)

Monday's answers: To Kill a Mockingbird and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The first fifteen respondents to get the correct answer will win a prize; you must stop by the reference desk in the library to collect. Be the first person to answer the daily bonus question and win an even bigger prize!! Run, don't walk, to the library...

Quiz question #2
This world famous, widely read Holocaust memoir has been banned for complaints ranging from "pornographic sexual content" and "homosexual themes", to it simply being a "real downer". What is this book?

Bonus question #2
What late 19th century play, set in a coastal Norwegian town, is Peter Benchley's novel Jaws partially based on?

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

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!!