Banned Books Read-Out!

BANNED BOOKS READ-OUT!
Monday, Sept. 23 - Friday, Sept. 27

Join us at the Library for Banned Books Week as members of the Champlain community read out from their favorite banned books.  Readings will be going on periodically throughout each day from 10am-4pm.  We'll be outside if it's nice, inside the Tower Room (in the corner with all the windows) on the First Floor if it's not.  Check back often, and hang out with us!

For more on Banned Books Week, visit our Banned Books blogpost.

Banned Books Week! Monday, Sept. 23-Friday, Sept. 27

Greetings, provocateurs, creative minds, and proponents of free-speech --

The Library is excited to announce an event in honor of Banned Books Week, running this year from Monday, Sept. 23 through Friday, Sept. 27.  

What's a Banned Book?  Banned books are those that have restricted access.  These books have been removed from libraries and classrooms in areas across the country based upon objections of a person or group.  Proposals to ban books stem from many different causes, from profanity to sexuality, and other topics that some consider "unpopular" or even "unorthodox."  Check out our display on the First Floor featuring a number of banned books from our collection.  We bet you'll be surprised by some of the titles you see there!

What's Banned Books Week?  An annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment by bringing attention to the dangers of censorship.  Libraries promote the freedom to choose or express any and all opinions, even if those opinions go against the grain or challenge the "status quo."  Ensuring that even those "objectionable" viewpoints are available for anyone who wishes to read them is important to us.  Banned Books Week gives us a time to showcase and talk about these topics to make people aware.

TLDR: Be on the Look-Out for Events at the Library!

We will have displays devoted to banned books, some sweet buttons, and other fun swag to celebrate Banned Books Week.  As a special highlight this year, we are holding our first Banned Books Read-Out.  From 10am-4pm, at various times throughout the day, members of the Champlain community will be reading aloud from their favorite banned books.  Story time from objectionable books?  What's not to like?  Come hang out with us!

For more, visit http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbooksweek.

Brown Bag #9

Wednesday, September 18th — Brown Bag Discussion #9

America At War: What Are The Rules?

International Humanitarian Law (IHL)

With Jeanne M. Lieberman, Esq.

Adjunct Professor, Core division

Where and when: Morgan Room, Aiken Hall, 12:30-2 p.m.

About this discussion: 

How do we define torture or regulate weapons? What is an “unlawful enemy combatant”? What is the status of reporters or contractors on battlefields? Is environmental damage a war crime? Who can try an accused war criminal? Was “Shock and Awe” an illegal tactic? The answers come directly from International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The essential IHL rules, codified in the Geneva Conventions, aim to reduce the suffering and devastation of war in order to assure a more lasting peace after the war. How’s that going? This presentation covers the essential principles of IHL historically and in the context of current events. Participation is encouraged. It will take the form of applying IHL principles to concrete situations.

Next up…

To volunteer for a brown bag talk, please contact Paula Olsen, olsen@champlain.edu

Dinosaurs in the Library!

Do you love dinosaurs??

Stop by and view this fun collection of various non-avian dinosaur figures and memorabilia on loan from the Andy Burkhardt Permanent Collection in Burlington, Vermont.  There's even a "dino night light" to brighten your day!

And don't miss the exhibit Bigger Than T-Rex now on display through September 2nd at the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center in Burlington.

We're in Business at the Library!

New Business Books for July

We invite you to stop by the Library to see our latest new books display showcasing new business-related titles. We've included books on economics, finance, marketing and entrepreneurship. And now to start the ball rolling, here are a few sample titles:

• The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation by Ron Adner
• Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown
• Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet by Charles Arthur
• Luxury Strategy in Action edited by Jonas Hoffmann and Ivan Coste-Manière
• Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing Change for Good by Nedra Kline Weinreich
• Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
• Walmart in China edited by Anita Chan

May New Books!

We've got a new display of brand new books that will start your summer off right. You can choose award-winning fiction like Louise Erdrich's The Round House or Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies. If you prefer biography, you can choose from Edythe Scott Bagley's Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King or Alex Danchev's Cezanne: A Life. Maybe you find history fascinating. In that case, we can offer titles like Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance by Jane Gleeson-White or Opium: Reality's Dark Dream by Thomas Dormandy. Check out our guide to the full list of choices at http://subjectguides.champlain.edu/newbooks and plan to spend some lazy summer days reading!

Faculty Publications and Artwork on Disply in Perry

The Faculty Professional Development Committee in collaboration with the Champlain Library have collected faculty publications as well as artwork from our talented faculty which is now on display on the second floor of Perry Hall. Feel free to check out paintings, scholarly articles, books and book chapters, poems, and illustrated children's books. As part of May Collaborative for faculty there will be an Exhibit, Exchange, Envision Event (E3E) which takes place on Thursday May 2nd in Perry Hall from 2-4. It will be an opportunity for faculty to share food, cocktails, and ideas with one another related to scholarship. Check out some of this faculty work today!