October 2012 - Volume 5, Issue 2What's New in the collection...It's Banned Books Week!Stop by the library and visit our display. You'll be amazed at some of the titles that have been challenged or banned in the last 30 years!From BannedBooksWeek.org: "Banned Books Week is the national book community's annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. The 2012 celebration of Banned Books Week will be held from September 30 through October 6. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982. For more information on Banned Books Week, click here." Announcements & Staff NewsExceptions to Regular Hours
October 6 (Homecoming)
OPEN: 9 a.m. - noon and 1 - 5 p.m.
October 17 – 21 (Fall Break Week)
OPEN: Wed – Thurs 7:45 a.m. – 5 p.m.
CLOSED: Fri – Sat
OPEN: Sun 6 – 11 p.m.
October 31 (Day of Prayer)
OPEN: 1 - 11 p.m.
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Annual Book Sale
The Bryan College Library is currently holding its annual book sale in the Library's atrium. There are lots of books from which to choose and prices are low. New books are added often. Faculty, staff and students are welcome to come by and browse. The book sale ends Monday, October 8. Contact Mrs. Connie Sanders for more details.
Register to Vote
October 6 is the deadline to register to vote in the upcoming national election. Please urge your students and peers to register if they have not already done so. Students may register to vote in Tennessee or by absentee ballot in their home state. Stop by the library for the print registration form, or register online.
October 23: Listen to This! Area Authors Read Their Works
We invite you to join us for our second Listen to This!, featuring area authors Finn Bille, Bruce Majors, John Mannone, and Ray Zimmerman reading selections from their published and forthcoming works. The event is Tuesday, October 23, from 7 - 8 pm on the second floor of the library.
Bruce Majors' collection, The Fields of Owl Roost, was named first finalist in the 2005 Indie Excellence Book Awards. He is co-editor of an anthology, Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets. Mr. Majors is a member of the Chattanooga Writer's Association.
Finn Bille published his poetry collection, Rites of the Earth, in 1994, and Fire Poems in 2011, and his work is included in Southern Light. He has read and published poetry in Denmark, where he was born under the flight path of English bombers heading for Germany. Finn also performs as a storyteller, specializing in stories about his immigration to America.
Ray Zimmerman's performance poems have delighted audiences and won prizes in poetry slams. He is the executive editor of Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets, which was selected as a topic of panel discussion at the Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, 2011. He is also a former president of the Chattanooga Writers Guild and won Second Place in the 2007 Poetry Contest of the Tennessee Writers Alliance.
John Mannone has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry and has 300 works published in: Baltimore Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Vermillion Literary Project, Conclave, New Mirage Journal, Medulla Review, Pedestal, Rose & Thorn Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, Writers & Artists, Hinchas de Poesía and others. His poems/prose are anthologized in 200 New Mexico Poems (New Mexico Centennial 2012), Tapestry of Voices (KWG 2011), All the Livelong Day (MotesBooks 2011), Come What May (MotesBooks 2010) and others.
From the Director
The question is: who would like to be able to use such a weapon on you? Freedom of speech is a right that we take for granted all too often, but that must be defended and exercised. Here’s a site that can help you join the conversation.
--Dr. Gary Fitsimmons