Posted by Beth on Friday, Sep 20, 2019
If you've been in a library or bookstore in the last few days, you might have noticed people sporting buttons proclaiming that the wearer is a fan of banned books. This phenomenon happens every September, promoting Banned Books Week.
Banned Books Week was started in 1982, the brainchild of Library and First Amendment activist Judith Krug. It is now an annual event of the American Library Association and other organizations like the American Society of Journalists and Authors (creators of the button on the right) which draws attention to censored books or authors and celebrating everyone's freedom to read. Libraries and bookstores all over host a variety of events during Banned Books Week, and ICPL is no exception. Our Carol Spaziani Intellectual Freedom Festival overlaps Banned Books Week.
And what sort of festival would it be if we didn't have have pieces of flair for sale?
At ICPL we have a variety of Banned Books Week buttons for sale at the Help Desk for $1.00 each.
Proclaim your support for Banned Books Week and pick up a button or two while supplies last! For more information about Banned Books Week visit bannedbooksweek.org or the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom
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Title: Program Librarian
Where you'll see me in the library: I work at the Information Desk, the Help Desk and in the Digital Media Lab during Drop-in Tech Help. I teach some of the Genealogy workshops and I'll be at most of the Library Events & Programs for adults too, so I'm pretty much everywhere.
What do you like to read? I read all... more
This first book in what I hope is a very long series of crime/detective fiction by author Joe Ide. I started with the print copy and was grabbed quickly by the story. However there is a lot of East LA dialect in this book that slowed me down, so I checked out a copy of the e-aduio and I'm so glad I did. Actor Sullivan Jones brought the characters to life in ways my imagination couldn't. After listening to a few chapters the characters are firmly in my brain and I hear their voices when I read the text. Isaiah Quintabe (IQ) is my new favorite private investigator. He sees things other people miss. Things that aren't where they're supposed to be, or shouldn't be where they are, or things that just don't make sense. Author Joe Ide masterfully weaves together two stories - Isaiah's own rough teenage years and the current case he's been hired to solve - to introduce us to a great new character in detective fiction. The second book in the series is "Righteous" and the third "Wrecked" is due out in October 2018. -Beth