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Senior year…the most fun year according to all my elders, the most stressful year according to my teachers, but for me, it has been an amazingly reflective year thus far. Every essay or assignment so far has asked me to analyze my perspective looking forward, backward, inward, globally, etc… At first, the process of deep analysis into my psyche about who I want to be and where I have been felt scary and daunting so I ran as fast as I could to my Momma! Of course, she proceeded to cry…

our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight” (“A Quote by Stephen Chbosky”). Challenging books usually comes from trying to protect people, mainly students, from “inappropriate” material found in the book. This can effect teachers by making them lose their flexibility to teach of teaching subjects to their students (“About Banned & Challenged Books”). Even some of today’s classic novels have been challenged before such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain…

These “sponsors” are basically events, people, or factors in your life that you can attribute to shaping/forming your reading and writing career. While it is easy to name of people who helped, English teachers, parents, neighbor, etc. these sponsors go more in depth as you really sit down and think about it. One that comes to mind, having access to libraries, is something I can really say helped me reading career as well. Some kids grow up not being near…

Danny Saunders is just like any other kid who feels forced into doing what his dad wants him to do. Throughout the book Danny is forced to study, learn, and reiterate knowledge of the Talmud to practice his Hasidic faith. His father, Reb Saunders, does not even speak to him unless it is about the Talmud or the study of it. Danny is conflicted with his traditional way of religion and his new found love for psychoanalytic. However with his love for psychology, he soon becomes more modernized with…

county resident can receive all the help he or she needs. Billington Library has six librarians: Barry Bailey, Judy Guzzy, John Russell, Mark Swails, Jessica Tipton, Judith Vaughn. Mark Swails is the copyright librarian. He handles everything copyright such as educating students, staff, and faculty on copyright matters and maintaining a college copyright webpage. Judith, also known as Judi, Vaughn is a Professor Librarian with a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science . Her three main…

Collection Statement: The primary responsibility of the Rose County Public Library is to serve the community and employees of Rose County by offering an expansive choice of materials to meet their informational, educational, cultural and recreational needs. Materials selected are based on the criteria that they aid whoever in finding whatever information they are seeking. With this goal in mind, RCPL is part of the Evergreen consortium, RCPL continues to advance and keep current its own…

The article, "Escape Route," by Avi Steinberg is a librarian's take on a social institution. By social institution I'm referring to a structure given a particular purpose by society (Killgore, 2017). The author describes his experience staffing the Suffolk County House of Corrections library. He tells the reader about positive and negative effects of inmates spending time in the library, the debate on a library being accessible, and his personal experiences with the inmates. Steinberg finishes…

Banned books are books that have been banned for certain reasons that may argue against a certain group of people’s beliefs. Books around the world should not be banned because you can learn from what the book tells you. I read My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult, which was a very informative book that gave me a lot of information that I could hold on to. My banned book should not be banned because I learned a lot and it was a great story about a cancer patient and her family. There are multiple…

Banned Books Have you ever heard of a banned or challenged book? If so, you would know there are a lot of them. There are also a lot of opinions as to whether books should be banned or not. Some books are understandable but sometimes I think this is taken a little overboard. By examining the difference between a banned or challenged book, the most common reasons a book is banned or challenged, and why “Night” was banned or challenged, it is clear that the message from the book outweighs the…

Have you ever wanted to read a book, but couldn't find it anywhere? That's because your book could be banned or challenged. A banned book is when someone bans a book for the content or there's something wrong with the book. When a book is challenged, it means someone's fighting for the book to be banned. For example, “A Stolen Life” by Jaycee Dugard is a banned book. I agree the book should be banned, because of the inappropriate content in the book. At Crossroads middle school received a…