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misery from the eyes of a child. Due to many children demonstrating how easily they can be persuaded, as shown in the novels 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, both parental figures and public school systems fought for certaining books to be banned from their libraries. Within 1984, the reader gains the understanding that children are able to follow the laws of the government, all thinking and acting the same way as if they were robots under control of the higher power. Not one can live free-spiritedly,…

literature that will help meet their needs. These staff members are always appreciative and say people rarely think of helping them find resources. I believe it is important that we include these professionals when choosing literature. Each day in the library, it seems a student will ask me for help to find a book in which they can identify with a particular situation or experience. I…

A great way for a library to raise money is to allow different proposals for different fundraisers, specifically two different proposals which a committee representing the community will decide which is the most logistically feasible. The two fundraisers the committee will take into account are a proposal for a library book sale and a proposal for a carwash. Though the book sale and the carwash have their similarities and differences, the carwash is the most reliable fundraiser to generate more…

Level Two Discussion 1. The Importance of Meeting Outcomes School librarians need to demonstrate the contributions of the school library program in contributing towards student learning at their school. Callison (2007) describes the difference between inputs, outputs, and outcomes and their importance in evaluating student learning and the contribution of the school library program to the school (p.43). School librarians need to focus on outcome- based evaluation to determine if the program…

At the beginning of the story, the narrator describes the situations in which he met a man named C. Auguste Dupin. Both were searching for the same book at the same library. It was in the Rue Montmartre, in Paris. They became friends and decided to share the expenses of a residence together in Paris. The narrator then illustrates the powers that Dupin possess. They are brilliant powers of analysis. Once a day, the narrator and Dupin read newspaper headlines. They found a headline about a…

Poetry Reading Response: Rickey Laurentiis I had a chance to see Rickey Laurentiis, an Black poet, along with a majority of my classmates at the Madison Public Library in the third floor Community Room. When I arrived, the first thing I noticed was that it was a very packed event; this caught me off guard. There weren’t a lot of seats available so some people had to either stand at the back of the room the entire time or stand outside by the door and listen carefully. Before this gathering,…

at the library at the beginning of your off-period, you expect to leave about an hour later with a significant amount of work accomplished and with seldom left to do that night. However, in the library, there are people with the goal to cause a ruckus and prevent everyone around them from getting their work done. During the period, the librarian yells at least ten times about how loudly everyone is talking and how if the volume is not lowered, silent study will begin. You leave the library with…

not examine what else Simmons offers?” And that’s when the connection was made. As I browsed Simmons’ library and information science classes, my excitement bubbled: history of the book, cataloging, book publishing and librarianship, metadata, visual communication. This is what I’ve been searching for! Jenna Freedman, Associate Director of Communications and Zine Librarian at Barnard College Library, is quoted by Marilyn Johnson in This…

Censorship in School Libraries Censorship in school libraries is an ongoing issue occurring in schools all across the U.S. To fully understand this problem, the definition of censorship must be known. With this in mind, censorship is “the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are offensive” (ACLU 1). There are many significant reasons for why censorship should be used including the prevention of religious conflicts, the prevention of harmful material being exposed to children, and the…

access to book and other resources before middle school, middle school was when I really started to entertain the idea of reading. I became a library media assistant in middle school and that opened up a whole new world to me. Initially, I became one because I was bored and needed something else to do besides go to school and back home. When the idea of library media assistant was pitched to me, I was interested, but not because I would be around books. There were other media assistants and I…