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Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a book that frequently challenged. The book is challenged because the book includes drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, homosexuality, date rape, and offensive language (“Frequently Challenged Books”). High schools all over America have challenged The Perks of being a Wallflower for its content (“Banned Book Week”). The first four books of the Harry Potter series is the seventh most banned book on the most banned books from 1990-2000. People of Christian…

Censorship in Libraries About 1.72 billion people are affected by censorship on any given day. There are many pros and cons to having censorship in libraries, but in my opinion there are more cons than pros. Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc., that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. However, censorship has and will affect today's children and future kids to come. Censorship in libraries affects…

rapidly that at times they can make more familiar components of our lives, such as libraries, seem outdated and antiquated. However it is the pairing of the two, technologies with the library, which have made the pair even more relevant in the evolving information landscapes that we modern humans find ourselves in. This continually changing landscape can be a daunting thought when just starting out in library school, but when I take a step back and think about it, when have humans ever been in…

believes that the art shown in museums should be determined by the public. The writer conveys his ideas through analogies, diction, and syntax, also the relativity of his or her concepts will be explored. To begin, the writer uses an analogy about a library to strengthen the argument at stake.[D:…

Why are books banned? Why are books banned or challenged? There are many ways a book can be challenged or banned. A book can be banned or challenged by violence or negativity which means that books that include violence are censored. Some books have been deemed for negative or depressing features. As well as being banned by the profanity, racial issues. By examining the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, and reading over the racial issues and the work of violence that is implemented into this book, I…

into the library building, would you miss that? Touching books, writing in them, highlighting them, bookmarking them. Libraries are suffused with so many different resources for researching rather than just books. The card catalog categorizes all the books and where to locate them. Now this process has gone electronically along with the mechanism of checking out books. Is this the future of libraries, a virtual library where everything is downloading ebooks. This is the problem, libraries have…

How a library functions begins at the level of the individual patron. Each patron who crosses the threshold, be it the physical or the digital, is looking for a combination of resources that is specific to their person. The library as an institute is responsible for providing equal access to information to those who seek it through intellectual freedom, and receive education that furthers the learning of the patron either drastically or minimally. These are the most basic values on which a…

The organization is an academic library for a university, so employees of the library at librarian status or higher positions are MLS-holders. Employees of the library are expected to have reference skills, customer service skills, and technical knowledge. Workers for the Carlson Library are recruited nationally, but mostly in the state of Pennsylvania. In addition, there are student employees as well, who are solely on-campus students and recruited locally. There are specific needs for each…

with professional and disciplinary expertise have curated academic library collections. (Walters, 2012) However, the current trend of shrinking library budgets has led to staff and collection budget cuts. With the increasing proliferation of publishing – especially electronic publishing – it is not possible for librarians to create fully comprehensive collections foreseeing patrons’ needs. (Weir, 2012, p. 41) Some academic libraries are using patron-driven acquisition (PDA) of electronic…

the inappropriate content in the book. At Crossroads middle school received a complaint about the book “A Stolen Life.” by Jaycee Dugard. The superintendent read the book and decided it will be a banned book becauses of its graphic nature. It wasn't allowed in the 7th grade classroom libraries. It also wasn't a 7th grade elective reading. Even though the book was banned for 7th graders, the book will be on Northview Public High School shelves.…