"Free People Read Freely"

This week is Banned Books Week (September 23 - 30). Many books I have read and enjoyed are some of the most challenged books in the history of literature: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher and The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. Celebrate your freedom to read and check out some of these links:

• ALA Banned Books page
  

• Explore banned books with Google

• Top 100 Challenged Books 1990-1999

• What's the difference between a challenge and a banning
  

New Look--New System Too

Happy Birthday, Blog! It's been one year since it's inception, and I thought it was time for transformation. Like the new look? I dig the darker background--it's much easier on the eyes. Bear with me as I migrate some of the old links onto the new blog. This also happens to coincide with the upcoming computer system migration currently happening at your library right now.

We will be offline and checking out manually on September 24th through the 27th. Make sure you bring in your library card--there is no way for us to look up your account with an ID. This will only be for 4 days; if you have any troubles, don't hesitate to email me: angelad [at] nchcpl.lib.in.us OR IM me--

AOL: nchcplangela
YAHOO: anewla
MSN: angelad [at] nchcpl.lib.in.us

We will be back up and running with our new computer system on September 28th.