The Butler libraries now have RSS feeds available to let you know about new books that have been added to our catalog.
Using your favorite aggregator (we recommend Google Reader or Bloglines), just add any of the following feeds and you’ll be notified every time a new book is added to our catalog in that subject area.
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. This year it is from Sept. 29 – Oct. 6. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.
Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular. It stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.
Between 1990 and 2000, of the 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom:
- 1,607 were challenges to “sexually explicit” material (up 161 since 1999)
- 1,427 to material considered to use “offensive language” (up 165 since 1999)
- 1,256 to material considered “unsuited to age group” (up 89 since 1999)
- 842 to material with an “occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism” (up 69 since 1999)
- 737 to material considered to be “violent” (up 107 since 1999)
- 515 to material with a homosexual theme or “promoting homosexuality” (up 18 since 1999)
- 419 to material “promoting a religious viewpoint” (up 22 since 1999)
- 317 to material involving “nudity” (up 20 since 1999)
- 267 to material involving “racism” (up 22 since 1999)
- 224 to material involving “sex education” (up 7 since 1999)
- 202 to material considered to be “anti-family” (up 9 since 1999)
Links
Proclamation from the Butler Libraries
Quotes relating to Banned Books Week
Introducting OLDO! The Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
Instant
access to Oxford’s top-of-the-line, unabridged bilingual
dictionaries!
Oxford Language
Dictionaries Online features essential language resources never before
available online – fully searchable, comprehensive, authoritative bilingual
dictionaries and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning
and using an expanding range of languages.
- Initially offering
over 1.2 million words and phrases, and over 2 million translations in
French, German, Spanish and
Italian
- Coming in
2008: Chinese, Russian, and revolutionary pronunciation software
allowing you to hear native speaker stress and intonation
- Unique
language learning support, including usage examples and illustrative
phrases, grammar guidance, click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts,
explanations of grammatical terms, and help with spelling and
pronunciation
- Access to
hundreds of correspondence templates including sample letters,
emails, and resumes to provide practical help with writing
- Regular
updates every six months ensure that the most current meaning
and the latest new words are just a click away
You can access OLDO on the Library Website under Databases or just click the link above.
For the last few days, our SFX service has been down. This has affected the FindIt button and Journals A-Z.
As of Wednesday, Sept. 19, all these services have been restored. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.
Students
The library tutorials are accessed through the front page of the library website. A direct link is http://www.butler.edu/library/?pg=650. Work your way through the tutorials at your own pace.
Once
you’ve completed the tutorial, there may be a quiz available to make
sure you’ve learned what is expected. These quizzes are available in
Blackboard. Simply log into Blackboard and look under “My
Organizations” for the one called Library Tutorials. All freshmen will be added by Friday, August 31. If you do not have it listed there, please contact spfitzin@butler.edu and request to be added to the Library Tutorials organization.
Faculty
We
encourage faculty members to assign any library tutorials and quizzes
that may be relevant to their classes. The library tutorials are
accessed through the front page of the library website. A direct link
is http://www.butler.edu/library/?pg=650.
After
completing the assigned tutorial(s), students can take the
corresponding quiz in Blackboard, under the organization called Library Tutorials. If they do not have it listed under “My Organizations,” please have them contact spfitzin@butler.edu
and request to be added to the Library Tutorials organization. By
default, only freshmen are added to this organization. If you have
students that need to take the quiz(zes) and are not freshmen, please
send a list of those students to spfitzin@butler.edu and they will be added.
Students’ quiz scores can be sent to you upon request. Please see the Library Tutorials and Quizzes page for more information.
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