September 2009 Archives

Banned Books Week (BBW) is this week! 

BBW is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.  Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Here in Philly, The Free Library and the American Civil Liberties Union will celebrate as local artists, musicians, actors, and TV personalities will read from their favorite censored volumes on Wednesday, September 30th, 7:30pm at the Central branch of the Free Library.

Interested in learning which books have been challenged or censored in the past -- as well as the not so distant past?  Chances are there is a classic or favorite book that you have read which has underwent some challenges. 

TU Libraries is currently trialing two new databases:  GREENR and Global Issues in Context.

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more.






Global Issues offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world topics in the news related to these issues.  It focuses on broad issues like war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming.  Global Issues complements nicely with another library database, CQ Global Researcher.

Both GREENR and Global Issues in Context organize their information easily, and they also provide relevant multimedia sources (video, podcasts, images, and more) - all of which can be easily extracted for use in the classroom or in a powerpoint presentation.

The trials will last until November 3rd.  Let us know if you believe this resource should be added to our eResource collection permanently.