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Banned Books Week Celebration & Contest September 30 – October 6

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Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read has been observed during the last week of September each year since 1982. This annual event, sponsored by the American Library Association, reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.

Banned Books Week emphasizes the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.

Please check these links for more information about Banned Books Week:

American Library Association Banned Books Week Announcement

Banned Books Week: Celebrating 30 Years of Liberating Literature interactive  timeline display

Books Challenged or Banned in 2010-2011 by Robert Doyle

And view this great video (link)


Please visit the Mira Costa Library to see our Banned Books Week Display, and participate in our Banned Books Week Contest. The contest requires you to answer 14 easy questions about frequently banned or challenged books. You can download a copy of the contest form here. Submissions are due by Wednesday, October 10. Check the links above to help you with clues.

 

Mira Costa Teen Read Month

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October 16-22 is YALSA’s (the Young Adult Library Services Association) Teen Read Week Celebration, an annual national event sponsored by the Young Adult Division of the American Library Association. At Mira Costa, we are expanding this celebration to the entire month of October, with a whole variety of great activities:

  • Scary Books Exhibit. TLC: The Library Club, our school library service club, has organized a Scary Books exhibit. Come visit and  borrow a scary book to get yourself ready for Halloween!
  • Borrow a book from the Scary Books display or any library book between now and Halloween, and earn a chance to enter TLC: The Library Club’s candy guess contest. Guess the number of candies in the candy jar, and you could be the winner of the whole jar!
  • Enter more contests and win prizes!: Create a bookmark for the Manhattan Beach Public Library Bookmark Contest (entries due to our library October 28). Create a poster for California School Library Association’s @YourLibrary Contest (entries due to our library October 31). Create a a visual photo version of your favorite book for YALSA’s Teen Read Week Photo Contest (entries due October 31).
  • Join The Library Club members as they meet with other library clubs across the U.S. during Lunch and Period 5 on October 19 for a virtual book club discussion of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games. Ask at the library for more information.

Library Bookmark and Poster Contests

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Do you like to draw or paint? Would you like to promote your local public and school library? Then, please participate in one or both of these upcoming contests: County of Los Angeles Public Library Bookmark Contest

  • Our local Manhattan Beach Public Library is currently sponsoring its annual bookmark contest. The theme this year is “Picture the Adventure – Read.”  Contest winners are honored at a ceremony at a Manhattan Beach City Council Meeting, receive a certificate honoring their work, shake hands with the mayor, and get their picture taken. Afterwards, they are celebrated at the library with gift bags of treats, Barnes & Noble gift cards and 50 copies of their bookmark design to share with friends and family. In addition, the Mira Costa Library will make copies of all the bookmarks to distribute at our library. Entries are due to the Manhattan Beach Public Library by October 29. If you would like to submit your entry at the Mira Costa Library, please do so by October 28. Pick up a printed contest form at the Mira Costa Library or the Manhattan Beach Library, or download the Bookmark Contest Entry Form 2011 here.
@YourLibrary Contest
  • Each year, California School Library Association (CSLA) sponsors a student poster contest of posters promoting the importance of school libraries. Your artwork may be displayed on the CSLA website, as well as used on CSLA publications and products promoting school libraries. And, all Mira Costa entries will be featured in our library and on our website. Winners receive up to $100 in prize money. Please consider helping to promote school libraries by designing a 11″ x 17″ or 12” x 18” poster that incorporates the theme of @yourlibrary. For more information, talk to Mrs. Lofton or check  this information and entry form on the CSLA website. Entries are due by November 1.