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Absent from campus

I will absent from the campus Friday, September 29th. I will be back on Monday October 2nd.

If you need immediate assistance, you can contact the USF Tampa’s Ask-A-Librarian services or, for a short, factual question, use the PCC/USF Library.

Florida Best Books Awards program announced

From http://www.fsu.edu/~unicomm/pages/
releases/2006_09/FloridaBookAwards.html

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FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND ‘FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS’ KICKS OFF WITH CALL FOR
ENTRIES
Contest unites FSU, sponsors statewide in celebration of year’s best
books by Florida authors

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Kick-off is Sept. 25 for the First Annual Florida
Book Awards, the most comprehensive competition of its kind ever
launched in the state and an all-around celebration of the year’s best
books by Sunshine [...]

Editorial in the Tampa Tribune on Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week is mentioned today in the Tampa Tribune by guest commentator, Nicole Yunger Halpern.

Books recently banned around the world

David Shook compiled a list of books recently banned around the world in the September-October issue of World Literature Today:

Among the banned others are Paul Coehlo and Stanley Parks.

Banned Books Week

September 23-30 is Banned Books Week. 2006 marks the 25th anniversary of this celebration of intellectual freedom.

See http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/explorebbw.htm

for more information about the week
for more information about intellectual freedom
see the top 10 challenged books in the 21st century
vote for your favorite challenged book

and enjoy your freedom to read!

To limit the press is to insult a nation; [...]

New USF resources at the Lakeland Library

Here is a list of new books available at the PCC/USF Library, which arrived during August and the first part of September, for the USF collection.

Books

Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
HB74.P8 L479 2005
The economic implications of aging societies : the costs [...]

USF Libraries website outage on Thursday

The USF Libraries web server is scheduled for a down time for management work on Thursday, September 14, from 4:30am to 6:30am. This outage will impact both the USF Libraries’ website and the EZProxy server.

Absent from campus

Tuesday, September 5th, I will absent from the campus. I will be back Wednesday the 6th.

If you need immediate assistance, you can contact the USF Tampa’s Ask-A-Librarian services or, for a short, factual question, use the PCC/USF Library.