Banned Books Week Schedule at the Goldstein Library

by Rob Stephens

Here at the Goldstein, we love our banned books! This year Banned Books Week is September 30 - October 6, and we have a whole slew of events that week to celebrate! Here's the calender of events at the Goldstein:

Monday, October 1: Banned Books Readout, 1-3pm

Tuesday, October 2: Stump a Librarian, 2-5pm

Wednesday, October 3: Goldstein Book Club Discusses The Hunger Games, 8:30-9:30 PM

Thursday, October 4: Stump the Librarian, 2-5pm

Friday, October 5: ALA Banned Books Party, 6pm

Saturday, October 6: Scrabble Tournament, 10:30am

And here are brief descriptions of our events:

Monday: Banned Books Readout, 1-3pm

We're kicking off the week with live readings of banned books outside of the Shores Building. We've still got plenty of space for people to read, so feel free to come by and listen to or read from an awesome banned book! If you want to read a book, just come by, look at our list of banned books, pick one to read from, and we'll get it for you. Or, bring by your own book that's been banned and read from it!

Tuesday & Thursday: Stump the Librarian, 2-5pm

Are you a great source of knowledge on banned books? Do you want a snazzy Banned Books T-Shirt? Have you ever wanted to engage in an epic battle of whits with a librarian? Or, alternatively, do you just want to have some good old-fashioned library fun? Then check out Stump the Librarian. When you come by, you'll face a librarian in a trivia match. If you win, we'll enter your name into a drawing for an awesome Banned Books T-Shirt!

Wednesday: Goldstein Book Club discusses 

Our very own Goldstein Book Club is in its inaugural year, and during Banned Books Week, the Club will hold its first book discussion on none other than the most banned book of 2011-2012, The Hunger Games! Come by for fun, friends, food, and great literary discussion! 8:30-9:30 PM in the CAVE @ Goldstein.

Friday: ALA Banned Books Party, 6pm

We've got a fabulous ALA Chapter in the FSU SLIS program, and they'll be celebrating Banned Books Week with a PARTY! on Friday at 6 pm (after hours!!) at the Goldstein. Come by dressed as your favorite banned book -- word on the street is that there will be a contest for best banned book costume!

 Saturday: Scrabble Tournament, 10:30am

And finally, as a celebration of words, we'll be having a Scrabble Tournament on Saturday for all lovers of words! The tournament will begin at 10:30 AM, and the winner of the tournament gets facetime (a video of themselves) on the Goldstein Library Blog (this blog), as well as some other goodies!