Make Some Noise: Music Books Exhibit
Come have a look and a listen! The music books have moved from Presser to the WRL and this exhibit features some great reads. Whether you’re a little country or a lot Mozart, a Deadhead or into Old Head Hip-Hop: we have books for you!
Staff & Faculty Book Club: Calling In
From pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Loretta J. Ross, this urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook provides bold, practical new ways to transform conflicts into connections, even with those we’re tempted to walk away from.
You are invited to the September meeting of the Inclusive Excellence book club for staff and faculty:
Book: Loretta Ross, Calling in: How to start making change with those you’d rather cancel.
RSVP to Dina Hackley-Hunt: hackleyhuntdm@hollins.edu .
About the book club: come join a positive discussion! Our goal is to explore dialogue across differences, and related issues. You are welcome to bring your brown bag lunch, and any interested colleagues. We will provide coffee and dessert.
Options for reading: request a copy via OneSearch, from the public library , use Libby, or support your local independent bookstore. We hope you can join us!
Banned Books Week of Events
Join us for a series of events celebrating books and your freedom to read! During Banned Books Week we raise awareness about the rise in censorship attempts facing authors, librarians, and teachers across the United States.
I’m With The Banned! Hollins recs for BBW on exhibit
Sept. 28-Oct. 14 on the library’s 1st floor.
Come check out our exhibit! We asked Hollins faculty, staff, and students to recommend some of their favorite banned and challenged books. Come find your next read before it’s banned…
Banned Books Speakeasy Social
Monday, October 6, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. in the Reading Room, Library 1st floor.
It’s a mocktail party! Visit with Rainy Day Reads Books and Roanoke Public Library, play banned books trivia, make your own zine, and learn more about how you can help stop censorship. Raise a glass to freedom….cheers!
Banned Books Read-In
Tuesday, October 6, 4:30 p.m. in the Hollins Room, Library 3rd floor.
Join your favorite faculty, students, and staff, to read passages from our favorite banned books! Refreshments will be served. Bring your own passage to read, or choose from the exhibit. Sign up to read: email ramseywz1@hollins.edu. Or just come to listen and enjoy!
Censored: Stories, Speech, and the Battle for Books
Wednesday, October 7, 5:00-6:00 p.m. Register to attend on Zoom (use this link) or join us to watch in the Goodwin Private Dining Room, Moody 1st floor.
This virtual panel features a conversation with Lesléa Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies—one of the first picture books to embrace LGBTQ+ themes, and Melissa McCoul, the former Senior Lecturer at Texas A&M who was let go after a student challenged her lecture on gender representation in children’s books. Our guests will discuss their journeys through censorship and controversy.
The discussion will be live streamed but will not be recorded. Attend on Zoom (to register use this link) or go through the line in Moody, bring your dinner and join us!
Lesléa Newman has created 90 books for readers of all ages including Rainbow Cookies; Joyful Song: A Naming Story; Something Sweet: A Sitting Shiva Story; The Babka Sisters; Heather Has Two Mommies; and Sparkle Boy. Her literary awards include two National Jewish Book Awards, two American Library Association Stonewall Honors; the Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award, and the Massachusetts Book Award. From 2008 -2010, she served as the poet laureate of Northampton, MA.
Leslea Newman. Photo by Mary Vazquez.
Melissa McCoul is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she teaches first-year writing. She received her PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 2017, where she researched gender and play in 19th century novels for girls. At Notre Dame, she also earned a Gender Studies graduate minor and taught classes in gender studies, children’s literature, and 19th century novels. Recently, she worked as a Senior Lecturer at Texas A&M, where she specialized in diverse, contemporary children’s and young adult fiction, particularly queer middle grade fiction.
Melissa McCoul
Table Sitting
Thursday, October 8, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Moody lobby.
Stop by our table to visit with Rainy Day Reads Books, learn more about recent book bans and challenges, and win some BBW merch!
Breathing Room
Thursday, October 8, 4:30 p.m., RAT, Moody downstairs.
Grab some food and join a relaxed interfaith conversation: for BBW our theme will be censorship and religious freedom. Refreshments will be served.
Silent Reading
date/time TBD, Margaret Wise Brown Reading Room, VAC 1st floor.
Come be quietly subversive…BYOBB (Bring Your Own Banned Book) or use ours! Selected banned books will be provided.
Passports and prizes: win this journal
Attend multiple events and win your very own copy of Read These Banned Books: A Journal and 52-Week Reading Challenge from the American Library Association. It’s easy:
- Attend any two BBW events and get your passport stamped.*
- Check out a banned book from the library, take a selfie with the book and send it to library@hollins.edu.
- Bring your stamped passport to the library to get your free journal!
- *To get credit for virtually attending the panel discussion on October 7, take a screen shot and email it to library@hollins.edu.
–The Banned Books week of events at Hollins is brought to you by the Chaplain’s Office, the Graduate Programs in Children’s Literature and Illustration, the English and Creative Writing Department, and the Wyndham Robertson Library.
