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Celebrate freedom: read a banned book

Banned Books week is September 26th through October 3rd. 

From the American Library Association:

Banned Books 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.

The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bannings.  Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections.  

The Roosevelt University Library has created a LibGuide listing the many banned books featured in our collection, as well as providing resources on how, when, where, and why books are challenged and censored all over the world. 

Click Here to view the Banned Books LibGuide

CELEBRATE YOUR FREEDOM TO READ: CHECK OUT A BANNED BOOK!

Welcome to the Wall Street Journal

The library has begun an online subscription to the business newspaper of record, the Wall Street Journal.  Owned by Dow Jones & Co, which in turn was recently acquired by journalism giant, NewsCorp, the Wall Street Journal is a weekday paper that provides World, U.S., and Business news and editorials.  Market pricing updates for U.S. and international stocks, bonds, commodities, and mutual funds are also a key feature each morning for many readers.

 The library’s subscription, purchased through the online service provider ProQuest, gives the full text of articles published originally in the print edition from 1984 to the present.  Along with access to articles are many search facilitation fields, including professionally-provided subject indexing terms and NAICS code searchability.  The library’s service does not include articles published exclusively in the web version of the Wall Street Journal.

 If you are using our EBSCO Business Source Premier, or other library databases, and your results include a citation to a Wall Street Journal article, just click on the ‘Get Article’ button.  In the ‘SFX Services’ popup, click on ‘For library holdings, see the Library’s A-Z listing’.  At the ‘Title begins with’ prompt, type in “Wall Street Journal”.  You will actually be directly connected to the library database at this point.