Library Closure

In observance of Memorial Day, we will be closed Sunday and Monday. Normal hours resume on Tuesday, May 28.

Want to Learn Pinterest?

Have an interest in Pinterest? Come see what the latest social media craze is all about.

Instructor Becky Cola heads the class from 6-7 pm on Tuesday, May 14. Participants will create an account, build boards, search, pin items, follow friends and more. Mobile and PC will be addressed. Class warning: Pinterest addiction may occur afterwards.

HNPL has a limited number of laptops available for in-class use. Feel free to bring your own laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

Registration is required for this free class.

HNPL Welcomes Freegal

Freegal is here! Check out the website to get three free music downloads per week. The PIN is the same as your PIN for Overdrive/Evergreen.

Holiday Closings

It's hard to believe we're halfway through November.

Our Thanksgiving holiday hours:

Wednesday, November 21
open 10 am to 2 pm

Thursday, November 22
closed

Banned Books Week

2012 marks the 30th anniversary of celebrating Banned Books Week!

(from ala.org)

Banned & Challenged Classics

Each year, the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms.  See Frequently Challenged Books for more details.

According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, at least 46 of the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century have been the target of ban attempts.

The titles below represent banned or challenged books on that list ( see the entire list here). For more information on why these books were challenged, visit challenged classics and the Banned Books Week Web site.

The titles not included may have been banned or challenged, but we have not received any reports on them. If you have information about the banning or challenging of these (or any) titles, please contact the Office for Intellectual Freedom.

1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell
11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son, by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren

40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin

53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie

57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron

64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence

66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles

73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence

80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer

84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller

88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser

97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike

HNPL Open House

In recognition of Library Card Sign-Up Month, the Cicero library will be hosting an Open House onTuesday, September 25th from 4:00-7:30 PM.

There will also be opportunities throughout the day to learn about the library. The community will be able to learn about the many services and resources that its library offers. There will be eBook demonstrations, library card sign-up, food for fines, tours, explanations of programs, resources, services, and much more!

Members of the Partners and Friends of the Library will be on hand to inform how library lovers can promote the library, and become members themselves. Refreshments will be available too!

So, please mark your calendar, and spread the word.

Author Megan Powell

Hamilton North Public Library welcomes author Megan Powell at 6.30 pm on Tuesday, July 31.

 

Powell will read from her powerful debut novel, No Peace for the Damned.  Copies will be available for purchase.

Born and raised in the Midwest, Megan has cultivated a strange affinity for State Fairs and basketball humor. When not writing she is often found reading, frequently feeding her paranormal romance addiction. She loves cheap coffee with tons of sugar and can eat no-bake cookies by the dozen. While she doesn't necessarily consider exercising as a bad thing, she's certain that dieting is the work of the devil.

To register, please visit www.hnpl.lib.in.us, or call 317-984-5623.