Stuart Dybek was born in 1942 and raised on the Southside of Chicago. He is a poet and fiction writer. He went to Loyola University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His works of fiction have made him famous in American poetry. He writes about the working class Slavic and Mexican neighborhood of the city. When he was growing up he had Poles, Czechs and Hispanics in his area. His work addresses the rough reality of urban life while at the same time making it sound beautiful (“Stuart Dybek”). According
looking at many libraries I chose to analyze the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, University of Chicago Illinois. In order to understand a library, you first need to know a brief history. In 1731, the first Library was opened by Benjamin Franklin and his Junti Society. More than a century and a half passed by and in 1887, Melvin Dewey founded a school for librarians to get their knowledge. Now they’re about a library in every city across the United States. This shows how a library has become useful
come to on their own. As the American Library Association notes, books are usually banned "with the best intention…to protect others, frequently children, from difficult ideas and information." (Brunner). If a book has frightening or controversial ideas in them, adults willing often censor that book from children. From 2000 to 2009, of the 5,099 challenges that were reported, 1,639 of these challenges were in school libraries and 30 challenges in academic libraries. (Frequently Challenged Books). At
society progresses the question of relevance in existing libraries has intensified. With the ever growing information available online, people have struggled to find the use in libraries as well as a reason to keep them. Libraries provide many things including free internet access, they provide a quiet place for people to meet up and libraries provide an accessible path towards a person’s education. Not only is it one of the last free public spaces but they also offer people opportunities that can’t
In our modern society, libraries have really changed. In the beginning, they started out being a place of books and silent learning. As time progresses, it is becoming a place of electronics and more a place of socialization. Although the library was made for learning and books, it is turning out to be a place of quiet socialization, and technology usage. Libraries originally started as a place where knowledge was shared with the world, findings from the past and stories of the future were
one woman’s childhood during the Islāmic revolution in Iran, from all classrooms and the school’s library. The resulting protest against the book’s removal has earned the students the Illinois Library Association’s 2013 Intellectual Freedom Award. Despite the student’s effort against banning the book however, The Chicago Public School district claimed to have the right to ban Persepolis from their library considering the fact that the book contains questionable language and depicts scenes of torture
vulgarity, violence, drugs, self-harm, racism, occult/satanic views, promoting gangs, and going against community standards. An example of a book that has been banned is The Catcher in The Rye by J. D. Salinger, since it has been banned from multiple libraries and schools for sexual and vulgar content (Santipr). Many people whose books have been challenged or banned have argued that the first amendment says something different. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
Arist (2007) chose three outstanding examples of libraries—academic, special, and public---that demonstrate how to provide information, technology, programming, and services to their communities. Her purpose is to encourage every library to do the same. The first example is Northwestern University, which provides outstanding resources for African-American studies through their Herskovits Collection of Africana founded in 1954. . (Arist, 2007, p. 1-2) It includes 285,000 volumes, 2,800 current
Harper Trophy of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. It was written on the reading level of ages 8 - 12, or grades 5 8. Bloomability has won the following awards: IRA/CBC Children's Choices 1999, Parenting Magazine Reading Magic Award 1998, and Chicago Public Library Best Books 1998. Sharon Creech uses her life as a basis for many of her books, and Bloomability is no exception.
known librarian stereotype is the "spinsterly and authoritarian naysayer over-concerned with regulations and maintaining a hushed library environment" (4). But where do these stereotypes come from, and are they really true? Perhaps librarians' professional invisibility is to blame for some of the stereotypes. Most people think that everyone who works in libraries is a librarian, and that librarian duties consist mainly of shelving and checking out books (5, 6). Think again! Librarians are
The American Library Association indicates that books are banned "with the best intentions—to protect others, frequently children, from difficult ideas and information" (Brunner). One of these such books, Marjane Satrapi’s memoir, Persepolis, a slandered read in many schools, should be prohibited to middle schoolers. In March, 2013, Persepolis was removed from the middle classrooms of Chicago Public Schools; District CEO, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, asserted that the ban was due to “graphic language and
Where a student once had to travel to the local library or bookstore to find information, they can now find information almost instantly in their “smart” phone. In this technological age “we are raising our children in a multimedia environment. Before writing and books, information was carried in songs
Shepard, author of the 18th Amendment”(Edey 154). “Americans bought machines for distilling liquor, called stills, at the hardware store.” (Hanson 28). Even if they did not know how to use them they easily get the information from the public library (Hanson28). Everything you could imagine was put into use to make liquor, even bathtubs (Hanson 28). “In fact, bathtub gin became a common term to describe during the decade” (Hanson28). “Doctors and druggists were legally allowed to dispense
Since the internet has been available in schools and libraries in this country, there has been a debate about what should be accessible to users, especially minors. The amount of information disseminated on the world wide web is vast, with some sources valuable for scholarly and personal research and entertainment, and some sources that contain material that is objectionable to some (ie. pornography, gambling, hate groups sites, violent materials). Some information potentially accessible on the
the protagonist in the novel, was raised by his Aunt Tante Lou. At the age of fifteen Gaines rejoined his immediate family in Vallejo, California because there were no high schools for him to attend in Louisiana. Gaines also wanted to enter a public library which was illegal for people of color to use. At this time in U.S. History, books about colored people were scarce and so Gaines decided to try and write his own novel. The desire to write led him to San Francisco State and Stanford University
This case resulted in the school board removing ten books from the school library for being "anti-american, anti-christian, anti-semitic, and just plain filthy." Another case involving book banning was Hazelwood School District V. Kuhlmeier. In this case the Supreme Court again gave school officials the broad discretion to control curriculum. This time the court left open the question if this affects the school libraries. In Olathe, Kansas, the district's superintendent made the decision to remove
After her husband's death in 1917, Ida supported Ralph and his younger brother, Herbert by working as a domestic at the Avery Chapel Afro-Methodist Episcopal Church. The family moved into the parsonage and Ellison was exposed to the minister's library. Literature was a destined medium for Ellison, whose father named him after the famous American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson and hoped that Ellison too would be a poet. His enthusiasm for reading was encou... ... middle of paper ... ... York University
Reading Environmentally When it comes to the topic of e-books vs. paper books, most of us will readily agree that the spread of e-books let people’s life more and more convenient. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of environmental protection. Whereas some are convinced that e-books are greener than traditional books, others maintain that e-books do not size up to our expectations. Nowadays, with the development of science technology, the chance that we use science are
platform for public sphere, and impact the public discourse of mass. This essay emphasises on analysing how twitter constructing a new public sphere and how we can use twitter become a platform for news production and production. this article is divided into four parts: The first part deal with the formation condition and possible cause of twitter. The second part is analysis how the twitter influence public opini... ... middle of paper ... ...er ’s conditions to build a public sphere: First
‘Public space is what in many ways makes cities more livable’, said Richard Rogers (2014). Rogers stated (2014) that public space between buildings influences both the built form and the civic quality of the city, be streets, public squares or parks. The balance between public and private realm is needed to apply practice’s design approach. City is beyond than bright of street light, shops, crowds, and weather. The city should be dense, vibrant and socially diverse where buildings and the surrounding