This Week at SLIS – 9/25-10/1 – Banned Books Week special edition

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All Week!
Declare your love for Banned Books
Library Hours, Simmons’ Beatley Library
In celebration of Banned Books week (September 25- October 1) come browse the Beatley Library Banned Books display and declare your love for banned books. Finish the statement “I read banned books because…” share with the Simmons community “What banned book you would commit to memory to save from the sands of time?” and “Which banned book character would you like to have lunch with?” Declarations will be available all week during Library hours. (Sponsored by PLG)
 
 
All Week!
Banned Book Scavenger Hunt
All Hours, Simmons Main Campus
Join the Simmons Community in a Banned Books Scavenger Hunt! Look for posters with information about a specific banned book or character. Find the book in your personal collection, a book store, or library. Use hashtag #SLISBBHunt to join and share in the fun on Facebook and Instagram. (Sponsored by SoCS)
 
 
All Week!
“Get Caught” Reading Banned Books Photo Booth
Library Hours, Simmons’ Beatley Library
Come visit Beatley Library’s Banned Book display and pose with a book and other props! There will be a running photo contest through the week for three categories: Most Creative, Funniest, and Best Character Impersonation. Post your photo to Instagram with #SLISGetCaught and whoever gets the most likes per category will receive some Simmons swag! Have fun and “Get Caught” with banned books! (Sponsored by ALA-SC.)
 
 
Monday, September 26th:
Panel on Banned Books, Intellectual Freedom, and Censorship
6:00pm Collaboratory (P-314)
Please join ASIS&T and ALA-SC for a panel discussion with Laura Saunders and Rebecka Sheffield of SLIS, and Linda Schuller and Stacy Collins of the Beatley Library.  A live-stream and/or recording of the event may be available for those who cannot make it in person – details on that will be listed here: https://www.facebook.com/events/311658712524202/
 
“This year’s Banned Books Week is focusing on the diversity of authors and ideas that have prompted a disproportionate share of challenges. ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom estimates that more than half of all banned books are by authors of color or ones that represent groups or viewpoints outside the mainstream” — Em Claire Knowles, ALA Office of intellectual Freedom and Freedom to Read Foundation
Panopticon Open Meeting
2:30pm-4:30pm Collaboratory

Join Panopticon for chatting, snacks, and coloring at this open meeting.


SCIRRT Open House
4:30-5:30pm Collaboratory (P-314)

The Student Chapter of the American Library Association’s International Relations Round Table (SCIRRT) Open House event will introduces students to SCIRRT and internationally-minded peers. Come enjoy food from around the world and learn more about SCIRRT.

Wednesday, September 28th:
*Panopticon Open Meeting
5:00 pm- 7:00pm SLIS Student Lounge
Join Panopticon for chatting, snacks, and coloring at this open meeting.


Thursday, September 29th:

*SCOSAA Brown Bag Lunch
2:00- 3:00 pm SLIS Student Lounge

A brown bag lunch featuring the newest member of our archives faculty, Rebekah Sheffield. Her areas of specialization include LGBTQ+ Archives & Heritage, Queer & Feminist Social Movements, Community Informatics & Heritage, Management & Administration of Archives, Archival Exhibitions, Digital Archives, Social Movement Theory, and Sexual Diversity Studies.

*UXPA@Simmons Open House!
4:00-5:30pm P-314 (Collaboratory)

Interested in evaluating websites and user interaction with information services? Join the User Experience Professionals Association at Simmons (UXPA@Simmons) for some tea and cake! Come meet the officers, ask questions, and learn more about our events this semester. Bring your smartphone to participate in an informal mobile usability feedback session!

Film Screening with AMIA (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
6:00- 8:30 pm Collaboratory (P-314)

In the spirit of Banned Books Week, AMIA has chosen to show a film adaptation of a banned book. Join us for a viewing of The Perks of Being a Wallflower accompanied by a discussion on the theme of diversity and censorship. Popcorn and soda refreshments will be provided!

The book by Stephen Chbosky was “Removed from the required high school freshman English curriculum in Wallingford, Conn.(2015) by the school superintendent after a parent complained that the book included references to ‘homosexuality, date rape, masturbation, and the glorification of alcohol use and drugs.'” For more information on the viewing, please contact Christine at [email protected].

Friday & Saturday, Sept 30th/Oct 1st:

*CS Hackathon
7:00pm- 6:30 pm SOM & PRB

This hackathon focuses on providing college students and recent graduates with the opportunity to join forces and develop new mobile apps, games, hardware hacks, and more. Simmons College is a women-centered institution, which means that women, nonbinary individuals, and people who were assigned female at birth are all encouraged to attend this hackathon. Participants will work in teams of 3-4 people, overseen by mentors–talented tech developers from a whole variety of backgrounds.See http://scsharkhack.org/ for more info.

*Horn Book
Join The Horn Book staff, Simmons College faculty, and 2016 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, honorees, and judges for The Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium. This year’s program, “Out of the Box” will feature talks, panel discussions, and small-group sessions that offer librarians, educators, children’s literature professionals, students, scholars, publishing types, and writers alike, a chance to examine critical issues relevant to today’s children’s and young adult literature.