Hi everybody! It's my first monthly blog post of the year - I can tell that you're super excited. As with previous years, this blog will discuss various library media center-ish items that I feel are useful for our staff to know. As this is the first one, I'll be blogging about more than one thing, so bear with me! Banned Books Week This past week we celebrated Banned Books Week. This is a celebration that takes place all across the country and draws attention to the intellectual freedom we enjoy in our country and the harms of censorship. Why is it a celebration? Because even though thousands of books are challenged (meaning people want them to be removed from library shelves) every year, books are rarely banned (actually removed from the shelves). Essentially, it's a celebration of our freedom to read what we want and to seek out information from various points of view. Hooray! For a list of the top 10 banned books this year, please click here . Flocab...