Book Club Pick for Nov. 13th Meeting

Posted on October 10, 2012 by nrpubliclibrary

Our book club pick for the November 13th meeting is…

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.
Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration.

You can stop in at the Library and pick up a book everyone welcome!

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New Books & Announcements

Posted on October 8, 2012 by nrpubliclibrary

The Library will be closed Friday Oct. 19 for carpet cleaning. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Library2Go is coming along Susie is taking classes and filling out paperwork. Keep checking the website or our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/NewRockfordPublicLibrary for patron classes and more announcements as the time gets closer for this to go live.

New books this week:

In Adult fiction:

The Time Keeper by, Mitch Albom

Dark Places & Sharp Objects by, Gillian Flynn

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by, Rachel Joyce

Zoo by, James Patterson & Micheal Ledwidge

Severe Clear Stone Barrington #24 by, Stuart Woods

Love Anthony by, Lisa Genova

The Cutting Season by, Attica Locke

Before I Go to Sleep by, S.J. Watson

Buried Prey by, John Sandford

Never Look Back by, Kathy Herman

The Postmistress by, Sarah Blake

The Dress Lodger by, Sheri Holman

Heartsick by, Chelsea Cain

The Fugitive Wife by, Peter Brown

The Fiddler by, Beverley Lewis

Stranger than Fiction by, Chuck Palahniuk

One Hundred Years of Solitude by, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Empire Falls by, Richard Russo

In Non-fiction:

Barefoot in the Rubble by, Elizabeth B. Walter

Obsessed with North Dakota A Collection of photography

The River of Doubt Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by, Candace Millard

In Young Adult:

Feedback ( Variant #2) by, Robison Wells

The Raven boys by, Maggie Stiefvater

A Separate Peace by, John Knowles

In Juvenile Fiction:

The Fourth Stall Part II by, Chris Rylander

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New Rockford Mayor Jim Belquist Reads Banned Books

Posted on October 4, 2012 by nrpubliclibrary

Throughout the country, most children are starting a new academic year. Teachers are sending out their lists of required readings, and parents are beginning to gather books. In some cases, classics like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” and “To Kill a Mocking Bird,” may not be included in curriculum or available in the school library due to challenges made by parents or administrators.

Since 1990, the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has recorded more than 10,000 book challenges, including 513 in 2008. A challenge is a formal, written complaint requesting a book be removed from library shelves or school curriculum. About three out of four of all challenges are to material in schools or school libraries, and one in four are to material in public libraries. OIF estimates that less than one-quarter of challenges are reported and recorded.

It is thanks to the commitment of librarians, teachers, parents, and students that most challenges are unsuccessful and reading materials like “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” ” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,” the Harry Potter” series, and “The Hunger Games” series, also a couple by, Jodi Picoult remain available.

The most challenged and/or restricted reading materials have been books for children. However, challenges are not simply an expression of a point of view; on the contrary, they are an attempt to remove materials from public use, thereby restricting the access of others. Even if the motivation to ban or challenge a book is well intentioned, the outcome is detrimental. Censorship denies our freedom as individuals to choose and think for ourselves. For children, decisions about what books to read should be made by the people who know them best—their parents!

In support of the right to choose books freely for ourselves, the ALA and Eddy-New Rockford Library are sponsoring Banned Books Week Sept.24-Oct.1 an annual celebration of our right to access books without censorship. This year’s observance commemorates the most basic freedom in a democratic society—the freedom to read freely—and encourages us not to take this freedom for granted.

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