This week Melanie is joined by Alex Andrasik, Adult Services Librarian from Penn Yan Public Library and Sally Jacoby-Murphy, Library Director of the Hammondsport Public Library as we discuss book bans, and the role of librarians on the front lines of these discussions.

https://pen.org/banned-in-the-usa/

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/freedomreadstatement

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom 

Library Director Melanie Miller sits down with Children's Librarian Kate Miller (Wellsville-David A. Howe Library) and Youth Services Coordinator Cherilyn Wise (Cuba Circulating Library) to discuss all things summer reading! Learn how little your local librarian sleeps during the summer months! 

Learn more about our Reading Through Africa Challenge. The first book we read was Walking on Cowrie Shells by Nana Nkweti. 

Kate Miller, Children's Librarian from the David A. Howe Library in Wellsville, NY joins us to discuss some new children's books and author, Beverly Cleary. 

This month we discuss Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me about her friendship with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. 

Hear about some of the new books we've added to the collection in the month of February.  Everything from picture books to adult non-fiction, young adult, to adult fiction. 

True Crime Selection this month is Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson.  

SOURCES:

Stevenson, Bryan (2015) Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption New York: One World

Walter McMillian - Wikipedia

Check out what's new in the Box of Books this month! 

Our True Crime Book selection for January was Know My Name by Chanel Miller.  We give you a summary of the book, a summary of the case, and a few questions to thinking about. 

Sources:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/22/chanel-miller-brock-turner-rape-survivor-sentencing-memoir/2412608001/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50196744-know-my-name?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=bT6CdTqzT3&rank=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner

Miller, Chanel (2020) Know My Name: A Memoir Penguin Books. London, UK.

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