Greetings, Banned Books Week is Sept 21-27, an annual celebration of the freedom to read. The Library of Michigan would like to showcase your library's activities during this week on our homepage. Will you put up a bulletin board? Host a Read Out or virtual Read Out? Put up a display of frequently challenged books? ALA has lots of resources to jumpstart your activities. We want to hear about what you're doing! Send information about your activity along with links and/or photos where appropriate for display on the Library of Michigan homepage to Sonya Schryer Norris at norriss2@michigan.gov<mailto:norriss2@michigan.gov>. I look forward to seeing what Michigan libraries are doing around this event! More information: You can read more about Banned Books Week here: http://www.ala.org/bbooks/banned Ideas and resources: http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbooksweek/ideasandresources. ALA will hold a free webinar exploring issues around banned books on Wed., Sept 24 at noon. You can read more about it and reach registration information here: http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/09/free-banned-books-week-webina... Sonya Schryer Norris Library Consultant and Plinkit Coordinator Library of Michigan 517-373-4457 http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan http://www.mel.org<http://www.mel.org/> http://www.michlibrary.org<http://www.michlibrary.org/> Invest in a child's future today. Support the MDE Culture of Reading. www.michigan.gov/cultureofreading<http://www.michigan.gov/cultureofreading> [Culture of Reading-A (2)]