Fall into Reading at the KML!

September 2024

It's Banned Books Week!

Banned Books Week is observed every Fall and helps to draw attention to censorship and attacks on intellectual freedom. Celebrate your freedom to read with us and check out a Banned Book today!

In 2023, the most banned books in libraries, schools, and bookstores across the country were:

1: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

2: All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

3: This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson

4: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

5: Flamer by Mike Curato

6: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

7: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

8: Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

9: Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan

10: Sold by Patricia McCormick

Learn more about Banned Books Week and the American Library Association's efforts here.

Pop In to the Library!🍿

Event Information

Pop In to the Library!

🍿Midterms got you stressed? Need a brain break? Pop into the library for some delicious popcorn on the house. We can't wait to see you!

When?

Monday, Sep 30, 2024, 02:00 PM

Where?

Katie Murrell Library, Lindsey Wilson Street, Columbia, KY, USA

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Resource Spotlight

Counseling and Therapy in Video

Interested in counseling? Find the best, most up-to-date applied training and research materials available on this video streaming site. Materials are curated and developed to meet the educational and research needs of a variety of counseling curricula. Watch hours of video content that can better prepare you to meet with clients and deal with a variety challenges in a professional setting.

Staff Spotlight

Meet our Assistant Director, Greg Blair!

Tell us a little about yourself!

I am the Assistant Library Director. I graduated with my associate and bachelor’s degrees from LWC. I received my Master of Science in Library Science from the University of Kentucky.

What are some of your hobbies?

My hobbies include: theatre, singing, reading and walking.

What's your favorite book?

I have a lot of favorite books in different genres. Right now, I am reading a great book by S.T. Gibson entitled “Evocation”.

What's one of your favorite things about the KML?

One of my favorite things about the KML is doing collection development and processing books

Is there any Fall activities you like to participate in?

I enjoy going to a few of the festivals around the area.

What would you like to tell students who are stressed about midterms?

Access all the programs on campus that will help if you need extra support. Take time for some activity or meditation to center yourself.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15th-Oct. 15th)!

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside, but as Noemi digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.

Chicano Chicana Americana (E-Book) by Anthony F Macias

Chicano-Chicana Americana is a cultural history of Mexican Americans in film, television, and theater. How do racially and socio-economically marginalized Latino-Latina subjects contribute to U.S. culture, beyond the black-white binary? Drawing on methods borrowed from cultural studies, Macías argues that these performers, neither assimilationists nor nationalists, expressed a dynamic, complex ethnic identity, created an alternative strategy for how Latinos and Latinas are seen in pop culture.

A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey

After graduation, everything Lila Reyes had planned for her life fell apart. Her worried parents make a new plan for her: Spend three months with family friends in Winchester, England, to relax and reset. But with the lack of sun, a grumpy inn cook, and a small town lacking Miami flavor (both in food and otherwise), what would be a dream trip for some feels more like a nightmare to Lila. Until she meets Orion Maxwell.