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Literary Costume Contest 2009

Pictures of the entries for this year's literary costume contest have been posted on Picasa--http://picasaweb.google.com/PHCLibrary/LiteraryCostumeContest2009

Legal Dictionaries Added to LexisNexis Academic

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that we have added several useful dictionaries to the legal materials in LexisNexis Academic

Ballentine's Law Dictionary, 3^rd Edition
Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations, 4^th Edition
Canadian Legal Words and Phrases
Dahl's French-English Law Dictionary (1995)
Dahl's Spanish-English Law Dictionary (1992)
A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (1987)
Modern Dictionary for the Legal Profession (2001)

To locate these sources and their descriptions in LexisNexis Academic, choose the "Sources" tab, and look for the "Dictionaries" folder in the default view (browse sources by publication type).

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CQ Global Researcher

If you are interested in researching international issues, check out CQ Global Researcher before February 5 and let me know what you think!

Published by CQ Press, CQ Global Researcher focus on a different international issue for each month's issue. In the last two years, CQ Global Researcher has reported on torture, peacekeeping, the climate, women's rights, currency, and various regions and countries, including Latin America, Europe, Darfur, and Turkey, along with 15 other topics.

Each topic is a dedicated issue reported in a scholarly manner with footnotes, bibliography, and resources for further research. A brief background of the situation is provided along with current information and possible future developments. A Pro/Con section allows an expert from each side of the issue to briefly summarize their position on the argument.

This is only trial access, so there will not be any access after February 5, 2009.

The library currently subscribes to two other resources that are provided by CQ Press:
CQ Researcher Plus Archive. Similar in style to CQ Global Researcher, CQ Researcher focus on American domestic issues. The archive provides access to issues back as far as 1923.
CQ Weekly. Published weekly while Congress is in session, CQ Weekly provides reports on what is happening in Congress.

Another resource that provides expert and scholarly reports on controversial issues is Pro & Con Online. [Hmm....This appears to be not working. I'll call and see if we can get that fixed!] Pro & Con Online consists of three different publications looking at issues in three distinct areas--Congressional Digest, Supreme Court Debates, International Debates.

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Essay Contest Winner

The winning essay in our Banned Books Week essay contest was by Jessica P. Here is her essay.

The book is, perhaps, the most powerful instrument known to man. Not only can the book survive for millennia, but it also holds within its covers the power to impress, incite action, record, and educate. Thus it comes as no surprise that books have been censored as far back as 387 BC, when Plato urged the expurgation of Homer’s writings from the common reader. Indeed, even in America, there is debate over whether books should be banned for various reasons such as extremism, profanity, sexuality, and violence. Such controversies should not exist. While there is no doubt that some literature may be injurious to society, history has clearly demonstrated that the censorship of free speech is even more hazardous. The “freedom of speech and … press” in the First Amendment does more than defend individual’s voice. Innately, it acknowledges the intrinsic value and individuality of each person. It is for this reason that book censorship is an extremely dangerous act. The poet Heinrich Heine once stated: “When one burns books, one will soon burn people”. In 1933 Nazis incinerated “un-German” books in massive bonfires. Less than a decade later, smoke billowed from the crematoria of Auschwitz. When literature is censored, people lose the right to express themselves as individuals. Ultimately, humans are the victims. It is for this reason that we should embrace the ethos behind freedom of speech as expressed by Voltaire: “I may disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”

Library Trivia Quiz Answers

Thanks to all who took the Library Trivia Quizzes!! For those of you who were curious, here are the answer to each day's quiz.


Monday: Books Banned for Religious Content
1. Banned in the Roman Empire in 330s for contradicting Trinitarianism.
D. Thalia by Arius
2. Banned in Bangladesh, India, Singapore, and Iran for blasphemy.
E. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
3. Banned in Lebanon after Catholic leaders deemed it offensive to Christianity.
C. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
4. Banned in Kentucky for language and for being anti-Christian.
A. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
5. Banned by the Vatican in 1514 for arguments against the political role of the Roman Catholic Church.
B. On the Origins and Perpetual Use of the Legislative Powers of the Apostolic Kings of Hungary in Matters Ecclesiastical by Adam F. Kollar

Tuesday: Books Banned for Objectionable Political Content
1. Banned in Japan (1988 - 2005) to quell "political threats to boycott Japanese cultural exports," although the pictures were not those of the original version.
F. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
2. Banned within the USSR until 1988 for its criticism of the Bolshevik Party.
D. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
3. Banned in Indonesia for being too communistic and for other political reasons.
I. The Fugitive (Perburuan) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
4. Banned in Nazi Germany for demoralizing and insulting the Wehrmacht.
G. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
5. Publication delayed in UK because of anti-Stalin theme. Confiscated in Germany by Allied troops. Banned in 1946 in Yugoslavia. Also banned in Kenya in 1991 and in the United Arab Emirates in 2002.
B. Animal Farm by George Orwell
6. Banned in South Africa in 1979 for going against the government's racial policies.
H. Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
7. Banned in Thailand for its criticism of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
A. The King Never Smiles by Paul M. Handley
8. Banned in the UK and author charged with treason for supporting the French Revolution. Banned in Tzarist Russia after the Decembrist revolt.
E. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
9. Once removed from shelves of public libraries in the US due to the fact it was written during the Cold War era
C. The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss

Wednesday: Banning Books--What Do People Think?
1. "Every burned book enlightens the world."
E. Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. "If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
B. Benjamin Franklin
3. "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
G. Mark Twain
4. "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
H. Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky
5. "Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment."
D. Library Bill of Rights
6. "If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free."
A. FDR
7. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
F. Aristotle
8. “This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.”
C. Euripides

Thursday: Professorial Trivia Quiz
Which professor...
1. owns a classic DeLorean automobile? Dr. Montgomery
2. was born on New Year's day? Dr. Middleton
3. once upon a time played lead guitar and was back-up vocalist in a praise band (1970s)? Dr. Tallmon
4. once suffered third-degree burns in a motorcycle accident? Dr. Sillars
5. worked in the same city that was born in but was absent for 31 years in between? Dr. Roberts
6. skipped the eleventh grade? Dr. Libby
7. played one year of college football? Dr. Spinney
8. says his/her favorite food is HOT chicken wings? Dr. Kucks
9. had bright red hair as a child? Dr. Haynes

Public Ethics Radio

Public Ethics Radio



Public Ethics Radio is a newly launched Internet audio broadcast which aims to connect "vibrant debates in philosophy with real-world politics, on issues such as military intervention, international trade, and political corruption." The first episode was released in August 2008 with philosopher Thomas Pogge as the guest on the 30-minute show. Scheduled upcoming episodes will discuss Torture Lite and Extending Human Lifespans.



Public Ethics Radio is a production of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) in Australia in association with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City.

Solzhenitsyn Remembered

Today's Mars Hill Audio newsletter had a section highlighting their recent release of a 74-minute Anthology, Christian Humanism of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This anthology includes an interview with Dr. Aikman. Along side of this, Mars Hill is promoting Dr. Aikman's reading of his essay on Solzhenitsyn, "One Word of Truth: A Portrait of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn."

Russian writer and political prophet Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died on August 3rd. In a life that moved from obscurity to the Nobel Prize and back to obscurity, Solzhenitsyn played a dramatic role in alerting the West to the realities of life under the dehumanizing Communist regime. MARS HILL AUDIO has featured five interviews about Solzhenitsyn’s life and work since 1993, and we have just released a special Anthology containing those pieces along with some previously unheard material featuring Solzhenitsyn scholar, Edward E. Ericson, Jr.. Entitled The Christian Humanism of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, this 74-minute Anthology is available on CD or as an MP3 download. Also of interest is veteran journalist David Aikman’s reading of his moving essay, “One Word of Truth: A Portrait of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,” one of our MP3-only MARS HILL AUDIO Reprints.