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“Don’t let censors take books out of our hands! Celebrate free expression during Banned Books Week (September 22 – 28, 2019). The theme of this year’s event proclaims “Censorship Leaves Us in the Dark,” urging everyone to “Keep the Light On.” Banned Books Week is the most important opportunity during the year for advocates — publishers, booksellers, librarians, educators, journalists, and readers — to explain why we must defend everyone’s right to choose what they want to read and view. Banned Books Week has been shining a light on censorship since it was founded in 1982, and the fight for free expression is as urgent as ever. In recent years, the attacks on the right to read have become bolder, as legislatures have introduced bills that would eliminate crucial safeguards for the right to read books that some people find offensive. The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom released their list of the  Top 11 Most Challenged Books of 2018 ...

GAME ON! Our University Archives team has curated an amazing historic video game collection for anyone to use, and with scheduled game nights! GAMING NIGHT SCHEDULE Time: 5pm – 8pm Location: ALB 107 November 21 – 1990s Games Earthworm Jim 2, Sega Genesis (1995) Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sega Genesis (1992) Earthbound, SNES (1994) Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, SNES (1995) Saturn Bomber Man, Sega Saturn (1997) Crash Bandicoot, PS1 (1996) Spyro the Dragon, PS1 (1998) Tomb Raider, PS1 (1996) Super Mario 64, N64 (1996) Mario Party 2, N64 (1999) GoldenEye 007, N64 (1997) Crazy Taxi, Sega Dreamcast (1999) Read a bit more about the gaming collection below: Purpose The University Archives provides preservation of, and access to, video games and video game systems ranging from the 1970s to present. The Historic Video Games Collection supports research in a wide range of campus programs interested in pop culture and entertainment representations o...

From furniture belonging to former chancellors to the first computers used on campus, artifacts from the first 125 years of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will be on display as part of a special exhibit this fall.  "125 Years of Higher Education in Stevens Point" will be at the Edna Carlsten Art Gallery Monday, Sept. 16, through Saturday, Oct. 19. A public reception will be held Thursday, Oct. 17, from 4-6 p.m. featuring a talk by Bob Wolensky, professor emeritus of sociology. The gallery is located on the second floor of the Noel Fine Arts Center, 1800 Portage St., Stevens Point. Curated by the university's Historic Preservation Subcommittee, the exhibit features items such as dining place settings from the former domestic science program, Pointers athletic and Trivia memorabilia, technology from the past, the chip carved furniture collection of late faculty member Mildred Davis, the red vest of late chancellor and Wisconsin Gov. Lee Sherman Dreyfus and...

The Heartland: An American History By Kristin L. Hoganson Call Number:  F 351 .H75 2019 (Currently on the New Book Shelf) Review from the New York Times Publisher's Description :   When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with various stints overseas, she expected to find her new home, well, isolated. Even provincial. After all, she had landed in the American heartland, a place where the nation's identity exists in its pristine form. Or so we have been taught to believe. Struck by the gap between reputation and reality, she determined to get to the bottom of history and myth. The deeper she dug into the making of the modern heartland, the wider her story became as she realized that she'd uncovered an unheralded crossroads of people, commerce, and ideas. But the really interesting thing, Hoganson found, was that over the course of American history, even as th...