If you have a blog and plan to post about your September Project event, please don’t forget to use this tag:

TSP08

Using this tag will connect all of the events and make it easy for others to find your event and other participants from around the globe.

One of the exciting aspects of this being the 5th annual September Project is having the opportunity to work repeatedly over the years with creative librarians, dedicated community activists, engaged citizens, and … Socrates!

On September 11, 2008, Ronald Gross will lead a Socratic conversation in Gottesman Library at Columbia University in New York City. Gross, who is the co-chair of Columbia University’s University Seminar on Innovation in Education and can be seen around the city as Socrates, will lead a community conversation around two main questions:

What does patriotism mean to you, today?

How does patriotism need to be re-interpreted for the challenges we confront now?

The event takes place from 4 - 5 pm and is free to the public. Good luck Socrates!

Lorene Flanders, Director of University Libraries at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, posted to the September Project listserv to share three events taking place in Ingram Library during the month of September.

First, Ingram Library will host the exhibit “Anne Frank: A History for Today” from September 7-30, with an opening reception on September 7 at 3 pm. The exhibit is sponsored by the library’s Penelope Melson Society and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust.

Second, in conjunction with the exhibit opening, the “Jewish Literature–Identity and Imagination” book discussion group, sponsored by the Neva Lomason Library, part of the West Georgia Regional Library System, will open its 2008 program. Academic and public libraries working together = awesome.

And third, Ingram Library will host a talk on the United States Constitution by Bob Schaeffer, Professor and Chair of University of West Georgia’s Department of Political Science and Planning. The talk takes place Wednesday, September 17 at 11 am in the library lobby.

What an excellent and exciting series of events for the campus and community!

To learn more about Ingram Library and its resources and special collections, visit their blog and their flickr page. Hopefully they will blog and flickr their September Project events!

Hello! We’re starting to hear word from libraries that are participating in this year’s September Project. If you plan to participate by organizing an event, please post to the listserv: theseptemberproject AT usfca.edu

Once you share your event with the list, we’ll post it on our web site. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

for the third year in a row, the university of haifa library is participating in the september project. as iris igra writes, “As we did in previous years at the University of Haifa Library, we prepared a small website in memory of the 11 September. This year our 11 September website includes an annotated list of books and movies about this subject that arrived at the library during 2006-2007.”

so much of the september project is about memory, so it’s nice to see the university of haifa library archiving their events - from 2006 and from 2005 - over time.

we recently heard from karen chobot, director of mildred johnson library at north dakota state college of science. they are smartly combining three events into one big september project. from karen:

“Just wanted to let you know what we have been doing here in Wahpeton. We are a small staff at a small school, and we find it difficult to get started with a project right away when so few of us work over the summer. So we have decided over the years to combine 3 events into one, and start it out on September 11, so it stays up for a whole month.

The 3 events for September, making a full september project, are The September Project, Constitution Day, and Banned Books week. We have focused each year on displays in the library, liberally gaining inspiration from the web and other people’s sites. As a public institution, we are required to put on some educational activities on campus for Constitution Day, so we have focused every year on censorship and the freedom of expression. (Maybe next year I will move on to include the 2nd amendment, as gun ownership is big here.)

This year we are particularly highlighting Students Rights. I bought the sets of posters from the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship and will display the sets serially as the weeks go by. We have a window display on the music industry’s efforts to stop student file sharing, which has directly affected several of our students. I have a questionaire out by the exhibits asking student opinions on what they think of those efforts: are ‘free speech zones’ a good alternative, what they think of speech codes, and so on.”

it’s wonderful to be collaborating once again with the librarians of mildred johnson library.

primero, en español.

from Ing. Sonia Haydée Amaya León, Directora del Sistema Bibliotecario, Universidad Francisco Gavidia, San Salvador, El Salvador:

En el marco de las celebraciones del Proyecto Septiembre el pasado 14 de los corrientes la Universidad Francisco Gavidia de El Salvador a través del Sistema Bibliotecario, colaboró nuevamente con esta iniciativa a través de la realización de un video foro denominado “Secuelas de la violencia: destrucción, dolor y sufrimientos” en el que participaron autoridades, docentes y alumnos de la Institución, quienes pudieron reflexionar y dar opiniones acerca de la violencia, sus consecuencias y la forma de evitarla.

Así mismo se mencionó la importancia de impulsar una cultura y ambiente de paz en la humanidad.”

when i copy sonia’s words and paste them into google’s (bad) translation software, i receive:

“Within the framework of the celebrations of the Project September the past 14 of the current year the University Francisco Gavidia of El Salvador through System Librarian, again collaborated with this initiative through the accomplishment of a video denominated forum “Sequels of the violence: destruction, pain and sufferings” in which authorities participated, educational and students of the Institution, that could reflect and give opinions about the violence, its consequences and the form to avoid it.

Also the importance was mentioned of impelling a culture and atmosphere of peace in the humanity.”

While in Salt Lake City for the September Project event at the J. Willard Marriott Public Library, David offered his thoughts on the project. Listen to the interview here.

From Purvis Public Library…

This year we have kept our September Project simpler than last year’s displays, yet we have continued to have impressive displays to honor eptember 11, 2001 victims and heroes.

Today, 9-11-07, we have a dvd, showing the events of 6 years ago, playing ll day in our adult reading area to help remind our patrons what the day represents.

Donna P. Fite
Branch Manager
Purvis Public Library

We have on display books on 9/11 and also posters, books, DVDs to commemorate Constitution Week here at our library at Waycross College.

Ms. Janice Williams
Reference Librarian
Waycross College