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The OCPL Board of Trustees will sponsor a
Banned Books Week Read-a-Thon

October 3rd ,2007
Central Library

Community leaders and library employees will read from their favorite banned or challenged book to celebrate the freedom to read in America. Each reader will chose a book from a list of banned or challenged books drawn from the American Library Association, as well as other sources.

OCPL Banned Books Week Read-a-thon - October 3, 2007
9 a.m.	Joyce M. Latham		OCPL Executive Director	Call of the Wild
9:10	Al Stirpe		Assemblyman	To Kill a Mockingbird
9:20	Dick Strauss		OCPL Board of Trustees	Epistle of James from the New Testament
9:30	Marilyn Smith		Petit Branch	Heather Has Two Mommies
9:40	Karen Gahl-Mills		Syracuse Symphony	Bridge to Terabithia
9:50	Jane Kalkbrenner		OCPL Management	Julie of the Wolves
10 a.m.	Laura Hand		WSTM-NBC3	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
10:10	Renate Dunsmore		White Branch	The Outsiders
10:20	Sue Weibezahl		Post- Standard	Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
10:30	Doreen Milcarek		OCPL Management	A Wrinkle in Time
10:40	Rosemary Carr		Maxwell Board of Trustees	To Kill a Mockingbird
10:50	Jane Sullivan		Maxwell Board of Trustees	James and the Giant Peach
11 a.m.	Sally Carmer		OCPL Administration	Captain Underpants
11:10	Michelle Mignano		Onondaga Co. Budget Dept.	Brave New World
11:20	Ted Loftus		OCM BOCES	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
11:30	Holly Sammons		Central Library	Slaughterhouse Five
11:40	KyungJin Park		OCPL Administration	The Road Less Traveled
11:50	Marcia Hayden-Horan		FOCL Board of Directors	Chinese Handcuffs
12 p.m.	Dale Sweetland		County Legislator	The Library Dragon
12:10	Ginny Biesiada		OCPL Board of Trustees	The Perks of Being a Wallflower
12:20	Lindsay Bednarczyk		Assemblyman William Barclay's Office	The Giver
12:30	Mitch Tiegel		Soule Branch	Civil Disobedience
12:40	Roz NaPier		OCPL Management	And Tango Makes Three
12:50	Hilda Martinas		ACLU	How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
1 p.m.	Ellen Yeomans		Writer	Fat Kid Rules the World
1:10	Anita Lombardi		OCPL Board of Trustees	Dark Day, Light Night
1:20	Ann Nagle		M.O.S.T	Walter the Farting Dog
1:30	Gary Sanford		OCPL Management	The Sledding Hill
1:40	Bonnie Schoultz		Zen Center	DT Suzuki
1:50	Denise Headd		OCPL Management	Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2 p.m.	Dr. David Smith		SUNY Upstate Medical	Brave New World
			University
2:10	Constantine Evans		Syracuse University	This Boy's Life
2:20	Pam Crane		Beauchamp Branch	The Story of Little Black Sambo
2:30	Linda Marnell		Onondaga County Comptrollers	To Kill a Mockingbird
2:40	Barbara Giardina		Betts  Branch	Chinese Handcuffs
2:50	Lorraine Mavins		Paine Branch	Stuck in Neutral
3 p.m.	Cristina Pope		SUNY Health Sciences	The Higher Power of Lucky
			Library
3:10	Ed Kochian		Deputy County Executive	Lolita
3:20	Jo Thomas		Syracuse University	Arming America
3:30	Sandra Jones		OCPL  Board of Trustees	Beloved
3:40	Barrie Gewanter		ACLU	And Tango Makes Three
3:50	Kate McCaffrey		OCPL Deputy Director	A Jewish Legend
4 p.m.	Dr. Jeffrey Meltzer		Periodontist	To Kill a Mockingbird
4:10	Toni Meltzer		Community Volunteer	To Kill a Mockingbird
4:20	Pat Infantine		Manlius Library	Slaughter House Five
4:30	Suzanne Thorin		Syracuse University, Bird Library	Brave New World
4:40	Edmund Sullivan, Kim Zimmer		OCPL Foundation Board of Directors	Catcher in the Rye
	Sean Kerins, Addie Sylvia, Kathleen Wojslaw
4:50	Jay Kianka, Marsha Tait		OCPL Foundation Board of Directors	America
	Joyce Latham, Sandra Holihan
5 p.m.	Bill Schickling		Polaris, President and CEO	Bridge to Terabithia

 

Read about previous Banned Books Week events:

2005
2006

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