"Biblioburro" or Donkey Library

In Columbia, one man is taking books to people who don't have any. See "A Whimsical Riff on the Bookmobile" from the New York Times.

e-Audio Books for iPods and burning to CDs

Kansas Audiobooks, music, and more! (found in the catalog and on the e-Books & e-Audio Books web page) has some e-audio books that can now be downloaded to iPods or burned to CD.

Check out the e-audio book and download it to your computer. In the OverDrive Media Console, you will be given the options to transfer to an MP3 player or iPod and/or burn it to CD. Burning to CD requires several blank CDs; the number depends on the size of the e-audio book.

New Popular Books

Testimony by Anita Shreve
Against Medical Advice by James Patterson
Dark Summer by Iris Johansen
Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain by Kirsten Menger-Anderson
A Lion Among Men (Volume 3 in the Wicked Years) by Gregory Maguire

Britannica Online Goes Wiki

Britannica Online (found under Reference e-Books) now allows readers to leave comments and to share articles with others. The traditional online encyclopedia will continue its editing process but will allow readers to suggest changes and contributors to update their articles. Additional content supplied by the public will not go through Britannica's editors.

Read more: Wikitannica? by Barbara Bibel

100 Most Frequent Challenged Books 1990-2000

How many challenged books have you read?

• Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
• Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
• My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
• Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
• A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Sex by Madonna
• Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
• In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

Remaing list found at The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

6,364 Challenges Reported

6,364 challenges were reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom from 1990 to 2000.

• 1,607 were challenged as “sexually explicit” materials
• 1,427 for the use of “offensive language”
• 1,256 considered “unsuited to age group”
• 842 with an “occult theme”
• 737 considered “violent”
• 515 for “promoting homosexuality”
• 419 for “promoting a religious viewpoint”

For every 1 challenge reported up to 5 are not reported.

from: Challenges by Initiator, Institution, Type and Year

10 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2007-08

• And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Pater Parnell
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• TTYL by Lauren Myracle.Reasons
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
• The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

from: Children's book on male penguins raising chick tops ALA's 2007 list of most challenged books