Book challenges continue to increase during 2023

Banned Books Week takes place in 2023 from Oct. 1 to 7, and the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom has released preliminary data for challenges to books during 2023.

Creating a culture of reading among young people

The Library Science class I’m taking is talking this week about building a culture of readers. In her article for Knowledge Quest (2017, p. 24), Karen E. Smith asks: “How do we create a culture of readers without driving them away?”

Global Vision at UCM

During our SOLIS meeting of Sept. 19, we discussed Global Vision, a work-study travel program that “offers any UCM student the opportunity to travel either domestically or internationally while giving back to the community you visit.” Applications are being accepted through Oct. 15.

According to the Global Vision page on the UCM website, trips take place multiple times a year, to various locations: including annual visits to Tanzania.

If selected to go on a Global Vision trip, students will receive a scholarship that covers airfare, meals, room and board during this service learning trip.” From the Global Vision page: “This exclusive opportunity gives students who haven’t studied abroad the advantage to be selected first. UCM is the only university offering this scholarship to student travelers.”

Relevant link:
Global Vision at UCM
https://www.ucmo.edu/current-students/student-services/center-for-global-education/global-vision/

SOLIS’s upcoming book club on Oct. 10

SOLIS’s meeting on Sept. 19 touched upon its first book-club discussion that takes place on Oct. 10.

Beta Phi Mu chapter forming at UCM

One item of interest at our SOLIS meeting on Sept. 19, 2023, was news of a Beta Phi Mu chapter being established at the University of Central Missouri.

Beta Phi Mu is an honor society for librarians. Eligibility for membership is “by invitation of the faculty from institutions where the American Library Association, or other recognized accrediting agency approved by the Beta Phi Mu Executive Board, has accredited or recognized a professional degree program.”