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Celebrate Banned Books Week with Pop Lit

Happy Banned Books Week!!

Wondering why libraries celebrate banned books week? It’s a celebration of the first amendment right to access information, and a celebration for public libraries’ protection and right, as public institutions, to keep books available for people who want access to them.

The American Library Association has celebrated Banned Books Week since 1982 after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that students’ First Amendment Rights were violated when Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut was removed from school libraries in the Island Trees School District. A previous case seen by the supreme court in 1965 was similarly ruled, stating “there is a First Amendment right to receive information; the right to receive information is a corollary to the right to speak.”

Pop Lit Pride

In honor of Pride Month and the 50^th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, we are highlighting some of the books written by or about LGBTQIA+ people featured in the FSU Libraries’ Popular Literature collection. Some of these are newly added to the collection and many were purchased with funds from an FSU President’s Diversity and Inclusion mini-grant. Books are continually being added to the collection.

New Pop Lit Books

FSU Libraries’ Popular Literature committee was fortunate to have earned funding to expand their Pop Lit collection through an FSU President’s Diversity and Inclusion mini-grant. This grant allows the committee to strengthen the collection with both fiction and nonfiction books from and about underrepresented groups. Books that are diverse and inclusive have been shown to help improve empathy for their readers.

The first order from the Diversity and Inclusion mini-grant have started to arrive!!! Stop by the main floor of Strozier to check out the new selections.

New Pop Lit Books for Summer Reading

Visit the Pop Lit section on the main floor in Strozier Library to find the perfect book for your summer vacation! Below are a few of the newest books we’ve added to the collection.

FSU Libraries Pop Lit Collection Continues to Grow

The Popular Literature collection is continuing to grow!!

A lot of titles were also added to the Self Help and Advice genres to help you do a self-check as the craziness of the semester continues. We’d love for you to check out these titles but remember the University Counseling Center is always available to anyone who needs it!

New PopLit for the New Year

Do you need a mental break from your studies? The Popular Literature Collection at FSU is specifically catered to bring what you want to read into your library. The Pop Lit Collection was started after a request from the Student Government. The Pop Lit committee carefully selects books from multiple genres that range across literary fiction, true crime, fantasy, biographies, and more. We just got our first order of 2019 in and are excited to add twelve titles to the shelves!

The Pop Lit Collection continues to grow. In 2018 we added over 200 new books to the Popular Literature Collection! We acquired stand-alone books, later installments of series, and some top reads of 2018.

They are in different formats:

Graphic Novel
Hardcover
Paperback
Mass Market Paperback

Cover a range of genres:

Fantasy
Travel
Biography
Science Fiction
Mystery or Thriller
Horror
History
Politics
Literary Fiction
Graphic Novels
Romance
Graphic Novels
Romance
Adventure
Science
Self-Help
Business

If you are interested in reading some of our books, stop by the popular literature collection on the first floor of Strozier library right by the library side of Starbucks.