Two Library Employees
Receive 10-year Service Awards

Eugene McDermott Library employees Mary Ann Harrison and Matthew Makowka received 10-year pins at the 26th Annual UT Dallas Service Awards Presentation held Nov. 13, 2012 at the Alexander Clark Conference Center Auditorium. Harrison works in reshelving and is based in Circulation Services. Makowka is a Reference Librarian and is the library's Liaison for the Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.

UT Dallas President Dr. David Daniel helps Mary Ann Harrison
with her 10-year service pin.

Library employees Mary Ann Harrison, left, and Matthew Makowka, right,
join UT Dallas Executive Vice President and Provost Dr. Hobson Wildenthal,
who received his 20-year service pin at the Nov. 13 ceremony.

Library's First "Read-Out"
of Banned Books a Success

Eugene McDermott Library organized its first Banned Books Read Out in recogniton of the American Library Association's Banned Books Week on Oct. 2, 2012 to an appreciative audience and enthusiastic lineup of readers. Several campus dignitaries appeared at the lectern in the McDermott Suite in the library to read from books that have been banned at one time or challenged for various reasons. The program included:

Women in Love - 1920, Dr. Bert Moore, Dean of the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences

A Separate Peace - 1959, Dr. Ted Harpham, Associate Provost and Professor of Government and Political Economy

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) - 1748, Dr. Emily Tobey, Associate Provost, Nelle C. Johnston Endowned Chair in Communication Disorders

A Farewell to Arms - 1929, Dr. Aaron Conley, Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations

Nickel and Dimed - 2001, Linda Snow, MLS, Head of Reference Services, Eugene McDermott Library

In Cold Blood - 1965, Dr. James Marquart, Vice Provost and Professor of Criminology

The Egypt Game - 1967, Larry Zacharias, Chief of Police

Brideshead Revisited - 1945, Hillary Campbell, MLS, Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Education

The Last Exit to Brooklyn - 1964, Dr. Clay Reynolds, Professor and Director of Creative Writing, School of Arts and Humanities

Lord of the Flies - 1954, Dr. Sheila Pineres, Dean of Undergraduate Education

Fahrenheit 451 - 1953, Dr. Mary Urquhart Associate Professor, Department of Science/Mathematics Education

Slaughterhouse-Five - 1969, Dr. Marc Hairston, Research Scientist,, W.B. Hanson Center for Space Studies

Native Son - 1940, Dr. Rashaunda Henderson, Assistant Professor,, Electrical Engineering Department

To Kill a Mockingbird - 1960, Debbie Montgomery, MLS, Associate Director for Techinical Services, Eugene McDermott Library

Catch 22 - 1961, Sheridan Taylor, Josh Brumett McDermott Scholars

The Awakening - 1899, Dr. Erin Smith, Associate Professor, American Studies and Literature, School of Interdisciplinary Studies

The free public event also noted the 30th Anniversary of the ALA's Banned Books Week. Books have been banned (removed from access) and challenged (targeted for removal in libraries and school reading lists) because some people have objected to them for what they perceive as graphic sex, adultery, premarital sex, obscenity, inappropriate themes for age groups, pedophilia, homosexuality, alcohol abuse, physical abuse, prostitution, excessive violence, gore, anti-government, discrimination against women and minorities, derogatory language, anthropomorphism, religious blasphemy and so forth.

Dr. Emily Tobey reading from Fanny Hill

Dr. Clay Reynolds reading from Last Exit to Brooklyn

Chief of Police Larry Zacharias reading from The Egypt Game

Dr. James Marquart reading from In Cold Blood

Dr. Aaron Conley reading from A Farewell to Arms

McDermott Scholars Sheridan Taylor and Josh Brumett reading from Catch 22

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