The Library at the Center for Graduate Studies of Asheville

In #hashingout, we talk about the issues that are positively GRIPPING the library world. Stay tuned for upcoming #hashingout posts on libraries without books, net neutrality, and open access. In our seminal #hashingout, we hash out: #BannedBooksWeek What is Banned Books Week? photo by ALA Every year, the American Library Association (ALA) celebrates Banned Books Week near the end of September. This year we celebrate Banned Books Week from  September 27th-October 3rd .  Over the course of each year, the ALA’s office of Intellectual Freedom relies on the self-reporting of libraries to keep track of books that are challenged or outright banned.  A book challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials based upon the objections of a person or group. A book being banned is the actual removal of those materials from the library collection in a school or public library across the country.  In 2014, according to ALA, there were ...

Sarah Reeves traded the tranquil blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico for the graceful beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains in late 2014. She earned Master’s in Library and Information Studies at Florida State University, where she also worked as a graduate assistant in FSU’s Goldstein Library. Sarah’s first fate-filled taste of library work was during her undergraduate years at Florida State’s satellite campus in her hometown of Panama City, FL - a campus atmosphere very similar to the Lenoir-Rhyne Graduate Center of Asheville. She has felt at home in WNC from day one and shares her joy in these surroundings with a few life-long best friends, and two black cats, Regina and Leo. A fan of corny humor, Neil Gaiman, and Dunkin Donuts coffee, you can usually find Sarah napping, disc golfing (poorly), or enjoying the fare at one of our many fine local establishments. We hope you’ll stop by and get to know Sarah and Allison, your L-R Asheville Librarians! Contact Sarah! sarah.reeve...

Allison Etzel earned her Masters of Arts in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida in 2008.  A few years later, this very mountain town began calling her name. Allison is forever grateful to escape the FL heat and is happy to call Asheville her home. She loves to serve the students and faculty of the Center for Graduate Studies of Asheville as an Instruction & Reference Librarian.  As many often assume about librarians, Allison has a passion for the written word. She especially loves poetry. She is currently in the works of writing poems for a children's poetry book. She is also fond of painting and in the middle of painting a series of strange kitties. Outside of academia and having bookworm tendencies, you can probably find Allison taking in the natural beauty of Western North Carolina, spending time with her black cat Diego, sipping coffee, haunting the local thrift stores, or most likely, out seeing live music. Contact Allison! ...