NSU Libraries joins Big Read Oct. 6-7
Imagine a world where reading is banned… a world where mountains of books, burning in an endless inferno, are destroyed by professional firefighters.
Ray Bradbury’s classic Fahrenheit 451, set in a not-so-distant future, hits home when statistics show that less than half of Oklahomans are reading literary works.
The Big Read, funded through the National Endowment for the Arts, and Arts Midwest, shines a ray of light on Oklahoma for national literacy awareness and the literary arts.
From Sept. 26 through Oct. 31, the program reaches northeast Oklahoma through participating community colleges, universities, public libraries, schools and civic organizations.
Northeastern State University-Broken Arrow Director of Library Services Tom Messner said, “The Big Read has 268 communities nationwide participating in the program this year. This wonderful program provides us with a unique shared reading experience as we freely distribute and discuss high quality literature throughout our communities.”
The literary showcase in northeast Oklahoma is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. A disturbing and commanding story, Bradbury takes readers into a world, paralleling ours, where society has gone awry. The government condemns learning and firemen burn books instead of putting out fires.
The citizens in this future are docile, over-exposed to media and ambivalent toward their political surroundings. The book’s theme taps our society’s issues of illiteracy, censorship and the saturation of media and technology.
Schools and libraries will on be on the same page discussing the book in a mass community-driven book club. During October, libraries will screen the movie based on the book, along with (while supplies last) books, reader’s guides, and sound recordings featuring Bradbury’s work.
School libraries will encourage reading and community involvement with a writing and poster contest. Participants will submit a poster interpreting what they learned though the book and program; and writers will submit an essay on their experience.
Students of all ages may participate. Residents of surrounding communities are encouraged to attend and be active in the Big Read. The program aspires to show the value of books to today’s youth.
Bradbury once said, “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
NSU Libraries participates in the Big Read on Oct. 6, 1-2:30 p.m. in the UC Ballroom; 9-11 a.m. at NSU-Muskogee and 6-8:30 p.m. in the NSU-BA Auditorium. NSU-BA will also participate Oct. 7, 9:30-11 a.m.
For more information on the Big Read, visit: http://www.neabigread.org/ or visit the NSU Libraries homepage.
– By TNE Senior Staff Writer Eric Covey
Ray Bradbury’s classic Fahrenheit 451, set in a not-so-distant future, hits home when statistics show that less than half of Oklahomans are reading literary works.
The Big Read, funded through the National Endowment for the Arts, and Arts Midwest, shines a ray of light on Oklahoma for national literacy awareness and the literary arts.
From Sept. 26 through Oct. 31, the program reaches northeast Oklahoma through participating community colleges, universities, public libraries, schools and civic organizations.
Northeastern State University-Broken Arrow Director of Library Services Tom Messner said, “The Big Read has 268 communities nationwide participating in the program this year. This wonderful program provides us with a unique shared reading experience as we freely distribute and discuss high quality literature throughout our communities.”
The literary showcase in northeast Oklahoma is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. A disturbing and commanding story, Bradbury takes readers into a world, paralleling ours, where society has gone awry. The government condemns learning and firemen burn books instead of putting out fires.
The citizens in this future are docile, over-exposed to media and ambivalent toward their political surroundings. The book’s theme taps our society’s issues of illiteracy, censorship and the saturation of media and technology.
Schools and libraries will on be on the same page discussing the book in a mass community-driven book club. During October, libraries will screen the movie based on the book, along with (while supplies last) books, reader’s guides, and sound recordings featuring Bradbury’s work.
School libraries will encourage reading and community involvement with a writing and poster contest. Participants will submit a poster interpreting what they learned though the book and program; and writers will submit an essay on their experience.
Students of all ages may participate. Residents of surrounding communities are encouraged to attend and be active in the Big Read. The program aspires to show the value of books to today’s youth.
Bradbury once said, “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
NSU Libraries participates in the Big Read on Oct. 6, 1-2:30 p.m. in the UC Ballroom; 9-11 a.m. at NSU-Muskogee and 6-8:30 p.m. in the NSU-BA Auditorium. NSU-BA will also participate Oct. 7, 9:30-11 a.m.
For more information on the Big Read, visit: http://www.neabigread.org/ or visit the NSU Libraries homepage.
– By TNE Senior Staff Writer Eric Covey
More questions? Contact library@nsuok.edu - or leave us a comment here.
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