Rhodes College Barret Library

Happy Halloween! It’s peanut butter jelly time at the PBJ Library! 🥪 🍇🥜

Bill Short is our jam, and…well, Kenan is a little nuts. 🤪

Come by and trick or treat at the library. There are pumpkins full of candy at all the service desks! 🎃

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a holiday in the United States that celebrates and honors indigenous American people and commemorates their histories and cultures.

A huge ✨THANK YOU✨ to everyone who helped make our first Banned Books Week collab with a success- especially the thirty wonderful readers who Read-Out against censorship!

xoxo, the 2023 Planning Team: Beatrix, Bill, Darlene, Emma, Felicia, Kenan, Rachel and Steve ♥️📚

💫Flashback to Day 1 of Read-Out, when we were so excited that we forgot to post our ⭐️VERY FIRST READER⭐️ Brian Braskich, Systems Programmer Analyst, reading Slaughterhouse Five! 👏👏👏

💫Flashback to Day 1 of Read-Out, when Beatrix Weil read us Heather Has Two Mommies. 💕

All eyes were on Lexi Boateng ‘27 reading Their Eyes Were Watching God.

The Lord of the Rings was read by lord of the READ, Jim Cornfoot -Director of Classic Blue Music Academy and President-Elect of Greater Memphis Music Teacher Association.

Hunter Wilbourn ‘25 takes us to a Brave New World at the 2023 event.

Don’t Panic! It’s Steve Brummel, Assistant Director of User Engagement and Experience , reading A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for

Rachelle Brown, Assistant Director of Career Development, captured the angst of Holden Caufield from Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye at the Read-Out. bannedbooksweek

Dear Kitty, yesterday our Etty Terem, Professor of History and J.J. McComb Chair of History, read from Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank for

Evie Perry, Associate Professor of Sociology, gave a powerful reading from Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur.

Lynn Zastoupil, Professor of History, read excerpts from The Satanic Verses- a book that has been banned in multiple countries.
The author, Salman Rushdie, became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats, including a fatwa calling for his death.

Yuleisy Aguirre, first year Rhodes Student, we see you standing up to book challenges and bans by reading Invisible Man at our event!

Claire Smith, a Rhodes College Senior Business major and
Library RSA for ILL heeds The Call of the Wild Read-Out.

Chaplain Beatrix brought her own ✨sparkle✨ to a storytime reading of Sparkle Boy for . 💅💫

Count on Kevin Collier, Manager of Campus Scheduling to go ALL IN for the Freedom to Read! His in-character barefooted reading from Lord of the Flies is ❤️‍🔥🦶🐚

Kahlila Bandele thrilled us with her reading from The Bluest Eye.

Kahlila is a First Year student and newest Co-Host & Creator for the Lynx to the Past podcast.

Librarian Kenan Padgett crossed the “Bridge to Terabithia” to protest the censorship of books at the event.

Maggie Kreis (Senior, Co-Host & Creator for Lynx to the Past) paid tribute to her Indianapolis roots with a reading from John Green’s Looking for Alaska at our Read-Out Against Censorship.

Benefits Services Manager, Martha
McGeachy, reading from Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.

Written from author Barbara Ehrenreich’s perspective as an undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States.

David Sick, Director of the Day Scholar Program and Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies read Catcher in the Rye at Thursday’s Read-Out.

Today is the final day of our Banned Book Week Read-Out.
The reader line up is amazing and we hope you come out to support your faculty, staff and student readers as they read out LOUD from books that have been challenged and banned!

11:30 am- Claire Smith, Senior,RSA for ILL
Call of the Wild

12:00 pm- Yuleisy Aguirre, First-Year
Invisible Man

12:30 pm- Lynn Zastoupil, Professor of History
The Satanic Verses

1:00 pm- Evie Perry, Associate Professor of Sociology
Milk and Honey

1:30pm- Etty Terem, Professor of History and J.J. McComb Chair of History
Diary of a Young Girl

2:00 pm- Rachelle Brown, Assistant Director of Career Development
Catcher in the
Rye

3:00 pm- Steve Brummel, Assistant Director of User Engagement and Experience, Library
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

4:00 pm- Hunter Wilbourn, Junior
Brave New World

4:15 pm- Lexi Boateng, First-Year
Their Eyes Were Watching God

What’s better than having someone read you a story on a rainy day? How about seven people reading to you from banned books while you drink a hot tea in the Middle Ground on a rainy day?


12:30 pm- David Sick (Director of the Day Scholar Program and Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies)

1:00 pm- Martha McGeachy, Nickel and Dimed (Benefits Services Manager)

2:00 pm- Maggie Kreis, Looking for Alaska (Senior, Co-Host & Creator for Lynx to the Past)

2:30 pm- Kenan Padgett, Bridge to Terabithia (Librarian)

3:00 pm- Kahlila Bandele, The Bluest Eye (First Year, Co-Host & Creator for Lynx to the Past)

3:15 pm- Kevin Collier, Lord of the Flies (Manager of Campus Scheduling)

5:00 pm- Beatrix Weil, Sparkle Boy (Chaplain)

Day 3 of the Banned Books Week READ OUT closes with Kathleen Doyle, Associate Professor of Spanish. A Handmaid’s Tale has become one of the most challenged books in recent years.

Venita Doggett, Director of Advocacy for Memphis Education Fund, educated us with a reading from Stamped from the Beginning. Thanks for reading out against censorship with us!

Prof Kate Shields-Environmental Studies & Sciences- and a magical reading of Harry Potter 🪄✨

A Separate Peace, read by Amelia Thalhammer, Rhodes College Class of 2025 and RA at the Read-Out

Barret Librarian Felicia Knox stands up against censorship with a reading from The Hate U Give.

Dr. Katherine Clay Bassard, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of English and Africana Studies, reading from The Color Purple on day three of our

STARTING AT NOON 🕛

📣TODAY IN THE MIDDLE GROUND! LIVE ON STAGE! COME OUT AND HEAR SOME OF OUR CAMPUS FAVES READ EXCERPTS FROM SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS!🎤📚

📕 Katherine Bassard (The Color Purple),
📕 Felicia Knox (The Hate U Give),
📕Amelia Thalhammer (A Separate Peace),
📕Kate Shields (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets),
📕Venita Doggett (Stamped from the Beginning) and
📕Kathleen Doyle (A Handmaid’s Tale)

Have all these amazing readings made you want to explore some challenged books for yourself? Check out the display in the Barret lobby and Break the Band to let Freedom READ! 🔓 💙

Stacy Pennington closed out the second day of our Banned Book Read-Out with a great synopsis of the challenges Slaughtethouse Five has faced, then read a selection from that title.

We welcome Signa Tau Delta English honor society secretary, Olivia Brown, to the stage!
Olivia is reading Sophie’s Choice by William Styron for

Rachel Gasser, International Education Advisor, is reading Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl for

Troy’s reading this morning from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was awesome!👏 👏👏

Don’t miss out on hearing our campus community read on the stage in the Middle Ground.

Rachel Gasser will be at the mic at 2!

📣COME OVER AND SUPPORT OUR READERS AS THEY READ-OUT AGAINST CENSORSHIP! 👏👏👏

Banned Books Week continues today, starting with Troy Wiggins reading from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings at 11:30am!
We are still adding readers, so look for the QR code on the posters in Middle Ground and the Library for up/to-date readers and times!

Betty Mohler from the Rhodes Bookstore reads from Animal Farm at our Banned Book Read-Out.

Greg Bowman, Systems Analyst, reads from The Grapes of Wrath for Banned Books Week