Monthly Archives: April 2025

National Library Week: Take Action for Libraries Day

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Thursday, April 10: Take Action for Libraries Day, a day to rally advocates to support libraries.
National Library Week 2025 Censorship
Did you know … “The American Library Association condemns censorship and works to defend each person’s right to read under the First Amendment and to ensure free access to information.”

Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024
“Every year, the American Library Association compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Frequently Challenged Books based on reports from the field and media coverage.”
https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10 

National Library Week 2025: Top 10 Challenged Books of 2024

Check out … “The State of America’s Libraries Report” Published annually by the American Library Association, the 2024 report covers topics including:
-Censorship
-Artificial Intelligence
-Sustainability
-Broadband access
-Mental health
-Attacks on those defending free
-State legislatures impact on access
-Court overturning book band law
-Libraries creating a sense of place

https://www.ala.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/state-of-americas-libraries-report-2025-WEB.pdf

What can you do to help?

SHOW UP FOR OUR LIBRARIES

-Contact your members of Congress
-Help spread the word to friends and in social media
-Keep up to date by following ALA on social media

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/show-up-for-our-libraries

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Cortland Challenge 2

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Cortland Challenge 2025 Makerspace

You may have heard… It’s Cortland Challenge Day!!!

https://give.cortland.edu/schools/SUNYCortland/2025-cortland-challenge/pages/departments/library

Support programs like the Library Makerspace! 

Make a Donation – Make a Difference
Donations are going to directly support student experiences in our Library Makerspace, Archives, and Fralick Teaching Materials Center. Thank you so much for your support!

– The Memorial Library 

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Library Game Night April 15th

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Library Game Night April 15th, 2025

Memorial Library is hosting its Spring ’25 Game Night on April 15th from 5-8pm. Learn about and play games from the library’s growing board game collection. Did we mention that there will be pizza!? You can find the event on the first floor, in the Fralick Teaching Materials Center. For questions, please email william.gore@cortland.edu. We look forward to seeing you there! In the meantime, please checkout the library’s game collection guide.

Cortland Challenge

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Cortland Challenge - Donate to the Fralick Teaching Materials Center

Cortland Challenge Day has arrived!!!
Check out the website … https://give.cortland.edu/schools/SUNYCortland/2025-cortland-challenge/pages/departments/library

… then under “Campus Areas & Special Interests” choose “Friends of the Library (Program Fund)”

Be our Library Friend!
Make a Donation – Make a Difference

Donations are going to directly support student experiences in our Library Makerspace, Archives, and Fralick Teaching Materials Center. Thank you so much for your support!

Love, The Memorial Library

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National Library Week: “What Draws You To The Library”

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What do you LOVE about our Library? NLW2025: What draws you to the library?Why did you come to the Library today? Let us know!!!

Visit our “What Draws You To The Library” cart and fill out a book shape with your reason in writing or as a drawing! We’d LOVE to know what you LOVE about your Library.

The cart is mobile and will be moving around the building … so keep your eyes out for it this week and let us know what you LOVE about the Library! 

You can also leave us a comment here letting us know what you LOVE about your Library.

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Cortland Challenge 2025

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Cortland Challenge 2025

Make a Donation : Make a Difference – Plan to support your campus Library on Wednesday!

Save the date — the Cortland Challenge returns on Wednesday, April 9.

• The Cortland Challenge is all about participation. More than $230,000 in matching gifts is on the line, which will be unlocked as you help us hit our donor milestones on the way to a record-breaking goal of 3,827 donors.

• Double your impact with a gift to The Cortland Fund. All gifts made to this fund will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $25,000.

• The Department Challenge is back. Academic and campus departments will be raising funds to directly support students through a variety of different initiatives, while also competing for the most unique donors and a prize of up to $2,000.

Check out our website and learn more about how you can get involved on April 9 to support your favorite groups and the university.

https://give.cortland.edu/2025-cortland-challenge

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Right to Read Day

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Right to Read Day 2025

Monday, April 7, 2025, is Right to Read Day

“For National Library Week, we’re “Drawn to the Library.” What can you find at the library? In a word: FREEDOM. For Right to Read Day, we’re “Drawn to Freedom” — the freedom to read, the freedom to access information, the freedom to find community — all of the opportunities our libraries provide.”

To learn more … https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-read-day/

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