[Air-l] The September Project: An Update

[david silver]

Folks,

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The September Project (http://www.theseptemberproject.org) is a grassroots
effort to encourage civic and campus events on freedom, democracy, and
citizenship in libraries on or around September 11.

PARTICIPANTS:
Currently, over 600 libraries in 31 countries are organizing September Project 
events for their communities.  A map of all participants can be seen here: 
http://www.drizzle.com/%7Eklockner/cgi-bin/tsp/2005/map.cgi

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES:
Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Cuba, Cyprus, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France,
Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Nepal, New
Zealand, Nicaragua, People's Republic of China (Hong Kong), Peru, Serbia and
Montenegro, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Turkish
Republic of Northern Cyprus, the United Kingdom, the US, and Venezuela.

EVENTS:
The events are simply inspired.  For a listing of event examples, designed and 
hosted by public, academic, school, governmental, and special libraries, please 
visit our Events page:  http://www.theseptemberproject.org/events.htm

ACADEMIC EVENTS:
There are too many community college, college, and university libraries
participating to list all events, but here are a few to give you an idea of
what will take place.

University of Kansas/Lawrence Public Library
"An Afternoon of Panel Discussions On Religious Cooperation & Community
Involvement"
http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/forums/sept-project.html

Columbia College Chicago Library
"Constitution Readout"
http://www.lib.colum.edu/news.htm

Eastern Connecticut State University
"Iraq Perspectives"
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/iraq-forum/

Edmonds Community College
"A Faith-Based Discussion of Conflict and Humanity"
http://www.edcc.edu/webinc/news.php?ID=609

University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library
"Democracy in Action"
http://www.lib.utah.edu/theSeptemberProject/

University of North Carolina Wilmington's William Randall Library
"9/11 in Context"
http://library.uncwil.edu/faculty/petersone/september.html

Questions? Suggestions?  Email: info at theseptemberproject.org

david silver
www.theseptemberproject.org

English: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/tsp.pdf
French: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/tspfrancais.pdf
Greek: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/tspgreek.pdf
Spanish: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/tspespanol.pdf