National Library Week 2011

National Library Week is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians. All types of libraries - school, public, academic and special - participate.
In 1958 the first officially recognized National Library Week was held May 16th - 22nd. Previously, many communities, cities and states recognized the important role libraries have had in our society with their own local Library Week as early as 1913. For more on the history of National Library Week, visit www.libraryhistorybuff.com/libraryweek.htm

Best-selling author John Grisham is the Honorary Chair of National Library Week 2011.

John Grisham titles in the TCC Library include:

• The Associate, 2009. Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle McAvoy becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.
• The Broker, 2005. another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first.
• Bleachers, 2004. Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.

 TCC Library Events in April:

• Celebrate Libraries, Books and Reading is the theme for the poster panel display that features posters of libraries, reading, and literary interpretations of six classic works of art