Programs

L-SSC Open House - Wednesday, Sep. 16, 12-2 p.m

L-SSC Lobby

Crochet Workshop - Wednesday, Sep. 30, 12-2 p.m.

L-SSC Lobby

Banned Books Week Giveaways - Oct. 5-10

Library

Visit us at the library throughout the week to win a banned book for yourself  by completing the Banned Book Challenge: Guess the Title! located on the book display.

Each successful guess is an entry into the giveaway drawing, so we encourage you to submit guesses for multiple titles.

This giveaway challenge is open to currently enrolled Compton College students. Limit one book per student. 

Giveaway winners will be notified at their Compton College email starting October 12

For questions about this event, contact Lynn Chung.

Banned Books Essay Contest - Oct. 5-30

Library

Celebrate the freedom to read during Banned Books Week by entering Emily B. Hart-Holifield Library's very first Banned Books Essay Contest!

Currently enrolled Compton College students are invited to submit an essay. Limit one essay per student.

Three winners (first, second, and third place) will be determined by a judging panel comprised of faculty from multiple departments. Winners will receive a banned book of choice and a gift card! 

Complete contest details and entry instructions are listed below and on the contest website:
Banned Books Contest Website

For questions about this event, contact Lynn Chung.

ELIGIBILITY

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

1. READ a banned or challenged book. You may also use a banned or challenge book you've previously read.
   
   • • A banned book is a book that has been removed, excluded, destroyed, challenged, or otherwise restricted from access.
     • A challenged book is a book that a person/group has attempted to prohibit access through its removal or restriction.
       Check out the American Library Association's (ALA) List of Banned Books to find banned and challenged book titles!
       Many banned and challenged books are available through our library catalog and through local public library systems, such as LA County Public Library and LA Public Library.
       For help selecting a banned or challenged book, Ask a Librarian for assistance!
2. WRITE a 500-750-word essay that answers ONE of the prompts below, using supporting ideas from your banned or challenged book:
   • • Prompt #1: When a Book Becomes Dangerous
       Choose a banned or challenged book that has made you think differently about a person, issue, community, or aspect of your own life.
       • • Explain why someone might consider this book dangerous or inappropriate, and what might be lost if readers are prevented from encountering it.
         • Include passages, characters, ideas, or themes from the book to support your argument.
         • Connect the book to your own experience in which access to information, literature, or a different perspective changed your understanding of yourself or the world.
     • Prompt #2: Reading Beyond Ourselves
       Select a banned or challenged book and:
       
       • • Examine how it asks readers to encounter a perspective, identity, experience, or idea they might otherwise never know.
         • Discuss the value of having access to perspectives that may be uncomfortable, controversial, or unfamiliar.
         • Connect your analysis to your own experience as a student, reader, family member, community member, or citizen. How has encountering an unfamiliar idea through reading challenged, expanded, or complicated the way you see the world?
     • Prompt #3: What If This Book Disappeared?
       Imagine that a banned or challenged book you've read is no longer available at our college, public library, local bookstore, or in the community. What would disappear along with it?
       • • Explore what censorship can take away—not only from individual readers, but from our communities.
         • Address the book's ability to inspire empathy, provoke disagreement, preserve a particular experience, expose injustice, or help readers recognize something about themselves.
         • Connect the issue to your own experience: what book, story, piece of information, or perspective has mattered to you, and what would it mean if someone else could decide that you weren't allowed to encounter it?
           
3. FORMAT your essay using MLA 9th style (preferred) or APA 7th.
   Essay formatting, including presentation of citations and Works Cited page, should follow the rules of your selected citation style. 
4. SAVE your document in file type .doc or .docx ONLY. 
5. REVIEW your essay using the evaluation rubric.
   Faculty judges will use the criteria outlined in the rubric to evaluate your essay.
   Refer to this rubric to guide your proofreading and composition!

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY

1. INCLUDE your First and Last Name and Student ID Number in your essay.
   This information is required for confirming the identity of contest winners when claiming prizes.
2. SUBMIT your essay by 11:59 PM, October 30 by clicking on SUBMIT ESSAY to upload your document. 

AI (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) USE POLICY

• • Use of AI tools to brainstorm theses, generate research questions, or come up with effective search terms for research tools. 

• • AI may not be used to draft your essay or rewrite your sentences.
    The actual drafting, phrasing, and structuring of your ideas must be your own.
  • Tools such as Grammarly, ProWritingAid, WordTune or any “word revision” tools may not be used and are considered AI.
    If it changes your words, it’s using AI.

ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY

Dia de los Muertos - Nov. 1-2

L-SSC Art Gallery & Library

Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week - Nov. 11-18

Library

Knitting Workshop - Dec. 3, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

L-SSC Lobby

Chess Tournament - Dec. 5, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Inside the Library

Think you’ve got what it takes? Join the Compton College Chess Tournament!
This event is open to all students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Compete in 5 timed rounds, test your strategy, and battle for chess glory.

Pre-registration is required.
Registration Form

For questions about this event, contact Lynn Chung.