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Today is Veteran’s Day. You can read about the history of this day here.

Take a moment today to thank a veteran and remember their sacrifices.

Happy Homecoming! Go Tigers!

Happy Halloween! Boooo!

Catcher in the Rye . . . Of Mice and Men . . . Harry Potter . . .

What’s your favorite book? Chances are good that someone has tried to ban it. Celebrate YOUR freedom to read during Banned Books Week, September 26 to October 3.

What’s the difference between challenged and banned? Find out here.

For more information, go here.

No, it’s not another story about Michael Jackson…today is the 40th anniversary of the day man walked on the actual moon! Read more about Apollo 11 at Wikipedia.

We have some memorabilia from the moon landing and walk in Special Collections.

Today is the first of May or May Day. Read about the history of what May Day is here.

Taking exams is hard. You don’t get enough sleep, drink too much caffeine, eat too many snacks, study too hard. There’s so many people in the library. You definitely need to let off some steam and relieve some stress.

That’s what some students did Sunday night and Tuesday night in Cooper Library.

Did it help with the stress?

Today is Earth Day. Go to Earth Day’s Wikipedia page to find out about it’s history.

Or go to the Earth Day Network page to calculate your ecological footprint, learn how you can help create a billion acts of green, or buy a t-shirt to help support Earth Day and it’s many causes.

Clemson’s homepage is celebrating Earth Day by being solid green in stead of solid orange. Check it out!

Today is Tax Day; the day on which your income taxes must be mailed or you will get in trouble. We still have tax forms in the lobby of Cooper Library. We also have links to the forms here.

Get those forms in before midnight!

Do you have on green today? If you don’t, someone might pinch you. Do you know why?

Read the Wikipedia article about St. Patrick’s Day here.

This 1981 pin is from the exhibit “It’s Not Polite to Talk About It: Money and Financial Topics from the Holdings of CU Libraries’ Special Collections.” It refers to a bill sponsored by SC Senator Strom Thurmond that made important revisions to federal anti-trust laws to more fairly place liability on everyone involved. The legislation eventually became The Antitrust Equal Enforcement Act of 1982.

The exhibit is on display in the Special Collections exhibit area on the lower level of the Strom Thurmond Institute building through April 2009.