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SLA - Video Advent Calendar
<p> Fed up with the usual advent calendars full of chocolate and sweets? Here's something different - a video calendar on the theme of banned books. </p><p> The Entresse Library in Espoo, Finland and FAIFE (IFLA Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
Omnivoracious: "A Wrinkle in Time" 50th Anniversary
Today marks the 50th anniversary of a children's book classic, A Wrinkle in Time. To celebrate this milestone Farrar, Straus and Giroux (who published the book 50 years ago) have released gorgeous commemorative editions with the original hardcover and paperback...
Making the banned book list: Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic | From the Square | NYU Press blog
With one of the harshest anti-immigrant laws on the books, Arizona recently targeted Latino schoolchildren and the books teachers use to inform them about Latino history and culture. Last month, the Tucson Unified School District, on a 4-1 vote, dissolved the Mexican American … <a
La Bloga: Bits & Pieces On A Winter Friday
< div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;" > < br / > < /div > < div class="MsoNormal" > < i > La Bloga-Friday columnist Melinda Palacio is taking the day off owing to an exhausting two-day sitting with noted portratist Margaret Garcia. Ms. Garcia has accepted Tia Chucha Press’
Annoyed Librarian: Mindless List for 2012
Annoyed Librarian Whatever it is, I'm against it Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Mindless List for 2012 Once again some place called Beloit College has released a new Mindless List for the class of 2012. According to the hype the Beloit College Mindless people put out, the list "provides a look at the
Future Librarians for Intellectual Freedom: Edmonton Supports Slave Lake Public Library
Future Librarians for Intellectual Freedom A blog created by future librarians interested in intellectual freedom and social responsibility Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Edmonton Supports Slave Lake Public Library Edmonton area library associations GELA, ELLA, NAHLA, LISSA, & AALT are hosting a
Lord of the Flies ~ William Golding - dovegreyreader scribbles
Hardly a seasonal theme but it's all in the luck of the draw, and at the Endsleigh Salon Christmas gathering last month we all pitched up ready to talk about our chosen Banned Book. Some really great choices amongst the...
ALA OIF's Challenge Reporting - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog
<p>The library profession's commitment to intellectual freedom is the reason above all others that I am proud to be a member of it. (See <a href="http://www.doug-johnson.com/dougwri/dont-defend-that-book.html">Don't Defend That Book</a>, LMC, Aug 2007) So when I received this appeal from Andy
BookFox: YA Fiction and Censorship
Despite the firestorm (1, 2) over the WSJ article about YA fiction, I did agree with this paragraph by Meghan Cox Gurdon, which she talks about the process of guiding what young people read: "In the book trade, this is known as 'banning.' In the parenting trade, however, we call this 'judgment' or
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