Future Librarians for Intellectual Freedom: Christmas Book Drive!
Blog | flifblog.blogspot.com | Nov 24, 2009
The CLA Student Chapter at the University of Alberta is currently running it's annual Christmas book drive. Last year the organization donated 251 books to local community partners and hopefully we can help them exceed that number this year.
http://flifblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/christmas-book-drive.html
Comment: Two outstanding questions over phone hacking
Blog | blogs.journalism.co.uk | Nov 23, 2009
Despite a gentle Press Complaints Commission (PCC) report and News International's attempts to play the affair down, the Guardian's phone hacking exposé just
Book review: Censorship in South Asia
Blog | iupress.typepad.com | Nov 23, 2009
"Censorship in South Asia traces the genealogy of censorship through time to reveal its ever-contested presence in Indian cinema and beyond." —Maria Khan, Feminist Review
Index on Censorship and English PEN call for further political commitment after Straw's support
News | www.journalism.co.uk | Nov 23, 2009
Two leading freedom of speech campaigning organisations yesterday called for further political commitment to a Libel Reform Bill, but said they are encouraged by the Justice Secretary's proposals for 'wholesale' libel law reform.
IFC Announces Banned Books Week Display Contest Winner
Blog | www.vla.org | Nov 10, 2009
The winner of the 2009 Intellectual Freedom Committees Banned Books display contest is the Henrico County Public Library System for its innovative involvement of the library building and its users in its Banned Books week display. The runner-up this year is the Jefferson Madison Regional
The First World War ended, we get a day off
Blog | www.editorsweblog.org | Nov 10, 2009
The Editors Weblog (and all of France) will be taking a day off to remember the Armistice with Germany, November 11, 1918. See you on thursday!...
The latest book-banning news: Catholic school board proposes a list of “acceptable” novels | Quill
Blog | www.quillandquire.com | Nov 5, 2009
Daily updates from the blog division of Quill & Quire, Canada’s magazine of book news and reviews In the past year or so, a handful of parental complaints have resulted in books such as Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass and Harper Lee's To Kill a
Foreign Support, Public Discussion Will Help Preserve Press Freedom in Russia | Kansas City
News | www.infozine.com | Nov 4, 2009
By Emily Mullin - Russian Journalists Told the Helsinki Commission That They Need Help from Abroad and from Their Fellow Citizens to Improve Media Freedoms in Russia and Stop the Murders of Investigative Reporters.
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/38328/
When Weeding Is Wrong: A principal asks for banned books to be removed from the collection
News | www.schoollibraryjournal.com | Nov 1, 2009
A parent of one of our eighth graders came into the library and began pulling books off our shelves. She ended up stacking 15 books on the circulation desk—including The Giver, The Chocolate War, Monster, and Looking for Alaska—and demanded that we permanently remove them from our collection.
Reading Rockets: National Coalition Against Censorship Salutes Judy Blume
News | www.readingrockets.org | Oct 27, 2009
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