[LM_NET] Exhibit - "Censorship in Schools and Libraries"

["Culbertson, Diane" <Diane.Culbertson@DANVILLE.KYSCHOOLS.US>]

The Long Island Coalition Against Censorship is an association of 22
educational and community organizations (17 of which are libraries and
professional library organizations) have joined together to combat
censorship in libraries and classrooms. 

 

In planning an exhibit for Banned Books week in late September or
another time of the school year, you may wish to consider the 2006-7
edition of the exhibit, Censorship in Schools and Libraries available
from the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship. The exhibit presents
30 illustrations of censorship each one approximately 11" x 14" with
accompanying detailed textual information that is 11" x 14." The history
of censorship in public schools and libraries highlights incidents of
censorship that have occurred in the United States during the last 150
years. Included are descriptions of the censorship of Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, In the Night Kitchen, The Catcher in the Rye, and the
novels of Judy Blume and Robert Cormier. U.S. Supreme Court decisions
and lower court decisions regarding censorship are an integral part of
the exhibit.

 

The new edition includes continuing efforts to censor the popular Harry
Potter books. (A few years ago, Harry Potter books were burned in
Alamogordo, New Mexico), and renewed efforts in a number of states to
challenge the significance of evolution in science classes by
introducing "intelligent design." In addition to new incidents of
censorship, there is an updating of cases that have occurred since 1990.

 

Quality copies of the exhibit have been reproduced which may be readily
presented on poster or bulletin boards in libraries or classrooms and
retained by you as resource material. If space is limited, we suggest
that you rotate the cases during the time the exhibit is on display.
Excerpts from the exhibit may be seen on our web site www.the-licac.org
<http://www.the-licac.org/> . Click on Exhibits, "Censorship In Schools
and Libraries" and excerpts. The cost of the exhibit (including mailing
charges) is $38.00 postpaid by check or money order. You may order the
exhibit by sending an e-mail to coalcen@juno.com or a purchase order to
the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship, PO Box 296, Port
Washington, N.Y. 11050. 

 

If you need additional information, contact us at coalcen@juno.com or
call (516) 944-9799.

 

Donald Parker, Co-coordinator, LI Coalition Against Censorship 

 

Forwarded by:

Technology makes things possible; people make things happen.


Diane Culbertson

District Technology Coordinator/Chief Information Officer

Danville Schools

diane.culbertson@danville.kyschools.us

 

 

 



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