[LM_NET] Fw: Censorship exhibit

[Rita Kaikow <ritak@I-2000.COM>]

I'm sending this message out for Donald Parker.  
For further details, please contact him. coalcen1@verizon.net or call (516) 
944-9799.

Rita Kaikow
Oceanside HS
Oceanside, NY
 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Donald Parker 
To: ritak@i-2000.com 
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:00 PM
Subject: Censorship exhibit


Censorship in Schools and Libraries" exhibit available for Banned Books Week – 
September 27 – October 4, 2008.

 

The Long Island Coalition Against Censorship is an association of 22 educational 
and community organizations (16 are public libraries and professional library 
organizations). The purpose of the Coalition is to defend challenges to the First 
Amendment rights of public and school libraries when there are efforts by 
individuals or groups to censor books and other materials

 

In planning an exhibit for Banned Books Week in the fall or at another time in 
2008-2009, you might wish to consider displaying the new edition of our exhibit, 
“Censorship in Schools and Libraries.”

 

The exhibit presents 32 illustrations of censorship each one approximately 11" x 
14" with accompanying text that is 11" x 14." The history of censorship in public 
libraries and schools highlights incidents of censorship that have occurred 
nationally 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 Chris Crutcher. The censorship of Susan Patron’s 
novel, The Higher Power of Lucky, which was awarded the Newbery Prize in 2007 is in 
the new edition. U.S. Supreme Court decisions (including the landmark school case 
in the Island Trees School District) and lower court decisions are an integral part 
of the exhibit. 

 

The 2008 edition includes efforts to censor the popular Harry Potter’s children's 
books (Harry Potter books were burned in Alamogordo, New Mexico). Besides new 
cases, there is an update of censorship incidents in school libraries and 
classrooms that have occurred since 1990. Quality copies have been reproduced which 
may be readily presented on posters or bulletin boards in your library or classroom 
and then retained by you as a reference source. If your space is limited, we 
suggest that you rotate the incidents of censorship during the time the exhibit is 
on display. Excerpts from the exhibit are on our web site www.the-licac.org. Click 
on Exhibits, "Censorship in Schools and Libraries" (for a description of the 
exhibit) and then Selected Cases. You may order the exhibit by e-mail or sending a 
purchase order to the LI Coalition Against Censorship, PO Box 296, Port Washington, 
N.Y. 11050. The cost of the exhibit including mailing charges is $40.00 postpaid by 
check. If you need further information our e-mail address is coalcen1@verizon.net 
or call (516) 944-9799.

 

Donald Parker, Co-coordinator, LI Coalition Against Censorship

 

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