Banned Books Week Day 5: News, Views &
Video<http://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=1641>
Posted on September 29th, 2010 by Jonathan Kelley
New Jersey librarian Dee Venuto writes about her experience with censorship
at I Love Libraries today: “Taking a Stand: The Value of Going
Public”<http://ilovelibraries.org/news/bbw/bbw3.cfm>
Lauren Myracle discusses engaging rather than dismissing would-be censors in
a great piece for *The Guardian*: Building bridges with the
book-banners<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/sep/29/bridges-book-banners>
The *Christian Science Monitor* suggests “5 books almost anyone might want
to
burn”<http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2010/0928/Banned-Books-Week-5-books-almost-anyone-might-want-to-burn>and
wonders if intellectual freedom fighters are simply paying “lip
service”
to the First Amendment by defending “relatively innocuous” books (note to
CSM: we aren’t!).
Other items of note:
Tomorrow is the extended deadline for the Banned Books Week Machinima
contest<http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/events/bbwsecondlife/bbwsecondlife.cfm#slmachinima>in
Second Life. Tomorrow is also the Banned
Books Week Trivia Game
Show<http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/events/bbwsecondlife/bbwsecondlife.cfm#Thursday>
!
The Banned Books Week Facebook
page<http://www.facebook.com/bannedbooksweek>reached 25,000 fans today
– an uptick of over 5,000 in just two weeks!
The Syracuse New Times gives a great
overview<http://http:/www.syracusenewtimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4582&Itemid=147>of
the importance of Banned Books Week, citing the controversy around
Laurie
Halse Anderson’s *Speak*.
And *Time* covers the Ellen Hopkins/Humble, TX ISD situation in Texas: If
You Can’t Ban Books, Ban
Authors<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022356,00.html>
.
Finally, here is a great video from the Dayton Metro Library (one of the
recipients of the Judith Krug Fund Banned Books Week event grants): A Flood
Tide of Filth <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_EgUjHsFcA>.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_EgUjHsFcA
jkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjk
Jonathan Kelley
Program Coordinator
Office for Intellectual Freedom
American Library Association
50 E. Huron St.
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 280-4226
(800) 545-2433 x4226 (toll-free)
(312) 280-4227 (fax)
jokelley@ala.org
Read the OIF Blog <http://blogs.ala.org/oif.php>
Follow OIF on Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/oif>
--
Carrie Gardner
carrie.gardner@gmail.com
Bowie MD
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law.
You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings
by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book.
To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu
In the message write EITHER:
1) SIGNOFF LM_NET
2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL
3) SET LM_NET MAIL
4) SET LM_NET DIGEST
* To contact an LM_NET Moderator: LM_NET-request@listserv.syr.edu
* LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/
* LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/
* EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html
* LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/
* LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/
--------------------------------------------------------------------
LM_NET
Mailing List Home