Countering Censorship

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Report: “Why Iowa’s Ban on Books with Sex Could Sink Libraries Shared by Schools and Small Towns”
Report: “Why Iowa’s Ban on Books with Sex Could Sink Libraries Shared by Schools and Small Towns”
From the Des Moines Register: The small farming community of Alta in northwest Iowa barely has 2,000 residents. The elementary school that shares its name has fewer than 300 students. Neither is big enough to have a quality library on its own. So for the last 20 years, the two have operated a library together, […]
·infodocket.com·
Report: “Why Iowa’s Ban on Books with Sex Could Sink Libraries Shared by Schools and Small Towns”
New PEN America Report Warns Against Canceling Books Due to Outrage
New PEN America Report Warns Against Canceling Books Due to Outrage
In a new report,  Booklash: Literary Freedom, Online Outrage, and the Language of Harm, PEN America warns that social media blowback and societal outrage are imposing new moral litmus tests on books and authors, chilling literary expression and fueling a dangerous trend of self-censorship that is shrinking writers' creative freedom and imagination.
·pen.org·
New PEN America Report Warns Against Canceling Books Due to Outrage
Book Bans, Academic Freedom, and the Academic Law Library: Reflections on an AALL Discussion Den
Book Bans, Academic Freedom, and the Academic Law Library: Reflections on an AALL Discussion Den
Discussion Dens are consistently among my favorite programs at the AALL Annual Meeting, and Leslie Street’s Book Bans, Academic Freedom, and the Academic Law Library discussion was truly a highligh…
·ripslawlibrarian.wordpress.com·
Book Bans, Academic Freedom, and the Academic Law Library: Reflections on an AALL Discussion Den
MI Library Association launches campaign to counter book bans
MI Library Association launches campaign to counter book bans
The campaign encourages people to get involved in efforts to protect libraries from book bans, and tools to help them do that. It comes as public libraries in Michigan and across the country are facing growing organized efforts to ban books some people object to, especially books that deal with themes like racism, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
·michiganradio.org·
MI Library Association launches campaign to counter book bans
American Library Association to Distribute $1 Million to Support Fight Against Censorship
American Library Association to Distribute $1 Million to Support Fight Against Censorship
Funding will expand ALA’s intellectual freedom initiatives amid record number of book challenges CHICAGO (June 22, 2023) — The American Library Association (ALA) will distribute $1 million to support and expand intellectual freedom initiatives as the nation grapples with rising censorship challenges and seeks a greater array of resources to protect the right to read. ALA will use the funds to provide a major boost for its current efforts to support its members, library workers and libraries everywhere, as well as the communities they serve.
·ala.org·
American Library Association to Distribute $1 Million to Support Fight Against Censorship
American Library Association Welcomes White House Actions to Address Book Bans
American Library Association Welcomes White House Actions to Address Book Bans
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Library Association (ALA) applauds the Biden-Harris Administration’s steps announced today to address the rise in book bans and other attacks on LGBTQIA+ Americans. In a fact sheet released today, the White House announced that the Department of Education will appoint a new coordinator to address the growing threat that book bans pose for the civil rights of students, among other steps to protect the rights of LGBTQIA+ Americans.
·ala.org·
American Library Association Welcomes White House Actions to Address Book Bans
Publishers should do more to fight book bans
Publishers should do more to fight book bans
With a lawsuit filed last week Pen America, Penguin Random House, authors, and parents began fighting book bans. Other publishers should help.
·scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org·
Publishers should do more to fight book bans
Law Librarians, Let’s Talk About Book Banning
Law Librarians, Let’s Talk About Book Banning
As seems to be the new normal, there is a lot happening in the news (*gestures vaguely around*). It’s easy to focus on a few issues at the expense of others or to get overwhelmed and check out enti…
·ripslawlibrarian.wordpress.com·
Law Librarians, Let’s Talk About Book Banning
America’s book bans have already come for prisons
America’s book bans have already come for prisons
From colouring books to abolition newspapers and Reader’s Digest magazines, thousands of titles are banned in prisons and jails across the country, often with opaque reasons and with little oversight, Alex Woodward reports
·independent.co.uk·
America’s book bans have already come for prisons
National Library Week kicks off with the highly anticipated annual list of Top 10 Most Challenged Books and State of America's Libraries Report
National Library Week kicks off with the highly anticipated annual list of Top 10 Most Challenged Books and State of America's Libraries Report
CHICAGO — Today, the American Library Association (ALA) kicked off National Library Week with the release of its highly anticipated list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2022 and the State of America’s Libraries Report, which tells the story of how libraries are innovating and adapting to improve the well-being of their communities in the midst of censorship challenges. This year, however, there were multiple books that received the same number of challenges – resulting in the expansion of the list to 13 titles.
·ala.org·
National Library Week kicks off with the highly anticipated annual list of Top 10 Most Challenged Books and State of America's Libraries Report
Celebrate National Library Week - April 23-29, 2023 - Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library Blog
Celebrate National Library Week - April 23-29, 2023 - Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library Blog
National Library Week is April 23-29, 2023. This national annual observance celebrates the contributions of libraries and their staff to their communities and greater society. This year's theme is "There's More to the Story" - a reminder that while libraries are full of stories on their shelves, they are more than their collections of books.
·law-arizona.libguides.com·
Celebrate National Library Week - April 23-29, 2023 - Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library Blog
ALA calls for national day of action to protect the freedom to read, designates Right to Read Monday for 2023 National Library Week
ALA calls for national day of action to protect the freedom to read, designates Right to Read Monday for 2023 National Library Week
Unite Against Book Bans virtual event to honor a lifetime of free expression through story CHICAGO — The American Library Association (ALA) today announced a national day of action to protect libraries and the freedom to read, designating April 24, the Monday of National Library Week, as Right to Read Day. Right to Read Day also marks the first anniversary of the ALA-founded Unite Against Book Bans campaign, a public-facing advocacy initiative to empower readers everywhere to stand together in the fight against censorship.
·ala.org·
ALA calls for national day of action to protect the freedom to read, designates Right to Read Monday for 2023 National Library Week
Tracking Banned Books
Tracking Banned Books
PEN America, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to free expression through literature, has created a dataset tracking books banned or restricted in school classrooms and libraries in the United States from July 2021 to March 2022. The dataset contains the book’s name and author, the schoo
·datainnovation.org·
Tracking Banned Books