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Unpacking 2023 Legislation of Concern for Libraries
Unpacking 2023 Legislation of Concern for Libraries
EveryLibrary is issuing a comprehensive report on 2023 state-level legislation affecting libraries. The report, “Unpacking 2023 Legislation of Concern for Libraries”, is designed to support and assist state library associations in future legislative advocacy campaigns. The recent wave of state legislation affecting libraries across the United States has been largely negative, with a focus on restricting access to certain materials, particularly those deemed harmful or inappropriate for minors. Through June 17, 2023, twenty-four bills have passed in state legislatures. Two were vetoed, and 22 are in various stages of enactment. These bills have been enacted in fourteen states: Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. The bills encompass several recurring themes that pose potential challenges to library operations and services. [Clip] This report provides a moment-in-time review of state-level legislation affecting libraries and education while looking at key themes across and between states. The report offers strategic recommendations for state library association leaders and legislative advocates to build coalitions, activate constituents, and work across the entire lifecycle of a bill, including pre-session communications and post-session actions.
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Unpacking 2023 Legislation of Concern for Libraries
Democratizing Law Librarianship: Reducing Barriers to Entry through Alternative Pathways to the Profession and Increased Support to Students: A Call to Action
Democratizing Law Librarianship: Reducing Barriers to Entry through Alternative Pathways to the Profession and Increased Support to Students: A Call to Action
Law librarianship is a constantly evolving profession driven by the evolution of law practice, legal education, government, and law itself. Changes in these dri
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Democratizing Law Librarianship: Reducing Barriers to Entry through Alternative Pathways to the Profession and Increased Support to Students: A Call to Action
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.
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American Library Association Welcomes White House Actions to Address Book Bans
Library services and incarceration : recognizing barriers, strengthening access - Jeanie Austin
Library services and incarceration : recognizing barriers, strengthening access - Jeanie Austin
"This book provides librarians and those studying to enter the profession with tools to grapple with their own implication within systems of policing and incarceration, melding critical theory with real-world examples to demonstrate how to effectively serve people impacted by incarceration"--
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Library services and incarceration : recognizing barriers, strengthening access - Jeanie Austin
School librarians felt vilified as pornographers. Now they must navigate a new law.
School librarians felt vilified as pornographers. Now they must navigate a new law.
Indiana school librarians worry a new law banning materials that are “obscene” or “harmful to minors” will cause them to essentially self-censor when picking books, cutting LGBTQ students off from material they might connect with. Supporters of the law say it will protect children from pornographic…
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School librarians felt vilified as pornographers. Now they must navigate a new law.
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.
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Publishers should do more to fight book bans
From "A History of Exclusion" to "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion": What May Have Gone Wrong in the Pursuit of the New Notion of Professionalism - Slaw
From "A History of Exclusion" to "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion": What May Have Gone Wrong in the Pursuit of the New Notion of Professionalism - Slaw
Today, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) practices have become indispensable in almost every legal workplace. DEI practices aim to promote a new notion of professionalism, one where individuals from all walks of life enjoy fair treatment and full participation. “Merry Christmas” has become “Happy Holidays”. Profiles of Black and Asian-looking lawyers surge during Black History […]
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From "A History of Exclusion" to "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion": What May Have Gone Wrong in the Pursuit of the New Notion of Professionalism - Slaw
Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study - Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study - Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. Politics. Philosophy & Critical Theory. Introduction by Jack Halberstam. In this series of essays, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique. Today the general wealth of social life finds itself confronted by mutations in the mechanisms of control: the proliferation of capitalist logistics, governance by credit, and the management of pedagogy. Working from and within the social poesis of life in THE UNDERCOMMONS, Moten and Harney develop and expand an array of concepts: study, debt, surround, planning, and the shipped. On the fugitive path of an historical and global blackness, the essays in this volume unsettle and invite the reader to the self-organised ensembles of social life that are launched every day and every night amid the general antagonism of THE UNDERCOMMONS.
·minorcompositions.info·
Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study - Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
Aspects of Patient Care: Layering Voices for Inclusive Decision Making
Aspects of Patient Care: Layering Voices for Inclusive Decision Making
This is the first of three sessions where the instructor works with pharmacy students to help then understand how to conduct literature searching and research from an inclusive perspective. The students have already seen the instructor once so emphasis is placed on understanding their current search knowledge, addressing the needs of the group, and then on them exploring how to research topics of patient care with a myriad of voices (not just relying on scholarly works). This is done with many activities and group work.
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Aspects of Patient Care: Layering Voices for Inclusive Decision Making
Let’s Talk About CRT, Let’s Talk About Literacy: Modifying the Framework for Anti-Racist Library Instruction
Let’s Talk About CRT, Let’s Talk About Literacy: Modifying the Framework for Anti-Racist Library Instruction
Let’s Talk About CRT, Let’s Talk About Literacy: Modifying the Framework for Anti-Racist Library Instruction Presenters: Adrianna Martinez, Jamia Williams, Kelleen Maluski, Lalitha Nataraj, Sheila García Mazari, and Talitha Matlin Relevant Theories / Concepts Coloniality in Knowledge Production (...
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Let’s Talk About CRT, Let’s Talk About Literacy: Modifying the Framework for Anti-Racist Library Instruction
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…
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Law Librarians, Let’s Talk About Book Banning
Never far from home : my journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the law - Bruce Jackson
Never far from home : my journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the law - Bruce Jackson
"Microsoft's associate general counsel shares the inspirational story of his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this stirring true story of grit and perseverance. For fans of Indra Nooyi's My Life in Full and Viola Davis's Finding Me"--
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Never far from home : my journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the law - Bruce Jackson