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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
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
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
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
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
Judge orders books removed from Texas public libraries due to LGBTQ and racial content must be returned within 24 hours | CNN
Judge orders books removed from Texas public libraries due to LGBTQ and racial content must be returned within 24 hours | CNN
A federal judge in Texas ruled that at least 12 books removed from public libraries by Llano County officials, many because of their LGBTQ and racial content, must be placed back onto shelves within 24 hours, according to an order filed Thursday.
·cnn.com·
Judge orders books removed from Texas public libraries due to LGBTQ and racial content must be returned within 24 hours | CNN