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Archive of case files pertaining to the censorship and suppression of works and ideas from Socrates to Judy Blume.
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Initiated as an artist's project by Muntadas, The File
Room was originally produced by Randolph Street Gallery (a
non-profit artist run center in Chicago,IL, 1979-1998) with the support
of the School of Art and Design and the Electronic Visualization
Laboratory at
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This informative article from education World is mainly aimed at teachers, but it is useful for anyone concerned with book banning and censorship in schools. Challenges to school materials are a common occurrence. How should such challenges be handled? How can they be avoided?
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Banning Books from the Classroom: How to Handle Cries for Censorship
Banning Books from the Classroom:
How to Handle Cries for Censorship Challenges to school materials
are a common occurrence. How should such challenges be handled? How can
What books should be taught in schools? It sounds like a simple question
but the answer can be complex.
Challenges to
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Articles and links on baned books and censorship. Many links are dead
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Welcome to The Censorship Pages. Here you will find information about the freedom
of speech and of the press in reference to the written word. These pages provide
the resources needed to explore how, and why censorship happens not only in
the United States, but all around the world. I hope these
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A think tank on artistic and intellectual freedom that provides empirical research and policy development on tough censorship issues.
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A review of Wendy Kaminer's chronicle of turmoil at the national ACLU.
The case the Court has agreed to review concerns an odd law criminalizing "depictions of animal cruelty," but it has big implications for free speech.
A pacifist teacher's battle raises questions about the uses and
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A list of the 50 most frequently challenged titles in schools and public libraries between 1990 and 1992, based on Herbert Foerstel's book, Banned in the U.S.A.
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"The Most Frequently Banned Books in the 1990s"
This list is taken from the table of contents of
Banned in the U.S.A. by Herbert N. Foerstel.
It shows the fifty books that were most frequently challenged in schools
and public libraries in the United States between
1990 and 1992. Banned in the
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Slashdot article and discussion about the gag orders for FBI library investigations.
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Effects of the Patriot Act on Librarians -- article related to Privacy and Your Rights Online.
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Effects of the Patriot Act on Librarians
on Fri Sep 20, 2002 12:56 PM
from the fbi-in-your-library dept.
writes "The Patriot Act apears to have some chilling effects with respect to libraries and booksellers. An FBI agent can get a warrant, without any
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Report on a library teleconference about dealing with new legislation. [NY Times]
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Librarians Receive Advice on Law and Reader Privacy
Published: Thursday, December 12, 2002
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 ? Concerned about how federal access to their records would undermine readers' privacy, thousands of librarians gathered today around the country to hear televised advice about how to
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Libraries destroy patron records to preserve privacy. [NY Times]
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Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers
Published: Monday, April 7, 2003
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 4 ? The humming noise from a back room of the central library here today was the sound of Barbara Gail Snider, a librarian, at work. Her hands stuffed with wads of paper, Ms.
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Comments a face-off between the American Library Association and Attorney General John Ashcroft. [New York Times Magazine]
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Published: Sunday, September 28, 2003
From a certain perspective, there is something thrilling about the recent face-off between Attorney General John Ashcroft and the librarians. The American Library Association and many of its members, indignant about a provision of the U.S.A. Patriot Act that
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Opinion piece by the owner of the Harvard Book Store. [The Boston Globe]
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Why the Patriot Act worries booksellers
By Frank Kramer, 10/8/2003
THE ATTORNEY general thinks we've been duped. In a recent speech, he said that critics of the USA Patriot Act are being hysterical when we express fear that the FBI may be using its
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