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Freedom to Read Week encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom.
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Freedom to Read encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom.
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Freedom to read can never be taken for granted. Even in Canada, a free country by world standards,
books and magazines are banned at the border. Books are removed from the shelves in Canadian libraries, schools and bookstores every day. Free speech on the Internet is
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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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Books and literature targeted for censorship or banned throughout history, from Confucius to Harry Potter. Includes censorship quotes, descriptions of specific cases, answers to email questions.
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Retrospective of the famous exhibition and catalogue of banned books from the University of Kansas in 1955.
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Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Department of Special Collections
He who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe
Robert Vosper had, above all, a commitment to the library as the home of free
and open inquiry. During the McCarthy reign of terror, early in Vosper's tenure 1951
to
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Loyola University Chicago Libraries' information page about book banning in the U.S. and abroad, with a section on electronic documents.
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Banned Books and Censorship: Information Resources
Most would-be book banners act with what they consider to be the highest
motives -- protecting themselves, their families and communities from
perceived injustices and evil and preserving the values and ideals they
would have the entire society
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An annotated bibliography of cartoons dealing with aspects of librarianship.
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An annotated bibliography of cartoons dealing with aspects of librarianship
Library Cartoons: An annotated bibliography
Each entry has up to three parts:
If I can find one. A question mark indicates a guess.
Again, if I can find one. Possibly paper, possibly Internet, possibly
A link to my description of the cartoon.
In no particular order (well, alphabetical and
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Humorous stories and cartoons about libraries, librarians, and related topics.
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A collection of links to sourcesfor humor about libraries, librarians, and related topics.
This is a collection of links to internet sources for humor about libraries,
librarians, and related topics. This is not a complete list, by any means,
but it is meant to be a start. (Something like a Level 8 MARC record.)
My contributions to the world of library humor
In a blatant bit of
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Review of some children's literature, by Matthew Z. Heintzelman.
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Children's Picture Books with Librarians and
An Annotated Bibliography
School of Library and Information Science
Foundations of Library and Information Science (21:101)
Building upon the article by Marie L. Radford and Gary P.
Radford ("Power, knowledge, and fear: feminism, Foucault,
and
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An annotated bibliography of cartoons dealing with aspects of librarianship.
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An annotated bibliography of cartoons dealing with aspects of librarianship
Library Cartoons: An annotated bibliography
Each entry has up to three parts:
If I can find one. A question mark indicates a guess.
Again, if I can find one. Possibly paper, possibly Internet, possibly
A link to my description of the cartoon.
In no particular order (well, alphabetical and
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A short assortment of questions about librarianship and hot topics related to it. [Bookslut]
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Book reviews, interviews, columns, and musings.
An Interview with Jessamyn West
It sounds like the most innocuous site on the web right? Perhaps snatched up by one of the big library supply companies to farm out their products? Not by a long-shot. Librarian.net is run by Jessamyn West, a librarian and library advocate who uses the site to
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