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Are you sure you want to be a librarian? Some career guidence from Biblia, the Warrior Librarian.
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Are you sure you want to be a librarian? Some career guidence from Biblia, the Warrior Librarian.
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Prepare your resume in advance.
Include your name, date of birth (no cheating here), educational background, experience, goals and ambitions. Make sure that your resume highlights your strengths in whatever area you are applying for. Operations Librarians should mention
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There is more than one side to any story. This is more true with censorship of the written word than with most topics. You know where you stand on this issue, but what is your opinion based on? Is it based on fact and your morals, or on other people's morals? To help determine this, it is a good idea to find out what other people have thought on the issue. Here are some articles, essays and speeches that cover this issue from a different side of the story.
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There is more than one side to any story. This is more true with censorship of
the written word than with most topics. You know where you stand on this issue,
but what is your opinion based on? Is it based on fact and your morals, or on
other people's morals? To help determine this, it is a good
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Examines intellectual freedom issues raised by the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS), a set of technical specifications developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and often used in filtering software.
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PICS, Censorship, & Intellectual Freedom FAQ
This Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) white paper answers common questions about PICS in
the context of intellectual freedom and censorship. It has no techincal standing
what-so-ever, such information is found in the
This document has no official
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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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Directory of Web and print censorship resources with detailed descriptions of each link.
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As long as humans have sought to communicate, others have sought to prevent them. Every day someone tries to restrict or control what can be said, written, sung, or broadcast. Almost every idea ever thought has proved objectionable to one person or another, and almost everyone has sometimes felt the
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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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Current news, features and trend analysis in free expression issues in U.S.
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By OpenTheGovernment.org 05/22/2009
As promised on President Obama’s first full day in office, the White House has launched a process for soliciting public input and participation in the development of Open Government Directive. The public may participate
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Online version of the print publication. Features current news about school libraries and librarians. Includes job opportunities.
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School Library Journal is the earth's biggest review source for books, multimedia and technology for children and teens --- along with news, features, and hot topics for librarians and educators.
When Betsy Bird and Liz Burns speak, people listen. So the big question is, do these kid lit bloggers have any real pull when it comes to what we read, buy, and recommend?
Who would have thought that Thomas the Tank Engine could help kids with autism? But the blue and red steam locomotive, whose
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