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Virtual Library Legislative Day is part of the American Library Association’s (ALA) National Library Legislative Day on May 10, when hundreds of library advocates will descend on Capitol Hill to meet with members of Congress and their staffs. Library advocates who cannot make it to Capitol Hill for the event can still be a part of the effort by calling and/or e-mailing their elected officials on

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The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) presents the ninth in its monthly video series of interviews. This month’s video features Jonathan Bloom, Counsel at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Freedom to Read Foundation — speaking about our First Amendment Freedoms.  

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Libraries are a wonderful resource for communities. They provide endless volumes of information, a quiet haven in which to study, and educational programs for the public. For many, the local library has also become the place to access computers and the Internet. As a result, libraries have the opportunity to become an information source on how to protect the privacy of our personal information

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By Marcus HatfieldJournal Inquirer ENFIELD — The Enfield Public Library on Wednesday canceled Friday’s screening of filmmaker Michael Moore’s controversial documentary “Sicko” under pressure from most Town Council members and the mayor, who threatened to cut the library’s funding if the film was shown. In less than 24 hours, what started as a resident’s complaint during Tuesday’s

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Internet companies and broadband providers take note: There are bound to be some fireworks over net neutrality in the House now that Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., has been elected as ranking member of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. If Republicans on the subcommittee look to nullify the Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality rules, passed Dec. 21,

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Upcoming NewSouth 'Huck Finn' Eliminates the 'N' Word By Marc Schultz Jan 03, 2011 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of "all modern American literature." Yet, for decades, it has been disappearing from grade school curricula across the country, relegated to optional

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@font-face { font-family: "Calibri"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } November 14, 2010 Christophe Vorlet for The Chronicle Review By Tim Wu In 1930, a man named Daniel Lord wrote a Production Code for American motion pictures. He included specific

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Wednesday 01 December 2010 by: Bill Quigley, t r u t h o u t | Op-ed Information is the currency of democracy.   -Thomas Jefferson WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.  (Photo: New Media Days / Peter Erichsen) Since 9/11, the US government, through Presidents Bush and Obama, has increasingly told the US public that "state secrets" will not be shared with citizens. Candidate Obama pledged to

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School official defends text as 'excellent example of satire' By BEN WEATHERS Staff Writer Published 11/03/10 A novel nearly 80 years old is stirring up fresh controversy at North County High School. A small group of parents is circulating a petition to have Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" removed from use by county schools over concerns about the book's explicit sexual content. The 1932

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The American Library Association is a strong advocate for intellectual freedom, which is the “right of all peoples to seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction.” Intellectual freedom is critical to our democracy, because we rely on people’s ability to inform themselves. The Internet connects people of diverse geographical, political, or ideological origins, greatly

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And the winner is: Clark Abismo in SL (Miguel Mimoso Correia in RL) The entries were inspired by this year’s theme: “Think for Yourself and Let Others Do the Same.” For more information on the machinima contest in Second Life, click on the post title above.

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Sep 30th 2010 By: Chris Since 1982, the last week in September has been observed as Banned Books Week, during which readers are reminded that there are still people out there trying to get books like "Huckleberry Finn" and "The Diary of Anne Frank" -- yes, "The Diary of Anne Frank" -- banned from schools and libraries. In the year 2010. Yeah, I know. Comics have been a frequent target of

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Letter from Baltimore Sun, September 9, 2010 In advance of Banned Books Week (Sept. 25-Oct. 2) I want to thank the often unheralded defenders of my First Amendment rights — librarians — who have quietly fought and continue to fight censorship. Large amounts of great literature have been banned at one time or another by self-appointed arbiters of the public morality — churches, school boards

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Video from ALA Annual Conference Posted on August 20th, 2010 by Angela Maycock

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Parents will be able to restrict what kids readBy Sharon Roznik • The Reporter sroznik@fdlreporter.com • August 11, 2010 Parents of students in Fond du Lac Schools will be notified during the first week of school that they can monitor what their child is reading.Although means to block library reading materials has been in place since the days of card catalogs, a new state-of-the art software

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“Ethics in a Digital World: Using Policies to Guide Professional and Personal Presence in Social Networking Spaces.”  Posted on August 16th, 2010 by Angela Maycock

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The American Library Association asserts a compelling public interest in the preservation of intellectual freedom for individuals of any age held in jails, prisons, detention facilities, juvenile facilities, immigration facilities, prison work camps and segregated units within any facility. As Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote in Procunier v Martinez [416 US 428 (1974)]: When

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 In anticipation of a June 24th Senate mark-up on the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 (S. 3480), the ALA sent a letter, in conjunction with the Surveillance Coalition, proposing significant improvements to the legislation. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT.), chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, introduced the bill earlier this month

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By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project  06-20-10 To find out how the First Amendment is supposed to work in public schools, don’t ask school officials. Ask the kids. Strange as it may seem, many students actually believe what they’re taught in civics class about their constitutional rights. Consider Raymond Hosier, a seventh-grader in Schenectady, N.Y. He doesn’t

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By Andrew Ramonas | June 16, 2010 2:11 pm The Justice Department will put into action additional oversight of the Patriot Act, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday.   Panel Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who introduced Patriot Act renewal legislation last year, urged Attorney General Eric Holder in March to implement safeguards for the use of Patriot Act

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Free Speech Anonymity, Bloggers' Rights, CyberSLAPP, No Downtime for Free Speech Campaign Innovation Accessibility for the Reading Disabled, Broadcast Flag, Coders' Rights Project, Digital Rights Management, Net Neutrality, Patents, Trusted Computing Intellectual Property Broadcast Flag,

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Posted on June 14th, 2010 by Deborah Caldwell-Stone The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a Christian legal organization, has initiated a letter-writing campaign to libraries and schools around the country. The campaign targets libraries with meeting room policies that restrict the use of the library’s meeting rooms for religious services. In its letter, ADF advises libraries receiving the

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Here's what Wikipedia says about Spokeo. Spokeo is a social network aggregator web site that aggregates data from many online and offline sources (such as phone directories, social networks, photo albums, marketing surveys, mailing lists, government censuses, real estate listings, and business websites). This aggregated data may include demographic data, estimated property and wealth values,

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Andrew Brandt For three miserable months in 1993, I shared a house in Oakland, California, with a bunch of college dropouts and recent graduates who were in an awful band. Since then, I've tried to forget everything about the place, including the address. But I found out that a host of online investigation services know all about that dark period--and lots of other details about my

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By Bruce RamseySeattle Times editorial columnist Last week the Washington Supreme Court ruled that a public library has the right to filter adult patrons' access to the Internet. I suppose they do, though I am skeptical of Internet filters. The day after the court's decision, I clicked on an image of Neanderthal man, having read in the newspaper I was related to him — and I was blocked by

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From OIF Blog By Jonathan Kelley Last week, the Office for Intellectual Freedom got a visit from Madeline Daniel, who came to make a donation – cash that she had raised from her lemonade sale.  For 50 cents a cup, thirsty passersby helped raise money “to support the ALA’s fight against Banned Books.”  Madeline raised over $28 in all, which indeed will help us continue to work with librarians

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From privacyrevolution.orgAs we near the close of the first-ever Choose Privacy Week, we are tremendously grateful to the many individuals and organizations that have contributed to its success. Please allow us this blog post to recognize those on the front lines of key privacy issues today. We are honored to call many of these folks our partners, allies, colleagues, and friends. The

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By Eliot Van Buskirk Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have been outed as not caring one whit about your privacy — a jarring admission, considering how much of our personal data Facebook owns, not to mention its plans to become the web’s central repository for our preferences and predilections. Also interesting is how this came about: Not in a proper article, but in a tweet by Nick

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Are you confused about the current privacy laws?  How does the issue of privacy and confidentiality affect your library, its patrons, and your work? Would you like to know more about this important issue, but feel you never have enough time to wade through the complexities? The Intellectual Freedom Panel of MLA is proud to offer a pre-conference program that will address all your concerns. It

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Biometrics: A Threat to Libraries and Privacy http://www.ualberta.ca/~sandraa/cla/biometrics.pdf Awarded second place in the annual writing competition of the Canadian Library Association's Student Chapter at the University of Alberta, the paper provides a basic overview of biometrics and cites several recent examples of the use of this technology in libraries. It

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Textbooks that Professors can rewrite Digitally By MOTOKO RICH In a kind of Wikipedia of textbooks, Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes. Professors will be able to reorganize or delete

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By James C McKinley Jr. Published: March 12, 2010 Mary Helen Berlanga accused fellow members of the Board of Education of “rewriting history.” AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism,

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By Jonathan Zimmerman"Books should offend you," a professor told my literature class 30 years ago, when I started college. "They should make you squirm and sweat. They should keep you up at night." He paused for effect. "Have a nice a day," he concluded. Everybody laughed, of course. But the joke was on us. Americans want to feel good, and they want the same for their kids. So we try to protect

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This isn't the first time that a classic book has been pulled off a library shelf because a parent didn't want their darling child to read it, but it is equally obscene every time it happens.In Culpeper County Public Schools, a version of the “Diary of A Young Girl,” by Anne Frank, was just removed from schools because a parent complained about graphic sexual language, according to the Star

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Intimidated at the thought of grappling with copyright issues in the digital age? Here is an impressive little wiki put together by media specialists in Lee County, Florida. Click on Post Title to access wiki.

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Concerned about protecting the privacy of library patrons and other individuals who have Facebook accounts, the American Library Association has joined nine other organizations in filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission regarding Facebook’s recent changes to its policies.“EPIC has framed some very important questions about Facebook’s privacy policy,” said Lynne Bradley, director of

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"In my mind’s eye, I envision librarians atop barricades, protecting our civil liberties, guarding our rights to privacy, and unbanning books." Agatha Award-winning mystery novelist Katherine Hall Page on why she dedicated The Body in the Sleigh to librarians. "Author's note," The Body and the Sleigh (HarperColllns, 2009) Click on Post Title for Katherine Hall Page's comments on libraries and

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First, to the kids: There are people in your home town who have taken certain books off the shelves of your school library. Do not argue with them; do not protest; do not organize or attend rallies to have the books put back on their shelves. Don't waste your time or your energy. Instead, hustle down to your public library, where these frightened people's reach must fall short in a democracy, or

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Adopted by The Maryland Library Association Executive Board November 18, 2009 Baltimore, Maryland Whereas, the Maryland Library Association is committed to encouraging free and open inquiry by preserving the privacy rights of library users, library employees, and persons living in the United States; and Whereas, the Maryland Library Association opposes governmental actions that suppress or

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Follow the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom on Twitter at  www.twitter.com/oif . . . . for the latest on banned & challenged books, intellectual freedom programs and trainings, and general intellectual freedom happenings Follow the Freedom to Read Foundation on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ftrf .... for updates on FTRF court cases and other activities go to http://www.ftrf.org/ 

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Library employees lose jobs over bookBy Amy Wilson awilson1@herald-leader.com NICHOLASVILLE — Sharon Cook is either a hero or a villain. She is either due your thanks for doing everything in her power to protect children from obscenity or she is due your disdain for wantonly taking away the constitutional rights of the people of Jessamine County. She never meant to do the latter. She

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From the Associated Press

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The Humanities Department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library/ State Library Resource Center has put together a new guide entitled "Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read" located here.  It can also be found on the main How-to Guide page, under the heading "What do I read next?" If you are looking for resources related to banned books, the difference between banned and challenged books,

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ALA Applauds Introduction of Bill Norman Oder -- Library Journal, 9/17/2009 Response to administration's position Would revise NSLs and Section 215 Patriot Act must be revised/renewed by end of year Shortly after the Obama Administration announced its general support for renewing three sections of the USA PATRIOT Act, U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and six others today

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McCormick Freedom Museum in Chicago is offering a kit of posters, signs, table tents, and bookmarks designed to challenge library users into thinking about First Amendment issues. Libraries that wish to host the Libraries and the First Amendment exhibit can register for a complimentary kit and access to an array of supplemental materials. In exchange, partner libraries are asked to provide the

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Kid Keeping a Lending Library of Banned Books in his locker  POSTED ON BOING BOING BY CORY DOCTOROW, MAY 24, 2009  A teenager asks Yahoo! Questions whether maintaining a lending library in his school locker is illegal (as opposed to merely in contravention of school regulations).  A school friend asked to borrow "The Catcher in the Rye", one of the books in the banned list, and one thing led to

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Live Banned Books Display in Glen Allen, VA Posted on Boing Boing by Cory DoctorowTwin Hickory Public Library has created a 'live' Banned Book Display to celebrate Banned Books Week. Volunteer readers sit in the display and read banned and challenged books. "So far it's gotten a lot of attention – we hear a lot of  'Mom, what are those people doing in there?' The best part has been hearing

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Out of 513 challenges as reported to the Office for Intellectual FreedomAnd Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter ParnellReasons: anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age groupHis Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip PullmanReasons: political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, and violenceTTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series), by Lauren MyracleReasons:

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View Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2009 in a larger map\Hundreds of books are challenged in schools and libraries in the United States each year. A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, while a banning reflects the actual removal of those materials. The American Library Association (ALA) provides confidential support to teachers and librarians and tracks challenges that occur.

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Story HighlightsWisconsin couple say some books too risque for library's young-adult sectionLibrary refuses request to move some books to adult section, setting up showdownGroup not connected to couple files claim against city, seeks book burningIssue sparks debate at meetings and on airwaves and blogsBy Jason Hanna(CNN) -- A fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small

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July 17, 2009, 12:57 pm EDITOR’S NOTE | 8:41 p.m. The Times published an article explaining that the Orwell books were unauthorized editions that Amazon removed from its Kindle store. However, Amazon said it would not automatically remove purchased copies of Kindle books if a similar situation arose in the future.This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a

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June 23, 2009 Oral arguments: Sarah Bradburn et al. v. North Central Regional Library District (Under the WA Constitution, must a library disable its internet filter to allow adult access to constitutionally protected content?).The Washington state Supreme Court heard arguments June 23 in a challenge to the internet filtering policy of the North Central Regional Library, headquartered in

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By Marjorie Kehe 6-5-09 The Christian Science Monitor“You have to read, you have to know, you have to have access to knowledge,” said Toni Morrison, just weeks after one of her own novels, “Song of Solomon,” was banned from (and then reinstated to) a reading list at a Michigan high school.Morrison was speaking at an event in New York to launch the National Coalition Against Censorship’s new

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Whereas Judith F. Krug was the public face of our profession’s every effort to preserve, protect and defend the First Amendment right to freedom of expression and the corollary right to receive ideas, information and images so essential to the functioning of a free and democratic society throughout her long and distinguished tenure as director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the

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Several people who attended the MLA program “Defending Access with Confidence” have expressed interest in having it presented to their library systems. Mary Somers and Monica McAbee are available to present this 3-hour program, which discusses ALA’s Library Bill of Rights and how to support those rights in the public library. Based on a program developed by Catherine Lord, chair of the

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Left to right: Monica McAbee (Secretary), Leila Shapiro, Mary Somers (IF Officer, see inset photo - Ha! Thought she'd duck out of the pic), Pat Guyton, Margie Rhoden, Annette Goodman, Steve Labash, Moushumi (Mou) Chakraborty and Gaylord Robb.Doesn't this look like a group you'd like to join? People you'd like to meet? Especially the one whose head is floating in water overhead? We have to admit,

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Banned Books Week is now on Facebook and MySpace.Click below for more details.This is not an ALA presence, but the links provided here to non-ALA sites may be of interest.

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The following article will appear in the next issue of The Crab:Intellectual freedom is the cornerstone of our societal freedoms: the freedom of thought, the freedom of belief, the freedom to read and the freedom to express our ideas. All of these freedoms are protected by the Constitution of the United States and specifically guaranteed by the First Amendment.The Intellectual Freedom Advisory

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[The following is from Doug Archer, Chair, ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee, and is posted to ALA's website]As you may know, the Intellectual Freedom Committee is in the process of revising the Intellectual Freedom Committee is in the process of revising the Intellectual Freedom Manual. During the 2008 Annual Conference, we proposed revisions to six interpretations and they were all adopted as

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Mission:The Intellectual Freedom Advisory Panel (IFAP) provides a channel of communication between the Maryland Library Association and Maryland libraries on intellectual freedom matters; it offers a forum in which the concerns of Maryland librarians may be discussed and activities and programs on intellectual freedom may be developed; it further promotes opportunities for MLA members and the

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The American Library Association encourages all librarians, particularly those in public libraries, to work with their local legal counsel to ensure they understand state confidentiality laws so they may respond quickly to any requests from law enforcement. Forty-eight of 50 states have such laws on the books, but the language varies from state to state. The ALA recommends that each library adopt

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The Working Librarian:Distinguishes his or her personal philosophy from the professional responsibilities within the current working environment. Evaluates existing policies for clarity and soundness in intellectual freedom principles and submits written recommendations as needed to library administration. Additionally, the working librarian writes procedures to facilitate the implementation of

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