Monthly Archives: May 2007

I came across a short video clip from a TV station evening news, featuring Judith Krug of the Freedom to Read Foundation. The short snippet was talking about what’s wrong with book banning. The TV journalist covering the evening posted … Continue reading →

As I learned from the Shifted Librarian blog the “2007 ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium” will include a session on ” What IF: Gaming, Intellectual Freedom and the Law.” I am not a gamer myself, but find the … Continue reading →

A book that was met with some protest in the US is most likely will have a much calmer reception in the UK according to the Guardian. As I wrote earlier, “And Tango Makes Three” is a children book depicting … Continue reading →

I came across this (2 year) old blog entry, but found it interesting. It quotes extensively from (and adds some minor comments to) an article from Moment Magazine. The piece in question is about an orthodox rabbi Natan (or Nosson) … Continue reading →

Here is a twist in banning books, at least if you come (as I do) from a western perspective. The International Herald Tribune reported that in Hong Kong a Chinese student newspaper got labeled indecent, because it contained a sex … Continue reading →

This article from next month’s Popular Photography describes the murky legal ground about photographs getting developed and reported to the authorities because it may depict some sort of crime according to the judgment of the person who developed them. Most … Continue reading →

This is the most ironic news item I encountered this week, although it is six month old. The father of a 15 year old high school student in Texas objected his child having to read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. He … Continue reading →

Today’s Library Link of the Day pointed us to this PCWorld story about “Google Shareholders Vote Against Anti-Censorship Proposal.” Apparently some Google shareholders opposed Google’s self-censorship, which is necessary for the company to operate in some countries, such as China. … Continue reading →

The editorial of the current issue of American Libraries is about “Extraordinary Heroes.” One of the eight mentioned was “Superintendent Elliott Landon, who retained Alice Siebold’s coming-of-age novel The Lovely Bones in the Coleytown Middle School Library in Westport, Connecticut, … Continue reading →

The Day of Dialog event will be held on the last day of May in New York, but the event is full, you can no loner register. I mention it though, because one of the sessions is about “The Most … Continue reading →