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Banned Books Week: history & necessity
While the omnipresence of the internet is hindering the effectiveness of efforts to ban books from libraries or school reading lists, that hasn’t stopped people from trying. If a book is banned, anyone...
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Are books still being banned today?
CC image courtesy GoodNCrazy on Flickr The book-burning Nazis in Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade; the Thought Police in Orwell’s 1984; the censorship in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451…these are the...
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Banned Books Week & a personal take on book banning
© 2012 Didi Yunginger Go to sleep. Come to dinner. Get in the car. Normal things for a parent to ask of a child, except that usually I was too busy reading to listen to my mother. Even my English...
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Judith’s Reading Room: For the love of reading
In the spirit of the holiday season, we offer the first in a series of blog posts themed Gratitude & Giving. Children’s hospitals, rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, urban communities and...
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Some literacy-related charities for holiday giving
CC image courtesy of ALA TechSource on Flickr This is the third and final in a series of posts for the holiday season, themed Giving & Gratitude. The holidays and end-of-year tax season are upon...
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For Earth Day, we ask: Is consuming e-content really ‘greener’?
CC image courtesy of Lauren Ryan, University of Kansas In honor of Earth Day, next Monday, April 22, we turn our attention to an idea from within our library and information world perspective that...
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