The Dark Ages Began with Closing A Library

Should We Allow Porn in Libraries?

"Should We Allow Porn in Libraries?" Salon / Tracy Clark-Flory.
San Francisco: Salon Online, April 28th 2011.

Shelf Life: How the Toronto Public Library Deals With Complaints

"Shelf Life: How the Toronto Public Library Deals With Complaints." National Post / Paul Terefenko.
Toronto: National Post Online, February 15th 2011.

"What is a little unusual is what’s been targeted. There’s no Twain. No Vonnegut, Bradbury, Salinger or Lee. Even the Harry Potter series, with its heavy occult imagery, didn’t make the cut. Instead, the naughty nine were comprised of children’s and teen fiction, graphic novels, a Vanity Fair magazine article, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno DVD and a book on being a Chartered Financial Analyst."

CRTC Urges Second Look At Ban Of Dire Straits Song

"CRTC Urges Second Look At Ban Of Dire Straits Song." The Globe & Mail / Guy Dixon.
Toronto: The Globe & Mail Online, January 21st 2011.


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Access Belies Privacy

"Libraries Warn of Censorship, Privacy, Cost in Google’s Digital Library." Wired / Ryan Singel.

San Francisco: Wired Epicenter Online, May 2009.

Fighting Fire with Free Speech

"Fighting Fire with Free Speech: ALA Will Protest Book Burning with 9/11 Qur'an Reading." American Libraries / Leonard Kniffel.
America: ALA American Libraries Magazine Online, September 8th 2010.

"Book burning is the most insidious form of book banning, and just as the American Library Association is preparing to celebrate the freedom to read during Banned Books Week, along comes one Rev. Terry Jones of the 50-member Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida. The good reverend’s idea of world outreach is to commemorate the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001 with a public burning of the Qur’an, the Muslim holy book."

Thank Your Local Librarian for Fighting Censorship

"Thank Your Local Librarian for Fighting Censorship." The Baltimore Sun / Unknown.
Baltimore: The Baltimore Sun Online, September 9th 2010.

"Probably no other group has fought harder against censorship or government snooping into citizens reading habits — or received less public credit for it — than librarians and the American Library Association. This is true, quiet patriotism — standing up for the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, often at the risk of their jobs. They are walking the walk, not just talking the talk. Librarians are high on my list of American heroines and heroes. Thank you!"

Censorship

See Also:
Censorship
Censorship in Canada
Challenged Books & Magazines

Books Cause Dangerous Thoughts

"The 11 Most Ironically Banned Books of All Time." 11 Points: Because Top Ten Lists Are for Cowards / Sam Greenspan.

Venice Beach: 2009.

See Also:
Books Banned by Governments

Freedom to Read Week
February 21st to February 27th 2010

Highlighting Banned Books
Book & Periodical Council

11 Points

Enjoy Your Freedom.