[CASL-L] Speaking of Banned Books Week... Are you following the New Zealand story?

[Michelle Luhtala]

http://www.slj.com/2015/09/censorship/new-zealand-bans-ya-title-into-the-river-imposes-fine-for-selling-sharing/

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Cathy Andronik via CASL-L <
casl-l at mylist.net> wrote:

> Great minds think alike!  I started preparing my Banned Books Week display
> this morning.  "Part-time Indian" is #1 on the challenged list this year,
> followed by "Persepolis" and "And Tango Makes Three."  Just sayin', but
> it's a disturbing trend I'm seeing that more of the books being challenged
> recently have, in some way, an Islamic theme, though that's not the reason
> stated for the challenge.
> Also, just received a Facebook post with a disturbing experience by Bill
> Konigsburg.  Let me check and see whether he's okay with it being shared.
> It's very Banned Books Week-appropriate.
>
> Cathy Andronik
> Teacher Librarian
> Brien McMahon HS
> Norwalk
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> On Wed, 9/16/15, Michelle Luhtala <mluhtala at me.com> wrote:
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>  Subject: [CASL-L] Banned Books Week
>  To: "neslaboard" <neslaboard at googlegroups.com>, "CASL" <casl-l at mylist.net
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>  Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015, 12:40 PM
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>  From: Kristin
>  Pekoll <kpekoll at ala.org>
>  Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:37 AM
>  Subject: [stateifc] Banned Books Week
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>  Banned Books Week is less
>  than 2 weeks away. I just wanted to share a few things that
>  you can pass on to the librarians around
>  you:
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>  Virtual Readout
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> http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbooksweek/events/virtualreadout/participate
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>  Share your local event
>  http://bannedbooksweek.org/events
>  Clipart and Free Downloads
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>  http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbooksweek/ideasandresources/freedownloads
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>  Follow on Facebook
>  https://www.facebook.com/bannedbooksweek
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>  Free
>  Webinars
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>  How to Protect the Freedom to Read in Your
>  Library
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>  Championing Internet Access for Students on Banned Websites
>  Awareness Day
>  I’m doing library shout
>  outs on Twitter. Send me a message if you have something
>  cool to share.
>  https://twitter.com/OIF
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>  Kristin
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>  Kristin Pekoll, Assistant
>  Director
>  Office for
>  Intellectual Freedom
>  www.ala.org/oif
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