Hi Emma, Alex, Kristine & Joy, and all School Librarians,
Here’s a quick list of resources to help you get started with your questions. ALA has a Challenge Support section with several additional articles within that area including submitting a challenge report and how to respond to challenges and concerns.
Below the ALA links I’ve included several other resources that will help answer your questions.
Find and review the district’s curriculum policy, library media policy and build your knowledge with the information in the policies and the information provided below. Plan to talk to your admins so they are well informed and are supporting classroom/school libraries and educators.
Please keep us posted about what’s happening.
Best,
Julie
Julie Yulo-Medeiros
Member Relations Manager, School & Academic Libraries
Connecticut Library Consortium
P: 860.740.3042
A: 234 Court Street
Middletown, CT 06457
W: www.ctlibrarians.org e: jyulo@ctlibrarians.org
ALA Challenge Support - start with this link and you’ll see the links listed below plus several more.
https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport
ALA Challenge Report
https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/report
ALA How to Respond to Challenges and Concerns about Library Resources
https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/respond
ALA Formal Requests for Reconsideration
https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/requestforreconsideration
Intellectual Freedom Blog
The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association
Classroom Libraries Are For Reading, Not Censorship
https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=20481
Works Cited - ResearchITCT - https://researchitct.org/
Kerby, Mona. “Up to the Challenge: Dealing with School Library Book Challenges before They Happen.” American Libraries, vol. 50, no. 9/10, Sept. 2019, pp. 52–55. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,cpid&custid=csl&db=tfh&AN=138445886&site=eds-live&scope=site.
School Library Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Nov. 1976, p. 23. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,cpid&custid=csl&db=khh&AN=7118857&site=eds-live&scope=site.
Up to the Challenge: Dealing with school library book challenges before they happen.
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THE STRONGSVILLE DECISION.
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Additional resources:
CCBC: Does a Classroom Library Have the Same Standards as a School Library?
NCTE: Statement on Classroom Libraries
https://ncte.org/statement/classroom-libraries/
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