Didn't get a chance to post yesterday so missed kicking off FTRW on its official start date. But never one to be a day late and a dollar short, here's a link to the main web site for Freedom to Read to kick off the week. Explore, read, look for events in a community near […]
Please find below direct access to a one page web survey produced by the Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom. This second annual survey is intended to help the Committee develop documentation about challenged resources and policies in Canadian libraries in the 21stcentury. This initiative supports Canada's Book and Periodical Council's (BPC) Freedom to Read campaign […]
When I uploaded my FTRW interview to YouSendIt a couple days ago, I didn't realise they now required you to set-up an account before downloading files (boo!) Quinn has very generously agreed to host the file for those of who who may have found this a barrier for whatever reason. To save the file to […]
Does anybody know a place to store a 30MB file for easy sharing online? I'd store it on my site – I have the space but know the file transfers would eat up my monthly bandwidth in no time. I taped the FTRW interview yesterday off the air (memories of taping “American Top 40 with […]
Just a reminder – the replay of my appearance on the “Book Chick” radio show on local community radio talking about Freedom to Read Week last week will be replayed tomorrow at noon, Saskatchewan time (11am Alberta time, 1pm Ontario time.) You can listen in at: www.cjtr.ca If you don't catch that, I'm hoping to […]
Here's something that was posted to the Canadian Library Association mailing list this week that's a fitting way to end my week of FTRW posts: the results of the CLA’s Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom’s web survey titled “Tracking Challenged Resources in Canadian Libraries” (PDF) for the year 2006. This report doesn’t include every instance […]
As a bit of a follow-up to yesterday's FTRW post about an attempt to ban “Fahrenheit 451” in Texas last fall, here's an earlier essay by Ray Bradbury, on various attempts to censor his work over the years. In other news, my appearance on the “Book Chick” radio show a couple nights ago talking about […]
Last fall, a parent in Texas demanded the removal of the book, Fahrenheit 451 from his 15-year old daughter's school library. (The subject matter of that book being so famous that its title has become shorthand for “censorship”.) And because you couldn't make this stuff up, the challenge happened the week after the American Library […]
For anybody who misses the sound of my voice pontificating away on all manner of stuff, I'll be on local community radio with the “Book Chick” tomorrow at 6pm Sask time (5pm Alberta time, 7pm Ontario time) talking about Freedom to Read Week and some of the related issues. You can listen live at: www.cjtr.caI'm […]
Guess who? I'd have guessed the FBI. Or the Library of Congress. Or a private collector with an interest in the area – someone like Larry Flynt. But nope, the biggest collection of banned books is owned by the Catholic Church. Their List of Forbidden Books is an index of books that the Church has […]
