librarianship historylibrariesPurpose – Aims to focus on the correct attitude of the librarian when selecting fiction. Design/methodology/approach – The article discusses the banning of books in libraries from the context of what was perceived as a moral decline in the literature at the time that...
Between July 2021 and June 2022, the report—Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools—found 2,532 instances of individual bans, which covered 1,648 unique books. PEN America tracks the bans in apublic spreadsheet, which indicates that the most-banned book isMaia ...
Caldwell-Stone's job is to know what's being targeted: "LGBTQIA books. Books [opponents] deemed to be critical race theory, but were actually books on the history of race, racism, slavery in the United States, or representing Black voices, were overwhelmingly being targeted by these demands ...
The ABCs of Book Banning: Directed by Sheila Nevins, Trish Adlesic, Nazenet Habtezghi. With Adler, Ruth Anne, Arianna, Avalee. Reveals the voices of the impacted parties of books banned from school districts, inspiring hope for the future through the pro
Book banning, the practice of prohibiting or restricting the reading of certain books by the general public or by members of a local community or religious group. Books can be banned by means of their removal from publicly accessible locations (e.g, libr
Even if the books were being banned, they still knew that there are differences in the world. They realized what’s behind the banning and that they’re targeting specific people, like LGBTQ, Black and Jewish history, women’s rights and sexual education. I was like, “Did I know ...
He said the ban on books is "incredibly broad" and has resulted in the removal of history volumes, classics, award-winning novels and "even books designed to help students avoid being victimized by sexual assault." He said that part of the law is unlikely to satisfy the constitution's requ...
I recently took the time to do that, since we were using github.com/clbanning/mxj in a production system that could be deployed on a Raspberry Pi. Now the decoder is comparable to the stdlib JSON-to-map[string]interface{} decoder in terms of its additional processing overhead relative ...
ALL STAR DODGE : yet another Redevelopment Disaster on Banning’s books ? 7/20/10 –In July of 2009 the Banning’s Community Redevelopment Agency (City Council) unanimously voted to purchase the vacant All Star Dodge property for 1.2 million dollars – without an appraisal. Now, one year lat...
You know, it’s amazing that any child in American history has grown up at all. Let alone escape childhood with their brains not scrambled to nothingness. Comic books, Elvis,heavy metal music, rap music, pinball machines, AOL Instant Messanger,novels. All those things have been blamed for ...