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Intellectual Freedom Manual (2021) (Nonfic)

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Intellectual Freedom Manual (2021) (Nonfic)

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The ultimate how-to on Intellectual Freedom in your town and school library. This manual explains all you ever wanted to know about your rights as a reader, and how librarians are charged with protecting those rights.
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This brief article will provide background for your research. You can read and/or listen.

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This week is banned book week, when the American Library Association calls attention to the freedom we have to read what we want. An exhibition at the Dallas Holocaust Museum reminds us that freedom hasn't always existed in the world, and it's still being challenged here.

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The traveling museum exhibition was curated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and is being hosted at the Dallas Holocaust Museum through October 15. It is called "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings." With photographs, posters, newspapers and film footage, the exhibition looks back at the 30s. But it also follows book burning from The Cold War to the present day.

Sarah Abosch, the Senior Director of Education at the Dallas Holocaust Museum, said "The significance of having an exhibit like this in Dallas is to bring home the fact that freedom and democracy are fragile. This fragility is something that we have to be very, very aware of. The Nazis didn't initiate book burning, and unfortunately, book burning did not end with the Nazis."

Book burning did not start in Nazi Germany. It dates back to antiquity. But burning books became a lot more common just before and during World War II. The Nazis burned more than 25,000 books across Germany in a single day, May 10, 1933. At the same time, Americans in the U.S. gathered to protest the burning.

Book burning still happens around the world, says Abosch. But here in the U.S., bans are much more common. Those who want to restrict access to books usually do it because they say they want to protect children from sexual content, language or situations considered inappropriate or offensive. The American Library Association says that in the last 30 years more than 11,000 books have been challenged in an attempt to remove them from classrooms or libraries. The list includes such titles as The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Looking For Alaska by John Green, and Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey.

Many people say that banning or even challenging a book violates the First Amendment. Abosch said, "You should have access to anything and everything that you could possibly want to read, to the extent that if we have censorship in the American public, it should be self censorship."

In Nazi Germany, works by Helen Keller, Ernest Hemingway, and Sigmund Freud went up in flames - in bonfires surrounded by thousands of cheering people.

In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy called for the removal of books from the US overseas library program, books he deemed too left-leaning. His call was answered with book burnings in places like Australia and Japan. Even the Harry Potter books aren't safe. In the early 2000s groups burned the Harry Potter books, not abroad, but in New Mexico.

You can see the exhibition at the Dallas Holocaust Museum through October 15th. Visit the Dallas Holocaust Museum's website for more information.

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Book Burning: From the Past to the Present | Art&Seek

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Book burning in Opera Square, Berlin, May 10, 1933. Photo: US Holocaust Memorial Museum/National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD This week is banned book week, when the American Library Association calls attention to the freedom we have to read what we want.

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Cornwell, N. C. (2022). American Library Association (ALA)

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Cornwell, N. C. (2022). American Library Association (ALA)

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This article introduces you to the ALA, and it's work on intellectual freedom, fighting against censorship of library books.

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Welcome to Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society

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Taylor, Bonnie B. (2022). Censorship of School Library Books

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Taylor, Bonnie B. (2022). Censorship of School Library Books

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This article makes a brief statement about book bans throughout history, and explains the relationship between censoring of school library books and our First Amendment rights to free speech. It gives a brief outline of the Supreme Court case Island Trees School District vs. Pico, and the consequences of that decision.

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This article explains Banned Books Week, an event held every September by the ALA. It talks about who bans books, why, and what happens when a book is challenged.

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AASL. (2010). What is Intellectual Freedom?

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AASL. (2010). What is Intellectual Freedom?

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This brochure by the American Association of School Librarians explains the principle of intellectual freedom, why it is important, and how it affects the selection of books in your library.

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ALA. (2002). Top 10 Most Challenged Books Lists

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ALA. (2002). Top 10 Most Challenged Books Lists

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Banned and Challenged Books is a website of the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom. Every year they publish a list of the ten most challenged books in the U.S., along with the reasons for censoring. You will see all the lists in starting with the most recent.

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The American Library Association condemns censorship and works to defend each person’s right to read under the First Amendment and ensure free access to information. Every year, ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the pub…

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Court Documents to the SCOTUS case which defined the limits on censoring school library books.

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Your rights as borrowers. All librarians, including school librarians, stand by these principles.

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The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.

I. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.

II. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.

III. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.

IV. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.

V. A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.

VI. Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.

VII. All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use. Libraries should advocate for, educate about, and protect people's privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information.

Adopted June 19, 1939, by the ALA Council; amended October 14, 1944; June 18, 1948; February 2, 1961; June 27, 1967; January 23, 1980; January 29, 2019.

Inclusion of "age" reaffirmed January 23, 1996.

Although the Articles of the Library Bill of Rights are unambiguous statements of basic principles that should govern the service of all libraries, questions do arise concerning application of these principles to specific library practices. See the documents designated by the Intellectual Freedom Committee as Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights.

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In response to a dramatic increase in book challenges, the ALA put out a statement opposing the removal of books from our libraries, especially books about LGBTQ+ issues, by black authors, or books that document the black experience or experience of other people of color.

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A more detailed article on censorship, and why it occurs. You have to option to read the high school version of this article for more details.

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Bedford Public Library - Part V is the most immediately relevant to your research.

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Intellectual Freedom Stories From a Shifting Landscape (Nonfic)

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Intellectual Freedom Stories From a Shifting Landscape (Nonfic)

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Attack Of The Black Rectangles (Fic) - If you use this book, make sure to read the author's note at the end. 

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Attack Of The Black Rectangles (Fic) - If you use this book, make sure to read the author's note at the end. 

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Answers In The Pages (Fic) - If you use this book, make sure to read the author's note at the end. 

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Answers In The Pages (Fic) - If you use this book, make sure to read the author's note at the end. 

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Censorship of Library Books
Book Banning
Book Burning

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Censorship
Intellectual Freedom
Censorship of Library Books

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025 - Library and Archival Science
025.213 - Censorship and Intellectual Freedom
363 - Other Social Problems and Services
363.31 - Censorship
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