Unite us reviews free#
“ You Can’t Say That: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression and the Stories They Have to Tell” edited by historian Leonard S. There are several new books released in the past year or so that address censorship in general. If libraries choose to do so, such spaces are considered designated public forums, and legal precedent holds that libraries may not exclude any group based on the subject matter to be discussed or the ideas for which the group advocates.” The library is truly here for everyone.
Once again, we lean on the ALA’s “Library Bill of Rights” which states, “Publicly funded libraries are not obligated to provide meeting room space to the public. I also spoke with Elinor Barrett, who is the Associate Director of DBRL and has fielded complaints about meeting rooms and programming such as one group complaining about another group’s use of a meeting room. He said that complaints “usually involve patrons asking that we either remove materials from the collection, move materials to more age appropriate locations or add additional content warnings to materials.” Our selectors do an incredible job, aided by clear policies that are supported by the ALA’s “ Freedom to Read”, “ Freedom to View”, and the “ Library Bill of Rights.” In talking with Kirk Henley, the Collection Development Manager for the Daniel Boone Regional Library, it seems that we receive relatively few complaints about the items in our collection. The topics of concern tend to be towards materials concerning marginalized communities, religion, politics and, of course, sex. 50% of challenges are brought by parents. 43%, the largest in ALA’s statistics, were directed at public libraries. According to the American Library Association’s (ALA) statistics, 73% of the challenges they received in 2020 were for books and graphic novels. It involves the entire book industry including publishers, libraries, booksellers, teachers, journalists and readers of all kinds. This year, I would like to take a different approach and talk more generally about censorship, how libraries build collections to serve communities, and how our library system approaches challenges.īanned Books Week was originally launched in 1982 in response to an increase in challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries and to bring attention to the harm of censorship.
I have written several posts about banned books in the past detailing why various books are banned or challenged. This year’s theme is Books Unite Us: Censorship Divides Us. It’s fall again and another Banned Books Week is here, September 26 to October 2. “A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.” ~Mary Jo Godwin, Librarian
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