"Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas." -- www.ala.org ( http://www.ala.org/ ) (Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A)
Chabot Library will once again mark Banned Books week with a DISPLAY in the library of books that have been challenged over the years.
Stop by for a copy of the list: "The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000"
"The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) received a total of 420 challenges last year. A challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint, filed with a library or school, requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness. Public libraries, schools and school libraries report the majority of challenges to OIF.
'The number of challenges reflects only incidents reported,' said Judith F. Krug, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom."
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For the future, please do not provide spammed content that is only advertising one's site. With respect to the content that called "Banned Books Week," "shameless propaganda," and accused the college Library of being "one sided," let it be pointed out that we are only highlighting books that have been challenged at schools and public libraries in history, and for many different reasons, which only one of the reasons that has been made is that the work is "age inappropriate."
Rather than hide the fact that books have never been challenged, with respect to free speech and that libraries serve a function to provide intellectual freedom for all who seek it, the purpose of "Banned Books Week" is to celebrate that freedom of information, which in a nutshell, is what libraries are all about.
It wasn't spam -- it was an article by Thomas Sowell in the Washington Times. You just disagreed with balance having been provided, so you just removed my blog entry. How ironic.
For the future then, please do not repost an entire entry. You can simply provide a small excerpt beginning and then provide a link to the original source:
http://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2008/09/thomas-sowell-on-banned-books-week-bbw.html
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