Intellectual Freedom News 10/22/2021
Highlights
Freedom to Read Foundation Offers Scholarship for Course on Intellectual Freedom and Young Adults
Censorship
- Katy ISD ‘caved to pressure’ in returning books to library, petition organizer says | Houston Chronicle
- The Books Briefing: The Fight Over What Kids Can Read | The Atlantic
- Heather Cox Richardson on Carroll ISD Holocaust Comment | Letters from an American
- Campbell County Commissioners No Longer Allowing Comment on Public Library In Their Meetings | Cowboy State Daily
- Library chief to move books in children’s section | Jonesboro Sun
- Day nominates Luster for library board | Jonesboro Sun
- Mask mandate, book ban, politics: Central York school board race hotly contested this year | York Daily Record
- Sarasota County Schools [FL] removes Black Lives Matter story from 5th Grade curriculum, citing Critical Race Theory | WTSP
- Watch now: Bloomington Public Library [IL] under fire by some parents for choice of books | Pantagraph
- Lawsuit alleges book banning related to new Oklahoma law | KFOR
- Why some North Hunterdon parents want certain LGBTQ books removed from the school library | My Central Jersey
- Tennessee librarians speak out against Chattanooga school board member’s attempt to ban books | Tennessean
- Texas’s Book Censorship Hysteria: An interview with Ashley Hope Pérez | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Student Action Results in Decision by School Board to “Unfreeze” Anti-Racist Resources in Central York, PA | Intellectual Freedom Blog
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- Federal Regulators Clarify the Application of HIPAA Privacy and Nondiscrimination Rules to COVID-19 Vaccines in the Workplace | JDSupra
- China-linked hacking group accessing calling records worldwide, CrowdStrike says | KFGO
- Company that buys zero-day hacks now wants exploits for popular VPNs | PC Magazine
More privacy news is available at the Voices for Privacy blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- Teachers and civil rights groups sue over Oklahoma’s ban on critical race theory | NPR
- South Dakota ACLU says Dept. of Education may have violated federal and constitutional law | Keloland Media Group
- Officer’s suit in protest injury goes to Louisiana court | Beaumont Enterprise / Associated Press
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- What I See in the Latest Blackface ‘Scandal’ | The New York Times
- University of Alabama faculty say laws targeting critical race theory are ‘existential threat’ | Alabama.com
- A Different Kind of Campus-Speaker Controversy | Chronicle of Higher Education
Social Media
Information Literacy & Disinformation
International News
- Controversy in Spain’s Castellon over withdrawl of LGBTI library books | Olive Press
- Saudi readers finally get to read banned books | Mint Lounge
Around the Web
- Happy Birthday, Nikki Grimes! | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Jerry Pinkney, the beloved, award-winning children’s book illustrator, has died at 81 | NPR
- The right-wing operatives orchestrating the attack on America’s school boards | Popular Information
- Backlash over books about race, gender hits Texas schools | Dallas Morning News
- Texas schools are being told to teach ‘opposing views’ of the Holocaust. Why? | The Guardian
- Texas Superintendent Apologizes After Official’s Holocaust Remarks | The New York Times
- School Masks Are Now a “Satanic Ritual,” According to Parents Suing a Local School District | Philadelphia Magazine
- Librarians to the Defense | Progressive Magazine
- ‘Moms for Liberty’ Group Sets Sights on Local Government | Route Fifty
- Amid a Labor Shortage, Companies Are Eliminating Drug Tests. It’s a Trend That Could Create More Equitable Workplaces | Time
- Mequon-Thiensville school board recall could spark other recalls nationwide | WISN
- Community discusses EPL’s use of racist imagery and books | Daily Northwestern
ALA News
Awards & Grant
- Dr. Gregory Leazer Awarded ALSC Research Agenda Pilot Grant
- SRRT seeks nominations for Herb Biblo Outstanding Leadership Award for Social Justice and Equality
- Nominees sought for 2022 Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Author/Illustrator Award for Lifetime Achievement
- Longlist for 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction announced
eLearning
- United for Libraries’ Nov. 9 Learning Live session to explore virtual and hybrid fundraising
- Everything You Need to Know About Interlibrary Loan
Publishing
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