Intellectual Freedom News 11/1/19
Highlights
- Library advocates deliver ebook petition to Macmillan | American Libraries
- Deborah Caldwell-Stone appointed director, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom and executive director of the Freedom to Read Foundation
Censorship
- Censorship resisted: A look at the Edmonton library’s shortlist of banned books | CBC (Canada)
- Sex, nudity, and satanism are why parents believe in school book censorship | Book Riot
- Omaha mom upset with ‘inappropriate’ book her daughter brought home from school library | KETV (Nebraska)
- These watchdogs track secret online censorship across the globe | CNet
- Judge: Florida Corrections Department incorrect in censorship of magazine, must pay $1.2 million | Tallahassee Democrat
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- The Cybersecurity 202: Facebook spyware lawsuit opens a new front in encryption battle | The Washington Post
- Which U.S. states best protect privacy online? | Security Magazine
Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Access
- Boston Public Library to eliminate fines for people under 18 | Boston Globe
- Anonymous signs help Brookline library patrons find sensitive information | Wicked Local
- The internet is for everyone, right? Not with a screen reader | Wired
- How a publisher is punishing library users with eBooks limit | San Francisco Chronicle
- Welcoming students with special needs to the library | Knowledge Quest
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
Filtering
- Editorial: Lebanon Public Libraries make the sound and principled decision to reject internet filters | Valley News (NH)
Copyright
- Learning Engine Copyright video series released | Copyright.gov
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Yale in academic censorship row in Singapore | International Business Times
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Twitter blocking all political ads globally starting in November | Ars Technica
- Facebook’s new political-ad policy already showing cracks, loopholes | Ars Technica
First Amendment & Free Speech
- Update: Victory! NCAC opposes proposed protest fees on National Mall | NCAC
- How not to protect religious freedom: The strange case of the Department of Labor’s proposed rule on the religious exemption | Freedom Forum Institute
Around the Web
- As the internet turns 50, we must protect it as a force for good | Web Foundation
- The complicated role of the modern public library | Humanities (NEH)
- Welcome to year 50 of the Information Age | Wired
- Happy Birthday, Rudolfo Anaya | OIF Blog
- What librarians can do to get out the vote: An interview with Ari Berman, author, ‘Give Us the Ballot’ | OIF Blog
- Seeing its patrons needed more than books, a library struck up a unique partnership | Hawaii News Now
- Reading scores fall on Nation’s Report Card | School Library Journal
International Issues
- Public libraries and freedom of expression | Newswire (Canada)
- Meghan Murphy: Hundreds protest outside Toronto Public Library as feminist gives talk on transgender rights | Independent
- Russia’s internyet: Kremlin readies test for its ‘sovereign’ firewall | Independent
- Kashmir: Twitter removes almost 1 million tweets, accused of bowing to Indian censorship | Newsweek
- Australia sues Google over alleged misuse of location data | CNN
ALA News
- Author Julia Alvarez is the Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture Speaker at the 2020 ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits in Philadelphia
- Nominations open for 2020 IFRT John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award
- IFRT accepting nominations for 2020 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award
- New from ACRL: “Copyright Conversations: Rights Literacy in a Digital World”
- New from ACRL: “Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization”
- Rainbow Round Table seeks nominations for outstanding service to the LGBTQIA+ community
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