November 18, 2016

Censorship

• Parents take displeasure over novel to school board | KDTH-Radio (Dubuque, IA)
• Twitter suspends alt-right accounts | USA Today
• Texas board rejects Mexican-American studies textbook, author threatens lawsuit | Big Country (Houston, TX)
• Williamsburg retains ‘The Outsiders’ on 7th-grade reading list | Press-Citizen (IA)
• Having Google and Facebook censor content is no way to stop fake news | Los Angeles Times

Access

• Checking out: Seattle Public Library’s exclusion rules disproportionately push out people of color | Real Change (OR)
• America’s libraries: Powering broadband access, adoption and use | ALA News
• Moffitt library entrance policy prompts access concerns | The Daily Californian (Berkeley, CA)
• Sask. Court of Appeal mulls over library access for sex offender | Regina Leader-Post (Canada)
• Ferndale library adds delivery service to senior apartments | Oakland County One-Fifteen News (MI)

Privacy

• To encrypt or not encrypt? The NYC Bar weighs in on the debate | Legaltech News
• Texas eyes ‘women’s privacy act’ that critics say targets transgender people | Reuters
• Privacy will be more necessary than ever under President Trump | Time
• U.S. spy court pushed to release sealed records | Courthouse News
• Talk at Princeton High about digital privacy takes controversial turn, principal apologizes | Planet Princeton

Around the Web

• March book three wins National Book Award | CBLDF
• How the ACLU plans to defend rights after a surge in donations | Fast Company
• Banning books challenges the written word | Central Michigan Life
• Our view: Jefferson is now banned at UVA??!! | The Roanoke Times (VA)
• Trump and net neutrality: How Republicans can make the rules go away | Ars Technica

International Issues

• When Israel banned Nazi-inspired ‘Stalag’ porn | The Times of Israel
• Sharjah International Book Fair attracts 2.31 million visitors | Zawya (UAE)
• Republic of unfreedom | The Indian Express (India)
• Update: Ethiopian girls in prison for a book ‘Countering attacks on Christianity’ | Cross Map (Ethiopia)
• LinkedIn blocked by Russian government | PC World
• Jailed Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji files new appeal for release | Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

Office for Intellectual Freedom

• Intellectual freedom nominations for the John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award due Dec. 1
• Give the gift of intellectual freedom on #GivingTuesday
• Darby librarian to receive Downs ‘intellectual freedom’ award | Ravalli Republic

ALA News

• Statement on libraries, the association, diversity and inclusion | American Libraries

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