Intellectual Freedom News
Intellectual Freedom News
March 4, 2016
Office for Intellectual Freedom
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Censorship
Libraries and Intellectual Freedom
- San José Public Library named winner of RUSA Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Services for Virtual Privacy Lab | American Library Association
Legislation
- State Senate passes bill requiring schools to warn parents about sexually explicit content | Pilot Online
- Virginia’s slippery slope toward censorship in schools | Washington Post
- House Bill too close to censorship | Martinsville Bulletin
Privacy
- Demand for Apple encryption tool threatens library users’ privacy| American Library Association
- An iPhone Is an Extension of the Mind: The FBI isn’t asking to access an uncrackable safe. It wants to compromise the boundaries of the self | Slate
Around the Web
- CCBC Multicultural Statistics for 2015 Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s analysis of the 3400 titles they received in 2015
- Middle schooler is criminally charged for making threats with emojis | ABA Journal
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2 comments
Thank you for pulling these resources together on one page. It gives me a great intellectual freedom go to each week.
Excelente información.