Highlights

• ALA Takes a Stance on Social and Racial Justice with Proposed Ninth Principle of the Code of Ethics
• Explore Intellectual Freedom in these #ALAAC21 Sessions!

The Committee on Professional Ethics has proposed a ninth principle to the ALA Code of Ethics, to codify the profession’s commitment to racial and social justice and further emphasize diversity and inclusion as one of the profession’s core beliefs. https://t.co/nUcxhYg6Jf

— ALA OIF (@OIF) June 21, 2021

Censorship

• Montville School District Announces Summer Reading List After Petition Signed by Over 1,000 | TAPIntoMontville
• Commack School District removes novel from required high school reading list | Newsday
  • School board members in New York wanted to embrace diversity, but hecklers had other plans | CNN
• Freedom to read essential to democracy as library display comes under attack | Williamsport Sun-Gazette
• Parents sue over Black Lives Matter lessons in Lehigh Valley school district | Pittsburgh-Post Gazette
• Collier County School Board approves use of controversial textbooks | WINK (FL)
• Teachers come under pressure as politicians, parents battle over ‘critical race theory’ | Colorado Newsline
• As More States Consider Legislation to Restrict Teaching About Racism, Educators Are Fighting Back | School Library Journal
• Why are states lining up to ban critical race theory? | University World News
• Critical race theory battle invades school boards — with help from conservative groups | NBC News
• Scholarly Groups Condemn Laws Limiting Teaching on Race | The New York Times
  • Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism in American History (June 2021) (ALA and FTRF are signatories to the the statement.)
• How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory | The New Yorker

Privacy & Cybersecurity

• The Surveilled Student | Chronicle of Higher Education
• Tech giants have to hand over your data when federal investigators ask. Here’s why. | Washington Post
  • What Data About You Can the Government Get From Big Tech? | The New York Times
• Nine out of 10 health apps harvest user data, global study shows | The Guardian

First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties

• How a YouTuber prompted a Danbury police investigation, a possible lawsuit and opened a First Amendment debate | News Times (CT)
• South Dakota Seeks to Reinstate Prison Porn Ban | Courthouse News Service

Opening Session featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story," will open #ALAAC21! @nhannahjones @NYTmag #1619Project #FreePeopleReadFreely https://t.co/uYzquu9jPT pic.twitter.com/a4bmn2cYee

— Freedom to Read Foundation (@FTRF) June 18, 2021

Access

• New York Legislature Passes Library E-book Bill | Publishers Weekly

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• Academic Freedom and the Critical Race Theory Legislation | Volokh Conspiracy
• How to Truly Protect Academic Freedom | The Chronicle of Higher Education

.@ALALibrary & @FTRF join @PENamerica, @AHAHistorians, @AAUP, @aacu & 75+ organizations to oppose a spate of legislative proposals that target academic lessons, presentations & discussions of racism & American history in schools, colleges & universities. https://t.co/7Q7YRqUpr0

— ALA OIF (@OIF) June 17, 2021

Net Neutrality & Broadband

• Gearing Up to Connect Minority Communities | Benton Foundation
• Some North Carolina residents still fight for internet access | NBC News
• NTIA Creates First Interactive Map to Help Public See the Digital Divide Across the Country | NTIA

Journalism and Disinformation

• How Some Americans Are Breaking Out of Political Echo Chambers | Wired
• Anti-Black racism and the press | Columbia Journalism Review

International News

• Hungary LGBT: Content aimed at children to be banned | BBC

Around the Web

• A Media Empire for the (Public) Library? OverDrive Acquires Kanopy | The Scholarly Kitchen
• Freedom of information during Tham Luang Nang Non rescue | Intellectual Freedom Blog

ALA News

• ALA Committee on Education seeks feedback on newly revised ALA Core Competences
• Kevin D. Strowder to lead ALA’s Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services
• ALA Conference Services accepting LibLearnX program proposals
• ALA launches resources for libraries to apply for $7.1 billion Emergency Connectivity Fund
• 2022-23 ALA President Lessa Pelayo-Lozada to moderate United for Libraries Gala Author Tea, sponsored by Data Axle Reference Solutions, at ALA Annual
• United for Libraries’ June 29 Learning Live session to be presented during ALA Annual Virtual Conference
• ALA receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant to support Let’s Talk About It: Women’s Suffrage
• AASL National Conference closing session will inspire school librarians to look to the future
• New customer service and fulfillment address for ALA Store beginning July 1, 2021

Don't miss @KyleLukoff's closing keynote for the @OIF awards at #ALAAC21!

Register for the event at https://t.co/pzZ6mEd7HO pic.twitter.com/58D5UA7tsS

— Penguin Young Readers School & Library (@PenguinClass) June 20, 2021

Awards and Grants

• Thirty AASL members receive Bound to Stay Bound grants to attend first national conference
• Dr. Trevor Owens Wins 2021 Core/OCLC Kilgour Research Award

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