Highlights

• ALA Announces eBooks for All Campaign | American Libraries
• Nominations open for 2020 IFRT John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award
• Searching for Intellectual Freedom Bloggers 2020 – Apply by September 30th. Click to tweet.

Banned Books Week

• Easy ‘Banned Books Week’ programming for the busy academic librarian | OIF Blog
• Literature locked up: Banned Books Week 2019 | PEN America
• Libraries ‘Keep the Light On’ During Banned Books Week | ALA News
• Countdown to Banned Books Week 2019 | Facebook
• No shipping needed with DIY digital Banned Books Week files for sale through ALA Store.
• Join “Celebrate Banned Books Week”: a Facebook group designed to foster meaningful conversation and share engaging ideas for anyone who celebrates Banned Books Week.

Censorship

• Local author’s book aimed at helping inmates lands on FDOC’s ‘Banned Books’ list | WFSU Public Media (FL)
• Coloring books, Klingon dictionaries and other books banned by state prisons | Washington Post
• 8th graders assigned book on police brutality has some concerned | WSOCTV (NC)
• Drag Queen Story Hour sees over 500 people in library | News-PressNOW (MO)
• Drag queens read to kids at Chula Vista library without disruption | The San Diego Tribune
  • Chula Vista church vandalized after opposing controversial “Drag Queen Storytime” | ABC 10 News San Diego (CA)
• This liberal group’s website was deemed porn by the Trump Administration | The Daily Beast “Public Citizen found its website being categorized as—well—porn by an internet filtering service used by a major government agency.“
• Parents complained of Tennessee priest who banned Harry Potter books | WVLT 8 Knoxville (TN)

Privacy and Cybersecurity

• No Body’s Business But Mine: How Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Your Data | Privacy International
• Do our faces deserve the same protection as our phones? | Wired
  • Facebook Expands Use of Face Recognition | Naked Security
  • Delta Airlines launches facial recognition at LAX | Courthouse News Service
• DMVs are selling your data to private investigators | Vice
• US border agents are seeking social-media data on international students | Chronicle of Higher Education
• Google, Big Tech Fail to Weaken California Data-Privacy Law | Bloomberg
• 51 major CEOs ask Congress for federal privacy law blocking state rules | The Hill
• Google hopes to protect users with open source differential privacy library | TechRepublic
• Is New York state about to gut its student data privacy? | Washington Post

Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.

Access

• Libraries want public to protest publisher’s e-book embargo | AP
• Why angry librarians are going to war with publishers over e-books | Slate
• Are Prison Law Libraries Falling Short On Access Goals? | Law 360
• Windows, not walls: Defending incarcerated peoples’ right to read | OIF Blog
• Making collaborative data project easier: Our new tool, Collaborate, is here | ProPublica
• Three free audio tools for building a bridge between school and home | School Library Journal

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

• What are the economic effects of municipal broadband? | Technology Policy Institute (research)
• “The cruel irony of the digital divide” in Colorado: Urban poor are left behind even as access, technology improves | Colorado Sun

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• Do conservative students face bias in the college classroom? Penn State prof and lifelong Republican says very little, if any | The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Avoiding conflict undermines academic freedom, risks First Amendment rights | The Hill

Fake News, Free Press, Social Media

• Facebook, Microsoft back contest to better detect deepfakes | Wired
• 16 Ways Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon Are in Government Cross Hairs | The New York Times
• Facebook News Tab curators told not to censor content about the company | Engadget
• Republican senators slam Facebook for ‘censorship’ of pro-life group as fact-checking group gets investigated | Fox News

First Amendment & Free Speech

• Viewpoint Neutrality Protects Both Drag Queens and Millions of American Christians | National Review
• Resignation of University of Alabama dean over tweets threatens free speech | PEN America
• Hillsborough upholds free speech as KKK rallies | Raleigh News & Observer (NC)
• NRA sues San Fransisco after Lawmakers declare it a terrorist organization | NPR
• First Amendment not just ‘office hours’ or whenever convenient | Freedom Forum Institute

Around the Web

• ‘Ulysses’ on trial | New York Review of Books
• Concerning consent, Chappelle, and cancelling cancel culture | Wired
• Suggested Reading Book review | OIF Blog
• Euphoria and the tyranny of ‘positive messages’ | OIF Blog
• Leak suggests UN agency self-censors on climate crisis after US pressure | The Guardian

International Issues

• STF overturns decision authorizing censorship of comic book showing gay kiss | The Rio Times
  • Two men kiss in a comic book, and a mayor orders a raid | New York Times
  • Brazil paper publishes gay kiss illustration in censorship row | The Guardian
  • Marvel artist calls for LGBTQ solidarity in Brazil after gay kiss row | The Guardian
• How the ‘suitable for all ages’ standard leads to censorship worldwide | Vice
• New internet regulations in Turkey stoke censorship fears | The Arab Weekly
• ‘Crazy and controversial: Why censorship laws permit offensive movies to be shown | The Sydney Herald
• Eritrea tops CPJ list of worst countries for press censorship | Aljazeera

ALA News

• ALA launches national campaign against e-book embargo
• Public Library Association launches 2020 health insurance enrollment project
• ALA announces National Library Legislative Day to be held in May 2020
• Introducing the Libraries Transform Book Pick 
• ALA and OverDrive collaborate to offer public libraries across the U.S. a new action-packed adventure for ‘digital book club’
• Carnegie-Whitney Grant awards $5000 for guides to library resources
• To be considered as a volunteer for the ALA, Council, and Joint committees for the 2020-2022 term, forms must be submitted no later than September 30, 2019.
• Nominate a superstar librarian for the I Love My Librarian award before Oct. 21, 2019.

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