Tag: To Kill a Mockingbird
Teach the Talk, Don’t Ban the Book
Intellectual freedom advocates need to do our part to reject the sensationalization of censorship. It’s not enough to lament the restriction of a book on social media or grumble about schools’ decisions. We need to discuss the central issue: teaching students to talk about controversial issues in and through literature.
Intellectual Freedom News 11/3/17
OIF Blogging Opportunities for 2018, 50 Years of Intellectual Freedom and a new webinar, Privacy to Pornography: What Staff Need to Know about Intellectual Freedom
Intellectual Freedom News 10/27/17
Permission slips for To Kill a Mockingbird in Biloxi, When can private entities censor speech? Securing Patron Privacy, an upcoming ALCTS webinar
Banned in Biloxi: What Can You Do to Save ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’?
Since its publication in 1960, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird has been challenged and banned in schools and libraries all over the country. What can you do to help the students of Biloxi Public Schools?
Intellectual Freedom News 10/13/2017
New Issue of the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy;
Oakland Public Library takes action against Islamophobia;
Overdue fees: Barriers to access in school libraries
Intellectual Freedom 12/2/16
December 2nd, 2016 – Information about the new webinar on Student Rights, Protests and Free Speech; the unanimous decision to retain The Perks of Being a Wallflower at the Dubuque High School; and challenges to The God of Small Things, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.