Libraries Win Second Round against National Security Letters “I’m grateful that I am able now to talk about what happened to me, so that other libraries can learn how they can fight back from these overreaching demands,” Internet Archive founder and digital librarian Brewster Kahle stated May 7, two days after records were unsealed documenting [...]
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CHICAGO – For a second consecutive year, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell’s award-winning “And Tango Makes Three,” a children’s book about two male penguins caring for an orphaned egg, tops the list of American Library Association’s (ALA) 10 Most Challenged Books of 2007. Three books are new to the list “Olive’s Ocean,” by Kevin Henkes; [...] The controversial And Tango Makes Three returned to the general circulation shelves in the 16 elementary schools of Loudoun County (Va.) Public Schools March 3. That day, Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick declared the challenge that led to the book being relocated to areas accessible only by parents and teachers to be invalid because the person [...] And Tango Makes Three, an award-winning but controversial children’s book by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson about two male penguins hatching and parenting a baby chick, made more headlines in February when Loudoun County (Va.) Public Schools Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick III decided to move the book from the public shelves of 16 elementary schools [...] An award-winning children’s book was recently removed from general circulation at Loudoun County public elementary school libraries. “And Tango Makes Three” by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson is based on the true story of two male penguins who took turns sitting on an orphaned egg at theCentral Park Zoo. In [...] The juvenile section at Collier County public libraries will be a little bare until early next week after library officials pulled 28 books from the Magic Attic series off the shelves Thursday. The move followed a news report this week out of Hillsborough County that a Tampa mother called a phone number listed in the [...] After a challenge and three appeals, the York County (Va.) School Board has chosen to keep Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other Short Stories in the library at Magruder Elementary School in Williamsburg despite claims that it is offensive to children with loved ones serving in the military and inappropriate for elementary school students. [...] A Pakistani man charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists claims that the FBI obtained evidence against him illegally when an agent went into the Chestatee Regional Library in Dawsonville, Georgia, to record his activities at a library computer on March 21, 2006, two days before his arrest. Jack Martin, an attorney for [...] A provision of the USA Patriot Act allowing the FBI to issue National Security Letters (NSLs) without court approval was deemed by a federal judge September 6 to violate the First Amendment. NSLs, which have been used to demand private information from libraries, telephone companies, internet service providers, and other data-gathering bodies, have been under [...] Forbidden Library offers a complete alphabetical list and details are excerpts taken from the Banned Books Resource Guide by the American Library Association, and the Ready Reference Censorship book. This site features books some people consider “dangerous.” Learn what people find offensive about: Fahrenheit 451 – expurgated copies used in class…a book on [...] |
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