Virginia Library Association » Censorship http://www.vla.org Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:25:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Censorship in Modern Times http://www.vla.org/2008/09/29/censorship-in-modern-times/ http://www.vla.org/2008/09/29/censorship-in-modern-times/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:04:42 +0000 shelm http://vla.org/blog/?p=431 Since 1982, the American Library Association has sponsored Banned Books Week to pay tribute to free speech and open libraries. The tradition began as a nod to how far society has come since 1557, when Pope Paul IV first established The Index of Prohibited Books to protect Catholics from controversial ideas. Four-hundred and nine years later, Pope [...]]]> Since 1982, the American Library Association has sponsored Banned Books Week to pay tribute to free speech and open libraries. The tradition began as a nod to how far society has come since 1557, when Pope Paul IV first established The Index of Prohibited Books to protect Catholics from controversial ideas. Four-hundred and nine years later, Pope Paul VI would abolish it, although attempts at censorship still remain. Here, TIME presents some of the most challenged books of all time.

  • Candide, Voltaire
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  • The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
  • Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov
  • I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
  • The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell
  • The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
  • Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling

Read entire article in TIme.

]]> http://www.vla.org/2008/09/29/censorship-in-modern-times/feed/ 0 Time says Sarah Palin tried to ban books, threatened AK librarian. http://www.vla.org/2008/09/02/time-says-sarah-palin-tried-to-ban-books-threatened-ak-librarian/ http://www.vla.org/2008/09/02/time-says-sarah-palin-tried-to-ban-books-threatened-ak-librarian/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:44:00 +0000 shelm http://vla.org/blog/?p=388 I try to keep “who to vote for” politics pretty well off of this blog and prefer to discuss politics in general and better and worse strategies for promoting libraries in whatever political climate we happen to be in. People acutely interested in high level politics in the US who also work in libraries may [...]]]> I try to keep “who to vote for” politics pretty well off of this blog and prefer to discuss politics in general and better and worse strategies for promoting libraries in whatever political climate we happen to be in. People acutely interested in high level politics in the US who also work in libraries may be interested in this Time magazine article about Sarah Palin. I was very interested in this paragraph.

Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving “full support” to the mayor.

Usually I’m just happy to see libraries even mentioned in national level politics, but not like this. Mary Ellen Baker resigned from her library director job in 1999.

Reposted from http://www.librarian.net/stax/2366/sarah-palin-vp-nominee/

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