Comments on: Celebrate "Banned" Books Week!

By: Onlooker

Onlooker — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:41:05 +0000

While what is said about ‘Banned Books’ being a misnomer is correct, the lack of perspective and elitist bias force me to pull away from taking this seriously.

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:43:38 +0000

I wish ALA would pay more attention to the actual challenges to intellectual freedom that exist today, such as resisting selling libraries’ souls part and parcel to corporate publishing. If it ain’t available through B & T, it doesn’t exist?

By: Mr Tadakichi

Mr Tadakichi — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:48:44 +0000

I’m with the AL on this one-c’mon, people, this is America. Rather than focus on a non-existent negative (so called Banned Books), why don’t we turn it around and make it an Exercise Your Freedom To Read Week? And then put out all the books that would offend people-the GBLT stuff, the suicide books, etc.
Mind you, accentuating the positive does look kind of Pollyannish, and it doesn’t get much media attention, but it would be a little closer to reality.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:40:29 +0000

Not sure what AL is for, just all the things he/she is against.

Not sure why AL is still a librarian since we are all such idiots.

By: ktlib

ktlib — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:07:44 +0000

Oh, thank you thank you thank you for articulating what I always thought in my heart of hearts but was afraid to say in the company of other librarians.

By: Auntie Nanuuq

Auntie Nanuuq — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:28:37 +0000

We now have jewelry for Banned Books Week:
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A necklace made of mini-book covers such as: “Go Ask Alice”, “Howl” & “Huckleberry Finn”.

Myself, I prefer diamonds, rubies, pearls, or emeralds.

By: 36dfp

36dfp — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:38:15 +0000

I laughed when I read about taking time off from gaming. I had just received an e-mail regarding National Gaming Day @ Your Library. And haven’t we had enough years of @ Your Library? I always wanted to do Find It Yourself @ Your Library.

By: West Bend Citizen Advocate

West Bend Citizen Advocate — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:02:03 +0000

This post truly made my day. Kudos! Just blogged it!

http://www.wissup.blogspot.com/2009/10/bogus-banned-books-week-bites.html

By: fthc7

fthc7 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:21:22 +0000

There’s no prohibition on corporate censorship, and that is increasingly what we will be dealing with.

See for example, The pirates and the mouse: Disney’s war against the counterculture (Fantagraphics, 2003), and, for foreign examples: The late age of print : everyday book culture from consumerism to control (Columbia University Press, 2009).

There was also the recent case called Amazon Fail, where GBLT books in Amazon’s database were masked from searches by any but title.

I think it’s fair to say that the definition of censorship as being wholly and only the work of governments does not quite match the current state of our government’s… separation of the public’s interest from its largest donors’.

By: Nadine

Nadine — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:38:42 +0000

Greatings, http://www.libraryjournal.com to GoogleReader!
Have a nice day
Nadine