Love love love this piece of Iowa City Public Library and #IntellectualFreedom history.
#FreePeopleReadFreely 📚 🔥 💜 #Freadom
GLAAD and EveryLibrary have created a guide to help people fight back against book bans, which have skyrocketed in recent years.
advocate.com/books/book-ban…
#bookbans #bookcensorship #intellectualfreedom #protectourlibraries #glaad #everylibrary #lgbtq #censorship
Thank you EveryLibrary for Fight for the First - a portal to help #IntellectualFreedom advocates organize local and national #FirstAmendment campaigns to #StopCensorship and support the #FreedomToRead #Freadom #UniteAgainstBookBans #aasl fightforthefirst.org
Exciting news! 📢 Illinois Library Association welcomes Dr. Emily Knox, iSchool at Illinois professor and #IntellectualFreedom author to speak at the ILA Conference Opening Keynote! Thank you to our sponsor, TBS! Registration opens July 1.
Dr. Emily Knox TBS Inc. #ILAAC23 ila.org/conference
The NCTE #ThisStoryMatters book rationale database has some new titles up on the site. I'm honored & humbled to be a small part of this endeavor. #IntellectualFreedom matters. The right & freedom to read matters.
Check out the Parable of the Sower rationale if you can. 💜
#schoollibrarians ! I hope you will attend these #IFRT events at #ALAAC23 . When we unite for #IntellectualFreedom our influence extends from our own libraries and schools out into the larger world of information and ideas. See you there! #aasl #UniteAgainstBooksBans #FReadom
Ron DeSantis 1/ I agree totally w/ expanding music ed, but your ideal of well rounded educ has a gap! Your #BookBan takes away a child's & parents voice & #IntellectualFreedom . All people need access to books from which they can learn about & understand diff perspectives, ... PLA
Are you a library worker focused on preserving #IntellectualFreedom ? Check out this handy guide to presentations that support your value for 'Prioritizing Intellectual Freedom & Privacy: Your Itinerary for #ALAAC23 .' #IFRT #FreedomToRead #FReadom oif.ala.org/prioritizing-i…
Don't close windows. Allow young readers to have an accurate view of the world.
#booklover #intellectualfreedom
Congratulations to our #CCALMS advocacy chair Erin Baker!! 🎉🎉 #GLMA #IntellectualFreedom
Hoping people in states who are seeing #BookBanning will speak out! Stand up for #IntellectualFreedom ! GOP American Library Association SchoolLibraryJournal UniteAgainstBookBans PLA
Check out data on what American's want! ala.org/advocacy/voter…
Welcome Amanda Jones: Defender of Libraries & Wonder , a fierce defender of intellectual freedom! 📚 As a librarian, she knows how to 'check out' censorship and 'shush' those who try to restrict access to information. Join us for her insights on the importance of free expression! #IntellectualFreedom #NHSLMA 🗣️💻📖
Are you attending #ALAAC23 in Chicago? #IFRT members and anyone interested in #IntellectualFreedom can attend the events listed on this image. Looking forward to getting together with others who share our values and commitment ALA OIF #FreedomToRead Foundation #UniteAgainstBooksBans
I'm so proud to know these astounding and brave and tireless humans! Carolyn Foote and Becky Calzada!
#UniteAgainstBookBans #Freadom Texas Library Assn. #IntellectualFreedom
Or if you want to hear more of my thoughts on this scandulous, trumped up foolishness, then by all means,
Read more 👉 lttr.ai/ACkiD
#library #banned books #books #banned #literacy #escaperoom #TeenagerSelect #IntellectualFreedom #GoogleForms #DigitalEscapeRoom
Havidán Rodríguez Chancellor John B. King A big-monied corporate polluter keeps losing to science & truth so they attack the speaker. In the one place where #integrity #intellectualfreedom should stand firm. And you help them? Assemblymember Patricia Fahy Governor Kathy Hochul what is happening at SUNY???
The GOP-approved school library:
#FreedomToRead #IntellectualFreedom #Censorship #WhiteFragility #WhiteSupremacy #Racism #SchoolLibraries #Libraries
79 years ago today, Americans were landing in Normandy because fascism had been allowed to spread unchecked in Europe.
But the Nazis didn't start with humans.
They started with books.
#censorship #fReadom #libraries #stopthemadness
Exactly. It is our jobs as public librarians to protect books, authors, and especially readers from censors who want to restrict #intellectualfreedom . It is everyone's right to write and read whatever they like, even if their opinions are unpopular. #UniteAgainstBookBans
Incredible resources available from ALA Editions | ALA Neal-Schuman. Love this graphic! #LibLearnX23 #ALA #righttoeducation #intellectualfreedom #RighttoInformation #book
Monsanto petitions to look further into Dr. David Carpenter’s research funding spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny…. Monsanto set the trap and SUNY Government Relations walked into it. This must be reversed
#schoollibrarians Are you attending #ALAAC23 in Chicago later this month? Check out this guide to #IntellectualFreedom sessions. Join w/colleagues from all types of #libraries to discuss ways to help you meet the challenges and #UniteAgainstBookBans #IFRT #FReadom #FreedomToRead
Banned Comic Book List
Read the full article: Banned Books Week Sept 18-24th!
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#library #banned books #books #banned #literacy #escaperoom #TeenagerSelect #IntellectualFreedom #GoogleForms #DigitalEscapeRoom
We are honored & amazed to be asked to represent FReadom in People Magazine’s feature this month as Women Who Change the World! Thank you People for recognizing this effort to fight censorship that so many of us are engaged in! Becky Calzada Carolyn Foote people.com/human-interest…