15 Movies Based on Banned Books
The Huffington Post has a nice collection of 15 famous movies (including clips) based on banned books. The collection has put together in collaboration with the ALA and Banned Books...
Tag: Censorship
Apr
20
2010
Government Requests tool
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Google has just announced the launched the Government Request tool. This tools offers people “information about the requests for user data or content removal [Google] receive from government agencies around...
Apr
07
2010
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
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Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is one of those books I always heard about, but hadn’t actually read, so I finally...
Nov
14
2009
“Child protection or censorship”; I say it’s censorship
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My friend found this article and started a great conversation. The article explains the story of two women (Sharon Cook, and Beth Boisvert) who work at a public library in...
Aug
27
2009
Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2009
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My friend Lars just found this great map that plots all the challenges against books that took place in the USA between 2007 and 2009. Information to create this map...
Apr
05
2008
“Abortion” Taken Out of Publicly Funded Database
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In the last couple of days it has come to light that the term “abortion” had been taken out of Popline, a publicly funded health database managed by John Hopkins...
Mar
14
2008
Guatemala to Open War Archives
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Back in late February Álvaro Colom (official website), Guatemala’s president announced that he would be opening the country’s military archives to the public. The announcement was made in honor of...
Sep
20
2007
Refusing to Return Library Books
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Just a couple of days ago Boston.com ran an article about a woman in Maine who has decided that certain books are not adequate for the library and has taken...
Sep
16
2007
Standardized Library Chapel Project
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Recently the Bureau of Prisons decided that material being housed in prison chapel libraries has been inciting more violence and disorder than it was fomenting good will, and has begun...