Elbows Up! Preparing for a New Wave of Censorship
By Carol Koechlin, Anita Brooks Kirkland, and Diana Maliszewski After the past couple of years of repeated, organized book challenges, it is hard to imagine […]
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Censors Are Targeting Schools: Hardly New but Deeply Troubling
By James L. Turk and Toni Samek Over the past few years, Canadian public libraries have seen a dramatic upsurge in demands that books be […]
The Language of Censorship
By Anita Brooks Kirkland Over the past few years we have witnessed an alarming number of organized calls to remove books from public and school […]
A Book For Every Student
By Anita Brooks Kirkland, Carol Koechlin, and Diana Maliszewski A book for every student. This statement seems self-evident to teacher-librarians and all school library professionals. […]
Balance or Indoctrination: Developing and Defending Balanced School Library Collections
By Anita Brooks Kirkland Over the past couple of years I have been kept very busy responding to the crisis in book challenges sweeping across […]