Via the great Gwyneth Jones (aka The Daring Librarian), whose post on where this image came from you should read in full ASAP.
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So…one of my jobs is working as the library liaison with an early literacy field trip for pre-k to second grade students at the children’s museum. The story we’re reading this semester is “Goggles,” by Ezra Jack Keats - hence the goggles on my hat. The rest of my outfit is just what I happen to be wearing today. The museum staff wear red shirts, with the museum’s logo on the front. Today, I had the following conversation with a first grade student.
Kid: Hey, you look like a witch!
Me: Uh…okay?
Kid: Why aren’t you wearing a red shirt?
Me: Well, I don’t actually work for the museum. I work at the library.
Kid: Oh, that must be why you look like a witch!
Er…what are they teaching kids these days about libraries and librarians?
Do you remember SOPA? The bill that would give government the right to spy on internet activity without warrant, and let them censor “unwanted” sites by blocking people’s access to them?
Meet its twin. But this time it’s all the more frightening; the House has passed it despite Obama’s threats to veto. And by an alarmingly large margin, at that. CISPA threatens the US constitution’s guarantees of due privacy and free speech, permitting any government agency to access and transfer of vast amounts of data- from internet records to even the content of personal e-mails, and all without obtaining a warrant.
What’s even more disgusting than this bill actually making through the House is some of the arguments used to help it’s passage, and comments made by one of the bill’s biggest supporters admitting the bill helps big business while insulting opposers (whose is also speculated to have personal reasons for wanting CISPA made into law).
This threatens every element of your online presence. From personal emails to general activity, any government agency will have the ability to go fishing without consequence.
Please, PLEASE, sign the following petitions. You don’t even have to be a US citizen to sign most of them or act against CISPA, and please keep in mind that if this shit flies in America, who knows what country might use its example to do it, too.
Petition: Avaaz: Save the Internet from the US
(you don’t have to be a US citizen to sign this)Petition: Sites Not Spies
(you don’t have to be a US citizen to sign this)Petition: CISPA is Back: Write Congress
Petition: Tell Mike Rogers more that 14-year-olds oppose CISPA
(you don’t have to be a US citizen to sign this)Twitter: Tweet @RepMikeRogers with your age
Twitter: Tweet @BarackObama and tell him to veto CISPA
Twitter: Tweet reps like @RepDelBene, @GovHankJohnson, @KeithEllison and @GovGaryJohnson and thanks them for acting against CISPA. Look for other reps that have spoken against it, and thank them.Call your reps: and tell them you strongly oppose the bill. You can look up your reps using the form on the lower portion of this page.
Resource: Fight for the Future
Reblog: This and other posts like it to raise awareness of this threat to internet freedom and privacy.
I will be posting more petitions and resources as I become aware of them.
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Happy National Library Week! - Melvil Dewey
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I am not a huge Dewey fan but I will give credit where credit is due and reblog this one.
How do we help our users identify trustworthy scholarly content?
But some researchers are now raising the alarm about what they see as the proliferation of online journals that will print seemingly anything for a fee. They warn that nonexperts doing online research will have trouble distinguishing credible research from junk….
This. If ever the importance of information literacy was doubted, this is a perfect example of why it is an essential skill for our students.
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The Mummy
Who organizes a library alphabetically? Well, other than that, I like Evie.
Pre-Dewey libraries might have been organized alphabetically.
ALA’s Top Ten Challenged Books [2012]:
- Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey.
Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie.
Reasons: Offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group- Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher.
Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, suicide, unsuited for age group- Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James.
Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit- And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson.
Reasons: Homosexuality, unsuited for age group- The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.
Reasons: Homosexuality*, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit- Looking for Alaska, by John Green.
Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group- Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
Reasons: Unsuited for age group, violence- The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls
Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit- Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Reasons: Sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence*Funny. I don’t remember “homosexuality” being a theme in The Kite Runner. Oh wait, that’s because it was rape.
In any case, as Hermione Granger once pointed out, banning/challenging something is certainly one way of ensuring people’s interest in said thing. So, congratulations to all the writers!
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