I just made a post elsewhere online I wanted to share here. I’d talked about how we’d lost a lot, as a culture, when we had mass-accessible written material (sometime after the printing press: I tend to think it’s around 1600-1650, when you start getting lots more broadsheets and other materials that are inexpensive enough that . . . → Read More: On what we’ve lost, and what we’ve gained
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As I wrap up my spring break this week, I did manage to get some writing done. A lot of it is focused on coven materials (and I’ll be doing more of that tonight!) but I did also manage to write up something I’ve been meaning to do for a while: a guide to asking better . . . → Read More: New page.. Wow! I notice that Chris Crutcher has linked here with glowing compliments. Thanks! (And for folks not familiar with him, check out some of his letters to people about censorship issues here.) For folks who might be new over here, I go by Jenett online. I’m a librarian in Minnesota, and I think knowledge is power. This . . . → Read More: Banned Books Week Four: Part of my continuing series of posts on Banned Books Week, which calls attention to information access, censorship, and other related issues. Today, I want to talk about context – in two different ways. One is about what the resource is used for, and the other is what the resource is about. Use: I’ve been seeing a trend in . . . → Read More: Banned Books Week 3: Context I knew, as soon as I started seeing media reports about this, that I wanted to spend at least a little time this year talking about the Sarah Palin censorship related issues – and some other stuff that’s related. The myth: As many of you may have seen, there’s been emails flying around about how Sarah Palin tried . . . → Read More: Banned Books Week 2: Politics and challenges |
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