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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Every year the American Library Association (hereafter the ALA) and many public, school, and other libraries, call attention to issues of censorship and freedom of information issues with Banned Books Week. And every year since 2005, I have made a series of posts during this week talking about some of these issues in my LiveJournal. [...]