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October 22, 2021 - Collated by OIF Staff and News Editor on the Intellectual Freedom Blog

Highlights

Freedom to Read Foundation Offers Scholarship for Course on Intellectual Freedom and Young Adults

Censorship

• Katy ISD 'caved to pressure' in returning books to library, petition organizer says | Houston Chronicle
• The Books Briefing: The Fight Over What Kids Can Read | The Atlantic
• Heather Cox Richardson on Carroll ISD Holocaust Comment | Letters from an American
• Campbell County Commissioners No Longer Allowing Comment on Public Library In Their Meetings | Cowboy State Daily
  • Campbell County officials abet bullies in battle of radicals v. librarians | WyoFile
• Library chief to move books in children's section | Jonesboro Sun
  • Day nominates Luster for library board | Jonesboro Sun
• Mask mandate, book ban, politics: Central York school board race hotly contested this year | York Daily Record
• Sarasota County Schools [FL] removes Black Lives Matter story from 5th Grade curriculum, citing Critical Race Theory | WTSP
• Watch now: Bloomington Public Library [IL] under fire by some parents for choice of books | Pantagraph
• Lawsuit alleges book banning related to new Oklahoma law | KFOR
• Why some North Hunterdon parents want certain LGBTQ books removed from the school library | My Central Jersey
• Tennessee librarians speak out against Chattanooga school board member's attempt to ban books | Tennessean
• Texas's Book Censorship Hysteria: An interview with Ashley Hope Pérez | Intellectual Freedom Blog
• Student Action Results in Decision by School Board to "Unfreeze" Anti-Racist Resources in Central York, PA | Intellectual Freedom Blog

Privacy & Cybersecurity

• Federal Regulators Clarify the Application of HIPAA Privacy and Nondiscrimination Rules to COVID-19 Vaccines in the Workplace | JDSupra
• China-linked hacking group accessing calling records worldwide, CrowdStrike says | KFGO
• Company that buys zero-day hacks now wants exploits for popular VPNs | PC Magazine

More privacy news is available at the Voices for Privacy blog.

First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties

• Teachers and civil rights groups sue over Oklahoma's ban on critical race theory | NPR
  • Is banning critical race theory in schools unconstitutional? Lawsuit in Oklahoma seeks to prove it. | USA Today
  • Oklahoma's anti-critical race theory law violates free speech rights, ACLU suit says | NBC News
• South Dakota ACLU says Dept. of Education may have violated federal and constitutional law | Keloland Media Group
• Officer's suit in protest injury goes to Louisiana court | Beaumont Enterprise / Associated Press

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• What I See in the Latest Blackface 'Scandal' | The New York Times
• University of Alabama faculty say laws targeting critical race theory are 'existential threat' | Alabama.com
• A Different Kind of Campus-Speaker Controversy | Chronicle of Higher Education

Social Media

• Vienna's museums turn to OnlyFans to promote lewd art | NBC News

Information Literacy & Disinformation

• GOP's Weyler pushing conspiracy theory about "creature with tentacles" in vax | NH Journal

International News

• Controversy in Spain's Castellon over withdrawl of LGBTI library books | Olive Press
• Saudi readers finally get to read banned books | Mint Lounge

Around the Web

• Happy Birthday, Nikki Grimes! | Intellectual Freedom Blog
• Jerry Pinkney, the beloved, award-winning children's book illustrator, has died at 81 | NPR
• The right-wing operatives orchestrating the attack on America's school boards | Popular Information
• Backlash over books about race, gender hits Texas schools | Dallas Morning News
• Texas schools are being told to teach 'opposing views' of the Holocaust. Why? | The Guardian
  • Texas Superintendent Apologizes After Official's Holocaust Remarks | The New York Times
  • Parents speak out at Carroll ISD meeting after teachers reportedly asked to share 'opposing perspective' about Holocaust | WFAA
  • Jewish Southlake residents on Holocaust remark: 'There are not two sides' | NBC News
• School Masks Are Now a "Satanic Ritual," According to Parents Suing a Local School District | Philadelphia Magazine
• Librarians to the Defense | Progressive Magazine
• 'Moms for Liberty' Group Sets Sights on Local Government | Route Fifty
  • Moms for Liberty has turned 'parental rights' into a rallying cry for conservative parents | The Washington Post
• Amid a Labor Shortage, Companies Are Eliminating Drug Tests. It's a Trend That Could Create More Equitable Workplaces | Time
• Mequon-Thiensville school board recall could spark other recalls nationwide | WISN
• Community discusses EPL's use of racist imagery and books | Daily Northwestern

ALA News

• ALA announces Spectrum Doctoral Fellowship Program and informational session

Awards & Grant

• Dr. Gregory Leazer Awarded ALSC Research Agenda Pilot Grant
• SRRT seeks nominations for Herb Biblo Outstanding Leadership Award for Social Justice and Equality
• Nominees sought for 2022 Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Author/Illustrator Award for Lifetime Achievement
• Longlist for 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction announced

eLearning

• United for Libraries' Nov. 9 Learning Live session to explore virtual and hybrid fundraising
• Everything You Need to Know About Interlibrary Loan

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Publishing

• Disaster planning and preparedness for libraries

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