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Interesting Reading: Censorship, Book Purges and Libraries in the Ukraine-Russia War

Posted By Darryl Eschete Feb 16, 2023 09:56 AM
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Kathleen McCook: Book Purges as Weapon of War Original Blog Post K. McCook Refers To RE: Censorship in Wartime Translated Interview With Ukrainian Book Institute Director Familiar sentiments: "As for Pushkin and Dostoevsky, beloved by our librarians and some readers, it should be ...

Interesting Read--Aryah Neier Thinkpiece on Guns as Speech

Posted By Darryl Eschete Jan 06, 2023 09:52 AM
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"The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the display of weapons during public protests. I have no idea how the Court will resolve that tension if and when it considers the issue. But regardless of any eventual legal outcome of this debate, the display of arms at a political rally or demonstration has ...

RE: Who is running the IFRT's Twitter feed?

Posted By Darryl Eschete Dec 09, 2022 09:52 AM
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I didn't mean to embarrass anybody, and I hope I didn't come across as a scold. I swear I was simply concerned that the two messages combined poorly and might make us-because I consider IFRT an "us"-- look like we were throwing small and rural libraries under some sort of bus or implying that rural or ...

RE: Who is running the IFRT's Twitter feed?

Posted By Darryl Eschete Dec 08, 2022 07:50 PM
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I don’t think it’s a big deal and I doubt anyone else would, either. Twitter is a platform that seems to make creating misunderstandings a feature rather than a bug. I think the explanations offered are sufficient. I would posit that Twitter-minders should keep in mind that feeds are “binged” on ...

Who is running the IFRT's Twitter feed?

Posted By Darryl Eschete Dec 08, 2022 12:40 PM
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In one Tweet they comment that "small and rural libraries" might provide an audience for Kirk Cameron RE: his book publicity stunt, and in another they tweet that Cameron's book is intolerance masquerading as love. Is the IFRT publicly implying that small and rural libraries are libraries where intolerance ...

RE: Disturbing development in Missouri

Posted By Darryl Eschete Oct 21, 2022 10:23 AM
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The only thing that would jump out at me is: "school/government officials do not have the right to decide what books are age-appropriate for other people's children." Which would then invite a line of questioning: If a school official (read: school librarian/curriculum specialist) doesn't have ...

RE: Disturbing development in Missouri

Posted By Darryl Eschete Oct 19, 2022 12:48 PM
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Right. But from a legal point of view, given past Court decisions, these people don't seem to think they need to  really define it. Roth v. US;  Miller v. Ca, etc.  https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/adrules/csr/current/15csr/15c30-200.pdf https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=573.010 ...

RE: Disturbing development in Missouri

Posted By Darryl Eschete Oct 19, 2022 09:14 AM
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"I have two observations to share, the first is that "age appropriate" is the essence of their claim and it is a value judgement. The value judgment of what is appropriate to a given "age" is a value judgement that presumes , for instance, that all children of "5 years of age" are  the same. There is ...

RE: Disturbing development in Missouri

Posted By Darryl Eschete Oct 18, 2022 11:53 AM
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This is going to be contagious. ------------------------------ Darryl Eschete Director West Des Moines Public Library ------------------------------

Researching Career Repercussions for Ethical Stances

Posted By Darryl Eschete Sep 29, 2022 10:11 AM
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Hi, fellow public librarians. I'm doing research for something I'm writing and hope to publish. I am a blogger for ALA-OIF, but this is NOT for the blog. In our polarized society, public libraries are being seen more and more as political footballs to be kicked through ideological goal posts in order ...

RE: Solidarity with Salman Rushdie

Posted By Darryl Eschete Sep 02, 2022 09:30 AM
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Mr. Blackwell: What fantastic news! In my mind, I think the pause between incident and statement could be a POSITIVE thing because, in an American news cycle jaded by regular violence, malice and mayhem, the ALA statement--if of sufficiently strong tone--could bring the issue back to mind and refresh ...

RE: Solidarity with Salman Rushdie

Posted By Darryl Eschete Sep 01, 2022 09:14 AM
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Twenty days ago, British-American author Salman Rushdie and bibliophile and author's event moderator Henry Reese were injured when a radicalized American jumped on stage and attempted to murder Rushdie, seeking to fulfill a long-standing religious death order placed on Rushdie due to the contents of ...

RE: Solidarity with Salman Rushdie

Posted By Darryl Eschete Aug 21, 2022 09:18 AM
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I agree. I think a general statement of our profession’s universal condemnation of censorship with a red-pen underscoring of our horror and disgust at ANY ideologically or religiously-inspired violence used to achieve intellectual repression or inspire fear would be well-timed and well-placed. This DID ...

RE: Solidarity with Salman Rushdie

Posted By Darryl Eschete Aug 19, 2022 11:43 AM
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I saw that the White House put out a statement of condemnation regarding this attack: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/13/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-attack-on-salman-rushdie/ As did the Nat'l Security Advisor: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-ro ...

RE: State IF chapter was asked about this...

Posted By Darryl Eschete May 09, 2022 09:59 AM
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The choices basically boil down to neutrality or varying degrees of fanaticism in just about every direction on just about every topic. From my observations over the last 22 years, those librarians who seem to be most deeply and even angrily against the very notion of neutrality are just as often vocal ...