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A five-person committee, consisting of librarians, teachers and early childhood professionals, nominates 25-35 books to be considered for the award.
And right now, librarians are taking on an old roleThey are defending the rights of readers and writers in the battles raging across the U.S. over censorship, book challenges and book bans.
At a board retreat held soon after Cummins started, the trustees and librarians arrived with very different priorities.
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/when-the-culture-wars-come-for-the-public-library
California’s approach doesn’t include funding to train teachers, an advisory committee, input from librarians, surveys or a way to monitor the law’s effectiveness.
Source: https://smdp.com/2023/11/10/recognizing-fake-news-now-a-required-subject-in-california-schools/
Eventually, the 'confrontational man' made his way into the library, where librarians called the police on him at around 12.30pm.
Have you met Martha Hickson, who was mentioned in The Times’ recent piece on librarians?
If Clean Up Alabama were to meet its goals, librarians would face up to a year in jail for having LGBTQ books on the.
“If they’re banning a book, how come the only people who know it are the librarians?”
Source: https://www.mcall.com/2023/05/14/pa-school-district-removal-gender-queer-this-book-is-gay/
I’m sure the librarians wouldn’t let a note like that hang on the door if it was fake, and they would be annoyed at anyone who did it.
Source: https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2023/04/06/april-fools-day-isnt-as-good-as-it-used-to-be/
In Arkansas, Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law, set to take effect this summer, that could impose criminal penalties on librarians who knowingly provide “harmful” materials to minors.
“I never thought as a member of this legislature, I'd be voting on a measure to put librarians in jail,” he said.
Instead, there have been reports of librarians covering their controversial books with paper.
Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/21/demagogue-rising/
Let’s send some librarians to jail, maybe a few doctors or nurse practitioners.
On behalf of one transphobic resident complaining to Mr. Moll, he disregarded the role of the public library and the knowledge and expertise of our librarians.
Source: https://www.courant.com/2023/04/09/readers-speak-post-pandemic-needs-are-all-too-real/
Perhaps all our citizens are not aware of the fact that Caribou is very fortunate in having one of the very best librarians in the state.
Source: https://thecounty.me/2023/08/17/from-our-files/caribou-area-from-our-files-week-of-august-16-2023/
Pritpal Singh, a member of the 1,158 assistant professors and librarians front, said that of these 2,353 positions, approximately 230 are occupied by part-time staff, and an additional 900 are filled by guest faculty.
Reports now abound of group members carrying out harassment campaigns in their communities, calling for librarians to be shot and making unfounded public accusations of child abuse and pedophilia against their perceived “.”
Source: https://thyblackman.com/2023/05/02/americans-time-to-fight-back-against-censorship/
Teachers and librarians are contemporary heroes, caught in the crossfire between challenges of books from the political left and the right.
Source: https://www.twincities.com/2023/01/29/literary-pick-for-week-of-jan-29/
The civil service is actually good … at hiring librarians to sort their info.
The draft included a list of “reputable, unbiased” sources that librarians should use when procuring new books.