[Libs-Or] Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions: Intellectual Freedom News, August 2017

[Lisa TAYLOR]

*Multnomah County Library Intellectual Freedom Committee*

Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions: Intellectual Freedom News
*August 2017*



Banned Books Week

Celebrate Banned Books Week (September 24th - 30th) with ALA’s #Rebel
Reader: R <http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/bannedbooksweek/rebelreader>ebel
Reader Twitter Tournament
<http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/bannedbooksweek/rebelreader> American
Library Association

Censorship

Operation Pull Teen Vogue is underway
<http://www.activistmom.com/video/operation-pull-teen-vogue-is-underway/>.
Blogger Activist Mommy created a video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Z5xC8rpQw> which subsequently went viral
focusing on the Teen Vogue article, Anal Sex: What You Need to Know
<http://www.teenvogue.com/story/anal-sex-what-you-need-to-know>.  The
online article did not appear in the subscription-based print and digital Teen
Vogue magazine. This month several Oregon libraries experienced challenges
to Teen Vogue as part of this nationwide campaign.



West Chicago Public Library denies request to remove gay pride book
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-gay-pride-childrens-book-west-chicago-library-met-20170829-story.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=c4d9461848-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-c4d9461848-305311781>
Chicago Tribune

Kindergarten parents object to transgender book read in class
<http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article169365057.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=c4d9461848-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-c4d9461848-305311781>
Sacramento Bee


New Florida Law lets residents challenge school textbooks
<http://www.npr.org/2017/07/31/540041860/new-florida-law-lets-residents-challenge-school-textbooks>
NPR


Apple removes apps from China store that help Internet users evade
censorship
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html>
New York Times

Oregon Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom 2017 Annual Report
<http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/projects/OIFC/2017.oifc.annual.report.pdf> Oregon
Library Association

First Amendment

Attorney calls for greater consideration of context by ACLU in First
Amendment advocacy
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/opinion/aclu-first-amendment-trump-charlottesville.html>
New York Times

Privacy

DOJ demands files on anti-Trump activists, and a web hosting company resists
<http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/15/543782396/doj-demands-files-on-anti-trump-activists-and-a-web-hosting-company-resists>
NPR

Follow up to above, Justice Department narrows request for visitor logs to
inauguration protest website
<http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/23/545515159/justice-department-narrows-request-for-visitor-logs-to-inauguration-protest-webs>
NPR

Diversity

Federal Judge finds racism behind Arizona law banning ethnic studies
<http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/08/22/545402866/federal-judge-finds-racism-behind-arizona-law-banning-ethnic-studies>
NPR

Beyond bilingual storytime: Making storytime inviting to all English
Language Learners
<http://www.slj.com/2017/07/standards/early-learning/beyond-bilingual-making-storytime-inviting-to-all-english-language-learners/>
School
Library Journal


Children’s books missed these immigrant stories, so students wrote them
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/nyregion/childrens-books-missed-these-immigrant-stories-so-students-wrote-them.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=3d2e107eb8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-3d2e107eb8-305311781>
New
York Times

At San Diego Comic-Con: Diversity in content and consumers is key
<https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/74373-at-san-diego-comic-con-diversity-in-content-and-consumers-is-key.html>
 Publishers Weekly

Children’s authors take on the refugee crisis
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/books/refugee-crisis-childrens-books.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=3defcda0d9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-3defcda0d9-305311781>
New York Times

Pepe the Frog cartoonist stops distribution of children’s book
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/books/pepe-the-frog-cartoonist-childrens-book.html?_r=0&utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=9f20592920-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-9f20592920-305311781>
New York Times

Access

Labeling books by reading level disempowers young readers
<http://www.slj.com/2017/08/feature-articles/thinking-outside-the-bin-why-labeling-books-by-reading-level-disempowers-young-readers/>
School
Library Journal

TLA Disaster Relief Fund <https://squareup.com/store/txla> -  donations
will go to libraries impacted by Hurricane Harvey Texas Library Association

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*Lisa Taylor*
Library Assistant
Multnomah County Library
Sellwood Branch
My schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Sunday
https://multcolib.org
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