[Libs-Or] IFC sharing PDSAL Book Resumes

[Intellectual Freedom Committee]

Hi all,
I want to share an updated resource for you all, provided to you from
Parents Defending School and Libraries.  Please see below:

Book challengers and banners like to use shock tactics to get their way.
Pulling an isolated scene out of context, flashing a single panel from a
graphic novel or even just highlighting a single passage are often the
swiftest, surest way to get a book removed. Most of these people readily
admit that they have never read the book they find so offensive and
dangerous. It was on a list of bad books they saw on the internet and
that’s good enough for them. Consideration of the book as a whole is not in
their playbook. People who object to book bans can be hard pressed to know
how to respond to these inflammatory objections.

Parents Defending Schools and Libraries now provides wholistic information
on book titles. In partnership with the Virginia Library Association
<https://www.vla.org/> and the New Jersey Association of School Librarians
<https://www.njasl.org/>, the PDSAL <http://pdsal.org/> website now hosts
book resumes for many of the most challenged books in America. The book
resumes feature plot summaries, reviews from authoritative sources, awards
and honors received, and responses to challenges. While reading a book in
its entirety is always the best way to form an opinion, these book resumes
provide a broader perspective on a work that can inform a response to a
challenge.

Currently, PDSAL.org <https://www.pdsal.org/book_resumes> hosts 64
individual book resumes developed by professional librarians. New resumes
are added continually. These are freely available to anyone. If you are
facing a book challenge, please let us know and use these resources to
respond. We can alert other concerned parents in your area and support your
efforts to defend the right to read.
To add to this list, please feel free to contact PDSAL with additional
resumes to add.

Thanks all,
IFC and PDSAL
-- 
Chair - ifc.chair at olaweb.org
Intellectual Freedom Committee https://www.olaweb.org/if-home
Oregon Library Association https://www.olaweb.org/
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