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Freedom Libraries

Author : Mike Selby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538115549
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Libraries written by Mike Selby and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the world images of horrific racial violence. And while some of the bravest people of the 20th century risked their lives for the right to simply order a cheeseburger, ride a bus, or use a clean water fountain, there was another virtually unheard of struggle—this one for the right to read. Although illegal, racial segregation was strictly enforced in a number of American states, and public libraries were not immune. Numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only: there would be no cards given to African-Americans, no books for them read, and no furniture for them to use. It was these exact conditions that helped create Freedom Libraries. Over eighty of these parallel libraries appeared in the Deep South, staffed by civil rights voter registration workers. While the grassroots nature of the libraries meant they varied in size and quality, all of them created the first encounter many African-Americans had with a library. Terror, bombings, and eventually murder would be visited on the Freedom Libraries—with people giving up their lives so others could read a library book. This book delves into how these libraries were the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, and the remarkable courage of the people who used them. They would forever change libraries and librarianship, even as they helped the greater movement change the society these libraries belonged to. Photographs of the libraries bring this little-known part of American history to life.

The Freedom to Read

Author : American Library Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Freedom to Read written by American Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of ALA Policy on Intellectual Freedom

Author : Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF)
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838913253
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book A History of ALA Policy on Intellectual Freedom written by Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting several key documents and policy statements, this supplement to the ninth edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual traces a history of ALA’s commitment to fighting censorship. An introductory essay by Judith Krug and Candace Morgan, updated by OIF Director Barbara Jones, sketches out an overview of ALA policy on intellectual freedom. An important resource, this volume includes documents which discuss such foundational issues as The Library Bill of RightsProtecting the freedom to readALA’s Code of EthicsHow to respond to challenges and concerns about library resourcesMinors and internet activityMeeting rooms, bulletin boards, and exhibitsCopyrightPrivacy, including the retention of library usage records

Beyond Banned Books

Author : Kristin Pekoll
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838918891
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Banned Books written by Kristin Pekoll and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource from Pekoll, Assistant Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), uses specific case studies to offer practical guidance on safeguarding intellectual freedom related to library displays, programming, and other librarian-created content.

The Black Poets

Author : Dudley Randall
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553275631
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Black Poets written by Dudley Randall and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1985-04-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black poetry, but it presents most poets in depths, and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked before. Gwendolyn Brooks is represented not only by poems on racial and domestic themes, but is revealed as a writer of superb love lyrics. Tuming away from White models and retuming to their roots has freed Black poets to create a new poetry. This book records their progress."--from the Introduction by Dudley Randall

The Limits of Tolerance

Author : Ann Curry
Publisher : Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Tolerance written by Ann Curry and published by Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The library controls access to information by the very act of selecting materials, and must, therefore, deal with censorship on a basic level. The author has surveyed a response group of practicing librarians with questions that target some of the toughest questions librarians ever face. Curry's analysis focuses on the factors--personal beliefs, professional ethics, political pressures--that influence responses.

Not Free, Not for All

Author : Cheryl Knott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625341778
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Not Free, Not for All written by Cheryl Knott and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Questions of Access -- 1. The Culture of Print in a Context of Racism -- 2. Carnegie Public Libraries for African Americans -- 3. Solidifying Segregation -- 4. Faltering Systems -- 5. Change and Continuity -- 6. Erecting Libraries, Constructing Race -- 7. Books for Black Readers -- 8. Reading the Race-Based Library -- 9. Opening Access -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover

Intellectual Freedom Issues in School Libraries

Author : April M. Dawkins
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 1440872368
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Freedom Issues in School Libraries written by April M. Dawkins and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite censorship, fake news, and fear, school librarians champion every student's right to know"--

Intellectual Freedom Manual

Author : Office for Intellectual Freedom
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838913377
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Freedom Manual written by Office for Intellectual Freedom and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This must-have tool will help librarians ensure that institutions of all kinds remain beacons of intellectual freedom.

The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South

Author : Shirley A. Wiegand
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807168696
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South by : Shirley A. Wiegand

Download or read book The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South written by Shirley A. Wiegand and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South, Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members to take part in organized protests and direct actions ensured that local libraries would become genuinely free to all citizens. The Wiegands trace the struggle for equal access to the years before the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, when black activists in the South focused their efforts on equalizing accommodations, rather than on the more daunting—and dangerous—task of undoing segregation. After the ruling, momentum for vigorously pursuing equality grew, and black organizations shifted to more direct challenges to the system, including public library sit-ins and lawsuits against library systems. Although local groups often took direction from larger civil rights organizations, the energy, courage, and determination of younger black community members ensured the eventual desegregation of Jim Crow public libraries. The Wiegands examine the library desegregation movement in several southern cities and states, revealing the ways that individual communities negotiated—mostly peacefully, sometimes violently—the integration of local public libraries. This study adds a new chapter to the history of civil rights activism in the mid-twentieth century and celebrates the resolve of community activists as it weaves the account of racial discrimination in public libraries through the national narrative of the civil rights movement.

Freedom for Publishing, Publishing for Freedom

Author : Timothy Garton Ash
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633865689
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Freedom for Publishing, Publishing for Freedom written by Timothy Garton Ash and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an assessment of the Central and East European Publishing Project, an initiative designed to support embattled Central and East European publishers and journals, and to punch holes through the cultural Iron Curtain by encouraging translations. The nine years of its existence straddle the largest watershed in European history since 1945, and the Project's history - told here by some of its leading participants - illuminates the nature of the recent changes in Central and Eastern Europe.

Protecting Intellectual Freedom in Your School Library

Author : Pat R. Scales
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838935818
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Protecting Intellectual Freedom in Your School Library written by Pat R. Scales and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains scenarios that offer school librarians an overview of the intellectual freedom issues they may face and includes advice on how to handle them and interact with library patrons, covering materials selection, management, programs, access, labeling, privacy, and the Internet.

The Age of Choice

Author : Sophia Rosenfeld
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691164711
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Choice written by Sophia Rosenfeld and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2025-02-04 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today choice is often taken to be a synonym for freedom. In much of the world, but especially in the United States, having both more occasions to make choices and more options to choose from are familiar political, personal, and economic goals. We are urged to consider our preferences and then to select from menus of options covering almost every element of our lives, including what to buy, where to live, whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to believe. We like to think that when we determine our preferences among them, we are engaged in the business of self-realization. And yet, everybody from marketing gurus to psychologists to philosophers has also been warning us about the many negative consequences stemming from our obsession with individualized choice-making. Not only are we not very good at realizing our personal desires, but we are also overwhelmed with too many possibilities, anxious about what best to pick and seemingly unable to muster the same enthusiasm for collective decision making as we do for choices about ourselves. Further, our relentless focus on the responsibility for making good ones has stigmatized those without many options, mainly the poor. How did this happen? Drawing on sources as varied as novels, questionnaires, and restaurant menus, The Choice is Yours tells the long history of the invention of choice as the modern form of freedom. Sophia Rosenfeld pays particular attention to women and the halting emergence of feminism in order to demonstrate how choice was, from the start, stigmatized and turned into a horizon for liberty. Thus, this is also a story about constraints, from formal laws to social customs, that have always worked to limit choice-who gets to do it, when and how they do so, what the choices are-in ways that are often invisible and yet central to the role that choice plays in the modern world. Rosenfeld begins in the early modern Western world, with the contemporaneous invention of shopping as an activity focused on the selection of goods and of religious freedom, in addition to freedom of expression as a matter of being able to pick one's convictions. Moving into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, she explores choice in romantic life, choice in politics, and sciences of choice. She takes up the work of contemporary psychologists, economists, and other theorists and offers a new perspective on how to think about choice now-based on a new reading of the past. An epilogue centers on the rise of reproductive choice and its consequences since the 1970s. Ultimately, The Choice is Yours is an argument for the necessity of rethinking the meaning of choice today, including its promise and its limitations, within the contours of modern liberalism"--

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Current Practices in Public Libraries

Author : William Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317965337
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Current Practices in Public Libraries written by William Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at contemporary trends and practices in public libraries Current Practices in Public Libraries combines research, surveys, and practical experience to examine a variety of trends, issues, and practices in public library administration. The leading researchers in the field explore vital contemporary topics ranging from literacy instruction and advocacy to ethical concerns in the acquisition of foreign language materials. This practical professional guide presents examples of successful programs at individual libraries as well as results of comprehensive national surveys about funding, computers and Internet access, and branch closures. Current Practices in Public Libraries presents an extensive look at advocacy, ethics, multicultural outreach, literacy training, marketing, and mentoring in today’s public libraries. This comprehensive resource examines a wide range of issues, including public library funding; contributing factors to the quality of public access computing and Internet services; the impact of public library closures; recent human rights violations in U.S. public libraries; supporting local small business development; how multiculturalism and automation can affect collection development and technical services; new leadership models; the use of marketing and advocacy to build and sustain support for public libraries; promoting family learning activities; and the case for small, independent libraries. Current Practices in Public Libraries explores: library funding library expenditures budget shortfalls fiscal planning Internet access and connectivity library siting library Bill of Rights entrepreneurs customization of library services targeted services acquisitions collection development and management outsourcing state library agencies and associations federal library programs and legislation government relations information literacy tutoring and much more Current Practices in Public Libraries is an essential resource for librarians and library administrators working in public and academic settings, and for library sciences faculty and students.

Information Services Today

Author : Sandra Hirsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144223959X
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Information Services Today written by Sandra Hirsh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential overview of what it means to be a library and information professional today provides a broad overview of the transformation of libraries as information organizations, why these organizations are more important today than ever before, the technological influence on how we provide information resources and services in today’s digital and global environment, and the various career opportunities available for information professionals. The book begins with a historical overview of libraries and their transformation as information and technology hubs within their communities. It also covers the various specializations within the field emphasizing the exciting yet complex roles and opportunities for information professionals. With that foundation in place, it presents how libraries serve different kinds of communities, highlighting the unique needs of users across all ages and how libraries fulfill those needs through a variety of services, and addresses key issues facing information organizations as they meet user needs in the Digital Age. The book then concludes with career management strategies to guide library and information science professionals in building not only vibrant careers but vibrant information organizations for the future as well.

Library Science And Technology

Author : Dr. Sachin J. Shastri
Publisher : Academic Guru Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 8197261571
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Library Science And Technology written by Dr. Sachin J. Shastri and published by Academic Guru Publishing House. This book was released on 2024-04-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Library Science & Technology" is an expansive discipline comprising the examination, administration, and implementation of a wide range of methodologies, standards, and technologies within the context of information centers and libraries. It addresses how to efficiently satisfy user needs by organizing, preserving, retrieving, and disseminating information resources—both digital and physical. This book delves into fundamental aspects, including the ethical foundations and historical development of librarianship, in addition to intricate techniques for organizing and retrieving information, including classification systems as well as metadata standards. Furthermore, in the era of digital libraries and rapidly advancing technologies, a thorough grasp of library management and administration is essential. This includes handling strategic planning, budgeting, as well as personnel management in addition to issues such as digital preservation as well as electronic resource management. Encouraging users to become information literate via individualized training and user-centered services is equally important.