Children's Book Project · @childrensbookproject
37 followers · 89 posts · Server sfba.socialOur Hero of the Week: Cari from #MissionChildCareConsortium in San Francisco picked up 67 beautiful free books so the children who need them most can thrive in their learning experiences.
Thank you so much, Cari, for everything you do, and for helping so many children who need beautiful and inclusive books of their own!
Learn more about our mission at #ChildrensBookProject. Check out the link in bio to Give Books, Get Books, Donate, and Volunteer!
#NorCalNonProfit #ChildrensBookProjectSF #Literacy #GiveBooks #KidsBooks #BookBank #BooksForKeeps #BookTok #Literacy #GreatNonProfit #Donate #FreedomToRead #DiverseBks4All
#missionchildcareconsortium #childrensbookproject #norcalnonprofit #childrensbookprojectsf #literacy #givebooks #kidsbooks #bookbank #booksforkeeps #Booktok #greatnonprofit #donate #FreedomToRead #diversebks4all
Bodling · @Bodling
39 followers · 693 posts · Server deacon.social#Librarything is still offline due to the DDoS attack. Their Facebook page says the attackers are demanding money to stop the attack.
Because book people are known to be flush with cash??
Because some book people somewhere read and cataloged books that are not in line with the ethos of the attackers??
Or because somebody bought into a bot network over the weekend and just randomly picked #Librarything because it's kinda popular and seemed like a soft target?
If it's the last of those, these DDoS attackers have clearly never had to confront a riled up librarian.
#Bookstodon #FreedomToRead #FreedomToCatalog #Books #Reading
#librarything #bookstodon #FreedomToRead #freedomtocatalog #books #reading
Children's Book Project · @childrensbookproject
37 followers · 87 posts · Server sfba.social
September is here, and so is our monthly #Newsletter! Check out all the latest #BookBank news about #LatineheritageMonth, our volunteer spotlight, and more.
Check the link in bio to subscribe and read more about our mission and impact! 📰💙📚
Learn more about our mission at #ChildrensBookProject. Check out the link in bio to Give Books, Get Books, Donate, and Volunteer!
#NorCalNonProfit #ChildrensBookProjectSF #Literacy #GiveBooks #KidsBooks #BookBank #BooksForKeeps #BookTok #Literacy #GreatNonProfit #Donate #FreedomToRead #DiverseBks4All
#Newsletter #bookbank #latineheritagemonth #childrensbookproject #norcalnonprofit #childrensbookprojectsf #literacy #givebooks #kidsbooks #booksforkeeps #Booktok #greatnonprofit #donate #FreedomToRead #diversebks4all
Colleen Theisen · @libcolleen
427 followers · 127 posts · Server glammr.usFor John Green, the Battle Over Access to Books Has Gotten Personal.
Alternate title, "Author as Conscript in the Book-Ban War"
NYT, 8-31-2023 and 9-4-2023 (Gift link)
#Libraries #JohnGreen #BookBan #FreedomToRead #Censorship
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/books/john-green-books-ban-indiana.html?unlocked_article_code=XYfyhhsu0OK1zeKXB5Lw-njQ7W_qRuw2XBqKYb3qcTN-AaPRajwWC6uNNeSvLAzW7va3nTdgaurOLtPWziKMiYVNSoYRo7mskRLy2vRS71h2Jk0uSbciG6tOezUQ4824Vu0zu3DVbE6PhHX3d3B9htK780E0bbueSu3SnsCs7A-tSstKZnvdXHyBvCVQgri5AlGpZkdDFi7TRNOL6L5zZdEKe0lVAQ3AqzinZkmGdITA82Cwmlfm6yWecPKdxiSwE36PyE82QC9jkiBAJbiLUU7zJXLzhZn7KAvBHOIUW8_oQBrT_oAQXxkUuC6eM-xXn_PgaxHbXPArp6ojqe5vgsxyvWE&smid=url-share
#libraries #johngreen #bookban #FreedomToRead #censorship
Colleen Theisen · @libcolleen
427 followers · 125 posts · Server glammr.us"I made the most banned book in America." Maia Kobabe on "Gender Queer" #libraries #bookbans #FreedomToRead #Censorship https://thenib.com/i-made-the-most-banned-book-in-america/?fbclid=IwAR0YwOpm5DjD8jlJFwBSjbM5o1jZu1jI8KWvEqmax5DOIdiX6HB_6-VaekU
#libraries #BookBans #FreedomToRead #censorship
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
465 followers · 996 posts · Server mstdn.social
There are no winners in the game of #censorship, or how and why an Iowa #school district used AI to ban classics by Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, & others. #FirstAmendment #FreedomToRead #FreePress #FreeSpeech https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/opinion/book-ban-schools-iowa.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#FreeSpeech #freepress #FreedomToRead #firstamendment #school #Censorship
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
461 followers · 980 posts · Server mstdn.social
If parents want to shield young minds 24 hours a day from divisive topics or feeling guilty, they are displaying a lack of trust in their children’s ability to figure out a complicated world. Or, how a Nixon-backing, white middle class family in a conservative Southern California community coped with classroom lessons on racism in 1968. #education #censorship #freedomtoread #curriculum
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/27/american-history-slavery-race-relations/
#curriculum #FreedomToRead #Censorship #Education
Her_Doing · @Her_Doing
361 followers · 2547 posts · Server wandering.shop🚨 #BannedBooks #PSA for #American peeps
The # DPLA (#Digital #Public #Library of #America) has launched The #BannedBookClub to ensure e-book versions of #banned #books are available to readers across the #UnitedStates, via the free Palace e-reader app (#ThePalaceProject).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/18/us-teens-banned-books-schools
https://www.bannedbookclub.info
https://dp.la
https://thepalaceproject.org/banned-book-club/
#Censorship #Libraries #Librarians #BookBans #Florida #Texas #Utah #Missouri #SouthCarolina #FreedomToRead #KnowledgeIsPower
#bannedbooks #psa #american #digital #public #library #america #bannedbookclub #banned #books #unitedstates #thepalaceproject #censorship #libraries #librarians #BookBans #florida #texas #utah #missouri #southcarolina #FreedomToRead #knowledgeispower
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
438 followers · 946 posts · Server mstdn.social
Read a #book—which you bought at a #school district book fair—to your #students and then get fired. #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreedomToRead #education #academicfreedom #censorship https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/georgia-teacher-fired-gender-book.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Censorship #academicfreedom #Education #FreedomToRead #freepress #firstamendment #students #school #book
Guy LeCharles Gonzalez · @glecharles
416 followers · 1784 posts · Server zirk.us"Amid all the skirmishes over individual book titles and challenge policies, it's easy to miss the toll it's taking on librarians, kids, and the country.
Jones's case may be more extreme than most, but countless other librarians around the nation who are also feeling the heat are also quitting in droves, leaving libraries short-staffed.
It's all driving up the human, civic, and financial costs embroiled in the battle over books."
#BookBans #libraries #FreedomToRead
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1192034923/the-plot-thickens-the-battle-over-books-comes-at-a-cost
#bookBans #libraries #FreedomToRead
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
430 followers · 923 posts · Server mstdn.social
#Shakespeare: the good, bad, baudy, naughty, salacious, serious, high-low-and-middle-brow, and transcendent bits, and why they all need to stay in #schools. #FirstAmendment #FreedomToRead #censorship #books #bookbanning https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/opinion/shakespeare-canceled-schools.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#bookbanning #Books #Censorship #FreedomToRead #firstamendment #Schools #shakespeare
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
430 followers · 923 posts · Server mstdn.social
The minority of those who believe in the power of #literature in a post-literate age: what #book banners (& #censors) and their opponents have in common. Also a look at what was restricted (parental permission required) at a New Jersey high school back in the day. #FreedomToRead #FirstAmendment #reading https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/opinion/book-bans-censorship-reading.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Reading #firstamendment #FreedomToRead #censors #book #literature
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
423 followers · 904 posts · Server mstdn.socialHere is a list of 65 #books #banned #censored by the Urbandale, Iowa #school district. Picture books, YA #novels, LGBTQIA coming of age stories, and classics from Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston. #FreedomToRead #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z5KAGlK08tY4R_vYz1LTfol5ojw3IJ38/view?fbclid=IwAR06q-3oU1QlsCeINbRoHek2CCtF8-mk8gIxPTmnk2WcaoXbVB840wQEi74
#FreeSpeech #freepress #firstamendment #FreedomToRead #novels #school #censored #banned #Books
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
423 followers · 898 posts · Server mstdn.socialThis July 31 article from the Des Moines Register explains why as many as 400 #books were to be #banned, #censored, in one Iowa #school district. After an outcry the list was narrowed down to 65. I’ll post the list of 65 books in a minute. #FreedomToRead #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2023/07/31/urbandale-school-district-iowa-book-ban-law-flagged-ulysses-color-purple-heartstopper-lgbtq-themes/70459691007/
#freepress #FreeSpeech #firstamendment #FreedomToRead #school #censored #banned #Books
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
422 followers · 895 posts · Server mstdn.social
Concerns over sex content leads Florida #schools to pull (as in #ban parts of, #censor parts of, or “unsex” parts of, as a Scottish lady once said) #Shakespeare. #FirstAmendment #FreedomToRead #education
#Education #FreedomToRead #firstamendment #shakespeare #censor #ban #Schools
Children's Book Project · @childrensbookproject
36 followers · 78 posts · Server sfba.socialOur August newsletter is out and filled with all the latest #BookBank news, our volunteer spotlight, and other helpful tidbits during this #BackToSchool season!
#SignUp for our monthly Book Bank News and learn more about our mission and impact. Check the link in bio to read and subscribe!
Learn more about our mission at #ChildrensBookProject. Check out the link in bio to Give Books, Get Books, Donate, and Volunteer!
#NorCalNonProfit #ChildrensBookProjectSF #Literacy #GiveBooks #KidsBooks #BookBank #BooksForKeeps #BookTok #Literacy #GreatNonProfit #Donate #FreedomToRead
#bookbank #backtoschool #signup #childrensbookproject #norcalnonprofit #childrensbookprojectsf #literacy #givebooks #kidsbooks #booksforkeeps #Booktok #greatnonprofit #donate #FreedomToRead
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
394 followers · 854 posts · Server mstdn.social
Houston public #schools eliminate 28 #librarians from some schools and convert #libraries into “discipline centers.” More librarians and libraries could face a similar fate. #literacy #reading #FreedomToRead
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/hisd/2023/07/26/457933/city-leaders-criticize-houston-isd-superintendent-mike-miles-over-plans-for-school-libraries/
#FreedomToRead #Reading #literacy #libraries #librarians #Schools
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
352 followers · 840 posts · Server mstdn.social
Apocryphal tale of a 4 year old seeing a sexually explicit #book in the children’s section of the public #library results in possible closing of library in Virginia. Imagine being people or a party against #reading, #knowledge, indeed #learning because of imaginary incidents. Sound familiar? Good grief. #facts #reality #FirstAmendment #FreedomToRead #FreeSpeech #FreePress
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/25/library-books-bans-lgbtq-virginia/
#freepress #FreeSpeech #FreedomToRead #firstamendment #reality #Facts #learning #knowledge #Reading #library #book
Beth P · @BethGMS
165 followers · 579 posts · Server newsie.social
First two sentences of this are 🔥🔥🔥:
"#Bookbanning is in the air again as self-important busybodies around the United States rail against parental choice, the expertise of teachers, and the professional duties of #librarians. The spittle in the air is thick with ignorance and self-righteousness as the misinformed maraud against the #freedomtoread."
https://medium.com/everylibrary/heres-how-librarians-choose-what-goes-on-the-shelves-d4f32c6a4e5d
#bookbanning #librarians #FreedomToRead
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
336 followers · 828 posts · Server mstdn.social
A look at efforts to #censor or #ban #books or students’ rights or the fact that homophobes want to disappear LGBTQIA people, their thoughts, art, and existence, in liberal California. That’s basically what the article’s about. #censorship #FirstAmendment #FreedomToRead #FreeSpeech https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/pride-books-library-protest.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#FreeSpeech #FreedomToRead #firstamendment #Censorship #Books #ban #censor