A group of high school librarians in Minnesota loved Eleanor & Park so much that they chose it as their school district’s summer read, giving all their high school students the option to read it – and invited Rowell to come visit the Minneapolis-area schools and the local public library this fall.
But there are some who do not love it, not even a little bit, not even at all.
Using Census data, [it has been determined] that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest counties out of over 3000.
Half Of The United States Lives In These Counties – Business Insider.
National DNA, Genomics & Stem Cell Education and Awareness Month
September 2013
Come check out some of our various books/Audio Visual materials concerning the history and future of these controversial issues during this month of awareness.
EFF says:
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the enforcement of the Children’s Internet Protection Act, CIPA, which brought new levels of Internet censorship to libraries across the country. The law is supposed to encourage public libraries and schools to filter child pornography and obscene or “harmful to minors†images from the library’s Internet connection in exchange for continued federal funding. Unfortunately, as Deborah Caldwell-Stone explains in Filtering and the First Amendment, aggressive interpretations of this law have resulted in extensive and unnecessary censorship in libraries, often because libraries go beyond the legal requirements of CIPA when implementing content filters. As a result, students and library patrons across the country are routinely and unnecessarily blocked from accessing constitutionally protected websites.
