Lauren R. Weinstein is a cartoonist based in New Jersey. She is currently working on a graphic novel tentatively entitled How to…
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Banned Books Week is Coming: Are Americans falling in love with censorship?Â
Freedom of speech campaigners hit back as a recent poll reveals an increasing appetite among US adults for banning books and restricting children’s access to ‘inappropriate’ library books
Source: Are Americans falling in love with censorship? | Books | The Guardian
Banned Books Week is coming: What it’s like to top banned book lists around the worldÂ
Dav Pilkey’s bestselling Captain Underpants books have been pulled from the shelves and out of children’s hands for being ‘inappropriate’ and ‘anti-establishment’. Here’s why that’s so wrong.
Source: What it’s like to top banned book lists around the world | Children’s books | The Guardian
Electronic Frontier Foundation Asks Court on Behalf of Libraries and Booksellers to Recognize Readers’ Right to Be Free of NSA’s Online SurveillanceÂ
It should be no surprise that libraries and bookstores—the places where you can go pick up a copy of 1984 or Darkness at Noon—are privacy hipsters. They’ve been fighting overbroad government surveillance since before it was cool.
10,000 zines and counting: a library’s quest to save the history of fandomÂ
The University of Iowa’s fanzine collection is going digital before it falls apart.
Source: 10,000 zines and counting: a library’s quest to save the history of fandom | The Verge