http://aclunc.org/pressrel/040122-safeact.html Jessamyn on librarian.net rightly called this a “can of whup-ass.” Quickly donning my hat as state IFC chair, I’ll add that it has been a blast working with the ACLU on this issue. Like her, I can’t resist putting the graphic in my blog. I’ve written ACLU to ask if we can get a […]
Just one week after Wired broke news of greatly intensified crackdowns on Internet access in Cuba, IFLA took action in a strongly-worded press release. Bookmark to:
Here’s the schedule for Council. Btw, if people are interested, I can transcribe relevant debate on the fly and blog it in near-real-time, at least salient comments. It’s not clear when the Cuba resolution will be on the agenda; I would imagine Council II or III. Not to be facetious, but the best I can […]
I needed to get this done by today as this was the deadline for electronic transmissions prior to the conference. Ergo, it’s a draft, and a rough one, rattled out as fast as my little fingers could type it. I have a second, who should not be construed as endorsing everything in here, but in […]
In his January 5, 2004 column in the Village Voice, Nat Hentoff once again takes on the issue of ALA and Cuba, replying to a letter to the editor by librarian Ann Sparanese who among other comments insists that Victor Arroyo, the man jailed for maintaining a collection of over 6,000 books, is not a […]
I told you they were after us. On December 31, news organizations trumpeted a national warning from the FBI “to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning.” Alert the press: the national security forces have learned freshman […]
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/PubLib/archive/0311/0224.html Dan Robinson recounts his family’s history with FBI investigations, in a lively thread about whether “it can happen here” (“it” meaning aggressive enquiries into personal reading behavior). Bookmark to:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/scr2003/publiclyfunded.pdf In “A Missed Opportunity” (Cato Supreme Court Review, Sept 2003), Bob Corn-Revere offered a fresh (and highly readable) take on CIPA. Not only is his reasoning lucid and original, but for the first time since July, I felt a spark of hope on this issue. “The public forum doctrine, which originated as a way […]
http://tinyurl.com/w1hp The current ALA pres came up and swinging with a powerful statement submitted to a Judicial Committee Hearing, “America After 9/11: Freedom Preserved or Freedom Lost?” Yet another reason why I want Santa to bring me a Carla Hayden Action Figure. Bookmark to:
This is to alert FRL’s readership that the members of the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the California Library Association have established their own informal, unofficial blog, Cal Freedom. Find it at: http://calfreedom.bluehighways.com/ Bookmark to: