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L.A.C.K. & Censoround
July 24, 2001
Challenge to filters in libraries
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:31:59 PM
July 21, 2001
New URL
L.A.C.K. has a new URL: http://www.lemurlove.com/lack/. Please be sure to bookmark it!
[EDITOR'S NOTE] It should go without saying that this link no longer works.
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
9:35:35 AM
July 20, 2001
The good, the bad
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:38:16 PM
Banned in Boston!
Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for a momentous occasion in L.A.C.K.'s short history: our first "Banned in Boston" reference!
(Insert trumpet noise)
Boston school pulls book from reading list because of sexual content
[TT] SFGate.com
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:34:53 PM
July 19, 2001
Harry Potter, challenge to play, "dirty word books"
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:41:43 PM
July 18, 2001
CA Recommended Literature list
The California Department of Education has their Recommended Literature: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve online. Of those books, the following 35 are also on the American Librarian Association's 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999:[TT] California Department of Education & ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom
[EDITOR'S NOTE] Corrected spelling error
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:44:00 PM
July 17, 2001
Taliban bans internet
Taliban bans net from Afghanistan
This ban will be enforced by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. I guess they'll come right in and unplug your computer on you.
[TT] MSNBC
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:50:35 PM
July 13, 2001
Donations, challenged books book
Jessamyn made this post easier to... well... post by... you know... posting the following links at librarian.net:
Library is a closed book for schools
The problems some British secondary schools have with a number of donated books is not so much controversy as difficulty: administrators believe Homer and Joseph Heller are tough books to get thru. This is sort of true, if you have a shitty translation of The Iliad. (Speaking from experience here.)
Banned Books Offer Chance for Teaching
A new book by Pat Scales on... well, the headline makes that obvious, but anyway, you can buy the book at the ALA store: just click here.
[TT] Guardian Unlimited Books via librarian.net
[TT] Washington Post via librarian.net
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:52:57 PM
July 12, 2001
Church-sponsored book burning
From Sean Stewart, posted to the Library Underground mailing list:
(Aiken - AP) -- A church in Aiken says it's going to have an old-fashioned book-burning bonfire tonight. Pastor Ronnie Reeves of the First Pentecostal Holiness Church says members have scoured their homes since Sunday for inappropriate literature. He is asking members to burn the books or anything else that has the appearance of evil. Reeves says the church will pray while the items burn in side a 55-gallon drum. He's even put a sign outside the church promoting the event
[TT] Associated Press via Library Underground
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:57:16 PM
July 11, 2001
Chris Columbus rant
Billboards for the Harry Potter movie are popping up all over Chicago right now, even tho the film doesn't open until November. Like the average Harry Potter fan isn't aware that Warner Brothers is making a Harry Potter movie. Like there won't be lines outside the theater a mile long if they don't advertise the film. Like it isn't going to suck hard because movie versions of imaginative books rarely work. Unless Victor Fleming has been magically brought back to life to direct. Which isn't going to happen. They've got Chris "Everything I touch turns to shit" Columbus directing. The guy who directed Bicentennial Man, Nine Months, Mrs. Doubtfire, Only The Lonely, Home Alone, Home Alone 2 and Adventures In Babysitting. Him. Oh, I know a couple of those movies have their defenders, but the defenders are wrong. They all stink. Oh, and he produced it too. You know what else he produced? Jingle All the freakin' Way. He's terrible, nay, he's completely evil and J.K. Rowling should be pissed that her life's work/cash cow is being brought to life on the silver screen by a generic Hollywood hack with no soul whatsoever. He is the high demon of mediocrity.
I'm just saying.
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:00:33 PM
July 9, 2001
New logo
Check out our new logo, courtesy of TJ Sondermann, a.k.a. Library Geek!
[EDITOR'S NOTE] It was a pretty sweet logo.
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
9:32:01 AM
July 6, 2001
Challenged books resources
For more information on banned books, here are listings from Open Directory and Yahoo! At some point in the near future, we're going to put up our own links page, which will feature author links and other good resources like George Suttle's site.
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:42:56 PM
Corpus Christi controversy
Terrence McNally's controversial play Corpus Christi is once again the subject of controversy (see last item). I wonder what would've happened if the play were about, say, Hinduism?
[TT] Playbill
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:02:00 PM
July 5, 2001
The Giver challenged
Here's an interesting article about Lois Lowry's book The Giver. Notable are the concerned adults who are worried that kids may not be able to judge the themes of the book for themselves because the book doesn't tell them what to think. It reminds me of the Catholic church's own edition of Abelard's Sic et Non. The book, if you're not familiar with it, asks basic philosophical ideas, then lists arguments for and against each topic. The church's version provided the reader with the right answers.
[TT] Excite News
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:47:00 PM
July 3, 2001
Cormier, Blume, Dahl
From U of Iowa, here's a link about teaching Robert Cormier.
Next, here's Judy Blume's home page, which briefly addresses her thoughts on censorship.
Finally, take a look at the totally faboo Roald Dahl site.
[TT] via Google
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:51:01 PM
Song of Solomon challenge
Song of Solomon is a book the Lake Washington school district doesn't want kids to read.
[TT] Excite News via Library Stuff
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:48:00 PM
July 2, 2001
New York Times cyberlaw story
This isn't so much news as statement of fact, but it ties in with the Minneapolis Public Library story.
[TT] New York Times via LISNews.com
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:53:46 PM
Filters, Snicket, CIPA
Porn sneaks past search filters.
As a follow-up to CL's post, here's a link to Lemony Snicket's web page.
On another note, a question at the Library Underground mailing list about CIPA leads us to ALA's CIPA site (thanks Ned Wall), as well as to the antifiltering site Peacefire.
[TT] News.com
[TT] via Google
[TT] via Library Underground
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
3:55:00 PM
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