Sustain Our Libraries

Be on the lookout for some library themed pastes out and around Pittsburgh.

Come on DC!

Tintin au la bibliotheque? Non en brooklyn.

source: flickr commons

The controversy around Tintin and his trip to Congo isn't news to those aware of censorship issues. How do libraries deal with patrons and book challenges like Tintin au Congo? NYTimes shares the Brooklyn public libraries approach as well as some interesting examples of book challenges.

Interested in books on libraries, censorship, and intellectual freedom? Poke your nose around LIT 025.

dcpl + wamu

DCPL Chief Librarian Ginnie Cooper was on The Kojo Nnamdi Show this afternoon. Listen to it here.

Yay: Circulation is up in every single branch in the system.
Boo: Our budget cuts are looking like 16%. Scary!!!

update on dcps/dcpl booklists

here they are... and i definitely spy some glbt books in there!
transport yourself back to high school and
read all those books you could never find the time for.

http://www.k12.dc.us/Teachingandlearning/summer-reading-list-2009/index.htm

dcps bans glbt titles from summer reading lists?

read about it on the school library journal blog.

update here!

Ray Bradbury loves libraries!

image source: nytimes

Literary legend Ray Bradbury says...

“Libraries raised me...I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”

"Yahoo called me eight weeks ago...They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.'"

Read the rest of the article here!