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Wer #BannedBooks lesen möchte, findet hier die Liste der #BookBans aus dem Schuljahr 2023/2024 und wer teilen mag, was das Lieblingsgenre ist, bekommt von mir auch Empfehlungen.
https://pen.org/book-bans/pen-america-index-of-school-book-bans-2023-2024/
En #Floride, les #livres et les #étudiants étrangers ciblés par la révolution Trump
Le « Sunshine State » est devenu un laboratoire d’expérimentation pour la feuille de route nationale-conservatrice de l’administration Trump. Premiers visés, la #culture, les #migrants et les étudiants étrangers.
Via @authormsbev, a Maryland bookstore takes the place of the Naval Academy library: Old Fox Books is organizing Operation Caged Bird to provide students at the Naval Academy all 381 books removed from the library, free of cost.
*Everything* is politics.
‘Operation Caged Bird’ takes flight after Naval Academy removes hundreds of books from its library — Midshipmen can come in and get a selection of the banned book titles free of charge.
https://wtop.com/maryland/2025/04/operation-caged-bird-takes-flight-after-naval-academy-removes-381-books-under-from-its-library/
GoFundMe — donate to purchase banned books for distribution to Naval Academy Middies:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/provide-banned-books-to-naval-academy-students
h/t @JMarkOckerbloom
https://mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerbloom/114386911685035272
Old Fox Books, #Annapolis: https://www.oldfoxbooks.com/
#BannedBooks #BookBan #censorship #DEI #USNA
I never read this as a kid. Fixing that.
It’s part of @SheilaDee’s #BannedBooks collection.
When the #ACLU sues your county #SchoolBoard it’s a ‘good news’ & ‘bad news’ situation. https://mainstreetmediatn.com/articles/mainstreetnashville/aclu-lawsuit-aims-to-end-book-removal-by-rutherford-county-schools/?pubid=murfreesboropost
In the case of Rutherford County, #Tennessee the good news is that there’s hope that the list of #BannedBooks (currently 145 titles long) targeted by #Talibangelicals in the #MAGA cult *might* soon become just shameful #history.
The bad news is that a majority of our Board of Education is clueless about #education.
#teenagers #books #reading #BannedBooks #censorship
' Brooklyn Public Library marked three years of Books Unbanned on April 10... The initiative provides teens an e-card allowing them to access the library’s entire digital collection of approximately half a million items. Since April 2022, almost 10,000 young people — aged 13 to 21 — in all 50 states have applied for the card. Books Unbanned card holders have checked out more than 330,000 books.'
A recent study has found that banning a book actually increases its readership and circulation: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/mksc.2024.0716?utm_source=Mastodon
I'm in no way surprised by this. Everyone knows that the best way to get someone to do something is to forbid them from doing it. There's also no such thing as bad publicity. If I hear that a book I've never heard of has been banned somewhere, I'm obviously going to want to find out more about that book, and potentially to read it myself so that I can understand what all the fuss is about. #BannedBooks @bookstodon
https://www.europesays.com/uk/29393/ Book review: How the CIA smuggled banned literature behind the Iron Curtain #BannedBooks #BookReview #Books #CharlieEnglish #cia #CIAOperations #CiaSmuggling #Entertainment #FreedomOfExpression #LiteratureAndPolitics #Poland #SatanicVerses #SmuggledBooks #TheCIABookClubTheBestKeptSecretOfTheColdWar #totalitarianism #UK #UnitedKingdom #WorldWar2
I hope the Library of Congress is hiding #books these days. I really hope so. I've _heard_ they are known for "loosing" material and hiding it. I know public libraries do that all the time (that's where the sexy art books are BTW) #library #censorship #bannedbooks
The "Banned Book Club" graphic novel was really good. I don't blame them for not doing a book tour in the U S. As it's being run by fascists traitors destroying America's good things. And being so, so stupid about immigrants.
With Lesbian Visibility Week running from Monday 21 April to Sunday 27 April this year, I wanted to spotlight and celebrate several books written by queer women or containing lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, queer or trans characters which have been banned or restricted worldwide.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/banned-lesbian-books-you-should-read-this-week-165b56cb2b75?sk=c8aa703808313026b7510bf7b64e0d01
#Librarians in #UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads | #Libraries | The Guardian
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take #books off shelves, particularly #LGBTQ+ titles
#censorship #bannedbooks
Very possible in stupid retrograde #fuckery from TX.
> Is Texas banning anime? Explained https://www.themarysue.com/is-texas-banning-anime-explained/
Die Lehrstühle für Book Studies und American Studies am Englischen Seminar der Uni Münster haben das “Banned Books Network Münster” (BBNM) gegründet: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/bookstudies/BannedBooks.html
Am 22.5. gibt es eine erste Veranstaltung im SpecOps im Aegidiimarkt: "Banned Books in Conversation" https://indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3370/
#BannedBooks #Netzwerk #BBNM
So yeah. This REALLY pisses me off! I have friends who work for the #MaineStateLibrary. Grrrrr....
Maine State Library issues layoffs, cites inability to access federal funding
The Maine State Library announced Wednesday 13 staff members, whose positions are supported by federal funding, were laid off.
April 9, 2025
"The Maine State Library announced layoffs on Wednesday, citing an ongoing inability to access federal funding.
"The announcement comes after President Donald #Trump signed an executive order in March deeming the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) 'unnecessary' and slated to be dismantled, later placing the entire agency's staff on administrative leave.
"The Maine State Library said in a news release that IMLS funding represents 30 percent of its annual budget and has not received any communication from IMLS on if or when funding might be restored.
"The state library said it last received funds from its 2025 federal award advance through the IMLS on March 24.
"Thirteen employees whose positions are supported by federal funding have been laid off, the state library said. Those employees represent approximately 30 percent of Maine State Library staff.
"The Maine State Library said the layoffs could be rescinded if funding is restored.
"Starting on Thursday, the Maine State Library will close for a two-week reorganization period where its location at 242 State St. in Augusta will not be open to the public.
"'Losing access to this Federal funding harms Maine residents and will have negative consequences in communities across the state," Maine State Librarian #LoriFisher said in the release. 'Despite these significant cuts, the Maine State Library remains committed to advancing the mission of libraries in Maine and to serving every library patron to the best of our ability.'
"In 2024, the Maine State Library says it received $1,526,754 from the #IMLS Library Services and Technology Act Grants to States program which supports services including #HighSpeedInternet for public libraries; #InterlibraryLoans, #EBooks, and #audiobooks; services for #VisuallyImpaired patrons; and professional development for library staff.
"The library says it is continuing to evaluate the range of impacts on library services from the funding cuts and hopes to provide further updates as they become available.
"Following Trump's executive order, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey joined 20 other attorneys general in a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from dismantling a handful of agencies, including the IMLS."