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ERIC Number: EJ1438878
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1094-9046
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Soft Censorship: To Be or Not To Be? That Shouldn't Be a Question
Marie Masferrer
Knowledge Quest, v52 n2 p18-21 2023
What can school librarians do about library and book censorship? First, ask questions. Find out what your principal and your district have put into policy and what your principal's expectations are for your school library. Then, communicate with your classroom teachers. For ourselves, school librarians should work with colleagues, especially other certified, degreed media specialists, to help identify our implicit and explicit biases, and even fears, when selecting materials for our school libraries. We should do this when we consider books for selection, weeding, and deselection. As school librarians, we don't always have a say in the books we include or remove from our collections, especially today. But we do have a voice. We have a powerful voice to speak out for our learners and their families who fear their stories will be removed from the shelves. You have a choice. You can move in fear and silence, or you can move in power and with your voice. Let's use that voice for our learners.
American Association of School Librarians. Available from: American Library Association. 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. Tel: 1-800-545-2433; Web site: http://knowledgequest.aasl.org/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Florida
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