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Banned in the Big Sky: the new Montana book challenges
poster
Amy CannataACLU of Montana Communications Director
Sheila BonnandMSU Libraries Reference LibrarianMLA IF Committee memberACLU of Montana Board member
April 8, 2010 MLA Annual Conference
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First some history …Librarians have not always been champions of free speech
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“to enable librarians to do their present work more
easily and at less expense.”
ALA founded in 1876 ...
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ALA President Arthur E. Bostwick said in his 1908 inaugural address:
“Some are born great; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.” It is in this way that the librarian has become the censor of literature … Books that directly commend what is wrong, that teach how to sin and how pleasant sin is, sometimes with and sometimes without the added sauce of impropriety, are increasingly popular, tempting the author to imitate them, the publishers to produce, the bookseller to exploit. Thank heaven they do not tempt the librarian.”
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ALA/ACLU Censorship Timeline
1925 - ALCU Scopes Trial
1926 - ACLU & the ‘Boston Massacre’
1933 - ALA Executive Board declined to take action regarding book burning in Germany
1933 - US vs One book entitled Ulysses
1939 - first ALA Library Bill of Rights
1940 - ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee formed
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1957 - Supreme Court overturns conviction of Louis Malle’s film The Lovers in suit brought by Ohio ACLU
1950’s–70’s - amendments to Library Bill of Rights dealing with political issues, social views, and challenged materials.
1967 - ALA establishes the Office for Intellectual Freedom
1969 - Freedom to Read Foundation founded
1982 - Board of Education v. Pico - ALA starts Banned Books Week
1990’s -Ashcroft v. ACLU
1997 - ACLU v. Reno
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Intellectual Freedom is one seven “key action areas” for ALA
One of ACLU’s many issues includes Free Speech
Today ...
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Challenges in
Montana
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Quiz
Internet access issues
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1902
A “storm of controversy”
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1918
Sedition!
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1978
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1989
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1991
“...badly written, even boring, but
not pornographic...”
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1996
Inappropriate for some age groups?
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2002
“Those things are not for the
classroom...”
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2006
Interest in the book increased
after the challenge
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1999, 2000, 2007
“...it’s sad for the young people of Laurel. They won’t get to learn more about the
Indian culture.”
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2009 to ?
Challenges continue: 2008 Helena Public Library
Joy of Gay Sex
2008 Helena Public SchoolsWorld War II by Ivor Matanle
2009 Kohrs Memorial Library/Deer LodgeFor Those I Loved by Martine Gray
2009 Big Sky High School/MissoulaBad Folks by Jon Jackson
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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Facing a challenge?
Understand
Prepare
Inform
Educate
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Resources…
ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom
Other ALA Divisions, such as AASL, have IF committees
ALA’s Banned books map
Banned Books Week 2010
MLA IF Committee(blog and wiki)
ACLU of Montana
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So ... Celebrate Banned Books WeekSo ... Celebrate Banned Books Week
Drum roll, please!Drum roll, please!
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Questions?