[Libs-Or] Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions - Intellectual Freedom News: JANUARY 2020

[Ekatrina Sotomayor]

Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions - Intellectual Freedom News:  JANUARY
2020

Censorship

New proposed legislation in Missouri to censor public library materials
<https://bookriot.com/2020/01/15/new-proposed-legislation-in-mo-to-censor-public-library-materials/>
Book Riot

OIF responds to Missouri legislation that proposes policies and procedures
that threaten access to information
<http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/01/oif-responds-missouri-legislation-proposes-policies-and-procedures-threaten>
American Library Association

Missouri bill: New parent board could toss any public library book it deems
sexually inappropriate — and librarians could be jailed
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/01/15/missouri-bill-new-parent-board-could-toss-any-public-library-book-it-deems-sexually-inappropriate-librarians-could-be-jailed/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook>
The Washington Post

ACLU demands answers on censored Women's March photo
<https://apnews.com/dd070b1a8888e8abe30168defc3dd447> Associated Press

ALA responds to National Archive efforts to alter materials
<http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/01/ala-responds-national-archive-efforts-alter-materials>
American Library Association

First Amendment

Capitol Digest: Bill protecting student journalists' First Amendment rights
advances
<https://www.omaha.com/news/state_and_regional/capitol-digest-bill-protecting-student-journalists-first-amendment-rights-advances/article_6f4ef67b-b207-57c4-89b6-dbe4b6d165c4.html>
Omaha
World Herald

Facebook’s Soleimani Ban Flies in Face of First Amendment
<https://fair.org/home/facebooks-soleimani-ban-flies-in-face-of-first-amendment/>
FAIR

University of Minnesota student jailed in China over tweets
<https://www.axios.com/china-arrests-university-minnesota-twitter-e495cf47-d895-4014-9ac8-8dc76aa6004d.html>
Axios

Privacy

Facebook settles facial recognition dispute
<https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51309186> BBC News

Study Grindr Tindr and other apps share sensitive personal data with
advertisers
<https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796427696/study-grindr-tindr-and-other-apps-share-sensitive-personal-data-with-advertisers>
NPR

Have a search warrant for data?  Google wants you to pay.
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/technology/google-search-warrants-legal-fees.html>
New York Times

Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data
<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation>
Vice

Diversity

AILA announces 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Awards
<https://ailanet.org/aila2020awards/> American Indian Library Association

2020 Rise:  A feminist book project list
<https://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/2020-rise-a-feminist-book-project-list/>Feminist
Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American
Library Association

Graphic novels break through at the 2020 Youth Media Awards
<https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=graphic-novels-break-through-at-2020-youth-media-awards-books-libraries-caldecott-newbery>
School Library Journal


2020 Youth Media Award Winners
<https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/2020-youth-media-award-winners/>
American Library Magazine

We Need Diverse Books names 2020 Walter Dean Myers Award winners
<https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=we-need-diverse-books-names-2020-walter-dean-myers-award-winners>
School Library Journal

Survey shows "no discernible" progress diversifying publishing
<https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=survey-shows-no-progress-diversifying-publishing>
School Library Journal

Resource: WNDB Booktalking Kit
<https://diversebooks.org/resources/post-4420/>  We Need Diverse Books



Access

Wikipedia access restored in Turkey after court ruled against ban
<https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/wikipedia-access-restored-in-turkey-after-court-ruled-against-ban/ar-BBZ0eAP>
The
Hill

In US, library visits outpaced trips to movies in 2019
<https://news.gallup.com/poll/284009/library-visits-outpaced-trips-movies-2019.aspx>
GalluP

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Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions is a monthly roundup of Intellectual
Freedom News compiled by the Multnomah County Library Intellectual Freedom
Committee


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Ekatrina Sotomayor
Access Services Assistant
Holgate Library

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