[OLA-IF-News] Call for submissions: new book about censorship stories in libraries

[Ross Betzer]

The American Library Association is going to be publishing a new book with
case studies of challenges at libraries, and they are accepting
submissions. Here are the rough details:

*Censorship Stories from the Frontline*
*You are invited to participate in a new book that will be published by the
American Library Association.  The book is a collection of stories from and
about librarians who have experienced challenges to library material and/or
challenges to intellectual freedom.  The book has the current working
title: *Censorship Stories from the Frontline*.  *

*The book is an anthology of stories from all library types.  Stories will
address examples of censorship challenges related to (but not limited to):
religious intolerance, prisoner rights,  Black Lives Matter, anti-immigrant
sentiment, international challenges, politics, working with culturally
sensitive material, weeding as a form of censorship, self-censorship,
displays, intellectual freedom, dis-invited speakers, trigger warnings, Me
Too, meeting room uses, or any other censorship topic you have experienced
in a library or related to library material and/or programming.*

*The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2018 *

Read more at the webpage for the project
<https://sites.google.com/view/ifbook/home>.

Thank you to Charles Wood for sharing this!

-Ross

*Ross Betzer*
*Librarian, Local Resources & Cataloging*
Multnomah County Library
Central Library / Technical Services
x24894 (Sun., Mon., Wed.); x85466 (Tue., Thu.)
multcolib.org
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