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<font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="3">Hello! Once again the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship is offering their Banned Books Week exhibit to school and public libraries. </font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">Excerpts from the exhibit are on our web site <a href="http://www.the-licac.org/">www.the-licac.org</a>. </span></font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="3"><br><br></font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">You may order the exhibit by e-mail or sending a purchase
order to the LI Coalition Against Censorship, PO Box 296, Port
Washington, N.Y. 11050. The cost of the exhibit
including mailing charges is $40.00. They request payment within 30 days
<u>after</u> you receive the exhibit. If you need any additional information their
e-mail address is <a href="mailto:coalcen1@verizon.net">coalcen1@verizon.net</a>
or call (516) 944-9799.</span></font><font size="3"><br style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This is not an endorsement, please be sure to review the exhibit to determine if it is appropriate for your library and community.</span></font><br><br><div style="text-align: center;"> Katie Anderson, Library Development Services<br>* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<br> Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<br> katie.anderson@state.or.us, 503-378-2528<br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><hr><b>From:</b> Donald Parker [mailto:Coalcen1@verizon.net]<br><b>To:</b> margaret.conroy@sos.mo.gov, bocooper@mt.gov, rwagner@nlc.state.ne.us, kjstarr@clan.lib.nv.us, darlene.reinhard@dcr.nh.gov, kpeiffer@njstatelib.org, Jackie.dalmy@state.nm.us, clarson@nd.gov, refhelp@slomoa.state.oh.us, bpetrie@oltn.odl.state.ok.us, katie.anderson@state.or.us, Mary.i.mayberry@state.or.us, eurling@state.pa.us, jgillespie@osiri.net, fbereen@statelibrary.sc.gov, dorothy.liegl@state.sd.us, norma.ochoa@state.tn.us, amandabradley@tsl.state.tx.us, maria.siegel@mail.dol.state.vt.us, jhathcock@lba.lib.va.us, wstuivengo@secstate.wa.gov, michael.cross@dpi.wi.gov, ekinne@state.wy.us<br><b>Sent:</b> Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:42:41 -0700<br><b>Subject:</b> Censorship Exhibit for Banned Books Week<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">“Censorship
in Schools and Libraries" exhibit available for Banned Books Week – the last
week in September.</span></b></p>
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Long Island Coalition Against Censorship</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">
is an association of 22 educational and community organizations (16 are public
libraries and professional library organizations including the Long Island
School Media Association). The purpose of the Coalition is to defend challenges
to the First Amendment rights of school and public libraries when there are
efforts by individuals or groups to censor books and other
materials</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">In
planning an exhibit for Banned Books Week in the fall, you might wish to
consider displaying the new edition of our exhibit, “Censorship in Schools and
Libraries.”</span></p>
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exhibit presents 32 illustrations of censorship each one approximately 11" x 14"
with accompanying text that is 11" x 14." The history of censorship in public
libraries and schools highlights incidents of censorship that have occurred
nationally during the last 150 years. Included are descriptions of the
censorship of <u>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</u>, <u>In the Night
Kitchen</u>, <u>The Catcher in the Rye</u>, and the novels of Judy Blume and
Chris Crutcher. The censorship of Susan Patron’s novel, <u>The Higher Power of
Lucky</u>, which was awarded the Newbery Prize in 2007 is in the new edition.
U.S. Supreme Court decisions (including the landmark school case in the
Island
Trees School
District) and lower court decisions are an integral
part of the exhibit. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">The
2009 edition includes efforts to censor the popular Harry Potter’s children's
books (Harry Potter books were burned in Alamogordo, New
Mexico). Besides new cases, there is an update of
censorship incidents in school libraries and classrooms that have occurred in
the past. Quality copies have been reproduced which may be readily presented on
posters or bulletin boards in your library and then retained by you as a
reference source.<b style=""> </b>If your space is
limited, we suggest that you rotate the incidents of censorship during the time
the exhibit is on display. Excerpts from the exhibit are on our web site <a href="http://www.the-licac.org/">www.the-licac.org</a>. Click on Exhibits,
"Censorship in Schools and Libraries" (for a description of the exhibit) and
then Selected Cases. You may order the exhibit by e-mail or sending a purchase
order to the LI Coalition Against Censorship, PO Box 296, Port
Washington, N.Y. 11050. The cost of the exhibit
including mailing charges is $40.00. We request payment within 30 days
<u>after</u> you receive the exhibit. If you need any additional information our
e-mail address is <a href="mailto:coalcen1@verizon.net">coalcen1@verizon.net</a>
or call (516) 944-9799.</span></p>
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Parker, Co-coordinator, LI Coalition Against Censorship</span></p>
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