<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-color:transparent">Welcome to another installment in a monthly series covering topics with intellectual freedom implications for libraries of all types.  Each message is prepared by a member of OLA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee.  Look for our message on a Tuesday each month of the academic year except December.  Questions can be directed to the IF Committee member who sent the message or to one of the co-chairs of the IFC.</span><br></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Cb67hQ--DLS1eT4JueZaLPTybx0kAMFJS9ioRosw6EIVKw69Dzao3EWvpuVJnPs7d8pvnnGvlFPnkmmpxglUKgUDRjguj0hBurO9pwx0pWMzYjddmSe1HUNloeDNWxcvTTpl-to" width="71px;" height="54px;" class="" style="border: none;"></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Let’s go to the beach! </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Can professional reading be page-turning? Sure it can! Here are 10 books (novels, nonfiction, and even manga) to take with you on your Summer vacation, each of them focusing on some aspect of intellectual freedom. Contents include censorship, mass-surveillance, hackers, copyright - and all of them will help you start thinking about intellectual freedom issues in new ways. Be inspired to new heights of militant librarianship for when you return to the library after your break!</span></p><br><ul style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><i>Whiskey Tango Foxtrot</i> by David Shafer (2014, fiction). Conspiracy alert! Big business wants to privatize everybody’s information (shocking, I know!) so an underground group needs to fight back. Some of the action is set in Oregon.</span></p></li></ul><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.0581817626953px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><ul style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><i>The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses</i> by Kevin Birmingham (2014, nonfiction). Writing <i>Ulysses </i>was the easy part: getting it published almost ruined Joyce. </span></p></li></ul><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.0581817626953px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><ul style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><i>Library Wars: Love & War</i> by Kiiro Yumi (2010, manga fiction, 13 volumes and counting). The federal government in this alternate-reality Japan has cracked down on “troubling” books. What do the local library systems do? They create the Library Forces to fight back! And it’s a romance.</span></p></li></ul><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.0581817626953px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><ul style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;marg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;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><i>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian</i> by Sherman Alexie (2007, young-adult fiction). According to people who don’t want it in the library, this young-adult novel is: anti-family, culturally insensitive, sexually explicit, violent, and contains drugs, alcohol, smoking, and gambling. And it was the United States’ </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2015/issues-and-trends" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">number one most challenged book in 2014</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">!</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">You can find all these titles and more on the </span><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/39800860-ola-intellectual-freedom?page=1&view=covers"><b>OLA Intellectual Freedom Committee’s Goodreads page</b></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Happy reading, and viva la liberitad intelectual!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">-Ross Betzer</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Information Services Librarian - Multnomah County Library</span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Member - Oregon Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee</span><i style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></i></span></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="mailto:rossbk@multcolib.org" target="_blank">rossbk@multcolib.org</a> | 503.988.5728</span></span></div>
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