[WLA-All] Fwd: Exhibit for Banned Books Week

[Erin Kinney]

>>> <coalcen at juno.com > 8/14/2006 3:10:12 pm >>>

Reminder If you are interested in having a censorship display for
Banned Books Week (the last week in September), the Long Island
Coalition Against Censorship has a new edition of our exhibit,
Censorship in Schools and Libraries. The exhibit presents 30
illustrations of censorship each one approximately 11" x 14" with
accompanying text that is 11" x 14." The history of censorship in public
schools and libraries highlights incidents of censorship that have
occurred in the United States during the last 150 years. Included are
descriptions of the censorship of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, In the
Night Kitchen, The Catcher in the Rye, and the novels of Judy Blume and
Robert Cormier. U.S. Supreme Court decisions and lower court decisions
are an integral part of the exhibit. 

The new edition includes continuing efforts to censor the popular Harry
Potters children's books (A few years ago, Harry Potter books were
burned in Alamogordo, New Mexico), and renewed efforts in a number of
states to challenge the significance of evolution in science classes by
introducing intelligent design. Added to the exhibit is the decision by
the United States Supreme Court requiring public libraries receiving
federal funding to install filters on all computers connected to the
Internet. In addition to new incidents of censorship, there is an update
of cases that have occurred since 1990. 

Quality copies of the exhibit have been reproduced which may be readily
presented on poster or bulletin boards in libraries or classrooms and
retained by you in your resource file. If space is limited, we suggest
rotating the cases during the time the exhibit is on display. Excerpts
from the exhibit are on our web site www.the-licac.org . Click on
Exhibits, "Censorship in Schools and Libraries" and excerpts. The cost
of the exhibit including mailing charges is $38.00 postpaid by check or
money order. You may order the exhibit by sending an e-mail to
coalcen at juno.com . or a purchase order to the Long Island Coalition
Against Censorship, PO Box 296, Port Washington, N.Y. 11050. If you need
additional information contact us coalcen at juno.com or call (516)
944-9799 Donald Parker, Co-coordinator, L.I.Coalition Against
Censorship