Posted in Freedom to Read Week, events, international on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
When people find out that I’m a librarian they often respond “Oh, I love books”, mostly because I think they don’t know what else to say. The “I love books” people drive me nuts, and I usually respond with a snarky”I don’t like books at all” or “I don’t read fiction.” That usually shuts them [...]
Posted in Freedom to Read Week, events on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The IFC is cosponsoring three events over Freedom to Read Week in Vancouver. Order kits and posters, learn more about challenged books and magazines, and check out the blah, and find other events across Canada at the Canadian Book and Periodical Council’s website.
Posted in collection development, events, zines on November 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Thank you Boing boing for being an interesting, informative time sucker. If it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t have learned about the new zine library at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Thanks Alicia Nauta for taking photos and letting us know how the launch went:
I began collecting the zines in [...]
Posted in events, people on November 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Last night, 12 past and present members of the IFC committee, as well as former students and colleagues, met to honor and thank Ann Curry for her contributions to librarianship and intellectual freedom. She is moving to Edmonton to be the Director of the School of Library and Information Studies at U of [...]
Posted in IFC/IPC, events on November 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: The Morrissey, 1227 Granville Street
Whether you are a BCLA member or not, come out and mingle with folks from the various BCLA committees, including the Intellectual Freedom Committee. Library tech and school students are welcome. So are public, academic and special librarians. Info [...]
Posted in IFC, IFC/IPC, Word on the Street, events on October 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Heather noticed that perhaps because of the rain there were less people, but the people who did come by our booth wanted to talk a little more. Here are some of them.
First, there was Robert Chaplin. I bought two copies of his independently published book Ten Counting Cat. I love picture books that [...]
Posted in IFC, IFC/IPC, Word on the Street, events, photos on October 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in IFC, IFC/IPC, Word on the Street, events on October 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday 11 members of the Intellectual Freedom and Information Policy Committees braved the cold, wet, windy weather to entertain and educate at the Word on the Street literacy and book festival.
Everyone had their own unique way of drawing people in. Sylvia was like a carnival barker, or the guy who [...]
Posted in IFC, IFC/IPC, Word on the Street, events on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Look for our booth (with the Information Policy Committee) at Word on the Street. Spin the wheel, answer an information policy or intellectual freedom question and get some candy.
Get there early to buy a treasure hunt book bag for $18 at the information tent. We are one of the booths that is giving [...]
Posted in IFC, events on August 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Did you know that the BCLA office has a button maker that you can use? Contact the office to prebook or use it.
Here’s some of the slogans that we have made:
I *heart* my freedom to read
freadom
There’s something in my library to offend everyone (new tshirts coming soon!)
i read banned books
scrotum
several anti-DRM designs
