This looks like it’s going to be hot, literarcy and smut-tastic. Hear local authors read queer erotica and the Little Sister’s staff reading smut that was stopped at the Boarder. Queerotica is part of the Pride in Art Festival.
WHEN:
7:30pm | Wednesday, July 30, 2008
WHERE:
The Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre (181 [...]
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Thanks to Janine Fuller for agreeing to speak, to Shannon LaBelle for convening this session at the BCLA conference, and to Ashley Dunne for the following session writeup.
Little Sister’s Bookstore: Fighting Censorship in Canada for Over 20 Years
Report by Ashley Dunne, SLAIS student
Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium is celebrating their 25th anniversary. They have [...]
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Posted in Little Sister's on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Check out Vancouver Men’s Chorus performing in Victoria June 7, Nanaimo June 8 and Kelowna June 28.
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Posted in Little Sister's on May 3, 2008 | No Comments »
The Vancouver Men’s Chorus is hosting a concert celebrating 25 years of Little Sister’s 25th anniversary and their long fight for intellectual freedom in Canada. The first concert is tonight May 3, 2008 at 8pm at the Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville Street, Vancouver. They will be [...]
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Written by and posted on behalf of Jon Scop
Janine Fuller ended her talk to a group of about thirty librarians and library students today by telling us that we inspired her, but I’d venture to say that it was Janine who provided a source of great inspiration to us. Janine has been [...]
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Jane Rule — author, activist, Order of Canada recipient, former UBC writing instructor — died last week. Out as a lesbian, and writing novels with lesbian characters before Canada’s homosexuality-banning laws were changed in 1969, she was dubbed “Canada’s only visible lesbian”.
Several of Jane Rule’s books, including “The Young in One Anothers’ Arms” which [...]
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The management team of the London Public Library recommended that adult workstations continue to be filtered with a commercial internet filter (Netsweeper). They had done a pilot project to see what patrons and staff thought of having many adult workstations filtered. Not children’s workstations, but adult ones.
I like that they are transparent in [...]
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Some great news today — SFU Library’s Special Collections has acquired the papers (quite a few boxes) relating to the Little Sisters Bookstore legal cases. While it will likely be some time before they are organized and accessible, it’s really fantastic that these documents are going to be housed and made available to researchers.
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At the BCLA conference this April we ran a no-bake sale with the Information Policy Committee to raise awareness and money for the Little Sister’s Defense Fund. We asked conference participants to make a donation for a brochure that explained the history of the Canadian Boarder Services Agency’s ongoing seizures of books bound [...]
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