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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On 6 May, an e-mail from a Vancouver Public Library Director instructed all VPL Branch Heads:
“If the Walk for Palestine poster is up in your branch please remove it. We have had a number of complaints about it.”
The poster advertised a number of events around Palestine Solidarity Month, and contained the phrase “60 Years of [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CLA08, CLA2008 on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Photo credit: mrkalhoon on flickr
There’s one session at the upcoming CLA conference in Vancouver dealing with intellectual freedom issues. This looks like it could be the library equivalent of the Rumble in the Jungle with Maurice Freedman squaring off against Paul Whitney. Freedman came and spoke while CUPE 391, who represent the Vancovuer [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
BCLA is a community partner with DOXA, documentary film festival in Vancouver for the documentary film Kill the Messenger.
In the wake of September 11, 2001, Sibel Edmonds is approached by the FBI. As an American of Iranian and Turkish origin, Edmonds’ linguistic skill set makes her a valuable asset to the Language Services Unit, where [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Unshelved is the only daily comic strip set in a public library. Recently, they had a great series of comics about a librarian dealing with a patron who is looking at “offensive” material on the Internet.
See http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080324 and subsequent days for a novel approach to a perennial issue ….
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
POPLINE is a free database of information on reproductive health. As with most databases, POPLINE has a list of stopwords that a search ignores. Usually, these are commonly occurring words like and and or. POPLINE has recently decided to make all abortion words stop words. This means that someone searching the POPLINE database for abortion [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2008 | 26 Comments »
This evening, I went down to the Vancouver Public Library’s main branch to hear Greg Felton talk. Now, I have to admit that even writing that sentence makes me feel slightly queasy. But this post isn’t going to be a dissection of Felton’s views. You can Google his name & find those out easily enough.
In [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday some folks came over and made buttons for Freedom to Read week. We had a conversation about about how book focused our slogans were. While book challenges are still an issue I think that unfiltered access to the internet is a larger issue. I tried to think up some snappy slogans, but only [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
At our IFC meeting last night, we talked a bit about Internet filtering. Is anyone talking about this any more? It seems as if most library systems we knew about have fallen into a groove of comfort with whatever decision they made about filtering all those years ago. Whether it’s completely unfiltered, filtering kids’ stations [...]
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BC writer Nikki Tate’s book Trouble on Tarragon Island was banned by the school librarian at Elizabeth Elementary in Kindersley, SK. The Globe and Mail has run two articles on this (Nov 13 and Nov 7) but you probably won’t be able to read them on their site as you need to pay for [...]
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