Come join the B.C. Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee as we make buttons, discuss current events, have a drink, and listen to local authors read from some challenged and banned books. Did you know that Harry Potter was a challenged book? Authors to be announced. Saturday February 28th, 7pm-midnight at Rhizome Cafe 317 East Broadway. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘IFC’
Freedom to Read Week Meet-Up in Vancouver
Posted in Freedom to Read Week, tagged event, FRTW, IFC, Vancouver on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
folks from word on the street
Posted in events, IFC/IPC, Uncategorized, tagged IFC, IFC/IPC, Word on the Street on October 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 look [...]
more photos (click on the thumbnail to see the full size image)
Posted in events, IFC/IPC, tagged IFC, IFC/IPC, photos, Word on the Street on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Martha and BCLA President Deb Thomas The super cute tiger kid Quizmaster Sylvia
Word on the Street
Posted in events, IFC/IPC, tagged IFC, IFC/IPC, Word on the Street on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 demonstrates super absorbent towels [...]
word on the street
Posted in events, IFC/IPC, tagged IFC, IFC/IPC, Word on the Street on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 away [...]
buttons buttons buttons
Posted in events, tagged IFC on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
IFC listserv
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged IFC on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Photo by arimoore While I hope you’re checking back regularly, or have added this to an aggregator, you may want to also join the IFC email listserv. The email list is more announcements (of meetings, deadlines, events) while I hope this blog will grow into the place where we host more discussions. Planting that seed…
ain`t on the globe and mail bestseller list
Posted in collection development, tagged BCLA conference, IFC on August 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I first got involved with the intellectual freedom committee (IFC) by presenting on the Ain`t on the G&M panel at the BCLA conference. Here`s the rationale behind presenting lesser known materials, often from small independent publishers (from the IFC page): For the past three years, members of the BCLA Intellectual Freedom Committee and other librarians [...]
hello…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged IFC on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While we are waiting to find out what Canadian server this blog will land on, I thought I’d get the ball rolling. I hope this blog will be a way for us to: communicate within The British Columbia Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee, with the Association as a whole (especially folks outside the Lower Mainland), [...]
