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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘international’
Karen Connelly & Deborah Campbell
Posted in events, Freedom to Read Week, tagged international on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
C is for censorship and circumvention
Posted in censorship, filtering, internet, tagged international on October 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The recent military crackdown in Burma got me thinking about access to information around the world. The media also commented on the role that the internet played in getting uncensored information out about the monk’s protests against the military dictatorship as well as how the internet was essentially shut off to stop the flow of [...]
