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Nancy Pearl

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Banned Books Week: Nancy Pearl, Egalitarian Librarian

Dacia Clay

Posted on September 28, 2016 · The most librarian of librarians talks about "unconscious book banning" and the democracy of librarianship.

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Literature

Banned Books Week: James LaRue, American Library Association

Dacia Clay

Posted on September 26, 2016 · Do we still need Banned Books Week when we have the internet?

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Posted on September 28, 2016 · This week (Sept. 25 — Oct. 1, 2016) is Banned Books Week, celebrating intellectual freedom and the freedom to read in the United States. In her web series Writing the City, Houston Public Media's Dacia Clay is highlighting the event all this week with interviews with educators and activists. That included a conversation with James […]

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