A wonderful offer from, Don Parker, Co-coordinator, Long Island Coalition Against Censorship
The Long Island Coalition Against Censorship (www.the-licac.org) is an association of 22
member organizations (16 are libraries and professional library organizations)
which have joined together to combat censorship in public libraries and public
schools.
We have two mounted sets of our exhibit, “Censorship in Schools and
Libraries,” that have circulated in New York state on a monthly basis in eleven
of the library systems.. A third set will be available in New Jersey beginning in
February 2010. There is no charge for the exhibit .
The 32 examples of censorship are
presented on 25” width x 36” height poster boards and each one includes 2
incidents of censorship with an illustration and text. A hanger is provided on
the back of each poster board for wall display. The history of censorship in
public libraries and schools highlights incidents of censorship that have
occurred in the United
States during the last 150 years. Included are
descriptions of the censorship of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, In
the Night Kitchen, The Catcher in the Rye. It also includes among
others the novels of Judy Blume, Chris Crutcher and Toni Morrison. The effort to
censor the 2007 Newbery prize winning book, The Higher Power of Lucky,
has been added to the exhibit.
Significant U.S. Supreme Court decisions and lower court decisions are an
integral part of the exhibit.
The exhibit includes continuing
efforts to censor the popular Harry Potter’s children's books (A few years ago,
Harry Potter books were burned in Alamogordo, New
Mexico). Added to the exhibit is the decision by the
United States Supreme Court requiring public libraries receiving federal funding
to install filters on all computers connected to the Internet. In addition .to
the new cases, there is an update of cases that have occurred since 1990.
If space is limited, we suggest
rotating the panels during the time the exhibit is on display. If you are
interested in reserving the exhibit, telephone 516-944-9799/ e-mail coalcen1[at]verizon.net. Excerpts from the exhibit are shown on our web site www.the-licac.org under “Censorship in Schools and Libraries” excerpts.
Don Parker, Co-coordinator
Long Island Coalition Against
Censorship
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