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• Books Banned on Canada-U.S. Flights

  
  January Magazine — Authority: 435
  Are books dangerous? A new Transport Canada ban on almost all airline carry-on items would seem to indicate just that.The new measures were put in place as part of a massive security crackdown following the Christmas Day terrorist attempt. According to The Edmonton Journal, “U.S.-bound air travellers were forced to ...
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• Customs Rejects Overseas Scholar’s Appeal For Held Books

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 589
  From China Daily : An appeal by an overseas Chinese professor attempting to recover his books confiscated by customs upon his return trip from Hong Kong was rejected. Feng Chongyi , 48, associate professor of China Studies and deputy director of the China research center with the University of Technology in ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Birth of Ulysses in America

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 509
  Martha Scotford has a fantastic piece over at Design Observer titled Ulysses: Fast Track to 1934 Best Seller that looks at the publication and design history of this hi-spot of 20th literature. The piece highlights Bennett Cerfs , then publisher at Random House, commitment to the book and the legal challenges he ...
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• New Biog of Mahathir Isnt Reaching Shops

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 433
  800 copies of an authoritative new biography of our former PM entitled Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times have been held up for the past three weeks at customs at Port Klang. Says The Asian Sentinel , the book written by former Asian Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Barry Wain : ... ...
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• One Mans Sacred Books Is Another Mans Sacrilege

  
  Idol Chatter — Authority: 441
  David Michael Slaters first book, "Cheese Louise," was about a piece of Swiss cheese who doesnt like her holes. Youd think the cheese lobby would get up in arms about that calumny, but no, it wasnt until the Oregon public-school teacher had published a young adult novel that questions the factuality of the Bible that ...
  2 weeks ago

• School Librarian Curses at Children to Teach "Banned" Books; School Board Apologizes to Furious Parents But Not for Indoctrination; Direct Link from School to ALA is Established

  
  SafeLibraries — Authority: 462
  No books in the USA have been banned for about half a century.  Yet the American Library Association [ALA] continues to claim book banning happens every day, and it created " Banned Books Week " [BBW] to push its anything-goes agenda into local communities.  Now, as Reverend Wright would say, the chickens have ...
  3 weeks ago

• More Gay Penguin Dads!

  
  Mombian — Authority: 130
  Gay penguin dads Guido and Molly of the East London Aquarium in South Africa have been caring for their unnamed chick since it was born five months ago, reports The Sun . The pair began to incubate the egg after an opposite-sex couple rejected it. (Molly was originally thought to be female, hence her name, but is in ...
  3 weeks ago

• University of Pretoria Library’s September Project

  
  the september project — Authority: 92
  We recently received an email from Fatima Darries, Faculty Library Leader of Economic and Management Science at Merensky Library at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Fatima writes: Dear Colleagues, Rather late than never, I would like to tell you about the Library of the University of Pretoria’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• ALA Blowhards

  
  SafeLibraries — Authority: 462
  The Annoyed Librarian discusses another annoyed librarian and American Library Association [ALA] "blowhards."  Here is an excerpt from " Another Annoyed Librarian ," by Annoyed Librarian , Library Journal , 9 December 2009, (and be sure to read the comments) emphasis mine: The November issue of Against the Grain ...
  4 weeks ago

• Jorge Amados Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

  
  This and That — Authority: 138
  Ive been helping a friend do some research on gay rights in Latin America and he had to have one source that was a piece of art, film or literature. I had previously read Jorge Amados Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon , and remembered the following: "Speaking of appetizers, let me have something. Anything to kill the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Phyllis Schlafly Exposes ALA Fraud; Banned Books Week is Ridiculous Event; Censorship Claims are Fraudulent

  
  SafeLibraries — Authority: 462
  Phyllis Schlafly has exposed American Library Association [ALA] fraud regarding Banned Books Week [BBW] and false claims of censorship.  She is on the left in the picture at right ( credit ) with the former de facto leader of the ALA , the very person who created BBW. See (or hear ): " The Silliest ...
  4 weeks ago

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