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"Fight the Filter" ISTE Sigms 2nd Webinar! Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010 at 8 pm E.S.T., 7 pm C.S.T., 6 pm M.S.T., 5 pm P.S.T Presenter: Buffy Hamilton Want to start your new year off by making a positive difference in your library program? Join SIGMS for our second FREE webinar on January 13 at 8 pm E.S.T. when Buffy Hamilton, The Unquiet Librarian, will share her ideas on "fighting the filter." For connection directions, visit http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net. Graphics from Buffy Hamilton's Slideshare and from Adobe PhotoElements if you don't know who Buffy Hamilton is....i invite you to read this AWEsome blog posting about her innovative Media Program in Georgia written by our beloved guru Joyce Valenza!

"If I had my way: More unquiet libraries!"

Yeah...She's a rock and a pop star!
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According to the Associated Press, The Bunny Suicides will remain on the shelves in Central Linn High School Library. Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian will be removed from classroom study but will be allowed to remain in the library. Full article is available from AP. I've had some positive resolutions to book challenges, but I also had one outrageous situation where a parent made her teenage foster child burn a library book Drawing the Human Form and it took me quite some time to recover from the shock that someone would actually burn a book instead of following through with a challenge. If anyone else would like to comment on their experiences with book challenges, I'd be interested to hear about them.
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