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The Library Bill of Rights is the American Library Association's statement expressing the rights of library users to intellectual freedom and the expectations the association places on libraries to support those rights. The Association's Council has adopted a number of interpretations of the document applying it to various library policies.
Carnegie Libraries Across America: A Public Legacy (1997) Kranich, Nancy. “Libraries and Democracy Revisited.” Library Quarterly 90, no. 2 (April 2020): 121–53. Latham, Joyce M. 2011 "Memorial Day to Memorial Library: The South Chicago Branch Library as Cultural Terrain, 1937-1947." Libraries & the Cultural Record 46, no. 3: 321-342.
Learning centers are typically set up in a classroom to encourage children to make choices. As they work in the centers they learn to work independently as well as cooperatively. This gives the child more control over what they do. [1] Learning centers offer one easy route to addressing children's individual learning styles. [2]
According to PEN America's annual book-banning report, restrictions on books have increased 33% since last year, but students offer a glimmer of hope.
After parents in a rural and staunchly conservative Wyoming county joined nationwide pressure on librarians to pull books they considered harmful to youngsters, the local library board obliged ...
Human rights is a professional ethic that informs the practice of librarianship. [8] The American Library Association (ALA), the profession's voice in the U.S., defines the core values of librarianship as information access, confidentiality/privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, intellectual freedom, preservation, the public good, professionalism, service and social ...
With over 15 million books sold, motivational speaker and author Tony Robbins has accumulated millions of readers and attendees to his seminar events since his breakout best selling book, Awaken ...
Simon J. Bronner (ed.), "Book Clubs", Encyclopedia of American Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press, OCLC 213273863 + "Print Culture" Rare Book School (in Virginia) bibliographies: History of the Book in America: A Survey from Colonial to Modern; History of the Book in America, c. 1700–1830; American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820–1940