Soft Censorship: To Be or Not To Be? That Shouldn't Be a Question
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| author | Marie Masferrer |
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| contents | Soft Censorship: To Be or Not To Be? That Shouldn't Be a Question Marie Masferrer Censorship School Libraries Books Reading Material Selection Librarians Library Role School Policy Board of Education Policy Administrator Attitudes Principals Library Materials What can school librarians do about library and book censorship? First, ask questions. Find out what your principal and your district have put into policy and what your principal's expectations are for your school library. Then, communicate with your classroom teachers. For ourselves, school librarians should work with colleagues, especially other certified, degreed media specialists, to help identify our implicit and explicit biases, and even fears, when selecting materials for our school libraries. We should do this when we consider books for selection, weeding, and deselection. As school librarians, we don't always have a say in the books we include or remove from our collections, especially today. But we do have a voice. We have a powerful voice to speak out for our learners and their families who fear their stories will be removed from the shelves. You have a choice. You can move in fear and silence, or you can move in power and with your voice. Let's use that voice for our learners. |
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| spellingShingle | Soft Censorship: To Be or Not To Be? That Shouldn't Be a Question Marie Masferrer Censorship School Libraries Books Reading Material Selection Librarians Library Role School Policy Board of Education Policy Administrator Attitudes Principals Library Materials Soft Censorship: To Be or Not To Be? That Shouldn't Be a Question Marie Masferrer Censorship School Libraries Books Reading Material Selection Librarians Library Role School Policy Board of Education Policy Administrator Attitudes Principals Library Materials What can school librarians do about library and book censorship? First, ask questions. Find out what your principal and your district have put into policy and what your principal's expectations are for your school library. Then, communicate with your classroom teachers. For ourselves, school librarians should work with colleagues, especially other certified, degreed media specialists, to help identify our implicit and explicit biases, and even fears, when selecting materials for our school libraries. We should do this when we consider books for selection, weeding, and deselection. As school librarians, we don't always have a say in the books we include or remove from our collections, especially today. But we do have a voice. We have a powerful voice to speak out for our learners and their families who fear their stories will be removed from the shelves. You have a choice. You can move in fear and silence, or you can move in power and with your voice. Let's use that voice for our learners. |
| title | Soft Censorship: To Be or Not To Be? That Shouldn't Be a Question |
| topic | Censorship School Libraries Books Reading Material Selection Librarians Library Role School Policy Board of Education Policy Administrator Attitudes Principals Library Materials |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1438878 |