Banned Books Week

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:17:00 -0500

This is Banned Books Week- a week dedicated to celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of free speech. Want to learn more about this topic? Check out the Library's Banned Books display in the Williams Reading Room or the resources listed below.

The American Library Association (ALA) has created an interactive map of where book bans & challenges have occurred in the last two years.

ALA has also posted the top ten challenged books and collected statistics on challenges over time including details about the challengers and reasons for the challenge.

Medical Archive Web Site Restores 'Abortion' as a Search Word

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:52:00 -0500

From Health Highlights:

Last week, California research librarian Gloria Won prompted Johns Hopkins officials to change a U.S.-government-funded web site dealing with population issues so that the word "abortion" was restored as search term in the site's search engine. In response to an inquiry from Ms. Won, Debra L. Dickson, an administrator of the POPLINE database, admitted that abortion had recently been made a stop word. "As a federally funded project, we decided this was best for now," said Dickson. Dr. Michael J. Klag, Dean of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Friday (April 4) told POPLINE administrators to restore "abortion" as a search term "immediately."

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Banned Books Week

Medical Archive Web Site Restores 'Abortion' as a Search Word