Know Your Rights: Intellectual Freedom & LibrariesLike this list

12 items

• The Most Dangerous Book

  the Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses

  Birmingham, Kevin

  Add The Most Dangerous Book to your for later shelf

  Whether you love it or hate it, James Joyce’s Ulysses created an uproar when it was released in installments from 1918-1920 and it was banned in England and the U.S.

• Censored 2017

  the Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2015-2016

  Huff, Mickey

  Add Censored 2017 to your for later shelf

  A survey of the many important, yet overlooked news stories in the previous year. Look for the 2018 edition in October.

• Not Free, Not for All

  Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow

  Knott, Cheryl, 1954-

  Add Not Free, Not for All to your for later shelf

  This carefully researched book dismantles the notion that libraries have always been neutral, free, and open.

• Book Banning in 21st-century America

  Knox, Emily, 1976-

  Add Book Banning in 21st-century America to your for later shelf

  An investigation of the rationale behind book challenges.

• Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

  a Biography of the First Amendment

  Lewis, Anthony, 1927-2013

  Add Freedom for the Thought That We Hate to your for later shelf

  Explores the First Amendment and its unique protections.

• Burn This Book

  PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word

  Add Burn This Book to your for later shelf

  A collection of essays edited by Toni Morrison about the power of literature.

• Intellectual Privacy

  Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age

  Richards, Neil (Professor of law)

  Add Intellectual Privacy to your for later shelf

  How often are privacy and free speech at odds with each other? And, which should supersede the other?

• Free Speech

  a Very Short Introduction

  Warburton, Nigel, 1962-

  Add Free Speech to your for later shelf

  Enjoy this quick overview about free speech as a constitutional right.

• Campus Politics

  What Everyone Needs to Know®

  Zimmerman, Jonathan, 1961-

  Add Campus Politics to your for later shelf

  This brief guide broaches important questions about the evolving role of academic freedom on university and college campuses today.

• Intellectual Freedom Blog - The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association

  View on ala.org

  Follow current events related to intellectual freedom, free speech, and The First Amendment via this blog.

• The Library Freedom Project

  View on libraryfreedomproject.org

  Library Freedom Project is a partnership among librarians, technologists, attorneys, and privacy advocates which aims to address the problems of surveillance by making real the promise of intellectual freedom in libraries

• The Paradox of Tolerance - Wikipedia

  View on wikipedia.org

  The paradox states that if a society is tolerant without limit, their ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant.