OLA Intellectual Freedom Staff Training Resources
Staff training resources about free speech and Banned Books Week
This page includes archived webinars, video clips and other resources about free speech and Banned Books Week.
Webinars
Webinar:: Before the Mud Flies: Conversations for Banned Books Week (1 hour) This 2015 ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom webinar provides talking points explain to library board members, principals, fellow teachers etc. about the First Amendment’s right to read and the censorship that is still happening in our country. https://youtu.be/6yBwSy9kNhQ
- Fifty Shades of Banned Books Week2016 ALA webinar (1 hour) with ideas, tips and resources for a successful Banned Books Week.
- Webinar: Intellectual Freedom for ALL: Safeguard Against Censorship of GLBT BooksArchived ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom Archived 2016 webinar from ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom (1 hour) Discusses GLBT Book Month for librarians and the new GLBT-RT Tool Kit "Open to All: Serving the GLBT Community in Your Library."
Video clips
Entertaining but content-rich presentation on free speech and its constitutional limits in America. (6 minutes)
- Salman Rushdie - Freedom of speech must be absoluteVideo clip (2 minutes)
- What a Banned Books List Tells Us About AmericaCBS News This Morning, 2016 (5 minutes). Great introduction to the ALA Banned Books list and why it is important.
- 6 Surprising Banned Books | What the Stuff?!Video clip (3.26 minutes). Light-hearted look at what sorts of books get challenged and banned.
Bill Moyers talks about how libraries provided his first opportunity to indulge his love of reading and learning, and shares his dismay over efforts to remove books from schools and libraries in modern times. (3 minutes)
ALA/OLA resources about challenges and Banned Books Week
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