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Children's Book About Gun-Toting Parents Gets A Public Beat Down by Stephen Colbert
After HBO talk show host Bill Maher airs a segment about a book called My Parents Open Carry, about a 13-year-old girl and her gun-toting parents, the book becomes a popular subject of mockery—with former Egmont USA publisher Elizabeth Law weighing in on the conversation.
Palo Alto School to Be Recognized for Starting 13 Libraries in Africa
Through the African Libraries Project, a nonprofit that partners U.S. donors with recipient schools in rural Africa, Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto, California has helped create 13 new libraries in Africa over the past eight years. This year, the school will be honored with the Compassion in Action Award in September.
U.S. DOE Awards $28.4 Million in Advanced Placement Grants to Low-Income Students
Today, the White House Department of Education announced that its Advanced Placement (AP) Test Fee Program will pay out $28.4 million in grants to help defray AP test-taking costs for low-income students.
Amazon Reveals Sticking Points with Hachette
In a Kindle forum post dated July 29, Amazon reveals specific details of its sticking points with Hachette Publishing Group over profit-share and ebook pricing—and in doing so, doesn't do Hachette any favors.
We Need Diverse Books Incorporates
The now-ubiquitous #WeNeedDiverseBooks (WNDB) hashtag and campaign has filed for incorporation in Pennsylvania, according to a WNDB blog post dated July 29.
We Ask SLJ Columnists & Bloggers: What Are You Reading This Summer?
SLJ asked some of its columnists and bloggers the big question: what are you reading this summer?
"Gay Penguin" Book Allowed to Remain in Singapore Libraries
It’s been two zigzag weeks for the National Library Board in Singapore that has been the focus of international media furor since it announced two weeks ago that all copies of the children’s books containing gay themes were not only been banned from the state’s collections, but would be pulped. The international community pushed back, and in a surprising reversal, the National Library Board changed its mind.
University of Illinois and Freedom to Read Foundation Offer Intellectual Freedom Course
The Freedom to Read Foundation and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are joining forces to offer an online graduate-level course “Intellectual Freedom and Censorship” for library and information science students around the country held August 26–October 10.
FCC Approves E-Rate Plan to Inject $2 Billion into WiFi for Schools and Libraries
On July 11, the FCC narrowly passed the "Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" for the Program to Modernize E-Rate which translates into $2 billion over the next two years towards WiFi funding in schools and libraries.
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