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26
Feb

Kids Get R-Rated Movies at the Library

As Steven says, more bad press.

Embedded video above. Depending on your aggregator, you may need to visit the site itself to view
Another great topic of discussion for LIS students- especially those who seek careers in public libraries.

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08
Feb

Display at Mesa County Public Library Hostile to Gay Parents

Above: Embedded video of KJCT8 News (Grand Junction, CO) story
I’ll be processing this one for a while.
I respect and admire the library’s wish to avoid censorship of patron-created displays, but I also loathe this sort of anti-gay claptrap and am uneasy with the library being used to spread an evangelistic message that is […]

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30
Oct

Amnesty International API for Censored Web Content

Amnesty International’s Irrepressible.info is great, and they’re offering an API lets a blogger (or other sort of site owner/administrator) add a snippet of javascript that’ll pull banned content from Amnesty’s database and display it in your choice of formats.
Irrepressible
Adj. 1) Impossible to repress or control.
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. […]

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