This article is about a children’s book, Buster’s Sugartime by Marc Brown, that has been challenged in the Union School District in Tulsa. Luckily the Union school board voted to keep the book on the shelf. The book includes some children who have same-sex parents. Dr. Van Fleet posted this on Desire2Learn in our Evaluation Methods [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Challenged Children’s Book
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, censorship, children on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Licenced to Kill…Culture
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged access, Copyright & Intellectual Property, Google, libraries, preservation on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is society becoming bound and gagged by overzealous licencing? Will our culture be hamstrung by copyright? There’s cause for concern… Thanks to my friend Catherine Wilson for sending me a link to this article by Lawrence Lessig: For the Love of Culture: Google, copyright, and our future
One More Round
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged grad school, library & information studies on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At long last, I am about to begin my last semester in the OU School of Library & Information Studies! I’m heavily entrenched in putting my professional portfolio together, so my postings have become somewhat sparse. In a few weeks I will post a link to my portfolio website so any interested parties can see [...]
