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This week is Freedom to Read Weekf in Canada. I’ve been a bit remiss in posting relevant information here, even as I’ve been doing a daily post on the topic over on my personal blog which could’ve been easily cross-posted here. (Next year!)

But I do have something that I wanted to cross-post on both sites to close out the week: the results of the CLA’s Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom’s web survey titled “Tracking Challenged Resources in Canadian Libraries” (PDF) for the year 2006.

This report doesn’t include every instance of book challenges in Canada last year but does give a good overview of some of the types of materials that get challenged, the reasons why and the response of and/or actions taken by the reporting library.

Thanks to Toni Samek, who is chair of that committee, for permission to post this document.

- JH

Freeway Blogger is a clearing house for photos of signs that people are erecting on highways around the United States and beyond to protest the Iraq War and the Bush Administration - some humourous, some pointed, some poignant.

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It’s that time of year again, Freedom to Read Week. On that topic, Toni Samek gave a interview to the University of Alberta Radio CSJR. In her words:

The interview was an opportunity to talk about librarians as part of the Freedom to Read initiatives — but about librarianship in general.

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The show will available on the CSJR News website in the afternoon of Friday the 24th. From that site, I found that they had interviewed a librarian from the Edmonton Public Library (EPL). Did you know that the EPL gives out a special library card that allows you to borrow books from the University of Alberta? What a great idea!