Tulare County Supervisors Back Library in Firing of Probationary Staffer Norman Oder - 03/19/2008
Despite a probationary library assistant's contention that the loss of her job was connected to an unauthorized report to police that a library patron was looking at child pornography, the Tulare County Board of Supervisors, Visalia, CA, said an internal review determined that decision was not connected to that report.
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Was Probationary Tulare County Staffer Fired for Reporting Child Porn? Norman Oder - 03/17/2008
A probationary library assistant who went around official channels to report a man viewing child pornography to the police has been fired, and that has local residents and officials jumping to her defense. A library law expert reminds us that child porn is always illegal.
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Vancouver Library Under Fire for Hosting Controversial Author Called Anti-Semitic Norman Oder - 02/15/2008
Depending on whom you ask, the Vancouver Public Library, BC, either is taking freedom expression seriously by welcoming a harsh critic of Israel or giving an undeserved platform to a fringe author whose books appear in very few libraries.
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LJ Insider Rebecca Miller, Executive Editor, Library Journal April 10, 2008 Radical Is More than a State of Mind
I made myself late for class at Pratt last night when I ducked in to hear Jenna Freed... More
LJ Insider Raya Kuzyk, Associate Editor, Library Journal January 16, 2008 You Almost Had Us at Flash Mob
That an audience of some 200 librarians gathered for Midwinter’s SPARC-ACRL for... More
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