A newspaper article about \u201ccontroversial\u201d\u009d children\u2019s books prompts a parent to say \u201cI certainly hope our library doesn\u2019t have any of these.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Are you ready to respond? <\/p>\n
Join us on Friday, July 10, 2009, in Chicago for the 2009 Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Preconference: \u201cMeeting the Challenge: Practical Tips and Inspiring Tales on Intellectual Freedom.\u201d\u009d <\/p>\n
The day will offer strategies for addressing complaints and stories to strengthen resolve. Author Judy Blume, librarians Carolyn Caywood, Carrie Gardner, James LaRue, and others will offer pragmatic advice and passionate perspectives on intellectual freedom. <\/p>\n
Mark your calendars now for this exhilarating preconference, being held just prior to the American Library Association annual meeting. Registration will open along with ALA early bird registration on January 2, 2009. Registration for the preconference will include breakfast and lunch.<\/p>\n
Jeanne McDermott
\nMember, 2009 ALSC Preconference Planning Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A newspaper article about \u201ccontroversial\u201d\u009d children\u2019s books prompts a parent to say \u201cI certainly hope our library doesn\u2019t have any of these.\u201d\u009d Are you ready to respond? Join us on Friday, July 10, 2009, in Chicago for the 2009 Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Preconference: \u201cMeeting the Challenge: Practical Tips and Inspiring Tales on Intellectual Freedom.\u201d\u009d The day will offer strategies for addressing complaints and stories to strengthen resolve. Author Judy Blume, librarians Carolyn Caywood, Carrie Gardner, James LaRue, and others will offer pragmatic advice and passionate perspectives on intellectual freedom. Mark your calendars now for this exhilarating preconference, being held just prior to the American Library Association annual meeting. Registration will open along with ALA early bird registration on January 2, 2009. Registration for the preconference will include breakfast and lunch. Jeanne McDermott Member, 2009 ALSC Preconference Planning Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[11,47,10,8,41,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-priority-group-i","category-collection-development","category-committees","category-conferencesmeetingsinstitutes","category-intellectual-freedom","category-professional-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}