{"id":5800,"date":"2013-01-19T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T05:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2013-01-19T00:01:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T05:01:19","slug":"sweater-vest-sunday-its-time-to-show-your-support-for-intellectual-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/sweater-vest-sunday-its-time-to-show-your-support-for-intellectual-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweater Vest Sunday: It\u2019s Time to Show Your Support for Intellectual Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/sweater-vest-sunday-its-time-to-show-your-support-for-intellectual-freedom\/bbw_vert_banner2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5802\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5802\" alt=\"BBW_vert_banner2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BBW_vert_banner2.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BBW_vert_banner2.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BBW_vert_banner2-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>The Office for Intellectual Freedom is sponsoring \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oif.ala.org\/oif\/?p=4514\">Sweater Vest Sunday<\/a>\u201d\u009d on Sunday, January 27, 2013, to promote the freedom to read and the importance of reporting challenges to library materials.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re all familiar with the OIF\u2019s work with Banned Books Week, but did you know:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7The Office for Intellectual Freedom has a database on challenged materials going back to 1990?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7All challenges reported to OIF are\u00a0<b>confidential<\/b>?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7Reporting your challenge gives the OIF a better understanding of what is being challenged, where, by whom, and why, allowing the OIF to better support you?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7The OIF only publishes specific information about a challenge if that information is available through the media?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7In spite of all of this, it looks as though\u00a0<b>less than 25%<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b>of challenges are reported to the OIF?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7You can find out more about what OIF does in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=TSpcmJXLHQg\">this video<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Now that you\u2019ve got the facts straight, it\u2019s time to show your support for reporting challenges!<\/p>\n<p>Wear your sweater vest on Sunday, January 27\u00a0<b>and<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b>if you\u2019ll be at Midwinter, join us at the <a href=\"http:\/\/alamw13.ala.org\/node\/8650\">Intellectual Freedom Discussion Group session<\/a> from 1-2:30 pm in room 616 of the Washington State Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>For all of the details on how to participate\u00a0<i>whether you\u2019ll be at Midwinter or not,<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oif.ala.org\/oif\/?p=4514\">official press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Amanda Goldson, ALSC Intellectual Freedom committee member<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office for Intellectual Freedom is sponsoring \u201cSweater Vest Sunday\u201d\u009d on Sunday, January 27, 2013, to promote the freedom to read and the importance of reporting challenges to library materials. We\u2019re all familiar with the OIF\u2019s work with Banned Books Week, but did you know: \u00b7The Office for Intellectual Freedom has a database on challenged materials going back to 1990? \u00b7All challenges reported to OIF are\u00a0confidential? \u00b7Reporting your challenge gives the OIF a better understanding of what is being challenged, where, by whom, and why, allowing the OIF to better support you? \u00b7The OIF only publishes specific information about a challenge if that information is available through the media? \u00b7In spite of all of this, it looks as though\u00a0less than 25%\u00a0of challenges are reported to the OIF? \u00b7You can find out more about what OIF does in this video? Now that you\u2019ve got the facts straight, it\u2019s time to show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"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":[317,272,41,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2013","category-blogger-intellectual-freedom-committee","category-intellectual-freedom","category-other-ala-divisionsprograms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800","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\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}