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Letter writing campaigns are chiefly intended to inform law makers, library officials, and citizens about the ramifications of decisions regarding public libraries and to promote library-related causes. [2] Letter writing has been a valuable form of communication among public library advocates.
Some people believe that the Patriot Act grants the government the right to inspect patron records without due cause in much the same way as the Library Awareness Program. Many library patrons complain about the difference between passive surveillance of a patron's information and the FBI's active role in censoring online information and the ...
[132] The ALA believed this to be an "unconscionable and unconstitutional invasion of library patrons' privacy." [132] As a result of these two situations and many others, the ALA affirmed the confidential status of all records which held patron names in a Policy on the Confidentiality of Library Records. The ALA also released the ALA Statement ...
The Library Bill of Rights is the American Library Association's statement expressing the rights of library users to intellectual freedom and the expectations the association places on libraries to support those rights. The Association's Council has adopted a number of interpretations of the document applying it to various library policies.
Oklahoma's education board has revoked the license of a former teacher who drew national attention during surging book-ban efforts across the U.S. in 2022 when she covered part of her classroom ...
This week's letter to the editor asks what we, as a community, and you, as an individual, can do to be accountable for children's behavior. Manitowoc letter-writer says parents should also be ...
The records also show that in 1796, membership had risen by 1/3 to 198 subscribers (of whom 5 were women) and the titles increased five-fold to 4,987. This mirrors the increase in reading interests. A patron list from the Bath Municipal Library shows that from 1793 to 1799, the library held a stable 30% of their patrons as female. [42]
The way patrons use library buildings is also changing. Libraries offered 3.75 million public programs in 2010, the equivalent of one free program per day in every public library in America. [5] Mirroring an increase in overall library usage, attendance at library programs increased by 22 percent between 2004 and 2008. [67]