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• July

  Vol. 60 No. 4 (2011)

  In This Issue:

  And Tango Makes Three is "most challenged"

  survey shows Americans oppose banning books

  "Jefferson Muzzles" mark twentieth year

  Florida Koran burning sparks Afghan violence

  Google settlement in limbo, but universities continue research on digitized books

  how much does your iPhone know about you?

  domestic intelligence surveillance grew in 2010

  Finan receives 2011 FTRF Roll of Honor award

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, university, book, periodical, art, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, library, schools, student press, universities, public art

  is it legal?: schools, colleges and universities, privacy and surveillance, prisons

  success stories: schools

• May

  Vol. 60 No. 3 (2011)

  In This Issue:

  Judge rejects Google book settlement

  Book banners find power in numbers

  Facebook, Twitter absent from free speech pact

  Creationists try new tactics

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, college, art, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, colleges and universities, libel

  is it legal?: libraries, schools, colleges and universities, religious freedom, government surveillance

  success stories: libraries, university

• March

  Vol. 60 No. 2 (2011)

  In This Issue:

  school book challenges increasingly organized

  IFC report to ALA Council

  FTRF report to ALA Council

  Downs Award to Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

  monitoring America

  a “sanitized” Huck Finn?

  the issues at stake behind WikiLeaks

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, college, art

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, colleges and universities, broadcasting, privacy, prisons

  is it legal?: libraries, schools, colleges and universities, government surveillance, USA PATRIOT Act, FBI, privacy, Internet

  success stories: schools, colleges and universities

• January

  Vol. 60 No. 1 (2011)

  In This Issue:

  increase reported in Canadian library book challenges

  report shows broadband adoption rises while ‘gap’ persists

  Chinese centers prompt academic freedom concerns

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, community college, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, schools, colleges and universities, harmful to minors, Internet

  is it legal?: library, schools, colleges and universities, prison, homeland security, Internet

  success stories: schools

• November

  Vol. 59 No. 6 (2010)

  In This Issue:

  Texas board warns against “pro-Islamic” texts

  U.S. tries to make it easier to wiretap the Internet

  publisher agrees to cut “pro-creationism” material from high school science textbook

  will privatized libraries uphold intellectual freedom?

  Pentagon to buy books to keep their contents secret plaintiff who challenged FBI’s national security letters reveals concerns

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools

  from the bench: student press, colleges and universities, confidentiality

  is it legal?: libraries, colleges and universities, privacy

  success stories: library

• September

  Vol. 59 No. 5 (2010)

  In This Issue:

  IFC report to ALA Council

  prisoners’ right to read

  FTRF report to ALA Council

  professors seek to defend speech protections

  Jewish groups protest UC handling of anti-Semitism

  an X-rated Internet domain?

  why Russians back censorship

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, university, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, broadcasting, student press, colleges and universities, copyright

  is it legal?: colleges and universities, copyright, privacy

  success stories: libraries, college, Internet

• July

  Vol. 59 No. 4 (2010)

  In This Issue:

  TTYL series tops ‘most challenged’ list

  Texas board adopts new curriculum

  Burton Joseph O’Neil named to 2010 FTRF Honor Roll

  Irvine responds to heckling incident

  change on horizon for British libel law?

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, periodicals, music video

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, libraries, student press, colleges and universities, Internet

  is it legal?: schools, student press, colleges and universities, PATRIOT Act, libel, privacy

  success stories: libraries, schools

• May

  Vol. 59 No. 3 (2010)

  In This Issue:

  Texas conservatives push through

  curriculum changes

  is heckling free speech?

  FCC broadband plan to focus on privacy, competition

  online privacy vanishing?

  technology coalition seeks stronger privacy laws

  Google shuts China site in censorship dispute

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, colleges and universities, prisons

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, “under God,” schools, colleges and universities, national security, confidentiality and privacy

  is it legal?: libraries, schools, colleges and universities, visas, copyright, comic books, libel, privacy

  success stories: libraries, university

• March

  Vol. 59 No. 2 (2010)

  In This Issue:

  Supreme Court rejects ban on corporate

  political spending

  IFC report to ALA Council

  resolution in honor of the LeRoy C. Merritt

  Humanitarian Fund’s fortieth anniversary

  FTRF report to ALA Council

  West Bend Library wins Downs Award

  conservatives gain in Texas textbook battle

  AAUP unveils new Journal of Academic Freedom

  J.D. Salinger, 1919–2010

  Facebook founder: online privacy

  not a “social norm”

  press freedom in Russia: a tale of contradictions

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, university, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, schools, colleges and universities, libel, video games, public employee speech, prisons

  is it legal?: colleges and universities, privacy, telecommunications

  success stories: library, colleges and universities

• January

  Vol. 59 No. 1 (2010)

  In This Issue:

  ALA names Jones to head OIF, FTRF

  colleges and universities urged to defend free speech

  Google and partners revise terms of digital book deal

  WTO could challenge Internet censorship

  libel law campaign launched in England

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, student press, publishing, music, prisons, book burning, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, national security, school, leafletting, license plates

  is it legal?: colleges and universities, privacy

  success stories: library

• November

  Vol. 58 No. 6 (2009)

  In This Issue:

  PATRIOT Act debate

  VLA Resolution on PATRIOT Act

  “librarians shushed no more”

  banned authors speak out

  new book censorship map reveals national problem

  free people read freely

  Google book settlement delayed

  Amazon offers to replace Orwell books

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, publishing, university, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court

  is it legal?: Internet, freedom to travel

  success stories: libraries, prisons

• September

  Vol. 58 No. 5 (2009)

  In This Issue:

  Krug honored at FTRF 40th anniversary

  Brennan Award to Judith Krug

  privacy in an era of change

  IFC report to ALA Council

  FTRF report to ALA Council

  Obama committed to network neutrality

  academic freedom under fire

  website tracks censorship reports

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, Internet, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, libraries, colleges and universities, publishing

  is it legal?: libraries, colleges and universities,publishing, privacy

  success stories: libraries, schools

• July

  Vol. 58 No. 4 (2009)

  In This Issue:

  Tango most challenged for third year

  commemorating Judith Krug

  letter from President Barack Obama

  ALA chapters honor Judith Krug

  library trustees removed in censorship controversy

  groups launch effort to amend PATRIOT Act

  FISA surveillance down, NSL requests up

  in review: Nation of Secrets

  scholar rescue in today’s world

  AAUP cautions colleges on speakers

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, student press

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court

  is it legal?: libraries, Internet, comics

  success stories: libraries, schools, colleges and universities

• May

  Vol. 58 No. 3 (2009)

  In This Issue:

  Judith Krug, 1940–2009

  remembering Judith Krug

  reaching through the schoolhouse gate

  anxiety over religious offense limits free speech

  report cites privacy concerns in cloud computing

  Berkman Center rides herd on Internet censorship

  Churchill wins lawsuit, but only $1 in damages

  “torture memos” v. academic freedom

  Obama must tread fine line on scholars barred for their views

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, student press, colleges and universities, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, colleges and universities, video games, privacy

  is it legal?: national security, colleges and universities, evolution and creation, copyright

  success stories: libraries, schools, university

• March

  Vol. 58 No. 2 (2009)

  In This Issue:

  Obama orders rollback of government secrecy

  IFC report to ALA Council

  FTRF report to ALA Council

  one library’s experience with censorship

  report calls online threats overblown

  panel urges Obama to ease limits on scientific exports and visas

  Ayers cancels speech at U. of Toronto after being denied entry into Canada

  Krug earns Brennan Award

  2008 Downs Award given to Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, college, retail, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, libraries, schools, PATRIOT Act, privacy, access to information, visas, labor rights

  is it legal?: schools, university, privacy, child pornography

  success stories: libraries, schools

• January

  Vol. 58 No. 1 (2009)

  In This Issue:

  U.S. listened in on calls of Americans

  Wasilla library rejects donated titles

  “bong hits 4 Jesus” case settled

  professors keep political views quiet

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, colleges and universities

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court

  is it legal?: library, colleges and universities, broadcasting, privacy, copyright, obscenity

  success stories: libraries, schools, colleges and universities

• November

  Vol. 57 No. 6 (2008)

  In This Issue:

  library censorship becomes campaign issue

  EPA reopens five shuttered libraries

  Internet boosts students’ appreciation for First Amendment

  textbook council accuses publisher of being politically correct on Islam

  British libel laws violate human rights, says UN

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, student press, publishing, film, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, library, schools, colleges and universities, political expression, prior restraint, insults, shield law, copyright, spam

  is it legal?: library, schools, colleges and universities, foreign scholars, etc.

  success stories: libraries, schools

• September

  Vol. 57 No. 5 (2008)

  In This Issue:

  ACLU challenges expanded FISA powers

  chilling effects of “libel tourism”

  IFC report to ALA Council

  FTRF report to ALA Council

  FTRF honors Carol Nemeyer

  a new Church Committee?

  Michigan to stop distributing radical publisher

  censorship dateline: libraries, universities, comic book, foreign

  from the bench: library, church and state, broadcasting, bookstores, privacy, Internet, political protest, libel

  is it legal?: libraries, schools, student press, colleges and universities, church and state, Internet, political protest, privacy, obscenity, international

• July

  Vol. 57 No. 4 (2008)

  In This Issue:

  Tango tops “most challenged” list

  domestic spying outpaces terrorism prosecutions

  senate report on terrorism and Internet generates criticism

  police and former Secret Service agents spy on green groups

  litigator named “library champion”

  censorship dateline: libraries, school, student press, art, advertising, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, schools, academic freedom, university, privacy, obscenity

  is it legal?: libraries, school, Internet, colleges and universities, evolution and creation, “harmful to minors,” “sexually explicit” material

  success stories: libraries

• May

  Vol. 57 No. 3 (2008)

  In This Issue:

  librarians’ outcry returns “abortion” to federal health database

  ALA, other book groups defend reader privacy from national security letters

  FBI found to misuse security letters

  NSA’s domestic spying grows

  arbitrator rules against EPA on library closures; agency gives Congress library reopening timeline

  Google investors seek censorship ban

  2008 Jefferson Muzzle Awards

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, colleges and universities, Internet, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, schools, colleges and universities, periodicals, video games

  is it legal?: libraries, schools, colleges and universities, government surveillance, bookselling, broadcasting, Internet

  success stories: libraries, schools, foreign

• March

  Vol. 57 No. 2 (2008)

  In This Issue:

  Obama orders rollback of government secrecy

  IFC report to ALA Council

  FTRF report to ALA Council

  one library’s experience with censorship

  report calls online threats overblown

  panel urges Obama to ease limits on scientific exports and visas

  Ayers cancels speech at U. of Toronto after being denied entry into Canada

  Krug earns Brennan Award

  2008 Downs Award given to Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, college, retail, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, libraries, schools, PATRIOT Act, privacy, access to information, visas, labor rights

  is it legal?: schools, university, privacy, child pornography

  success stories: libraries, schools

• January

  Vol. 57 No. 1 (2008)

  In This Issue:

  most censored stories of 2006–07

  book challenges on rise in Texas

  librarians object to firing of archivist

  a call to defend academic freedom

  Yahoo! settles with Chinese journalists

  crackdowns on bloggers on rise

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, student press, colleges and universities, broadcasting

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, secrecy

  is it legal?: libraries, school, colleges and universities, publishing, church and state, free expression, Internet, libel

  success stories: libraries, schools, colleges and universities, art

• November

  Vol. 56 No. 6 (2007)

  In This Issue:

  Cambridge contacts U.S. libraries over Alms for Jihad

  prisons to restore purged religious books

  AAUP issues statement on “Freedom in the Classroom”

  pessimistic views on academic freedom

  AAP tones down anti-open access campaign

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, student press, colleges and universities, broadcasting, art, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, national security letters, student press, colleges and universities, Internet, child pornography, etc.

  Is it legal?: library, school, church and state, government surveillance, visas, colleges and universities, political expression

  success stories: libraries, publishing, telecommunications

• September

  Vol. 56 No. 5 (2007)

  In This Issue:

  ALA urges reform of NSLs

  IFC report to ALA Council

  ALA resolution on NSLs

  fostering media diversity in libraries

  FTRF report to ALA Council

  Senate committee asks EPA to reopen libraries

  judges criticizes wiretap program

  new ALSC publication helps kids understand IF

  Norma Gabler dies at 84

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, colleges and universities, bookstores, art, foreign

  from the bench: U.S. Supreme Court, library, colleges and universities, broadcasting, Internet, government secrecy, terrorism, yard signs, commercial speech

  is it legal?: schools, colleges and universities, publishing, church and state, national security letters

  success stories: libraries, schools, student press, art

• July

  Vol. 56 No. 4 (2007)

  In This Issue:

  And Tango Makes Three tops ALA list of most-challenged books

  teen authors unite against censorship

  FBI director questioned on misuse of NSLs

  Connecticut John Does win ProQuest-SIRS Award

  Wisconsin librarians seek privacy-law amendment

  EPA libraries still disposing and dispersing materials

  student play heads off-Broadway

  Pentagon intelligence chief proposes ending a database

  censorship dateline: libraries, schools, student press, university, military, foreign

  from the bench: libraries, schools, colleges and universities

  is it legal?: libraries, schools, colleges and universities, broadcasting, Internet

  success stories: libraries, schools