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Book SynopsisPat Scales has been a passionate advocate for intellectual freedom long before she launched the Scales on Censorship column with School Library Journal in 2006. Decades of experience as a school librarian informs her ongoing work on these important and often volatile issues, as did her tenure in leadership roles on the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee and at the Freedom To Read Foundation. It also earned her a place among the inaugural list of Library Journal's Movers & Shakers in 2002. Since her first column for SLJ she has been in an ongoing conversation of sorts with librarians, teachers, and parentsa much needed conversation. This collection of the wide-ranging questions from readers and Scales' informative answers are gathered in broad thematic groups to help readers explore the all-too daily reality of confronting efforts to censor, ban, or otherwise limit open and ready access to materials in our schools and libraries. They were all written in respon
Trade ReviewSupportive, thorough and direct, Scales on Censorship acts as an essential guide in making decisions that will benefit the collective whole. In many scenarios, Scales outlines both the positive and negative outcomes of various approaches to censorship, giving the reader the ability to follow the outlined approach or create a different approach to a similar situation. In replying to specific questions, Scales references a litany of internet resources, print sources, court cases, and personal experience. The reader could apply the above resources to a myriad of censorship issues outside of the specific questions Scales directly references in the book. In doing so, this book becomes an essential manual every educational leader should keep, reference, and address throughout the decision-making process. * VOYA *
