The Secretary of State in Illinois is also the State Librarian who oversees a grant budget that funds literacy projects based in local libraries, churches, and community centers.
this whole thing with criminalizing books. dumping anything to do with black history, with sex, and with questioning or choice. libraries are turning into the big empty. do they strip it of James Baldwin. How about Faulkner. Who else what else. Should some books be defined by age -- like games are.
Read ‘em and weep. Faulkner presents the censor with a problem like Bukowski. Pretty gnarly sex. If you banned Faulkner, though, the horses and the barns and burnings, Sutpen, the handmade coffins, the clocks late or early always, you would be banning history as a knowledge domain. You would be in cuckoo land. I have faith in school librarians--in university librarians too. If it is a game, they should play it as they see it. I trust in their expertise.
this whole thing with criminalizing books. dumping anything to do with black history, with sex, and with questioning or choice. libraries are turning into the big empty. do they strip it of James Baldwin. How about Faulkner. Who else what else. Should some books be defined by age -- like games are.
Read ‘em and weep. Faulkner presents the censor with a problem like Bukowski. Pretty gnarly sex. If you banned Faulkner, though, the horses and the barns and burnings, Sutpen, the handmade coffins, the clocks late or early always, you would be banning history as a knowledge domain. You would be in cuckoo land. I have faith in school librarians--in university librarians too. If it is a game, they should play it as they see it. I trust in their expertise.
when they are in charge of it, sure.