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How to Recognize and Combat Soft Censorship

  • Webinar
  • 1 CE Hour
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Description

This session will explore the subtle menace of soft censorship, where external pressures, self-censorship, and quiet biases influence the selection, access, and removal of materials in school libraries. School librarians play a pivotal role in ensuring diverse and inclusive collections, but the fear of controversy, budget constraints, and community expectations can lead to the quiet exclusion of important voices and topics.

Learning objectives:

  1. Participants will learn how to create a collection development policy that protects intellectual freedom and ensures a broad range of prospectives in the library collection.
  2. Participants will learn strategies for having difficult conversations with administration, parents and/or other patrons, and teachers.
  3. Participants will learn strategies to overcome internal and external pressures and create and balanced, diverse, and age-appropriate collection.

Who Should Attend

K12 librarians and staff or anyone with an interest in the subject.

Presenters

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Tara Cooper Library Media Specialist

Tara Cooper is a library media specialist at Columbus City Schools in her 15th year of teaching. She reads an extreme amount of books every year to assist in her quest to get great books in the hands of as many students as possible. When she is not reading or teaching, she can be found watching baseball with her family and giant dogs.