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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

MEETING THURSDAY for Library instruction in LIB 264a

It's not easy being a librarian these days...

With Rising Book Bans, Librarians Have Come Under Attack

…Addressing book challenges has always been part of the job, but efforts to ban bookshave spiked in recent months, reflecting a clash over whether and how to teach children about issues like L.G.B.T.Q. rights and racial inequality. The library association tracked 1,597 books that were challenged in 2021, the highest number since the organization began tracking bans 20 years ago… nyt
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Singular Ray

LISTEN. We had a serious and sober conversation in Environmental Ethics yesterday about the difference between living longer vs. living better, between a life of many years vs. a life of completion and earned satisfaction. I was encouraged by the maturity and wisdom of the young people in the room, whose acceptance of mortality stands in striking contrast to that of futurologist/transhumanist Raymond Kurzweil... (continues)

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