Making the Right to Read a Reality

A letter from the editor

We All Have the Right to Read What We Want

There are people who I am thankful for in the trajectory of my “success” in life, especially my family and my elementary school librarian, Mrs. Walker

The Right to Read: The Fight to Desegregate Southern U.S. Public Libraries

The segregation of U.S. public libraries, particularly in the southern United States, is a shameful chapter in library history. During the civil rights movement, the fight to desegregate was achieved through the bravery and courage of peaceful protesters that staged protests in libraries across the south. The purpose of this research paper is to examine how public libraries enforced segregation and some of the critical protests that took place. The paper also explores the lack of recognition and awareness within the librarianship profession and the general public and four recommendations for how public libraries can begin to make amends

The Analysis of the Reaction Phase of Reading by Examining the Frequency of Pupil-Initiated Talk in Second, Fourth, and Sixth Grade Reading Classes as Measured by the Verbal Interaction Category System

Reading is probably the most basic important skill taught in the elementary grades. School success and future goals hinge upon a person\u27s ability to unlock the written code and to comprehend the meaning. From the halls of the Congress of the United States has come the right to read proposal. Every child has the right to read as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of our Constitution

The Right to Read: Censorship in America’s Prisons

Grand Prize winner in the Fall 2023 Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest A surprising look into the vast number of titles banned by state prison systems and the many restrictions that keep books out of prisoners\u27 hands.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jurgen/1017/thumbnail.jp

The right to read behind bars: access to books and libraries in the prisons in Bulgaria

The actuality of the research is justified by the lack of serious scientific, social and politically engaged interest in the subject of books and reading among prisoners, which could reflect on the whole society, with negative consequences. This topic has been neglected even at state level in the former socialist camp. A comprehensive picture of the reading in the penitentiary establishments in the world is absent. There is no empirical study on the reading in the places of imprisonment in Bulgaria after the end of the totalitarian period (after 1989). A research interest of the library keepers and of the experts from the public libraries to the problems of the reading in the prison libraries is absent. The aim of the study is to answer the question what is the level of the readers activity in the prisons in Bulgaria and what are the perceived material needs of the prison libraries to meet the reading right of the prisoners. The subject of the study is the access to books and libraries in Bulgarian prisons and the accompanying risk of information discrimination of the prisoner – the feeling of intellectual isolation from the books, the world is reading. Subject of a direct interest is the right of happiness through reading and the opportunities for the welfare of the imprisoned reader. For the first time, a recap of the status of the prison libraries and the readers activity among prisoners in Bulgaria after the democratic changes of 1990 to 2015 is presented

The right to read is the right to mine: Text and data mining copyright exceptions introduced in the UK.

New copyright exceptions to text and data mining for non-commercial research have recently come into effect and this is welcome news for UK researchers and research, argues Ross Mounce. Here he provides a brief overview of the past issues discouraging text and data mining and the what the future holds now that these exceptions have been introduced. But despite legal barriers being removed, many technical barriers still remain. Furthermore it remains to be decided what formally constitutes ‘non-commercial’ research

4 constitutions 4 Cyberspace.

In the tradition of computer science texts like Fein’s “The computer-related sciences (synnoetics) at a university in the year 1975 ” (1961) or Landin’s “The next 700 programming languages” (1966), furthered in for instance The Right to Read (1997), we present here four constitutions for Cyberspace, or cyberspace