Book banning bans the future: The negative effects of book banning regarding high school students

This project examines book banning and curriculum decisions and the effects that both have on students. Book banning has existed since before the formation of the current education system as well as far before the current status of democracy and free speech. By studying its history, and its existence in today’s culture, the research provides insight into the ways in which it influences every English classroom for both educators and students alike. The project delves into book banning in the public library system as well as the library system contained within the schools in order to provide a view of the issue in all of its forms. The research discusses the negative effect that book banning and a narrow English curriculum can have on students in a modern society. Incorporating recent research based on book banning, the project focuses on the ways in which it is affecting and hindering free speech, access to information, and the formation of a generation. Using information at a regional level and a national level, as well as an international level, the research highlights the consequences that are faced due to book banning all around the world. This project seeks to rectify a wrong that is being done to today’s students and to help stop it from being perpetuated on the students of tomorrow. (Author abstract)Palmer, M. (2015). Banned books ban the future. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.ed

Digital Literacy in Academic Libraries: Frameworks, Case Studies, and Considerations

Digital literacy has been explored by academic librarians for many years, however, throughout the ‘post’ pandemic world there has been an increase in digital literacy instruction in reaction to a world of thriving mis- and dis-information. Implementation of new library programs, especially regarding evolving digital skills and technologies can be both time consuming and intimidating. The intention of this report is to provide resources for the implementation of a successful digital literacy program in the post-secondary context. This report will describe a widely used digital literacy framework, explore successful case studies of the implementation of an institutional specific digital literacy framework, and detail successful case studies of digital literacy instruction from academic librarians around the world. This report intends to provide a digital literacy resource report of frameworks, case studies, and recommendations which could be helpful to academic librarians updating or creating a new program for digital literacy within their own academic institutions

Megan Palmer: we must build a world where everyone, everywhere, can build with biology

Advances in synthetic biology are enabling the engineering of biological components to build applications in a wide array of fields, from medicine to manufacturing and beyond. The benefits of synthetic biology to solving global challenges are immense, but there are concerns about new forms of misuse it might enable. To safeguard our future, the executive director of bio policy and leadership initiatives at Stanford University, Megan Palmer, says we need to enable everyone to build with biology and to bake biosecurity into the pursuit of peaceful purposes. Dr Palmer sat down for a brief Q&A with LSE Business Review’s managing editor, Helena Vieira, during the World Economic Forum’s Great Narrative meeting in Dubai

Trianon: 100 Years After

The Central and South-East Europe Programme and Babeş-Bolyai University (Romania) have launched their report exploring the impact and legacy of the Treaty of Trianon in Hungary and Romania. 100 years after the Treaty of Trianon was signed at the Paris Peace Conference, its terms, impact, and legacy remain highly contested. The 2020 CSEEP-Babeş-Bolyai report, 'Trianon: 100 Years After', brings together discussions from our 2020 conference held on the anniversary of its signing. In this report, academics from Romania, Hungary and Britain explore how the treaty came to being, misconceptions and distortions in historical narratives, and ways in which the nationalistic and hostile political rhetoric that surrounds it might be defused

2021 Scholarship for Diversity in Librarianship Recipients

At the annual South Carolina Library Association conference, students are honored that received a Scholarship for Diversity in Librarianship. There were six library school students that received the 2021 scholarship