Welcome to Freedom to Read Week!
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blogcutterToday is the first day of Freedom to Read Week. I'll begin with a link to the Ex Libris Association site, with links to other Canadian, American and international resources on the topic:
https://exlibris.ca/activities:advocacy
Intellectual freedom is under attack as never before, with book banning, misinformation, disinformation and fake news the order of the day.
As well, tomorrow , February 24, has been declared a Digital Day of Action:
https://www.freedomtoread.ca
Readers in Ontario will also be aware that Thursday of the upcoming week is election day. The late brother of our current premier once declared, erroneously as it happens, that there were more libraries per square kilometre than there were Tim Hortons coffee shops. A former Ontario premier also famously announced that the most recent book he had read was Mr. Silly. To which I say well, at least he believed in reading to the kids in his life (unless of course he was reading it to refine his own reading skills).
A book I'm currently reading, and which I can recommend, is The Compassionate Imagination: How the Arts are Central to a Functioning Democracy, by Max Wyman (Tkaronto: Cormorant Books, c2023). I've just about finished it but when I do, I'll be working my way through the 12-page bibliography at the end!
Anyway folks, whatever your literary poison of choice, I hope you read something this week because as somebody once said (this is a paraphrase), the person who does not read is no better off than the one who cannot read.
Happy Reading!
https://exlibris.ca/activities:advocacy
Intellectual freedom is under attack as never before, with book banning, misinformation, disinformation and fake news the order of the day.
As well, tomorrow , February 24, has been declared a Digital Day of Action:
https://www.freedomtoread.ca
Readers in Ontario will also be aware that Thursday of the upcoming week is election day. The late brother of our current premier once declared, erroneously as it happens, that there were more libraries per square kilometre than there were Tim Hortons coffee shops. A former Ontario premier also famously announced that the most recent book he had read was Mr. Silly. To which I say well, at least he believed in reading to the kids in his life (unless of course he was reading it to refine his own reading skills).
A book I'm currently reading, and which I can recommend, is The Compassionate Imagination: How the Arts are Central to a Functioning Democracy, by Max Wyman (Tkaronto: Cormorant Books, c2023). I've just about finished it but when I do, I'll be working my way through the 12-page bibliography at the end!
Anyway folks, whatever your literary poison of choice, I hope you read something this week because as somebody once said (this is a paraphrase), the person who does not read is no better off than the one who cannot read.
Happy Reading!
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Date: 2025-02-23 09:25 pm (UTC)