Here are the events that we have scheduled so far for ALA Island in Second Life for 2008 Banned Books Week. More events to be announced. Locations subject to change. See the (new!) ALA Island Facebook Fan Page for latest information.
Saturday, Sept. 27th
- Censorship and School Libraries (30 min) ALL DAY
Galen Noltenius Sky Platform on ALA Island (214, 101, 49)
March 5, 1982 episode of “The Open Mind”
Host: Richard D. Heffner, University Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers University
Guests: George W. Lipp, Jr., counsel for the Board of Education, and Alan H. Levine, counsel for Steven Pico and the other students, for the legal case, Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District Number 26 et al vs. Steven Pico et al, 457 U.S. 853, which helped bring about Banned Books Week. Read the transcript. Courtesy of the Internet Archive of The Open Mind episodes.
(FYI: See the book Board of Education v. Pico (1982) by John C. Gold. New York: Twenty-First Century Books, 1994)
Sunday, Sept. 28th
- Frank Zappa On Crossfire, 1986-03-28 (30 min) ALL DAY
Galen Noltenius Sky Platform on ALA Island (214, 101, 49)
March 28, 1986 episode of “Crossfire”
Hosts: Tom Braden and Robert Novak
Guests: Rock musician Frank Zappa and Washington Post reporter John Lofton debate labeling of rock music records and censorship of music videos
Courtesy of the Internet Archive of Open Source Movies.
Monday, Sept. 29th
12:30 Second Life Time/Pacific Time - 2:30 Central Time
Small Stage on ALA Island (127, 132, 28)
- Discussion of book, And Tango Makes Three, written by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, and illustrated by Henry Cole, the book most often targeted for removal from libraries for the last two years.
Discussion headed by Valerie Hawkins, Library Reference Specialist of the ALA Library
Judy Blume . . . and Our Children’s Freedom to Read (1992) (30 min) ALL DAY
Galen Noltenius Sky Platform on ALA Island (214, 101, 49)
1992 episode of “The Open Mind”
Host: Richard D. Heffner
Guest: Author Judy Blume
Courtesy of the Internet Archive of The Open Mind episodes
Tuesday, Sept. 30th
- Storylines Midwest episode (60 min) ALL DAY
Sky Book Platform on ALA Island (129, 156, 69)
Featuring A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, winner of Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1991
Successfully banned at high school in Lynden, WA in 1994; successfully retained at high school in Round Rock, TX in 1996
Wednesday, Oct. 1st
12:30 Second Life Time/Pacific Time - 2:30 Central Time
- Censorship Debate
Participants and location TO BE ANNOUNCED.
Thursday, Oct. 2nd
4:00 Second Life Time/Pacific Time - 6:00 Central Time
- Dance at *new* Garden of ALA Island (56, 106, 28)
Theme: Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous
Not allowed into the USA (1927-1931) and confiscated in Egypt (1985), said to threaten moral fabric of citizens.
Friday, Oct. 3rd
12:30 Second Life Time/Pacific Time - 2:30 Central Time
Small Stage on ALA Island (127, 132, 28)
- Discussion of book, The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, at Small Stage on ALA Island (127, 132, 28)
Discussion headed by Bryan Campbell, Office for Intellectual Freedom
Book challenged repeatedly throughout the 2000s.
Judy Blume (2000) (30 min) ALL DAY
Galen Noltenius Sky Platform on ALA Island (214, 101, 49)
October 20, 2000 episode of “The Open Mind”
Host: Richard D. Heffner
Guest: Author Judy Blume
Courtesy of the Internet Archive of The Open Mind episodes
Saturday, Oct. 4th
12:30 Second Life Time/Pacific Time - 2:30 Central Time
- ALA Island Banned Books Week Read-Out & Fireworks
Participants to be announced.