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Barack Obama on Libraries


“Libraries remind us that truth isn’t about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information.”

These words were uttered by our new president-elect Barack Obama. Back in 2005 Obama keynoted at the ALA National Conference in Chicago.  An adapted transcript of the speech is available on Obama’s Illinois senator website.
It is really rad to [...]

This Really Frosts my Cupcake


This news story from CNN about a teacher in Indiana who was fired for using the book Freedom Writers to get her students excited about English really got me angry.  I found myself yelling at the moving picture of the school board president.  She said that the teacher, Connie, was sending “students a very poor [...]