A favorite debate of pessimistic sophomores, or perhaps sophomoric pessimists, is as to whether our society and its future is more like George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It’s such a common juxtaposition and so simple to talk about it that I bring it up at the...

Just some scattered thoughts post-Anaheim, potential essays that will for the moment remain seeds…. It is surprising that ALA, being what it is, doesn’t have better control of its own documents. Reports disappear… Council makes decisions that result in internal policies that are av...

It is still not dead. A resolution has just been sent to the ALA Council list for discussion, calling on ALA to recognize the dissident “independent librarians” as members of the library community who deserve our support as colleagues, calling for the return of “library materials&#...

Brent Bozell III makes the point in a recent column that the American Library Association (ALA) doesn't really stand for "intellectual freedom" at all. ALA has become a far Left advocacy group that censors information from opposing viewpoints. Every year ALA whines about books that are "challenged" ...

The American Library Association's activist campaign against anything outside its mainline secularist dogma continues again this year with the group's routine (yawn!) announcement of the year's "most challenged" books. To make the list, books must be the target of a formal, written complaint request...

Byron Anderson is the compiler of Alternative Publishers of Books in North America , now in its sixth edition, from Library Juice Press. I asked Byron to talk a bit about this reference work for Library Juice Readers. Byron, why don’t you describe this resource and say how it got started? Byro...

Middle School After the heavy handed move by the ALA to put me directly under a library in some of my most impressionable and tender years I would eventually be thrown into that circle of Hell that Dante’s feared to even imagine let alone describe, middle school. I don’t know who the genius E.d....