SUNY Geneseo’s “research librarians” page on the school website lists nine different people who could be classified as research librarians, primarily divided by their subject. We chose to meet with Sue Ann Brainard, who focuses on the subjects of History and English and Literature, which seemed appropriate for a project that is ultimately historical research …
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A Response to Bobbi Swiderek’s “Censorship”
This article is rather interesting, and is certainly useful from my perspective as a future secondary school teacher. There is certainly something appreciable about the fact that swaths of Swiderek’s middle schoolers would be confused as to why a litany of books were being promoted by the school library as having been “banned,” and therefore …
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A Burning Idea: Progress Report 1
Documented cases of book censorship near SUNY Geneseo are difficult to come by. There was an incident in Brighton, not far from here, relatively recently, but said challenge of the LGBTQ Young Adult novel Rainbow Boys, by Alex Sanchez, was already done by a previous group. Instead, then, my partner for this project, Lauren Sternberg, and …
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