Amanda Jones, author of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America, shares her story as a small-town school librarian in Louisiana who has faced harassment and threats since speaking out against censorship at a library...

Deborah Caldwell-Stone is Director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation. For over twenty years she has worked closely with library professionals and library trustees on a wide...

Elissa has been a high school history teacher, a special education teacher for students with severe emotional, mental and physical challenges, a teacher Librarian at Highland Park High School, Columbia High School and South Orange...

Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott is a media specialist at The College of New Jersey. She is also the President of The New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) Ewa has 10 years of experience as a K-12 librarian, including work in both...

Suzanne Nossel currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of PEN America, the leading human rights and free expression organization, and she is author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All. Since joining in 2013, she has...

Martha Hickson has been a high school librarian since 2005. Her work has been featured in School Library Journal, Booklist, KnowledgeQuest, the American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Blog, NJEA Review, and School Librarian’s...

Parents and students are questioning the decision of the Peel Regional School Board, just outside Toronto, to toss thousands of books because of a policy requiring librarians to toss books that are in poor shape, were published before...

The Freedom to Read Act puts a stop to banning books at schools or public libraries in New Jersey.

No re-use/re-sale of film/ TV clips without clearance

AP Entertai
nment
Toronto, Canada, 8 Sept
ember 2008
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Damon/Actor (on John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin as
VP...

AP Television

Cairo R
ecent
++Nig
ht Shots++
1. Panoramic view of
Cairo at night
2. Wide exter
ior of movie theatre
3. Various of movie p
osters...

1. Wide view of St. Peter's Basilica

2. Statues on Bas
ilica
3. Visitors entering Risorgimento Museum, displaying Vatica
n archives
4. Visitors look
ing at exhibits
5. Pan from...

LEAD IN:The author of a book banned by the Palestinian Public Attorney says he's scared to return to Ramallah after leaving on a business trip.Abbad Yahya's book 'A Crime in Ramallah' describes the sexual experiences of a university...

Eng/French/Nat

Three and a half months after Francois Mitterrand's death -- the former French President can lie easy in his g
rave.
His family continues to block...

Guangzhou, 15 December 2003

1. Various of of modern street with tall buil
dings
2. Various of of
old alley
3. Wide of magazine stand with woman b
uying magazines
4. Close...

Mandarin/Eng/Nat

There was a time when the banned pages of 'Shanghai Baby' would have earned its author ZHOU WEIHUI a place in a labour camp, but today, the 27 year old writer is not only safe but even proud to...

1. United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, being led to mausoleum

2. Wide of Ban wa
lking
3. Ban walking w
ith wreath
4. Ban placing wre
ath at monument
5. Ban observing silence at
monument,...

1. Tilt down on National Library to exhibition poster

2. Interior, tilt down from "L'Enfer" ("Hell") sign to exhibit
ion
3. Close up original catalogue for "L'Enfer"...

China said on Tuesday it acknowledged "positive messages" from Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida regarding the relationship between the two countries.Kishida said on Monday that he wished to make the Japan-China relationship more...

Yangon - 1 February 2013

1. Various of second hand books being sold in the streets of Ya
ngon.
2. Close up of poet Saw Wai looking through his...