New edition of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer to replace "nigger" with "slave"That is truly one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard of. Let's not have a teaching moment about American history, or create a learning environment for contextual analysis, let's just water it down because some people (I'm guessing white) are afraid of a word. ( Read more... )

msdemonique directed me to this article from NPR about a school library going completely digital. When she mentioned this I took a moment to mentally promise myself I'd be objective, I am not some Luddite afterall, but half through I was just incredulous. The Cushing library decided to replace the 20k+ volume physical collection with databases and Kindles. ( Read more... )

The Philadelphia Free Library system is broke, and they're shutting it down, including cancelling "all branch and regional library programs, programs for children and teens, after school programs, computer classes, and programs for adults" and "all children programs, programs to support small businesses and job seekers, computer classes and after ( Read more... )

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