It is through designing a library display for banned books week that I have finally entered the world of RSS feeds!
I have subscribed to some feeds (mostly through School Library Journal) which have provided me with excellent up to date materials with which to enhance the display.
Banned books week allows us all to (re)consider the idea of freedom of speech, freedom to information, and freedom of expression - harder to control in the cyber-world, and therefore more challenged in the the tangible world of libraries by narrow minded people.
The truth is, however, that many books that are challenged every year are the same; and so my display was looking rather tired - tattered versions of Steinbeck's OF MICE AND MEN, alongside sad looking versions of LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER, piled on top of coverless versions of THE CHOCOLATE WAR, etc.
The RSS feeds, however, have kept me up to speed with the most recently challenged books (TIN TIN, TWILIGHT, etc) I now know that unfortunately Tango the penguin's parents have split, so people uncomfortable with the same sex relationships of our black and white friends can relax: the sequal should present a happy conservative, black and white (literally) family portrait.
IF you haven't tried it yet - sign up for some RSS feeds - you'll be updated in a jiffy, and you can move on with your enlightened life!
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