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		<title>Totoro, SOPA, and My Weekend Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new hobby has got me thinking a lot about intellectual property.  When you&#8217;re relaxing on the sofa with a ball of yarn, the mind tends to wander.  So, I started wondering, who &#8216;owns&#8217; this cute lil stuffed Totoro I just made? The pattern for this handsome little guy comes from LucyRavenscar, the British crochet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=4274&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Smutty Books, In Honor of Banned Books Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” &#8211; Anaïs Nin Banned Books Week starts this Saturday, on 9/24! Here&#8217;s the book I picked to write about for my library&#8217;s banned books feature. Although on the surface they might just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=3866&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Net Neutrality: Then and Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The Daily Show does Net Neutrality, July 19, 2006) . About two weeks ago, the Federal Communications Commission voted to enact a new set of Net Neutrality rules that will regulate how broadband companies are allowed to direct traffic on the internet.  Although the new regulations don&#8217;t go as far as some consumer watchdog groups [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=1519&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Librarians Be Liable?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The freedom to access and create information is the most important ethical consideration of a librarian’s work.  This is true of both public and private librarians.  Democracy depends upon an informed citizenry, which in turn depends upon the freedom of information.  Whether librarians serve the public or a private organization, they should not seek to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=747&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Collective Advocacy” &amp; Open Access; ILA Annual Conference 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer McLennan, Director of Communications at SPARC, and Faye Chadwell, Associate University Librarian at Oregon State University, came to the Iowa Library Association 2009 Annual Conference to talk about libraries and Open Access in their talk, &#8220;Collective Advocacy: Engaging Librarians in the Open Access Movement.&#8221; As McLennan explained, SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing &#38; Academic Resources [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=491&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell, Intellectual Freedom Fest ’09!</title>
		<link>http://bananasuitlibrarian.com/2009/10/16/farewell-intellectual-freedom-fest-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s official:  the Iowa City Public Library 2009 Carol Spaziani Intellectual Freedom Festival has come and gone.  What a great month of events!  I just want to say &#8220;thanks&#8221; to everyone who organized, presented, and attended the festival. Be on the look out for a PATV / ICPL production of the IFF Remix event, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=403&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Helprin Just Doesn’t Get Creative Commons</title>
		<link>http://bananasuitlibrarian.com/2009/10/15/mark-helprin-doesnt-get-creative-commons/</link>
		<comments>http://bananasuitlibrarian.com/2009/10/15/mark-helprin-doesnt-get-creative-commons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(2 STARS out of 5) Mark Helprin is such a nasty, mean windbag in his book Digital Barbarism.  As a tattooed woman (2 strikes against me), I&#8217;m apparently just one of the millions of riffraff he loathes.  However, although it KILLS me to admit it, he does raise a couple of interesting questions about Intellectual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=388&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Radio, Tack-Fu, Kembrew McLeod</title>
		<link>http://bananasuitlibrarian.com/2009/10/06/pirate-radio-tack-fu-kembrew-mcleod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; So I feel like it&#8217;s been the Intellectual Freedom Festival Channel over here lately!  That&#8217;s ok, though, because I&#8217;m pretty keen on intellectual freedom. Tomorrow is our second-to-last IFF event at the Iowa City Public Library (at noon in Meeting Room A), and this event is especially distinctive as it was conceived of, planned, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=380&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ Pooh-Poohs Banned Books Week</title>
		<link>http://bananasuitlibrarian.com/2009/09/29/wsj-pooh-poohs-banned-books-week/</link>
		<comments>http://bananasuitlibrarian.com/2009/09/29/wsj-pooh-poohs-banned-books-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banned Books Week is here!  My library is celebrating with our Intellectual Freedom Festival (which, interestingly enough, involves very few books). The Wall Street Journal is celebrating in its own special way, with an editorial by Mitchell Muncy about why he thinks Banned Books Week is, well, silly.  He argues that books don&#8217;t really get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=366&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Intellectual Freedom Festival Is Here!</title>
		<link>http://bananasuitlibrarian.com/2009/09/22/intellectual-freedom-festival-is-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so excited I can hardly stand it &#8211; the Intellectual Freedom Festival kicks off this Friday at the Iowa City Public Library!  The Fest is co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Library and Information Science Student Organization (LISSO), and the U of I Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. What is Intellectual Freedom? Intellectual Freedom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=338&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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