Patrica Schroeder, Association of American Publishers & former Democratic representative from
- Remembers when the police when into the Tattered Cover and the owner said no. She won that lawsuit.
- Under the Patriot act, that wouldn’t work
- AAP news:
- Unveiled authorsatyourlibrary.org at
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- Supported library funding especially in NY
- Work to see how libraries and publishers can work together
- works w/ PLA leadership
- working to increase Spanish books in libraries
- Get caught reading posters
- Katrina donations w/
- The patriot act shows that we’re all in this together
- what is the status of intellectual freedom in 2005
- “it’s pretty bad”
- Bush thinks those that oppose the war are “deeply irresponsible”
- Why wouldn’t you want people to ask those questions?
- That’s very troubling
- abstinence group is fighting a vaccine against uterine cancer because it might increase promiscuity
- Challenge to American Girls dolls
- Librarians are on the front line of this issue
- people are feeling more and more empowered to say “remove that because I said so”
- What happened to the process?
- she works w/ K-12 publishers
- 14 states have moved to teaching intelligent design
- PA went one way, KS went the other
- have to put a lot of stuff in textbooks that is someone’s belief, not part of the accepted scientific fact
- it’s amazing how many people are banning books
- Harry Potter is the most banned book in the country yet the same people are worried that little boys aren’t reading
- Also, Captain Underpants
- They’re reading, quit complaining
- Book banned in
- We salute you all for your efforts
- Bill O’Reiley has requested that
- Where are the people who will push back
- it shouldn’t be just the librarians
- When kids start going to Islamic school w/ vouchers there’s going to the be complaints
- in your face attitude is new and bold and getting worse
- Our forefathers didn’t want to live under theocrats, believed in religious freedom for all
- “congress shall make no law” how much clearer can it be?
- Yet we see people trying to interpret that law and make changes
- the people who don’t like activist judges are installing activist judges
- Why do they feel empowered today?
- it goes back to 9/11, Pat Robertson & Jerry Fallwell
- they’re now defining what gets us rights with god
- no real punishment for saying anything too radical
- Robertson’s group was one of the first to get funding for Katrina faith-based aid
- very powerful religious constituency
- god shouldn’t be used as a bettering ram in political debates
- mainstream religions need to pull that back
- their intensity is overwhelming the majority of citizens
- this country was supposed to be based on science, reason, and trust in the wisdom of others
- people should be free from the government to figure out this on their own
- democratic values are under attack by those who say they’re the pious ones
- public leaders constantly yield to them
- Who are they to make those statements (Robertson, ORiley)
- They’ve become bullies because they keep getting away with it
- if we let these bullies keep doing this we’re going to be in big trouble
- critical point on the patriot act
- passed way too fast
- dream list for law enforcement agencies
- nobody bothered to read it
- did give it a expiration date (end of this year) unless renewed
- Told the AAP needed to go after those senators
- senators kept canceling the appointments
- finally got in to express their opinion, the senate bill is better
- FBI’s been sending national security letters
- gag order on person who receives the letter
- no court oversight, 60 people in FBI who can authorize these letters
- Pre patriot act, 300/year w/ court review
- Post patriot act, 30,000/year
- They have been doing this in libraries despite saying they haven’t
- Doe case in CT
- Senate bill sets limits including return of irrelevant records and directly tied to terrorism
- House has twice killed the Sanders amendment
- passed but republicans kept votes open longer than usual (1st time)
- Taken out of bill in appropriations committee (2nd time)
- go back and look at the first gulf war
- people went into bookstores to buy books on Islam and the middle east
- probably also checking them out of the library
- university presses were doing great
- patriot act can get those records and make those people look like sympathizers
- this can have a chilling effect on what people will buy/check out
- we should trust the individual to make a good decision
- Freedom to read principle is the core of what we believe in
- you need the first amendment for an informed citizenship and therefore a good government
- Let’s hope the patriot act is at least softened in the next few days
- we shouldn’t constantly in code red
- Other things:
- AR school district book challenges
- Freedom to read foundation (CT Doe case)
- led amicus effort to challenge filter mandates
- we need to continue to work together
- more challenges are to come in the next three years of this administration
- We need to continue to fight back
- Google concerns:
- amazed libraries are letting google copy for free
- why a for-profit company?
- what does the library get out of it?
- Google wants all the information in the world on their servers
- What if Fox News bought google?
- I love google’s search engine
- authors are concerned that people are getting it for free
- here’s the content going to come from if google kills authors’ willing to publish?
- creators are the peasants, google makes the profit
- privacy issues
- targeted advertising
- salute
- we need to talk about it
- worried about the depth of scholarship from this
- teaching ADD if you’re not born with it
- optimistic
- people are starting to get worried over the diminishing of their liberties
- people aren’t quivering as much over the administrations statements
- Movie “Good Night and Good Luck” (Murrow taking on McCarthy) should be required viewing for every American
- Maybe journalism will become professional again
- Thanks librarians for being on the front lines, you’ve done a great job
- I continue to support you.
- Q&A
- ME: Google snippet question
- That’s not what she meant (what was written)
- Google gets to define what a snippet is
- Rick Aston: “Librarians are the enemy” in dealing with the DMCA
- Felt like a piñata when dealing with librarian on the issue
- Librarians kept telling her she was wrong and she believes that’s now over as an issue
- Please comment on AAP plan to license libraries to pay a license fee for a book that’s purchased
- Says they’re not promoting that
- licensing has been discussed vis a vie google & yahoo etc.
- what is your opinion on blogging and wikis related to journalism
- not sure what she thinks about that
- is wikipedia accurate? not sure…
- questioner’s point is that it has a big social significance
- how do they know which bloggers have the biggest audience?
- are bloggers journalists?
- Doesn’t realty understand how they’re proved valid and who reads them
- “Harpy effect”
- How much time in the day is there to read it all?
- Comment on the fact that someone wasn’t punished enough, should he have been punished at all if congress “shall make no law”
- But the example she was using involved a government/military official forcing religion on their subordinates
- Officials should not use their position to force a religions viewpoint
- RE: Patriot Act, if we all emailed out legislators today, would it do any good
- Please do
- it’s not going to go away, but supporting the senate version would help
- they need to deal with it before xmas break or it will go through as the administration wants
- Comment: Brit libraries were considering the licensing issue
- Comment: When the other side is so intense & angry, we need tools to diffuse the anger, couldn’t the publishers promote books on how to diffuse anger.
- Non-fiction market has increased significantly recently
- History books (1776, John Addams, August 1965) now big
- How to break into the market of those who aren’t reading
- We don’t have a place to go to talk to people who don’t agree with us
- Book: “Bowling Alone”
- Get it out to TV & Cable instead of reality shows
- How would you categorize censorship on the publisher side
- It’s an area we deal with
- K-12, “good math books are not in the schools, these are the good ones”
- “terror problem” in the marketplace
- More in the schools than everywhere else
- intelligent design, abstinence, morality
- “the text books are wrong”
- CA & TX are so powerful in selecting textbooks, what they say is what goes
