{"id":492,"date":"2015-02-14T00:23:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T08:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bclacla\/?p=492"},"modified":"2015-02-14T00:23:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T08:23:30","slug":"freedom-to-read-week-2015-tuesday-february-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bclacla\/2015\/02\/14\/freedom-to-read-week-2015-tuesday-february-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom to Read Week 2015! Tuesday, February 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for an all day<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/642129119248418\/\"> event celebrating our Freedom to Read<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>9:00-3:30pm, February 24th. Dodson Room, 3rd floor Irving K. Barber Learning Centre<\/p>\n<p>Please sign up for a 10 minute slot to read from your favourite challenged or banned book, or read from one of the many books we will have available. Drop in readers are also welcome. 9-12 &amp; 1-3:30<\/p>\n<p>Sign up to read at <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/FreedomToRead-UBC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/FreedomToRead-UBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #141823;\">From 12-1pm, we are featuring a panel moderated by UBC University Librarian Ingrid Parent discussing how intellectual freedom is lived through everyday life experience and work. Speakers will include\u00a0<\/span>Christopher Kevlahan, Branch Head at Joe Fortes VPL;\u00a0Dr. Gregory Mackie, Assistant Professor, Department of English, UBC;\u00a0Tara Robertson, Accessibility Librarian, CAPER-BC at Langara College;\u00a0Miriam Moses, the Acquisitions Librarian at Burnaby Public Library. Light refreshments will be served.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">We will also have a Freedom to Write space and welcome everyone to come w<\/span>rite and share your words.<\/p>\n<p>Tweet to share your 3 favourite banned or challenged books using #FTRWeek. We&#8217;ll also have an (actually physical!) board where you you can write and post them at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Come pick up a bookmark on banned books or come read about current news on challenged, banned or censored materials in Canada.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>This event is organized by the BCLA\/CLA Student Chapter at UBC and the ALA Student Chapter at UBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for an all day event celebrating our Freedom to Read! 9:00-3:30pm, February 24th. Dodson Room, 3rd floor Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Please sign up for a 10 minute slot to read from your favourite challenged or banned book, or read from one of the many books we will have available. Drop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bclacla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bclacla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bclacla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bclacla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bclacla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bclacla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bclacla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bclacla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bclacla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bclacla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}