<div dir="ltr">Thank you so much for all of your hard work to ensure young people have access to this important and powerful book. <div><br></div><div>I wanted to share an event that I thought y'all would be interested in, which hopefully will offer more tools and support for providing access to Maus. </div><div><br></div><div>The author of Maus, Art Spielgelman, is taking part in a live webinar on Monday, Feb. 7 at 6pm CST.<br></div><div>More information and registration here: </div><div><a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2cnmIHy5Q9GingVH_JsHRQ?fbclid=IwAR2UoRyhBP-T6zHhG-VdVxTr8GOMCiO3qV2CV5laMkbc0EbEHKPyQg2lgzo">https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2cnmIHy5Q9GingVH_JsHRQ?fbclid=IwAR2UoRyhBP-T6zHhG-VdVxTr8GOMCiO3qV2CV5laMkbc0EbEHKPyQg2lgzo</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>-Eti </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 2:17 PM Kristie Cerniglia via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Thank you so much!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 1:50 PM Joan Bessman Taylor via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Caution is fine but self-censorship is not. Caution may mean that you provide some additional scaffolding for a book - opportunity to discuss it for instance. Or you group it with other books covering the same topics in a display so the student anticipates that it deals with heavy topics even if it is a graphic novel. We have to resist the freezing effect that censors count on creating. They win even if they don't get their way through the official channels because they cause people to act in ways that enable them to still get what they wanted all along. Please continue to resist. Your students deserve full access to ideas.</div><div><br></div><div>I am super sorry to hear that administrations don't always have your back as fully as they should. We have much room for advocacy and education about the profession...</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your work,</div><div>Joan<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Joan Bessman Taylor</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4"> </font>(she/her)</span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Associate Professor, MEd, ML</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IS, PhD</span></font><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.62;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117)">Program Coordinator -</span> School Library Studies</span></font></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Curriculum and Instruction </span></font></p></div><div><p style="line-height:1.62;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-deco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ly incomprehensible.  Then, while reading Maus, I noted a similar moment between Art and his father, and I realized, "They both grew up in the Great Depression!"  Suddenly all these little quirks made sense to me, and I was able to anticipate things that might send him into a rage.  My father is currently 90, and Maus transformed my relationship with him.  To ban it over language and "mouse nudity" is highly problematic.<div><br></div><div>tt<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Timothy Toner</div><div>Librarian </div><div>John Hancock College Prep HS</div><div>5437 West 64th Pl</div><div>Chicago, IL 60638<br></div><div>773-535-2410</div><div>he | him | his</div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:small;line-height:16px"><i>Omnes mundum facimus</i></span><br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 11:53 AM Flaherty, Megan via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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