From SLJ:
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) recently recognized author Lauren Myracle, school librarian Dee Ann Venuto, and 19-year-old college student Jordan Allen for fighting against censorship in schools.
NCAC’s annual “Celebration of Free Speech and Its Defenders” ceremony in New York City brought together more than 150 authors, publishers, and First Amendment advocates to celebrate the work of the 36-year-old organization.
Venuto, a media specialist at the Rancocoas Valley High School in Mount Holly, NJ, was honored for her efforts to keep a list of gay-themed books on her library shelves. The titles Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology (Alyson, 2000) edited by Amy Sonnie.
Venuto followed her district’s materials review policy, which outlines the steps that must be taken when library materials or other instructional material are questioned, when a local grassroots organization called the 9/12 Group challenged the books, drawing media attention.
Venuto says she’s grateful to NCAC for spreading the word about the challenge and for the professional and personal support they gave her.
Dee Venuto and the NCAC
Dee Venuto admits she will not do what she is paid $85K to do. See “School Media Specialist Passes Sexual Content Review to Students; Dee Venuto Says It Is Discrimination to Keep Children From Material Including Lengthy, Vivid Descriptions of a Ménage a Trois.”
NCAC is an organization that pushes pornography. See “NCAC Promotes Porn; Says Keeping Inappropriate Material From Children is Censorship; It Has Lost All Credibility.”
NCAC also supports censorship that it supports. See “NCAC Supports Censorship with Double Standards and Made Up Facts.”
Given the above, it is easy to understand why the NCAC would award Dee Venuto such an award.
-=-=-=-
http://www.SafeLibraries.org
http://safelibraries.blogspot.com/