Another Heroine Gone: RIP Judith Krug, SuperLibrarian

From the NYT:

Judith Krug, the trained librarian and director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom for more than four decades, ... died Saturday at age 69. Defending the freedom to read from damaging assaults by censors in and out of government was her life’s work.

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Ms. Krug assisted countless local librarians and library trustees dealing with objections to library materials. She waged principled legal battles challenging both book and Internet censorship in libraries all the way to the Supreme Court. She stood up against an insidious portion of the 2001 Patriot Act that allowed government officials broad access to confidential library records and to secretly monitor what people read.

In 1982, during one of the nation’s periodic censorship epidemics, Ms. Krug established Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of authors, their literature and the Constitution’s system of free expression.

That, my friends, is a true heroine. If I had a million like her, I would begin to feel the Constitution and liberty in the US had a chance to be safe.

Requiescat.

Recent cartoons worth pointing at

Abstruse Goose, 2009-04-15: The String Theory Landscape
9 Chickweed Lane, 2009-04-12 I've seen this happen (though not with a cello), but never yet had it happen to me. There is, however, always hope :-)

There were more, but I'll have to remember which ones they were. (Reboots happen :-(

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Michael Chabon now writing the screenplay for John Carter of Mars.

Bring it on!