Dr. Cindy Welch

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Book Details

Title

Melissa

Author

Alex Gino

Award Year
ISBN
9781338843408

Honoree Information

Dr. Cindy Welch

Position

Clinical Professor

Department

Information Sciences

Occasion

On the occasion of Dr. Cindy Welch's promotion to Clinical Professor

Why Chosen

I teach future school librarians and intellectual freedom is foundational to that work. We are experiencing unprecedented attacks on freedom of information and freedom of access in K-12 school libraries, in the early 2020's, and this book is on the American Library Association's list of most challenged books. We need copies of these difficult materials to stay available to our students, for discussions in safe places, so that when they are faced with professionally defending them, they are ready.