Book Glut, “Bookride”

To continue the “Here’s a question” series, I wanted to talk about an essay by Lester Asheim, the former dean of the University of Chicago graduate library school, and president of the ALA, noted the practical similarity between gatekeepers like librarians and editors, and censors. He explores the question of why we call the people with whom we agree “curators” and those with whom we disagree, “censors.”

My post evolved when I thought of Asheim’s essay in light of digital books. To me, it seems to flip his rubric for how we decide what makes a “censor.”

Here’s the full post. The question was: Does the digital era flip our definition of censorship?