WNBA Chapters Work Together
Hope you had an opportunity to sit in on the Banned Books: What You Need to Know event that took place on May 15, 2024. It was an online event that Rebecca Bailey, president WNBA Atlanta, spearheaded with input from the New Orleans, South Florida and Nashville chapters of WNBA. It was an awesome event. The video has been posted on https://youtu.be/TE2EO5ofCWY in case you missed it.
Ami McConnell was the moderator and ensured that the conversation was positive and encouraging. The panelists were provided with questions to help guide the conversation. The questions were:
The panelists were Cheryl Davis, general counsel The Authors Guild, Patricia Glass Schuman, librarian and former American Library Association president, Jessica Nettles, author and educator, Professor Megan M. Atkinson, archivist at Tennessee Technological University, Angela Redden, WNBA Nashville member and bookstore owner, and Linda Jamison, WNBA Nashville member and recently retired sales executive with one of the major New York publishers. It was interesting to learn that the increased activity of book banning is impacting authors when deciding on a subject to write about. There is the concern that the subject will be challenged. Authors put a great deal of time and effort into researching subjects to write about whether it is fiction or non-fiction.
It is easy to take for granted that libraries will always be there. Librarians, booksellers, publishers, and those involved with the printed word are valuable to our community. We are encouraged to support them, to get involved by building relationships and to share our concerns. To quote Anne Babson, New Orleans Chapter President; “Your guests were insightful experts, and the conversation helps all of us to be better oriented to this growing problem.”
Ami McConnell was the moderator and ensured that the conversation was positive and encouraging. The panelists were provided with questions to help guide the conversation. The questions were:
- What is a banned book. What does that mean, how do you understand it?
- Name a banned book you care about!
- How does book banning (or challenging) impact your field?
- How does it impact students and readers?
- Once a book has been banned, how do readers/students access it, and how do Libraries/Bookstores handle it.
- How can parents/readers make a difference?
The panelists were Cheryl Davis, general counsel The Authors Guild, Patricia Glass Schuman, librarian and former American Library Association president, Jessica Nettles, author and educator, Professor Megan M. Atkinson, archivist at Tennessee Technological University, Angela Redden, WNBA Nashville member and bookstore owner, and Linda Jamison, WNBA Nashville member and recently retired sales executive with one of the major New York publishers. It was interesting to learn that the increased activity of book banning is impacting authors when deciding on a subject to write about. There is the concern that the subject will be challenged. Authors put a great deal of time and effort into researching subjects to write about whether it is fiction or non-fiction.
It is easy to take for granted that libraries will always be there. Librarians, booksellers, publishers, and those involved with the printed word are valuable to our community. We are encouraged to support them, to get involved by building relationships and to share our concerns. To quote Anne Babson, New Orleans Chapter President; “Your guests were insightful experts, and the conversation helps all of us to be better oriented to this growing problem.”
In 1982, WNBA Nashville published a cookbook entitled The Literary Allusions Cookbook. In addition to recipes, the cookbook includes 8 essays. The essays are titled:
Cookbooks As Literature: Notes from a Collector
Delicious Delights in Food and Murder
The Food of Love….And Horror
Food and Cooking in Feminist Literature
Galactic Gastronomie
British Tea: More Than Just Something to Drink
Tidbits From Children’s Literature
Thin is Beautiful: Food in Adolescent Literature
Thanks to longtime member Etta Wilson for passing this book along to our president Kathleen Dietz who wanted to share this with you!
Cookbooks As Literature: Notes from a Collector
Delicious Delights in Food and Murder
The Food of Love….And Horror
Food and Cooking in Feminist Literature
Galactic Gastronomie
British Tea: More Than Just Something to Drink
Tidbits From Children’s Literature
Thin is Beautiful: Food in Adolescent Literature
Thanks to longtime member Etta Wilson for passing this book along to our president Kathleen Dietz who wanted to share this with you!
