Interviews & Media

Touchette, Alice Manning. (January 9, 2024). Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Partners with UNCG to Train and Retain Media Coordinators. UNCG News. https://www.uncg.edu/campus-weekly/charlotte-mecklenburg-schools-partners-with-uncg-to-train-and-retain-media-coordinators/ 

Lieberman, Mark. (February 27, 2023). How School Libraries Buy Books, Struggle for Funds, and Confront Book Bans: An Explainer. EdWeek. https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/how-school-libraries-buy-books-struggle-for-funds-and-confront-book-bans-an-explainer/2023/02 

Morris, Rebecca. (January 2023). Research Roundup: A Content Analysis of Selection Policies in the United States. School Library Connection. (Print)

Censoring School Libraries with April Dawkins and Emerson Sykes. (March 14, 2022). High School Scotus Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2YdDmwrX5pB2CEMxbeyAHP 

Lawrence, Lee. (February 9, 2022). Rising Book Bans: Grounds for Moral Panic? Christian Science Monitor. https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/The-Culture/2022/0209/Rising-book-bans-Grounds-for-moral-panic 

Walsh, Mark. (December 15, 2021). Yanking Books from School Libraries: What the Supreme Court Has Said, and Why It's Murky. EdWeek. https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/yanking-books-from-school-libraries-what-the-supreme-court-has-said-and-why-its-murky/2021/12 

Morris, Rebecca (August 2021). Research Into Practice. Exploring Preparation and Practice: An interview with Elizabeth Burns and April M. Dawkins. School Library Connection. Print.

Rand, Lisa. (January 25, 2021). School Librarians Can Protect Intellectual Freedom, an Interview with April Dawkins. Intellectual Freedom Blog. https://www.oif.ala.org/school-librarians-can-protect-intellectual-freedom-an-interview-with-april-dawkins/