Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP) Censorship Tracker

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Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP) is gathering data about incidents of censorship regarding Palestine in libraries, archives, and other types of institutions since October 2023. If you have faced censorship or repression of Palestinian or Palestine-related materials or expressions of solidarity with Palestinian people at your institution, we would like to hear about your experience. We intend to report on this information in some capacity, though the specific way we do so will depend on the data we collect and the level of anonymity you request below. Possible formats include sharing your experience in an anonymized fashion on social media, in presentations, or in a potential report or other publication summarizing or dicussing the data collected.

Note on data privacy:

Only members of the LAP Steering Committee will have access to your responses via Google Workspace. In order to help protect your data privacy, please use your personal email when completing this form, do not use your work email. You must provide an email address to report an incident, but you may opt to not share your name. Below you will have the option to select how public you would like information about your experience to be in our reporting. If you opt to allow identifying information to be included, we will give you a heads up before publishing anything, and may be in touch with further questions. If you opt for no specific identifying details, an anonymized description might include something such as "a public librarian in the United States".

Founded in 2013, Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP) is a network of self-defined librarians, archivists, and information workers in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. Learn more about our work here: https://librarianswithpalestine.org/.

Email *

First and last name (we will not share this):

Name of institution at which incident took place: *

Location of institution (city, state, country): *

Type of institution: *

Public library or archive

K-12 school library

Academic library or archive

Historical society, non-profit, or independent archive

Professional organization or association

Museum

Other:

Your relationship to the institution: *

Employee

Patron

Other:

Type of incident: *

Material challenge (book or other media)

Programming challenge (author visits, meetings, workshops, and events)

Professional harassment from outside your institution (from patrons or community members, for example)

Professional repression from within your institution (threats, silencing, disciplinary action, firing, etc.)

Ban of symbols of solidarity (pins, keffiyehs, stickers, posters, buttons, etc.)

Displays (including exhibits, physical displays, virtual displays, and resource lists)

Social media posts (both library accounts and personal accounts)

Other:

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Please include one incident per section. There are additional sections below if you would like to provide multiple reports around different incidents you experienced. If you have additional experiences beyond the space allotted, please feel free to fill out the form more than once.

Describe the incident in as much detail as possible, including what happened, who was involved, specific complaints issued, whether and how it has been resolved, etc. *

Please describe any additional incident in as much detail as possible, including what happened, who was involved, specific complaints issued, whether and how it has been resolved, etc.

When did the incident happen? If there is more than one relevant date, please include dates in the incident description above.

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When did this incident happen? If there is more than one relevant date, please include dates in the incident description above.

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If the incident(s) has been publicly reported, please include any relevant links.

Have you have received any community, institutional, or organizational support (legal, financial, or other)? If so, where have your received support from? (We will use this information to develop a resource list to share.)

How public or private should this report be? We will not include any names of individuals or institutions in anything we share. *

You can use my story in data collection, but please do not share specific details of my story in any capacity.

You can share my specific story, but without any potentially identifying information.

Share away, I'm completely public about my story!

I'm not sure yet--please check in with me if you're considering sharing my story.

Other:

Is there anything else that you'd like to tell us?

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