Professor Diane Rasmussen

Professor Diane Rasmussen is UK Column's Commissioning Editor for Written Content and a regular UK Column News presenter. She is a former librarian and a cancelled professor.

Lest We Forget, Part 5: They Came for the Universities, Too

Professor Diane Rasmussen and Hugh McCarthy

Part 5 of this six-part series on the effects of Covid lockdowns on young people and education presents the effect that the Covid era imposed on higher education and examines the efficacy of the UK Government’s decision to close educational ...

Are Librarians a Safeguarding Threat to Children?

Professor Diane Rasmussen

Do you believe that librarians should be in the business of providing books with content about rape, suicide, murder, illegal drug use, and coerced underage sex with teachers? This author does not, but librarians do.

The So-called ‘Banned Books’ in Libraries Are Actually Child Safeguarding Risks

Professor Diane Rasmussen

Librarians' professional bodies in the US and Scotland want you to believe that there are 'banned books' taking away children's 'right to read'. In actuality, there are age-inappropriate books in children's library collections that have raised ...

Fornethy Residential School: Tales from the Archives

Professor Diane Rasmussen

Continuing coverage of the Fornethy Survivors Group, an organisation of women who were emotionally, physically, and sexually abused at Fornethy Residential School in remote Perthshire, Scotland, from 1960 to 1991 as Glaswegian girls.