The Brooklyn Public Library Gives Every Teenager in the U.S. Free Access to Censored Books

We have now coated it earlier than: college districts throughout the USA are more and more censoring books that don’t align with conservative, white-washed visions of the world. Artwork Spiegelman’s Maus, The Illustrated Diary of Anne Frank, Alice Walker’s The Shade Purple, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird–these are a number of the many books getting pulled from library cabinets in American faculties. In response to this regarding pattern, the Brooklyn Public Library has made a daring transfer: For a restricted time, the library will provide a free eCard to any individual aged 13 to 21 throughout the USA, permitting them free entry to 500,000 digital books, together with many censored books. The Chief Librarian for the Brooklyn Public Library, Nick Higgins mentioned:

A public library represents all of us in a pluralistic society we exist with different folks, with different concepts, different viewpoints and views and that’s what makes a wholesome democracy — not shutting down entry to these factors of view or silencing voices that we don’t agree with, however increasing entry to these voices and having conversations and concepts that we agree with and concepts that we don’t agree with.

And he added:

That is an mental freedom to learn initiative by the Brooklyn Public Library. , we’ve been taking note of numerous the guide challenges and bans which were going down, significantly over the past 12 months in lots of locations throughout the nation. We don’t essentially expertise a complete lot of that right here in Brooklyn, however we all know that there are library patrons and library employees who’re dealing with these and we wished to determine a option to step in and assist, significantly for younger people who find themselves seeing, some books of their library collections that will signify them, however they’re being taken off the cabinets.

As for easy methods to get the Brooklyn Public Library’s free eCard, their Books Unbanned web site gives the next directions: “people ages 13-21 can apply for a free BPL eCard, offering entry to our full eBook assortment in addition to our studying databases. To use, electronic mail bo***********@bk**********.org.” In brief, ship them an electronic mail.

You’ll find a listing of America’s most ceaselessly banned books on the web site of the American Library Affiliation.

Word: We first posted about this initiative in the course of the canine days of final August. Nevertheless it appeared price mentioning this program whereas college’s in full swing. Therefore why we’re flagging Books Unbanned once more.

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