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The Office for Intellectual Freedom is part of the American Library Association. Follow for library news about privacy, banned books and censorship.
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http://www.ala.org/oif 24-01-2009 22:35:29
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Many people seeking to censor books mischaracterize them w/cherry-picked excerpts to create a false impression about them. #UniteAgainstBookBans book résumés give context about books in their entirety & demonstrate their educational value & significance: bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org
.Hanif Abdurraqib, keynote speaker at the #UniteAgainstBookBans Rally for the Right to Read @ #ALAAC24, shares what censorship means to him: losing the ability to share "the particularized world that is yours & yours alone." Take action against censorship: uniteagainstbookbans.org/vote/
Read the book and join Kalynn Bayron, NY Public Library, and teens across the country for a special virtual discussion of Cinderella Is Dead. #UniteAgainstBookBans eventbrite.com/e/banned-book-…
🗳️ Do you believe that the freedom to read and learn is essential to a functioning democracy? Take the #UniteAgainstBookBans voter pledge and sign on to be an informed, registered, and ready Freedom to Read voter ⬇️ uniteagainstbookbans.org/vote/ African American Policy Forum Missouri Equity Education Partnership
"A book doesn't have to violate the law to be banned from Brevard County schools, it just has to present an ideology someone doesn't like." — John A. Torres, Florida Today floridatoday.com/story/opinion/… #UniteAgainstBookBans
.Little Free Library® just released an interactive map of US book bans &nearby #LittleFreeLibraries! "our mission is to expand access to books..we hope this map inspires you to provide access to the banned books that are meaningful to you” uniteagainstbookbans.org/lfl-banned-boo… #UniteAgainstBookBans