New York Public Library cardholders can download hundreds of thousands of titles, but NYPL’s Books for All program offers a select 'banned' list to anyone, anywhere with a tablet or smartphone.
It’s about availability, says the head of the NYPL, as the strain around allegations of censorship and banned books has heightened in step with a fraught political climate.
“The library’s role is to make sure no perspective, no idea, no identity is erased,” Tony Marx, president of the New York Public Library, said in a post Wednesday. Any reader can download these selections for free on any Apple AAPL, +1.63% iOS or Android GOOGL, +1.71% device with an app called SimplyE.Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, said data collection shows the number of “challenged” books in 2021 jumped from recent years.
— New York Public Library president Tony Marx The NYPL, in fact, has its own age guidance in place with its Books for All program. Per the policy on materials accessible to SimplyE users under the age of 13, only “King and the Dragonflies” is available to those with children’s accounts. “On the right side of the political spectrum, where much of the book banning is happening, bans are taking the form of school boards’ removing books from class curricula,” writes Erica Goldberg, associate professor of law and a First Amendment scholar with the University of Dayton, in a column for The Conversation.
— Law professor Erica Goldberg Most books targeted for banning in 2021, says the American Library Association, “were by or about Black or LGBTQIA+ persons.”
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