The ALA has documented 681 challenges to books through the first eight months of this year, involving 1,651 different titles. FOX13
, laments what she calls the "erosion of the credibility and competency" in how her profession is viewed. At the Boundary County Library in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, library director Kimber Glidden resigned recently after months of harassment that included the shouting of Biblical passages referring to divine punishment.
"We were being accused of being pedophiles and grooming children," she says. "People were showing up armed at library board meetings." The executive director of the Virginia Library Association, Lisa R. Varga, says librarians in the state have received threatening emails and have been videotaped on the job, tactics she says that "are not like anything that those who went into this career were expecting to see." Becky Calzada, library coordinator for the, says she has friends who have left the profession and colleagues who are afraid and "feel threatened.
"I know some worry about promoting Banned Books Week because they might be accused of trying to advance an agenda," she says. "There’s a lot of trepidation."that I have read and agree
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Book ban efforts surging in 2022, library association saysThe ALA has documented 681 challenges to books through the first eight months of this year, involving 1,651 different titles.
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Book ban efforts surging in 2022, library association saysThe ALA has documented 681 challenges to books through the first eight months of this year, involving 1,651 different titles.
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