Peter D. Coyl, MLIS (he/him)
Library Director & CEO | Sacramento Public Library
ALA Councilor | Intellectual Freedom Round Table
Member | ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee
Vice President & Trustee | Freedom to Read Foundation
February 4, 2022 - Collated by OIF Staff and News Editor on the Intellectual Freedom Blog
Book ban efforts spread across the U.S. | New York Times; "Aggressively policing books for inappropriate content and banning titles could limit students' exposure to great literature, including towering canonical works. "If you focus on five passages, you've got obscenity," Deborah Caldwell-Stone said. "If you broaden your view and read the work as a whole, you've got Toni Morrison's 'Beloved.'"
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