"After years of right-wing pressure campaigns to ban books, there’s a predictability to the Trump White House targeting libraries, said Chelsea Heinbach, a teaching and learning librarian in Las Vegas and one of the creators of the resource site The Librarian Parlor.
We tend to take them for granted, but there’s something quietly radical about even the idea of a library and the intellectual freedom these local institutions inspire, she said.
Public libraries are critical cornerstones of democracy, equipping people with critical thinking and information literacy skills while ensuring equitable access to information and education.
“Providing these services with no upfront cost to all citizens regardless of their race, gender, citizenship status, or other demographic has become an inherently radical act, and it is for that reason that libraries are being targeted,” Heinbach said."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/librarians-trump-administration-cuts_l_67e59789e4b0455df70b3aa2
#USA #Trump #Libraries #Censorship #BookBans
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