A large-scale study of library circulation finds that attempts to censor books often boost their readership.
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The battle over the novel offers a window into America’s long-running fight over what students should be allowed to read.
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found by Raoul Peck is a meditative film that draws on Cole’s own notebooks and letters in a bold attempt to have him tell his own story.
His characters – tramps, discarded people, poor people, people on the fringes – are connected with all the people we know of today who are refugees.
Amid calls to ban certain books from libraries and schools, research shows that students benefit when they have the ability to choose which materials they want to read.
Libraries play a crucial role in preserving texts, even controversial ones. They are responsible for teaching people how to evaluate the credibility and validity of information.
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Slavic Resources Coordinator, and Head, Petro Jacyk Resource Centre, University of Toronto Libraries, University of Toronto
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Professor of Literacy, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Emeritus Professor of Literature, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer (Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork), University College Cork
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Professor of English, College of Charleston
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Assistant Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University