It is “really challenging and frightening and frustrating,” she added, that so many excellent books are being challenged and banned after “so much thought and selection has gone into these titles.” All librarians, she said, want young readers “to see themselves in books” as well as to emphasize with others and to better understand the world around them.
Jacobs emphasized that school librarians-who are educators as well as librarians-are “thoughtful and have policies and procedures for selection and curation” of their collections. It’s becoming a formal way to circumvent First Amendment rights.” Referencing BPL’s efforts to provide library cards for teens who do not live in Brooklyn, she said that besides wanting to put books into the hands of teenagers, the goal of the initiative is to “get everybody involved and fight this assault on the First Amendment.” “In parts of the country there’s legislation that is actually banning material from being used in classrooms and public libraries. “It’s bigger than any recorded effort in the last 20-some years, which is when book challenges became something that we were counting,” Johnson stated. The panelists began their lively hour-long conversation by explaining the current situation concerning banned books.
“We’ve received more than 5,000 applications for cards from every single state and the District of Columbia.” “This has opened up floodgates,” Ely said. extended an offer to teens living anywhere in the country that they could obtain a library card at the BPL and thus receive access to digital editions of books that might be challenged or banned in their communities.
Introducing the panel, Marcia Ely, Brooklyn Public Library director of programs, noted that this past spring, the library, which is the fifth largest public library system in the U.S.
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