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Little Free Library partners with ALA, PEN America on banned books map
Sep 04 2024
Little Free Library, the St. Paul, Minn.–based nonprofit organization, has partnered with the American Library Association and PEN America to produce an interactive map in response to the nationwide surge in efforts to ban books from public and school libraries. The map includes two key features: highlights, indicating where book bans are in effect at the state and county levels and to what degree, and pinpoints, indicating the locations of Little Free Library’s book-sharing containers of the same name.
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