Join Unite Against Book Bans

RF generally keeps its posts somehow directly related to library digital content matters.

Our efforts to streamline and enhance the digital content experience and expand access to titles on reasonable and sustainable terms will be useless, however, if the only content that can be shared is unexceptionable pablum for the blue-nosed and dogmatists.

We encourage all with any interest in library digital content matters to join the ALA’s Unite Against Book Bans campaign:

Although book bans are nothing new, there were more censorship attempts in 2021 than at any time since the American Library Association began tracking more than two decades ago [and 2022 is going to be worse!].

Unite Against Book Bans is a national campaign to protect the rights of everyone to access a variety of books, in libraries and elsewhere.

We trust individuals to make their own decisions about what they read and believe.

Join us as we unite against book bans.

Concerted efforts and loud support will be necessary if we all don’t wish to wake up one day to laws saying librarians should be subject to jail terms for not censoring our collections and to collections that offend nobody—which is to say, no collection worth having.

Hey, publishers—don’t leave librarians to fight this one alone. Wanna sell books? You’re in this fight too. Time to mix it up. We all have too much to lose.