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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about numbers from Librarians....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 March 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about numbers from Librarians....

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0:21.0

Well, howdy there, internet people people let's bow again so today we are going to

0:27.0

talk a little bit about the American Library Association and some numbers they

0:31.8

released and we're just to kind of browse through them and

0:35.1

take a look at where things are. So for more than 30 years the American

0:42.4

Library Association has had a program that goes through

0:46.2

and it kind of catalogs and keeps track of challenges to books in libraries.

0:55.0

to books in libraries.

0:57.0

Another way to say that would be attempts to ban books in libraries.

1:05.3

And they have been collecting this information for more than 30 years.

1:10.3

2023 is the highest year on record.

1:15.0

It is reportedly the highest year on record with 4,240 books challenged.

1:21.0

The previous year,

1:23.0

2022, was 2,561. That's a pretty big increase.

1:28.0

It is worth noting that the way they track this information is by reports from librarians and news coverage. Short version, it means that they don't have them all. The

1:46.5

numbers are likely higher than what gets reported in this. They're also saying that they discovered that a lot of the

1:56.3

attempts to challenge were organized. It wasn't a case of a parent having a

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