The Lasting Impact of the Library of Alexandria
On the Media
WNYC Studios
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the On the Media Midweek Podcast. I'm Brooke Gladstone. In the first half of the |
| 0:06.8 | last school year, Penn America has recorded almost 900 different books pulled from library |
| 0:13.6 | shelves across the country. The American Library Association are tracking more book bands |
| 0:18.8 | than ever and many of them are aimed at books with the LGBTQ plus themes. |
| 0:23.2 | As teachers in Florida had to cover up their book shelves for fear of getting sanctioned |
| 0:27.7 | Mother's For Liberty, a Florida-based conservative political group, has been campaigning |
| 0:32.6 | fervently for book bands in U.S. public schools with some success. Not as the daughters of the |
| 0:38.8 | Confederacy has there been a conservative women's organization as influential as moms for liberty. |
| 0:43.6 | They're taking the lead and getting books banned all over the country are directly allied with |
| 0:47.9 | governor and now in a verb and fight the rope around the census and they are writing winning street. |
| 0:52.8 | As long as libraries have existed, people have tried to police what goes in them. But for some, |
| 0:58.7 | the ideal library is not one that excludes authors but rather a place that comprises all of them. |
| 1:05.2 | For centuries, scientists and inventors, philosophers and programmers have been inspired to envision |
| 1:11.8 | or even build a better library, a perfect library. One that stocks every book ever written, |
| 1:19.1 | the kind of library that may have actually once existed. Late last year on the media producer |
| 1:26.1 | Molly Schwartz went to her local library to meet some of the people trying to build a universal |
| 1:32.5 | repository of human knowledge to learn what kind of progress they've made and what keeps the dream |
| 1:38.7 | alive. It's a gorgeous fall Saturday in Brooklyn, mild chill in the air, colorful leaves, |
| 1:45.6 | general good vibes, and I'm on my way to a birthday party at the Brooklyn Public Library |
| 1:51.1 | at 930 in the morning. Welcome everyone to Wiki Data Day. Today is Wiki Data Day. It's the 10th |
| 1:56.6 | anniversary of Wiki Data, so Wiki Data is sort of the data science side of Wiki Pedia. |
| 2:00.9 | You know Wiki Pedia, the free online encyclopedia with millions of articles and hundreds of languages, |
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