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The Librarians Fighting Book Bans

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Carolyn Foote was furious when Republican lawmakers in Texas singled out hundreds of books about race or sexuality for removal from school libraries. So she and a group of other librarians stepped into the fray to push back against what they see as harmful censorship. Guest: Carolyn Foote, former librarian for schools outside Austin, Texas. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I was a big library user growing up because it was really a refuge for me and a place where

0:40.6

I just found ideas that connected me to the world that also brought my perspective.

0:48.2

Carolyn foot loved libraries as a kid.

0:51.3

When she got older, she became a school librarian and she loved that too.

0:55.2

And just the students passion for reading really matched my own when I was growing up and

1:01.0

I felt like being in communication with that all of the time could just be very, very

1:07.9

powerful.

1:08.9

I think people sometimes think of the school librarian as the person who helped them find

1:12.8

the shelf with the book about Mesopotamia for their social studies report.

1:17.3

Can you tell me what else a librarian is when people picture a librarian?

1:21.5

What do you hope that picture looks like?

1:24.3

What I hope that they think of is someone who's passionate about books and getting books

1:28.9

in the hands of readers, but also passionate about how to help students ask good questions,

1:35.6

become information literate, get involved in STEM and engineering.

1:40.1

A lot of libraries now are very active dynamic places and librarians are sort of guides to

1:46.0

that world of information.

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