Judith Krug, a librarian who has been active in the fight against banning books, has died. She was one of the founders of Banned Books Week in 1982.
Rest in peace, Judith Krug. You fought the good fight.
I knew her. She was a very cool woman and will be missed.
How many minds were opened because of the fight she fought.
Thank you, Judith.
If you can read, thank a teacher. If you can read something you were told God didn’t want you to read, thank a librarian.
No book has ever been “banned.”
The books that a library doesn’t carry (and EVERY library makes conscious choices not to carry certain books) are readily available via Barnes and Noble or Amazon.
No kid is being deprived if he can’t get “101 Uses for a Dead Cat” at his school library. So, he has to get it at Border’s instead. Boo freaking hoo.
I’m afraid you may be wrong there.
Yeah. Because everyone can afford books. You’re exactly right. Everyone can afford food, shelter, and medical care in your world, too, right? So really, there are no social problems at all, I guess.
Yay! It’s a Golden Age.
Nobody would ever pressure Barnes and Noble (or any of the other booksellers) not to carry certain books they found objectionable. Barnes and Noble exists to get books to people, and they don’t care if they make money doing so, so a threat of a boycott would never affect their decisions of what books to sell.
All kids are given money and the chance to buy books without their parents’ consent, too. School libraries aren’t a way that kids can get access to books on things like sex education or religions/philosophies other than their families’ religion that their parents are trying to keep them from finding out about.